John Dales is on the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment's enabling panel and is also the independent design advisor on streets to the city of Edinburgh Council. He is director of transport and movement at urban design consultant Urban I
Anyone out there come across 'Vision Zero'? It's "a philosophy of road safety that eventually no one will be killed or seriously injured within... continue

Research into the travel patterns of the elderly has been published by the DfT drawing on National Travel Survey data and 68 in-depth qualitative... continue

The voice of travel planning in the UK has been strengthened with the merger of the Association for Commuter Transport and the National Travelwise... continue

Robert Davis
Malcolm Heymer (Letters LTT 22 Nov) makes an interesting point about his desire for motorists to be treated "like grown-ups", although... continue

Chris Wood
Despite his opening sentence, Malcolm Heymer actually appears to agree that speed is a significant problem in road crashes (Letters LTT 8 Nov). Where... continue

The public's views on transport could play a bigger part in the appraisal process under plans by the DfT to boost the use of social research.... continue

Rik Thomas
After three years of work the Sustainable Travel Towns (STTs) initiative currently being trialled in three local authorities areas, Worcestershire,... continue

Car journeys by residents in Darlington were reduced by 11.5%, according to a survey of 1,500 residents undertaken towards the end of 2006. In the... continue

According to the evaluation of Worcester's Individual Travel Marketing programme carried out by Socialdata and presented to the council in July,... continue

Garrett Emmerson is a director of consultant Steer Davies Gleave, chair of the Local Transport Planning Network and a member of the Commission for Integrated Transport. The views expressed in this column are those of the author alone.
The Department for Transport's newly published response to Eddington and Stern, Towards a Sustainable Transport System, highlights the likely... continue

Chris Oldham
Given recent consideration of the hard shoulder as an extra running lane to relieve congestion, it is tempting to wonder why other, more necessary... continue

Malcolm Heymer
Chris Wood seems determined to dismiss any evidence on road accident contributory factors that does not fit his belief that 'speed' is the main cause... continue

Rik Thomas
The section of the DfT's new sustainable transport strategy covering personal travel planning attracted the attention of several newspaper... continue

A major expansion of investment in travel behaviour change policies in England has been heralded by the DfT. Personalised travel planning, station... continue

Obesity is going to continue to be a significant health issue in the UK for at least the next several decades and, even in the long term, changes to... continue

Phil Goodwin is professor of transport policy at the Centre for Transport and Society, University of West of England, Bristol (Phil.Goodwin@uwe.ac.uk), and emeritus professor at University College London
Transport policy has increasingly acknowledged the benefits of reducing car dependence for reasons of congestion, economic efficiency and quality of... continue

Laurie Price is aviation strategy director for consultant Mott MacDonald.
I'd like to thank all the LTT readers who took time out to respond to the Viewpoint piece I submitted on aviation. I hoped to spark some debate and... continue

A hushed silence fell across the auditorium at last week's transport and climate change conference in the British Museum as one delegate broke the... continue

The London Borough of Sutton will receive a report reviewing progress of the 'Smarter travel Sutton' travel behaviour change project this autumn.... continue

By Alison Dunatov
From the time climate change moved from the realm of the scientists into our wider consciousness, a solution has been sought in technology. This is... continue