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Letters to the editor
Matthew Ledbury
Paul Withrington (Letter LTT 12 Apr) lists eight points about global warming that he wishes I or other "man-made global warming people"... continue
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Letters to the editor
Matthew Eastwood
I was interested to read about the lack of a clear career path for transport planners in the Career Journeys supplement of LTT and welcome the work... continue
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Letters to the editor
Abigail Bristow Professor of Transport Studies
I am writing to you with respect to the Undergraduate and Postgraduate course listing published in the issue of the 29 March. I note that there were... continue
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Regular news
Data showing the ease with which people throughout England (outside London) can access services such as schools, GPs, employment and shops have been... continue
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Regular news
The impact of transport schemes on landscapes could be given monetary values if meaningful results can be gained from a research project currently... continue
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People/people
Jennie Leggatt has been appointed senior associate at consultant Transport Travel & Research. Leggatt was formerly a director of Transport... continue
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Regular news
Transport for London has commissioned what is claimed to be the biggest ever Stated Preference study to discover 5,000 people's willingness to pay... continue
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Regular news
Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown has used the Budget to announce a major review of how technology can be used to reduce the carbon emissions... continue
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People/consultants
<b>Pedro Abrantes </b>has been appointed lecturer in public transport at the University of Leeds' Institute for Transport Studies,... continue
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Regular news
The Government will fail to achieve its targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions with the transport sector likely to prove a particular obstacle,... continue
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Regular news
Consultant Colin Buchanan has purchased transport survey firm Vincent Knight Transport Research after being approached by Vincent's owner, Rupert... continue
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People/people
<b>Margaret Bell</b> (pictured) has been appointed science city chair in transport and environment in Newcastle University's transport... continue
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In brief
The DfT has commissioned the University of the West of England's Centre for Transport and Society to review developments in travel information... continue
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Regular news
The DfT has been urged to commit to a research programme to assess the effects of the mandatory free concessionary fares scheme for the elderly and... continue
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Regular news
British companies are not doing enough to reduce the carbon impact of their transport and travel activities, according to an analysis of firms in the... continue
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Letters to the editor
Adam Fularz
If you look at the transport sector, imagine that there exists a root of all evil: the number one problem, where everything started. Imagine then,... continue
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Letters to the editor
Bernard Abrams
This week's newspapers carried a story that "a large study in California found 10-year-olds who lived within 550 yards of a motorway suffered... continue
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Regular news
Two university-led consortia are drawing up full bids in an attempt to win the contract for the new £7.75m Transport Research Centre, backed by... continue
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In brief
Graduates of Salford University's MSc course in transport engineering and planning are being invited to attend the 40th anniversary celebration of... continue
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Phil Goodwin
Phil Goodwin is professor of transport policy at the Centre for Transport and Society, University of West of England, Bristol (Phil.Goodwin@uwe.ac.uk), and emeritus professor at University College London
There is a disjunction between policy thinking on the ground and in the air. On the ground the pure form of 'predict and provide' is dead. Nobody... continue
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