How prepared was the transport sector for the covid-19 pandemic and has it responded as expected? Many organisations have been busy in recent weeks shoring up their finances. For some […]
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 […]
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 […]
In November 2020 Glasgow will host what promises to be an influential UN Climate Change Summit, the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 26). With a year […]
New strategy must look beyond propping up representative political democracies as the only way to strengthen transport democracy with more deliberative democracy and more democratic market design.
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 […]
The chaos at London airports from drone sightings at Christmas 2018 was a call to action on the need for regulation to keep pace with technology change. The July 2018 […]
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 […]
With budgets in transport authorities under increasing pressure, the option of introducing workplace parking levies (WPL) has been increasingly in the news, such as the BBC’s story “Motorists who drive […]
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 […]