Scott Witchalls
Reading Borough Council has led the delivery of a successful local sustainable transport fund (LSTF) large funding package of £21m for the... continue

Phil Goodwin
On 5-6 December there will be a conference on ‘Re-booting Smarter Travel’ in Bristol – it has Stephen Joseph and Norman Baker who... continue

Norman Baker
Improving the delivery of local services at a time of economic uncertainty and constrained budgets is never easy. That is something I learned as... continue

Andrew Maclaren has joined consultant WYG as a regional director within its transport division. He moves from consultant Atkins, where he was an... continue

Parsons Brinckerhoff has appointed Richard Jones as a technical director within its North of England transport planning and traffic engineering team.... continue

AECOM has won a £1m project with Singapore’s Land Transport Authority to reduce peak-period travel demand. AECOM will promote flexible... continue

Carillion expects improvements in it profits for the full year at the same time as revenue reduces compared to 2011, it said in its third quarter... continue

Lee Baker
‘Why travel?’ is the rather searching question now being asked by the Independent Transport Commission in a new research project, as we... continue

Lee Baker
Adversity, they say, is the mother of invention. The transport sector is showing that this is the case, and in spades. We have contractors such as... continue

The headline ‘DfT’s procurement practice praised’ (LTT 28 Sep) made us chuckle in light of the Department’s admission that it... continue

The DfT has been urged to develop new systems for checking its funds are spent within its rules and not wasted as it moves to devolve a further... continue

The Independent Transport Commission has launched a new project to investigate the fundamental motivations that underpin the journeys we make. The... continue

TRL is to make its research reports freely available on its website from 1 December. This will include all of its back catalogue of reports.... continue

Andrew Forster
The UK’s urban transport systems lag behind the best in Europe because our transport policy-makers are too timid, too old and too... continue

URS Corporation has announced the appointment of a new executive chairman and managing director to seek growth outside the US. Tom Bishop, who will... continue

Hyder Consulting said 2012 profits of the group were so far “well ahead of previous expectations” but UK results were disappointing. The... continue

MAY GURNEY’s interim chief executive has reported an improvement in business since the first quarter of 2012. The board ousted its chief... continue

The DfT’s plan for local transport bodies (LTBs) to prioritise major transport scheme funding has created tension between councils in a number... continue

Martin Fleetwood has joined law firm Bevan Brittan as a partner in its commercial and infrastructure team. He joins from Stephenson Harwood.... continue

Transport for London has launched a recruitment drive for 100 graduate trainees, in fields such as engineering, project management, technical and... continue