Greater Manchester is set to benefit from over £30m of investment to make public transport and active travel safer, cleaner, and more accessible. Projects include improvements... continue
Andrea Jones is new Managing Director at Project Centre. She spent six years at NSL, most recently as Strategic Operations... continue
Revised DfT guidance on transport planning for new housing developments linked to the revised National Planning Policy Framework is now not expected till the autumn. It had been promised to quickly follow the revised NPPF issued at the end of last year as the Government sought to speed up new... continue
The Transport Planning Society is seeking to initiate research into how determining appropriate transport provision for new developments can meet the Government’s new objectives for vision-led planning alongside more homebuilding. It believes codifying a practitioner perspective is crucial to... continue
The Department for Transport has published its Annual Report & Accounts for 2024–2025 amongst a burst of similar reports across its agencies and other public bodies needing to be presented to the House of Commons ahead of it rising for its summer recess. These include Network Rail,... continue
National Highways has delivered significant improvements for road users in the RIS2 reporting period from 2020 to 2025 says John Larkinson, Chief Executive of the Office of Road and Rail in ORR’s annual report on the company. It had opened 30 major enhancements schemes,, achieved better... continue
DfT’s new Permanent Secretary has told the Public Accounts Committee that bus funding in England was getting close to that in international peer economies, but the committee’s chair suggested this was a complacent view of the outcomes from English bus funding. In her first appearance... continue
The newly elected Reform UK Leader of Kent County Council has asked the... continue
Further funding for autonomous buses in Cambridgeshire has been confirmed. The Greater Cambridge Partnership (GCP) has secured an additional £1 million from the government’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) to expand its Connector project, now on test. The new phase... continue
Andrew Bruce has been appointed Managing Director of Waterman Aspen. He joined the company in 2008 and took on his first... continue
Tim Sullivan has joined Mott MacDonald in the newly created role of market portfolio manager, transport planning & modelling, UK & Europe. He was previously at Urbis Sydney where he was director of transport advisory leading complex public sector projects and shaping national thinking on... continue
Victoria Hills, who has led the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) for nearly eight years as CEO, is moving on to become CEO at the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB). She will remain in post at RTPI... continue
Martin Gilmour has started a new position as Deputy Director, Policy, Heathrow Expansion at the DfT. He has been at the department... continue
When was the Bus Centre of Excellence set up and why? The Bus Centre of Excellence was set up in 2023; its creation was recommended in the National Bus Strategy (2021) to enable the delivery of a long-term programme of activities and support to the bus sector. Funded by the DfT and delivered by the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT), BCoE... continue
Quality Bus, a major event produced by the Bus Centre of Excellence and Landor LINKS, will bring together local authorities, operators, service providers and consultants to share best practice across the bus sector.. The conference, which will be held in Portsmouth on 23 and 24 September, will look... continue
The previous election in May 2021 put Oxfordshire County Council into No Overall Control, ending many decades of Conservative-led administrations. The new administration was initially a three-way coalition of Liberal Democrat, Labour and Green councillors, then, from September 2023, a minority administration of LibDems and Greens. Like every city and county,... continue
Almost a quarter of respondents to a survey said they have no understanding of the concept of net zero while 73% hold no strong view on projects that support net zero but disrupt daily life, according to a new report by Copper Consultancy and Keele University. The report – Winning Back the... continue
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has awarded £66m towards projects to improve road links between towns and economic hubs in the West of Scotland. Renfrewshire Council will get £38.7m for new walking, cycling, bus and car links between Paisley town centre, the Advanced Manufacturing... continue
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has handed the rail sector a mixed report card on its efforts to improve safety, performance and value. Britain’s railway remains one of the safest in Europe and the industry has made good progress taking action to address overdue structure assessments and... continue
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