Amey has established an asset management team with the recruitment of seven staff from Halcrow. They are: Charles Oldham, Jon Jarritt, Adam... continue

Edward O’Loughlin has joined consultant WSP as associate director, rail planning, joining from consultant Steer Davies Gleave.  ... continue

Claire Haigh, Chief Executive, Greener Journeys, London
I write in response to Phil Goodwin’s very timely column (‘Time for a new letter to the Government?’ LTT 23 Nov). There is real... continue

Consultant Steer Davies Gleave has appointed Tim Buxton to its advisory team. Buxton was deputy director, rail commercial contracts, at the... continue

The DfT this week confirmed bus campaigners’ worst fears about the impact of tendered service cuts and reductions in Bus Service Operators... continue

Mouchel will provide an update on its financial performance in its annual report due to be published before Christmas. A spokeswoman told LTT this... continue

Capita has been selected as preferred bidder to deliver the London Borough of Barnet’s new support organisation. The council’s customer... continue

WSP is leading the transport assessment work for the Sizewell C nuclear power station in Suffolk under a framework contract with EDF Energy. WSP has... continue

The number of UK students undertaking transport Masters courses is continuing to fall, according to figures collected from ten universities by the... continue

John Smart, the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation’s deputy chief executive and its director of professional and business... continue

Consultant WYG has appointed Glen Thorn as its head of the UK region. Thorn joined WYG earlier this year as managing director of buildings &... continue

The country’s top transport academics are to be asked to sign a letter to transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin, which is likely to call for... continue

Local transport minister Norman Baker this week defended the need for the DfT to monitor the devolved major local transport scheme funding in... continue

Council face the difficult choice of taking on “high-risk” finance to deliver infrastructure projects given that “free” money... continue

Transport policy formulation in England is to become less reliant on public consultations under plans to speed-up policy-making announced by the... continue

Ian Chatfield is leaving his position as head of training and development at PTRC at the end of next month. Chatfield, who has been with PTRC for ten... continue

Keith Buchan, Chair, Transport Planning Society, London
As Phil Goodwin notes in his column (see page 17), it is ten years since the Transport Planning Society and a group of 28 professors wrote an open... continue

Local Transport Today
David Cameron’s pledge to roll back the layers of consultations and “pointless reports” that slow down policy delivery was no doubt... continue

Phil Goodwin
It's the tenth anniversary this year of the first of these columns – or, rather, a one-off pilot for what became a series later. Under the... continue

Lafarge and Tarmac owner Anglo American have agreed to sell a portfolio of UK cement, concrete and quarry businesses for £272m. The sale,... continue