What does business think about transport?

The answer to this question is far more complex than is often indicated in the mainstream media’s reporting of the findings of surveys into the needs and desires of commercial operations

Phil Goodwin

There are several questions hidden within the title of this piece. There is the question ‘Does business think?’ – not a cheap joke, but a profound conceptual problem, which I’ll explain in a minute. And there is the question ‘Does business think about transport?’ to which the answer is a little surprising.

Just before Christmas the Department for Transport published a report by my colleagues Glenn Lyons, Charles Musselwhite, Geoff Dudley, Peter Wiltshire and...

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