Andrew Forster
The National Audit Office has praised the DfT for keeping the capital costs of the multi-billion pound Thameslink project within budget. But it has... continue

Andrew Forster
Restrictions on lorry movements, changes to the rules for enforcing Advanced Stop Lines for cyclists at junctions, and speed awareness courses for... continue

Rik Thomas & Andrew Forster
Two major projects to develop new transport modelling capabilities are underway, with the DfT launching a review of the National Transport Model and... continue

The first designs for the Transport Systems Catapult’s new National Transport Systems Modelling (NTSM) facility will be published by autumn... continue

There is no agreement within the transport sector about how the impact of transport schemes on the local economy should be modelled, according to a... continue

Transport modellers are ill-equipped to understand how changes in urban lifestyles and technology will affect peoples’ travel behaviour, a... continue

Local Transport Today
An interesting discussion about whether the volume of work involved in modelling and appraising local transport major schemes is appropriate, or... continue

Chris Hanley has joined consultant Atkins to lead on its travel demand management work. He joins from SKM Colin Buchanan, where he was team leader... continue

Swindon Borough Council Cycle Loan Scheme Swindon’s cycle loan scheme is an innovative and engaging project that allows commuters to borrow a... continue

Gary Nulty, Streetwise
With video cameras replacing people on most count surveys over the past decade or so, the lag between fieldwork and final results has increased as... continue

Lenny Winsel
Traditionally urban space design has always favoured vehicle movement over pedestrian movement and the need for high quality transportation... continue

Lána Pennycook
Sydney is Australia’s largest and most densely populated city, with a population of 4.6 million. The city’s central business district... continue

Erik de Romph
Companies such as TomTom possess enormous databases with vehicle-movements based on GPS data to predict traffic jams in real time and, with the... continue

Paul O’Neill
Over the past 12 months, I have visited over 100 offices around the UK, Indo-Asia and the Middle East presenting to clients, local authorities and... continue

Peter Debney
How do people navigate through a building, a train station or an airport? What happens when you need to evacuate an area, or if a number of exits... continue

Lorenzo Meschini, and Thomas Otterstätter and Johannes Schlaich from PTV Group
Traffic managers know from experience what traffic is going to be like during a specific time and day of the week and can therefore handle incidents... continue

The Local Government Technical Advisors Group is proposing uniting the group with ADEPT (the Association of Directors of Environment, economy,... continue

Guildford Borough Council has invited tenders for a  transport study of the area that will use a technique known as... continue

Sílvio Rogério Tôrres, SPTrans
Brazilian cities are celebrated for their excellent bus services and São Paulo is no exception. The city has a complex surface transit network... continue

Tom Van Vuren
As a modeller I am used to being challenged by technology, and I’m not just talking about getting used to Windows 8. Newer computers enabling... continue