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2 September

Priority lanes, bay suspensions and £200 fines set for 2012 Olympics

1 September

British Parking Awards 2011 launched

The British Parking Awards, sponsored by Equita, celebrate their tenth birthday with what is expected to be the biggest and...

1 September

Helping cycling commuters on the London Overground

Combined cycle and rail travel is getting easier for passengers who use rail stations in London, as Transport for London...

31 August

Travel 2020 connects the payment and data worlds

Travel 2020 29-30 September, Brit Oval, London Innovative payment solutions which make use of the internet and mobile phones...

26 August

Scottish bus ladies raise £7,000 with 'Walk for Water'

A team of ladies from the Scottish bus industry has raised more than £7,000 for a rescue centre for girls in...

25 August

London's cycle hire scheme hits 250,000 journeys

In little under a month since the scheme began, Transport for London has revealed that 60,000 have signed up to the...

24 August

Tube staff set to strike in ticket office dispute

Members of the TSSA union have voted three to one in a ballot for strike action in a dispute over proposals by London...

20 August

Stagecoach commits to low fares

20 August

WYG restructures to focus on global markets

20 August

Amey £200m win

20 August

Mouchel job cull

20 August

Balfour Beatty sizes up new consultancy acquisitions

Construction group Balfour Beatty has indicated that further acquisitions of transport and professional services...

20 August

Transport industry faces shake up as information age arrives

20 August

Formula grant under scrutiny

20 August

Rail industry sets out growth ambitions

20 August

New exhibitors confirmed for Travel 2020

The LTT-Sponsored Travel2020 event next month will feature a range of key players in the field of secure payment technology....

20 August

Wiltshire to switch-off all speed cameras

20 August

Council to offer cash to residents who give up parking permits

The London Borough of Brent is planning to offer financial incentives to persuade residents to give up their parking...

20 August

Transport indicators face axe as Pickles scraps audit body

Ministers are poised to scrap the requirement for English local authorities to report on whether or not they are improving...

20 August

Balfour seeks more acquisitions

20 August

‘Too many councils in Scotland’

20 August

Ministers plan to relax outsourcing rules

The Government plans to remove a requirement for private sector firms to give new recruits working on local authority...

20 August

Heritage railway seeks to fulfil mainline ambitions

Andrew Forster Tony Sparks stands at the boundary of the Great Central Railway in Loughborough. Through the palisade fencing the trackbed...

20 August

Bus review to spell end for £100 per passenger subsidy

20 August

Capital’s bus trips still growing despite fare rises

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20 August

Targets in their sights

Andrew Forster
"Care will be needed before taking decisions to stop the data collections which feed performance measures.” So...

20 August

Transport industry faces shake up as information age arrives

Across much of Britain it is fair to say that public transport retailing is stuck in the 19th century, with paper tickets...

20 August

Peak Car – part three: the evidence

Phil Goodwin
‘Peak car’ is the idea that car use may not saturate, but turn down. In Part One in June I discussed the...

20 August

All this debate about NATA misses the point – appraisal is built on pseudo-science

Steve Melia, University of the West of England
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of...

6 August

Capital’s quarterly casualty data support guardrail fears

Doug Stewart, Aberdeen AB1
Having found it difficult to discuss the guardrail removal programme with Transport for London, it is gratifying that they...

Latest business : Last updated 13 days ago

20 August

Stagecoach commits to low fares

Stagecoach has committed to low bus fares despite revenue growth at its UK bus division plummeting to just 2% in the three...

20 August

WYG restructures to focus on global markets

Consultancy White Young Green has restructured its business around four core areas: transport solutions; buildings and...

20 August

Amey £200m win

Amey has retained its North Lanarkshire highways contract, seeing off bids from Balfour Beatty and BEAR Scotland. The new...

20 August

Mouchel job cull

Mouchel is looking for 450 senior level redundancies across the group in a new round of costcutting. It is understood that...

20 August

Balfour Beatty sizes up new consultancy acquisitions

Construction group Balfour Beatty has indicated that further acquisitions of transport and professional services...

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