Dan Wright
Biting the bullet on expensive, transformational, railway schemes is something that mainland European governments have been good at, as exemplified... continue

Peter Stonham and Dan Wright
The majority of the world’s population now live in urban areas. That point was reached in 2008, according to official UN statistics, as the... continue

IIn the last issue we reported a significant transaction involving a car hire business moving across into urban mobility, with the acquisition of the... continue

T There’s little disagreement that electrification is the best power system for most railways. But what should be done about branch lines where... continue

The UK government has made a priority of putting back the East Coast rail franchise into the private sector in 2015, and has also revealed plans to... continue

The quest for seamless multimodal travel has been set out again in the UK Department for Transport’s new ‘door-to-door’ transport... continue

It’s 50 years since the publication in 1963 of two pivotal reports on British transport: The Reshaping of British Railways by Dr Richard... continue

Peter Stonham
Passenger transport does not operate in isolation. People travel for reasons, and transport systems provide a vital ingredient to economic and social... continue

The Commons transport select committee has come out in favour of a third runway at Heathrow and said there may also be merit in a... continue

The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport has appointed Giles Fearnley, managing director of First UK Bus, as an ‘ambassador’... continue

Stewart Oades has handed over the presidency of the Freight Transport Association to Ian Veitch, managing director of Yusen Logistics UK. Oades steps... continue

Consultant WSP has appointed a senior transport planner, Andrew Moseley, to its UK development business. He joins WSP’s Leeds office but will... continue

Public services law firm Bevan Brittan has appointed rail and transport expert Martin Fleetwood as a partner in its commercial and infrastructure... continue

Engineering consultancy Parsons Brinckerhoff has appointed Tony Kearns as strategy and operations director for its UK Rail, Transit and Aviation... continue

A new STADIUM Intelligent Transport Systems online guide has been released by the European Commission. The guide features an interactive ITS decision... continue

The TRICS 7 system redesign has been given the formal go-ahead by the TRICS Consortium. The development of the latest version of TRICS, which is the... continue

ITS-based traffic management achieve benefit:cost ratios of 9:1 compared with 2.7:1 for new roads, says a new survey issued by UK transport... continue

PRESSURE FOR greater EC-level support for urban ITS deployment will continue despite the closure of a key multinational consultancy group, TfL... continue

AA president Edmund King told the Bicycle Association’s AGM that 18 million drivers had seen potholes but failed to report them. The AA is... continue

Cycling Lobby groups were hopeful this week that the Government will respond to the Get Britain Cycling report by establishing a new cycling champion... continue