30 May 2025Local Transport Today News
Government scraps £950m Rapid Charging Fund

Government scraps £950m Rapid Charging Fund

Mark Moran

The Labour government has scrapped a £950m fund set up by the previous administration to support the roll-out of rapid... continue

23 Jun 2025EVolution News
Durham car park earns Park Access EV and Park Mark Plus

Durham car park earns Park Access EV and Park Mark Plus

Mark Moran

Durham County Council has received two national... continue

20 Jun 2025Parking Review News
20 Jun 2025Parking Review News
VREO offers solar-powered ANPR for rural and coastal car parks

VREO offers solar-powered ANPR for rural and coastal car parks

Mark Moran

VREO Innovations, a developer camera-based parking... continue

Free to view
20 Jun 2025Parking Review Products & Services
Sheffield City Council

Senior Engineer

Senior Engineer REQ003420Closing date: 14/07/2025Permanent 3.5 positions (3 @ 37 hours & 0.5 @ 18 hours)Grade 8 £41,511 to £44,711 Pro Rata Details:Senior Engineers & Senior Technicians -... Sheffield £41,511 to £44,711

find out more...

Closes 14 Jul 2025Jobs
Free to view
18 Jun 2025Parking Review News
UK is leading EV market in Europe

UK is leading EV market in Europe

Mark Moran

The UK is now the leading electric vehicle market in Europe, says energy and commodity analyst... continue

Free to view
18 Jun 2025EVolution Features
Patel and Gallagher become Disabled Motoring UK trustees

Patel and Gallagher become Disabled Motoring UK trustees

Mark Moran

Disabled Motoring UK has named two leading parking... continue

Free to view
16 Jun 2025Parking Review News
From petrol station to an oasis for EVs

From petrol station to an oasis for EVs

Mark Moran

Public EV charging network Believ is set to open its new Charging Oasis in Manchester. What was a derelict petrol... continue

16 Jun 2025EVolution News
ChargePoint Navigator supports local authority funding bids

ChargePoint Navigator supports local authority funding bids

Mark Moran

Local authorities can now use an online tool to help them... continue

16 Jun 2025EVolution Products & Services

£3 cap for single bus fare extended to March 2027

Deniz Huseyin

The £3 cap for single bus fares in England is to be extended into 2027, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced during her Spending Review statement in the Commons.  The cap, which was due to end in December, will now continue until “at least” March 2027, said Reeves. The initial... continue

13 Jun 2025Local Transport Today News

Reeves steers £15bn transport investment to mayors in north with Green Book changes

Peter Stonham

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has put a major focus on investment in transport in the northern and midlands mayoral areas in the DfT’s allocation under her government spending announcement. Promised changes to the Treasury Green Book investment appraisal rules have been published which should mean... continue

13 Jun 2025Local Transport Today News

Chancellor claims ‘Biggest ever investment in city region local transport’

Peter Stonham

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has claimed to have more than doubled existing investment in local transport in England’s city regions in a package of funding allocations worth £15.6bn over the next five years. The announcement came a week ahead of the full Spending Review in speeches in... continue

13 Jun 2025Local Transport Today News

DfT total spending falls but rail support changes mask other coming rises

Peter Stonham

There has been some relief at how transport fared in the spending round despite the Department for Transport (DfT) seeing its annual day-to-day budget decrease by 5% for the five year period ahead - one of the largest cuts in the review. The reduction is said to be mostly down to a big drop in the... continue

13 Jun 2025Local Transport Today News

Detailed allocations for the Transport for City Regions settlements 2027-28 to 2031-32

Peter Stonham

The DfT has published the details for the annual allocations to the nine mayoral transport authorities announced in the Spending Review. The total of £15.6 billion is now being called Transport for City Regions (TCR) funding and replaces what was previously the City Region Sustainable... continue

13 Jun 2025Local Transport Today News

GM all-electric bus plan and Liverpool BRT included in investment funding package

Peter Stonham

Plans to create an all-electric bus fleet in Greater Manchester and the development of a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) network in Liverpool are among the beneficiaries of the £15.6 billion funding package for urban Mayoral transport projects in England announced by the Chancellor Rachel... continue

13 Jun 2025Local Transport Today News
New ‘place-focused’ Green Book to tackle regional bias and support transformational schemes

New ‘place-focused’ Green Book to tackle regional bias and support transformational schemes

The Treasury’s Green Book Review , published alongside the Chancellor’s spending statement , claims to mark “a new approach to appraisal in the public sector”. It is one which should enable the more effective assessment of place-based interventions, and is expected to have significant implications for transport scheme assessment and... continue

13 Jun 2025Local Transport Today News

Franchising not expected for areas with own buses

Rhodri Clark

Local authorities which currently own bus companies do not currently envisage going down the franchising road, but could that change as pressures on local government finances increase even further, or if there’s a view in a larger LTA that franchising should be introduced? After bus... continue

13 Jun 2025Local Transport Today News
13 Jun 2025Local Transport Today News
Former TfL bus chief fears a skills shortage for widescale bus reform

Former TfL bus chief fears a skills shortage for widescale bus reform

Rhodri Clark

Former Transport for London Director of Buses Louise Cheeseman has... continue

13 Jun 2025Local Transport Today News

Modelling and Digital Twin feeds proposed to take advantage of real time data

Blending real time data and modelling, leading to dynamic short-term predictions, should be a productive avenue to release the value of the mass of transport- related data now available, but causing challenges in processing and presentation say authors Tom van Vuren and Philippe Perret in two new... continue

13 Jun 2025Local Transport Today News

TransportXtra is part of Landor LINKS

© 2025 TransportXtra | Landor LINKS Ltd | All Rights Reserved

Subscriptions, Magazines & Online Access Enquires
[Frequently Asked Questions]
Email: subs.ltt@landor.co.uk | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7091 7959

Shop & Accounts Enquires
Email: accounts@landor.co.uk | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7091 7855

Advertising Sales & Recruitment Enquires
Email: daniel@landor.co.uk | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7091 7861

Events & Conference Enquires
Email: conferences@landor.co.uk | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7091 7865

Press Releases & Editorial Enquires
Email: info@transportxtra.com | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7091 7875

Privacy Policy | Terms and Conditions | Advertise

Web design london by Brainiac Media 2020