The West Yorkshire Combined Authority has given more details of a new method for assessing the carbon impact of transport and other investments in the conurbation. Consultant Mott MacDonald is developing the method, which should be applied in February and March to projects currently going... continue
In recounting the ongoing quarrel over future public transport for Cambridge, your otherwise excellent writers are in the habit of describing Cambourne as a “market town”, which it is not and never has been (‘GCP revives original route for Cambridge bus rapid transit’ LTT 08... continue
Paul Withrington was the most prolific contributor to LTT’s letters column of the last 20 years.... continue
Mike Salter has joined transport planning, placemaking and engineering consultancy PJA as a director to lead the firm’s new Cambridge office. Salter moves from Mott MacDonald where he had been transport planning projects director since 2017 and the firm’s city director for Cambridge... continue
Traffic technology business SWARCO Traffic has appointed John Pickworth as its new managing director, succeeding Berony Abraham who served for two years. Pickworth joins from engineering consultancy Pell Frischmann, where he was responsible for creating and delivering its ITS market strate... continue
Logistics UK has appointed Ryan Barnett as its economics and research manager. Barnett worked for pro-Heathrow expansion campaign Back Heathrow from 2015 to 2017. He was the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed’s economic policy adviser from January 2019 to December... continue
Coventry City Council has recorded a big drop in injury accidents and speeds on roads where average speed enforcement cameras have been installed. Cameras were erected on the 40mph Ansty and London roads in January 2019. Three-year ‘before’ data for Ansty Road records 32 injury... continue
Leicestershire County Council is trying to reach agreement with Melton Borough Council on a risk-sharing agreement that will allow the county council to accept a Homes England grant for a major new road in Melton Mowbray. Homes England has offered Leicestershire a £15m Housing Infrastructure... continue
Fire brigade response times have not been affected by residential street closures, according to a study in one part of London. Researchers looked at London Fire Brigade data from 2012 to 2020 in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, where low traffic neighbourhood street closures were... continue
Car clubs could play a much bigger part in transport policy if operators agree to share operational data with councils, says a report published by the RAC Foundation. The report proposes a Car Club-Local Authority Data... continue
Hundreds of potentially useful disused railway structures are threatened with demolition or infilling by Highways England, campaigners have warned. Highways England is responsible for managing the DfT’s Historical Railways Estate (HRE) – around 3,200 bridges, tunnels and viaducts, some... continue
Very little car and taxi traffic on the M25 is avoiding London entirely, analysis for the RAC Foundation has found. Data from more than four million trips on the road shows that only 14 per cent bypassed the capital completely. The majority – 74 per cent – had an origin or... continue
The Urban Transport Group has launched a new model for assessing bus demand in city regions. The Metropolitan Bus Model was developed by consultant WSP and is freely available for use by the UTG’s full members. The UTG is itself using the model to explore scenarios for bus patronage... continue
Transport for London has explained the tests being used to detect if Covid-19 is transmitted on the capital’s public transport. Each month researchers from Imperial College London conduct tests during the peak period on the Northern Line from Waterloo to Euston, and the 205 bus... continue
A peer review of the DfT’s National Transport Model (NTM) has questioned the credibility of model output showing that massively increasing road capacity results in lower motorway traffic volumes. The review team also expresses concern about a ‘backcasting’ exercise that shows a... continue
The Western Gateway grouping of local authorities is to use an existing transport model to inform the preparation of a long-term transport plan for the area, rather than develop a new one. The Western Gateway non-statutory sub-national transport body (STB) covers eight local authorities: Bath... continue
Transport modelling and forecasting expert Luis (Pilo) Willumsen has warned that disruption caused by the Covid pandemic means it will be many months before a baseline for reliable new forecasts for traffic and travel behaviour can be established. In an article analysing whether ‘Covid has... continue
stoke-on-Trent City Council is in talks with ministers about whether a new plan can be devised to cut air pollution that removes the need for peak period traffic restrictions on two major roads. The clean air plan work by Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme councils has pointed to... continue
The England’s Economic Heartland alliance of local authorities wants to cut car trips in the region by five per cent a decade to help the country meet its net zero greenhouse gas target. The traffic reduction target is likely to feature in the final version of the EEH’s transport... continue
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