DfT Guidance on Accessibility Planning
With successive revisions to the UK Department for Transport’s website over the last 20 years, the 2004 Accessibility Planning guidance can be increasingly hard to find. DfT and the Central […]
Accessibility Planning
The Confidence to Invest Despite Uncertainty
Like many in the transport sector, I am finding that the priorities of customers and partners are changing faster than usual. It is not just the high levels of inflation […]
Safe Net-Zero Access as a Central Focus of Transport Appraisal
How can we make investment in sustainable transport more attractive? This was the question I explored in my presentation to the Landor Local Transport Summit in Cardiff. Our planning systems […]
Improving Transport Investment Choices
Derek Halden was invited to contribute to a Local Transport Today debate on the future transport appraisal following the publication of the OECD International Transport Forum (ITF) recommendations for broadening […]
Net-Zero Transport for West Dunbartonshire
West Dunbartonshire Council is developing an approach to transport consistent with national and international goals to decarbonise transport. The Council has a key role in enabling and supporting local residents, […]
Growing the Transport Decarbonisation Economy
There is a big difference between net-zero transport and a zero-emission transport. The world’s largest airline by revenue and value, Delta, already claims to be net-zero. In contrast, the decarbonisation […]
Learning from 25 Years of Planning Access
25 years ago I was getting ready for my first Christmas after leaving the UK Civil Service and setting up my own business. As Christmas approaches in 2021 I was […]
Making More of Transport’s Economic Potential
The Transport Statistics User Group held a seminar in November 2015 to discuss the appraisal of transport and economic development. Derek Halden’s presentation explained how the appraisal of accessibility change […]
Managing Successful Car Free Development
Planning transport for new developments with parking restraint has a mixed track record. Derek Halden was recently asked to review a controversial development in Dublin. There are three basic principles […]
Recognising the Untapped Potential of Sustainable Transport Investment
On 4 March 2020, the Strathclyde Pension Fund committee decided to postpone a decision on whether to divest from fossil fuel companies. The meeting of the pension fund committee had […]