Glynn Barton is leaving Transport for London (TfL) after more than 22 years to take up the role of Chief Operations Officer of Bournemouth, Christchurch... continue
Sustrans has appointed Paul Twocock as Executive Director of External Affairs. He joins from his current role as Director of Communications and Public Affairs at the Association... continue
Ashley Rogers, Chief Executive Officer of the North Wales Business Council, and John Parkin, Emeritus Professor of Transport Engineering at the University of the West of England, have been appointed as chair and vice-chair, respectively, of a new North Wales transport delivery group. The... continue
Dr Colin Black has been appointed a Director at Transport Planning, Transport Infrastructure Design, and Environmental Assessment consultants Mayer Brown Ltd. He... continue
Sir Robert McAlpine has appointed Vip Gandhi as Managing Director of Transport. With a career that spans 30 years, Gandi will lead the firm’s growth strategy in... continue
Graham James has joined transport planning company Galle Saliman as a Technical Director. Graham brings particular expertise in transport economics, appraisal and business cases, as well as rail and public transport planning, in a major boost to the scale and range of services we can offer clients.... continue
He spent three years as Technical Director landscape Architecture at PJA, before which he was at Project Centre for 21 years in a range of roles including Technical Director, Landscape Architecture & Urban Design and Associate Director.... continue
Lee Waters has announced he will leave the role as Wales’ transport minister once the new First Minister... continue
Providing DRT as a cost-effective form of public transport is unlikely to be successful apart from in limited niche operational situations, a detailed examination of their underlying systems and performance published in this issue of LTT concludes. Author Dr John Sutton has studied and worked with... continue
Design work on the Midlands Rail Hub is set to begin after ministers provided an initial £123 million funding injection under the Network North reallocated HS2 funding to local transport projects. The project will boost the capacity and frequency of rail services with new connectivity and... continue
The Covid19 pandemic has left a long-lasting impact on travel behaviour, with a widespread shift from commuting to leisure travel, causing a reduction in travel at peak times bringing significant funding challenges for passenger transport, says a new report from the Independent Transport... continue
Local authority officers are disappointed with the support and publicity... continue
The largest observed drops in mean traffic speeds on 20mph roads since the change to the default speed limit on restricted Welsh roads are in counties where 20mph has been most widely applied. Data gathered by Transport for Wales before and after 17 September shows that weighted mean speeds on... continue
There has been a significant decline in general attitudes from women towards electric cars over the last two years, a survey... continue
This week’s Spring Budget represents a missed... continue
The councillor in charge of transport and air quality in the City of Westminster says a new online booking system for electric delivery vans to remotely reserve places to unload will help businesses do their day-to-day job of delivering to businesses,... continue
Opening of a newly renovated train station in North Belfast is scheduled for this Spring. York Street Train Station, which will replace existing railway facilities at Yorkgate, is due to open for passenger use this spring. The new station will feature improved facilities including, toilets, waiting... continue
Eight technology firms with concepts designed to make rail stations safer, easier to navigate and more sustainable have been selected to develop proposals, with three ultimately invited to trial their innovations at Bristol Temple Meads in year two of the Station Innovation Zone competition... continue
The DfT has announced that plans for a new station at St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, “will restore services to the area for the first time in 60 years”. However, Transport Secretary Mark Harper’s announcement consisted only of a “commitment to fund the development of a... continue
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