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FirstGroup share price collapse after dividends cancelled
Read the latest: Nearly a third was wiped off the value of shares in FirstGroup today after the operator announced a big fall in operating profits and cancelled... continued
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20 May
Nearly a third was wiped off the value of shares in FirstGroup today after the operator announced a big fall in operating...
17 May
Two options for a second Crossrail route in London, linking the south-west and north-east, have been published for...
17 May
Gary Nulty, Streetwise With video cameras replacing people on most count surveys over the past decade or so, the lag between fieldwork and final...
17 May
Lenny Winsel Traditionally urban space design has always favoured vehicle movement over pedestrian movement and the need for high quality...
17 May
Lána Pennycook Sydney is Australia’s largest and most densely populated city, with a population of 4.6 million. The city’s...
17 May
Erik de Romph Companies such as TomTom possess enormous databases with vehicle-movements based on GPS data to predict traffic jams in real...
17 May
Peter Debney How do people navigate through a building, a train station or an airport? What happens when you need to evacuate an area, or...
17 May
Lorenzo Meschini, and Thomas Otterstätter and Johannes Schlaich from PTV Group Traffic managers know from experience what traffic is going to be like during a specific time and day of the week and can...
17 May
Tom Van Vuren As a modeller I am used to being challenged by technology, and I’m not just talking about getting used to Windows 8....
17 May
CAR2GO, THE ‘pay-by-the-minute’ car club launched in the UK in London approximately six months ago (LTT 7 Dec...
17 May
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Andrew Forster London’s government should have more power over tax and more freedom to borrow to ensure the capital’s transport...
17 May
Work is underway on the Scottish Government’s project to reinstate the Borders railway between Edinburgh and Tweedbank...
17 May
Transport for London and TRL are trialling a range of cycle safety features on the test track at TRL’s Berkshire...
17 May
Lee Baker Transport for Greater Manchester is pushing stalled plans for collaboration between highways services across the...
9 May
TRL cycle safety trials examine new junction and lane designs
JMP rescued by turnaround firm
London traffic rethink
Crossrail 2: a metro or regional scheme? asks TfL
Residents’ parking bays lose out to bike parking
How should our modelling adjust to take account of the relentless tide of new technology, and also changing attitudes?
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17 May
Jonathan Bray, Pteg support unit
The last spending review gave local transport spending outside London a good hiding. Local transport lacked political clout...
The last spending review gave local transport spending outside London a good hiding. Local transport lacked political clout...
17 May
Local Transport Today
This week’s review of the Government’s high-speed rail plans by the National Audit Office makes grim reading for...
This week’s review of the Government’s high-speed rail plans by the National Audit Office makes grim reading for...
17 May
Phil Goodwin
The recent All Party Parliamentary Cycling Inquiry – well reviewed in the last issue of LTT – had results that...
The recent All Party Parliamentary Cycling Inquiry – well reviewed in the last issue of LTT – had results that...
3 May
John Dales
Three months ago, I wrote about the All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group’s inquiry into the barriers that are...
Three months ago, I wrote about the All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group’s inquiry into the barriers that are...
3 May
Local Transport Today
The eagle-eyed LTT reader will no doubt have observed that this issue of the magazine has got rather a lot of cycling...
The eagle-eyed LTT reader will no doubt have observed that this issue of the magazine has got rather a lot of cycling...
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17 May
Transport Consultant JMP has been bought by a turnaround investment company after running into trouble with a pension scheme...
17 May
Airports have criticised Civil Aviation Authority proposals to continue economic regulation.
The CAA found evidence of...
17 May
Skanska UK has reported an operating margin of “just shy of three per cent” in its results for the first three...
17 May
By Lee Baker
National Express is bidding for regional rail opportunities in Germany worth €900 million a year after the...
National Express is bidding for regional rail opportunities in Germany worth €900 million a year after the...
3 May
ELGIN has entered into an agreement with Nokia to provide data on over two million road works to its smartphone and sat-nav...
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