Changes planned to transport decision making to meet climate resilience

Changes planned to transport decision making to meet climate resilience

Peter Stonham

The Department for Transport has promised to embed consideration of climate risks in scheme business case process and decision making, with supporting new guidance including revisions to the TAG system by the end... continue

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Enroute launches sustainable transport strategy

Transport research and advocacy group Enroute has launched its strategy for 2024-25 to build the case for sustainable transport investment and usage. The Community Interest Company (CIC) was initially established as Sustainable Transport Midlands (STM) in mid-2021, before undergoing a rebranding in... continue

11 Apr 2024Local Transport Today People
CILT UK aims to ‘Professionalise the Profession’

CILT UK aims to ‘Professionalise the Profession’

A strategy for ‘Professionalising the Profession’ has been published by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT UK). This will recognise and celebrate the... continue

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11 Apr 2024Local Transport Today People
Hickman appointed new CEO of RoSPA

Hickman appointed new CEO of RoSPA

Becky Hickman has been promoted to the role of Chief Executive at The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA). Hickman,... continue

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Buro Happold gives mobility role to Downer

Buro Happold gives mobility role to Downer

Ed Downer has joined consultants and engineers Buro Happold as Transport and Mobility Associate. Prior to a four-month career break, he spent nearly seven years as... continue

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Strategy role for Mills at combined authority

Christopher Mills is new Transport Strategy and Planning Programme Manager Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority. He was previously Mobility and Transport Discipline Director at Buro Happold for a year, prior to which he spent three years as Senior Associate Strategy and Planning at... continue

11 Apr 2024Local Transport Today People

Frost is elected policy director at TPS

Mark Frost of Fern Consulting Services has been elected new Policy Director at the Transport Planning Society (TPS). He is sharing the post with Steer’s Lisa Martin.... continue

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11 Apr 2024Local Transport Today People
Starmer pledges more transport devolution as Labour expects big gains

Starmer pledges more transport devolution as Labour expects big gains

Expecting big gains in council seats next month, Labour launched its local election campaign fronted by leader Sir Keir Starmer and his deputy in the West Midlands just before Easter, promising more support on devolved policy initiatives in areas like local transport... continue

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Cornwall presses on with costly £147m road scheme

Peter Stonham

Cornwall Council is to go ahead with plans to build the A39 Camelford Bypass despite the cost tripling over original estimates to £147M resulting in a benefit cost ratio of only 0.74 putting the scheme in the “poor” value for money criteria. The council is having to submit an... continue

11 Apr 2024Local Transport Today News
Forecasts, projections or estimates?

Forecasts, projections or estimates?

Tom van Vuren

Sometimes you hear a speaker in a podcast and say to yourself: “Oh, yes! I know exactly what you... continue

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11 Apr 2024Local Transport Today News
Pre-scrutiny of plans called for by PAC chair amid concerns on waste

Pre-scrutiny of plans called for by PAC chair amid concerns on waste

Peter Stonham

Concerns at the need for greater scrutiny over public expenditure... continue

11 Apr 2024Local Transport Today News
Crossrail sponsorship review seeks to learn wider lessons

Crossrail sponsorship review seeks to learn wider lessons

Continually reviewing a major project’s delivery model is highlighted as a key message from experience with the £19bn Crossrail project in a new report published jointly by the Department for Transport (DfT)... continue

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Transport planners examine merit of DfT ‘driver-friendly’ rules

Senior transport and traffic professionals have given their forthright reactions to the tranche of new traffic guidance introduced by the Government just before Easter in support of its Plan for Drivers. The range of new notices and regulations was covered in the last issue of LTT including... continue

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Government gets Parliament approval of new NNNP

Peter Stonham

The Government has obtained the required Parliamentary approval of the new National Networks National Policy statement (NNNPS), after a thinly attended short 90-minute debate just before the Easter recess. There was some criticism from the few MPs who spoke, including Labour Shadow Transport... continue

10 Apr 2024Local Transport Today News
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