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 […]
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 […]
Numerous barriers exist to the realisation of ‘smart cities’ – not least, who’s going to pay, and who owns the infrastructure? In a recent article for the Institution of Civil […]
Writing in the Scotsman Newspaper Derek Halden says that over the last decade, the organisations that developed strong contractual networks with their customers and suppliers shaped transport systems. The contracts […]
The Department for Transport published the latest connectivity statistics in July 2015. Access to transport hubs is one of the simplest conceptions of transport geography. There are some places where […]
If all road users treat others with respect then we can make the roads safer. To achieve this, a greater focus on enabling safer behaviour would complement the current investment […]
When giving evidence to the Scottish Parliament Infrastructure Committee on 18th March DHC Director Derek Halden suggested that partnership agreements should be used to manage investor risk to deliver investment […]
The DfT accessibility statistics have recently been published representing conditions in October 2013. Describing these as accessibility statistics is perhaps a misnomer since what they show is the travel time […]
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 […]
The National Planning Framework needs to enable better transport rather than simply list nationally funded projects. This was the message from DHC Director Derek Halden when he gave evidence to […]