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 […]
Accessibility Planning
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 […]
Investing in Young People’s Travel is Vital to Shape Future Transport
Who wants slower journey times, higher travel costs and less reliable journeys? There is little doubt that many current transport trends are unpopular. Yet over the last 50 years, transport […]
Improving the Relevance of Accessibility Statistics
Accessibility is complex, but the needs of the population can be represented by a basket of indicators describing opportunities available to transport users and non-users. This paper was prepared for […]
More Transport Investment Does not Deliver Better Accessibility without Planning for People
To manage the process of accessibility change, accessibility planning approaches have emerged from two traditions: more proactive planning to achieve greater clarity and consistency between accessibility goals and practice; and […]
Making Connections is Good Business
How is the quality of connectivity defined? Which connections need investment? High speed global electronic connections must be complemented with viable investment in transport to support competitive locations and enabled […]
Policy and Planning
A selection of transport policy and planning pojects are shown below: The Future of Retail Property: Future Transport (2006) – For the British Council of Shopping Centres. The review is […]
What is Accessibility Planning and has it Worked?
Derek Halden’s evidence to the Westminster Parliamentary Inquiry into accessibility planning gives a good overview of the key issues and can be read in full here The inquiry gave strong […]
Accessibility Planning Projects
DHC has been undertaking projects to plan better access between people and places since 1996. Some of the most significant projects with links to published reports are described below. Pharmacy […]
Accessibility Planning in the Netherlands and the UK
This is a draft of a paper from 2015 which was published in the Handbook of Transport and Development, Edited by Hickman, Givoni, Bonilla and Banister.