What is sustainable travel behaviour? Whether it be more bus passengers, less car travel, purchasing a zero-emission car, or supporting thriving local towns where people walk and cycle for more […]
A selection of projects with links to published reports are shown below: Smarter Choices Smarter Places (2013) – The results of the four year project to monitor and evaluate smarter […]
The Living Streets Walk One a Week (WOW) programme has been growing rapidly across schools in Scotland. DHC was commissioned to review its outcomes and impacts to help plan the […]
Numerous barriers exist to the realisation of ‘smart cities’ – not least, who’s going to pay. This article by Derek Halden, DHC Loop Connections, republished from the Institution of Civil […]
For nearly 20 years the government has sought better engagement with communities through school travel planning processes, aiming to provide safe, secure and sustainable transport. In the 1990s DHC drafted […]
There is much talk about mobility as a service (MaaS) providing a unified gateway which allows users to pay for transport with a single account. The key concept behind MaaS […]
Taxation revenue has traditionally been used to address market failures but the social and environmental market failures evident today can only partially be addressed through publicly funded programmes. In a […]
Derek Halden writing in the Scotsman Newspaper on behalf of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport suggests that Scotland’s year of big events in 2014 will have prompted long […]
Policy goals for mega-cities, sustainable development, lifestyle change and technology development require a new focus on efficiency, personalisation, simplicity and resilience. This was the message from Derek Halden at the […]
There is a lot of talk about sustainability but how much day to day practice in transport is actually sustainable? A new paper by Derek Halden has been published which […]