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 […]
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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 […]
Why Data and Customer Relationships are More Important During a Pandemic
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 […]
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 […]
Net-Zero Transport Starts with People and Places
In November 2021 Glasgow will host what promises to be an influential UN Climate Change Summit, the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 26). Glasgow City Council […]
Tackling the Democratic Deficit in Transport Delivery
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.
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 […]
Effective Regulation of New Transport Technologies is Essential for Market Growth
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 […]
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 […]