Emma Young has been appointed a senior consultant in Faber Maunsell's Liverpool office. She joins from Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council where she... continue

Seven towns and cities in Scotland are to take part in a £15m initiative to tempt motorists out of their cars. The Scottish Government's 'Sustainable... continue

John Kemplen, Team leader, transport planning & modelling, Buckinghamshire County Council, Aylesbury
I do hope that the "toughest ever green standards" mentioned in the Government's 24 July press release on the eco-towns progress report get... continue

The DfT has commissioned an update of its landmark 2004 report, Smarter Choices - changing the way we travel, on the effects of travel behaviour... continue

David H T Smith, The Thursfield Smith Consultancy, Shrewsbury
Your report 'DfT defends value of small time savings' (LTT 11 Jul) makes me wonder how long the time savings used to justify building new roads... continue

<b>Beth Hiblin</b> has joined Colin Buchanan as a principal consultant in its sustainable travel team. She was previously Peterborough... continue

Transport secretary Ruth Kelly has announced a delay to its work on developing a transport White Paper and strategy to 2014 building on last... continue

A reader emails in about being bombarded with direct mail advertising for Govnet's Transport 08 conference at the QE2 conference centre. A... continue

Local Transport Today, the UK's leading publication for transport professionals publishes its 500th issue in August. We'll be taking a look at... continue

Rail transport and the environment: meeting the challenge, has just been published by Landor Books. Compiled by the Community of European Railway and... continue

Sue Flack (pictured) has joined consultant MRC McLean Hazel from Northamptonshire County Council where she was head of sustainable transport. Flack... continue

Inadequate transport plans for many of the shortlisted Eco-towns could help lead to only a handful of the shortlisted locations being taken forward... continue

Phil Goodwin
Now I guess that most of you will not yet have heard much about MDAT (Multiplex Diversified Attractor Theory) - or, at least, I hope not, since I... continue

Denise Carlo is quite right about the urgency for adopting sustainable transport policies (Letters LTT 2 May). In 2002, the OECD published a report... continue

Appraising and modelling the impacts of 'smarter choice' travel behaviour change measures is one of the priorities of the DfT's research programme... continue

Garret Emmerson
How will the policy agenda for the next round of LTPs differ from that for LTP2? Having one of those 'what were we doing five years ago'... continue

Denise Carlo - Norwich NR2
Phil Goodwin has the measure of the NATA refresh when he advises the Government to stop tinkering around the edges and go for a substantial re-write... continue

Joan Hancox has been appointed to the new post of head of sustainable transport at the London Borough of Haringey, starting in June. She is currently... continue

Owen South
You report on support for the expansion of Heathrow Airport, including from the House of Commons Transport Committee and the Association of... continue

When the Government's shortlist of 15 sites for the establishment of 'eco-towns' was officially announced on 3 April the media moved on from its... continue