New on my website:
Tag-at-a-Glance updated with the May 2026 TAG units and other updates to the appraisal and modelling guidance from #DfT It’s at https://grahamjames.co.uk/tag-at-a-glance/.
(And if you missed my earlier round-up of what’s new in this set of updates, check it out at https://grahamjames.co.uk/whats-new-in-tag-for-may-2026/)
The failure of the government to deliver #HS2 is nothing new.
They've treated it the same as the #GWML upgrade: announce a price without knowing the reality, constant political fiddling, and, of course, the #DfT is involved.
Of course, the contracts have been a joke that should never have been issued.
Today's issue of Local Transport Today has some comments from me, in the item about the DfT's Local Transport Infrastructure Carbon Benchmarking Tool (LTICBT).
Or if you have the PDF, it's on page 20 .
Won't be short of bedtime or bathtime reading this weekend.
DfT has published its latest Appraisal, Modelling and Evaluation Strategy, a set of research reports, and the 'live' TAG updates. There's a lot more than what's in the photo!
Plus the latest LTT out today.... and some interesting American research to catch up on if that's not enough...
With ORCA’s ExtOpt interface and our orca-external-tools package, MLIPs such as #UMA can be used in #ORCA for geometry optimizations GOAT and more.
Check out the work by Ess and co-workers, who use this functionality to investigate MLIPs as DFT surrogates for the computational evaluation of homogeneous transition-metal catalytic energy landscapes.
ExtOpt Tutorial: https://www.faccts.de/docs/orca/6.1/tutorials/workflows/extopt.html
Graham James
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