Stakeholders are formulating their responses to TfL’s five-week consultation on whether to scrap, retain or amend the western extension of the... continue

One of the fixations of transport academics – road pricing – features prominently in the papers commissioned by the IHT. There have been... continue

By Rik Thomas
Over 200 transport professionals gathered in Portsmouth last week at the annual Institution of Highways and Transportation presidential conference to... continue

The DfT this week named the seven companies who have been selected to conduct technology trials of road pricing systems capable of charging by time,... continue

Oxfordshire County Council said this week   it will not participate in any more work on “fairytale” plans for an eco-town at... continue

The DfT is understood to be close to signing contracts for a series of road pricing technology trials with equipment suppliers. The Demonstrations... continue

On 18 August The Daily Telegraph resurrected the spectre of nationwide road pricing in an article on the Government’s proposed technology... continue

The future of Greater Manchester’s multi-billion pound transport investment package and road pricing scheme will be determined before Christmas... continue

By Rik Thomas
Altrincham & Sale West MP, Graham Brady, is strongly opposed to the proposed congestion charge for Manchester. “With the country on the... continue

By Rik Thomas
New data from Transport for London on the impacts of congestion charging on traffic volumes and congestion in central London indicate that the... continue

Red Routes, road user charging and a major investment in rail are among the initiatives outlined in the draft regional transport plan for south-east... continue

On 6 August Green Party member of the London Assembly, Jenny Jones, used a column in The Guardian to defend London's congestion charging scheme... continue

<b>Bryan Whittaker</b> has left the Highways Agency where he was lead modelling and economics advisor to join consultant Scott Wilson as... continue

Greater Manchester's ten districts have agreed to hold a referendum on the conurbation's £3bn transport investment and congestion charge package but... continue

To the eternal question: has the Government?dropped plans for nationwide road user charging? Given that the DfT can never quite bring itself to call... continue

Boris Johnson this week told Transport for London to accelerate the delivery of initiatives to ease traffic jams as new data showed that, five years... continue

As some readers may be aware, a change of job means that this will be my last regular column for LTT. It is usually traditional on these occasions to... continue

Andrew Forster
Rural Oxfordshire is a world away from the congested streets of central London but, if developers get their way, this area could become the location... continue

Residents of the proposed eco-town at Pennbury in Leicestershire could also find themselves being charged for car use under proposals from developer... continue

Private sector-operated toll lanes could be provided on heavily congested stretches of England's motorway network but the DfT?appears to have cooled... continue