A new Institute for Government (IfG) report has targeted three key aspects of policy to improve infrastructure decision-making in the UK. Over the past year, the Institute for Government has explored how the UK can improve infrastructure policymaking in areas... continue
I strongly agree with the calls from London boroughs for Transport for London’s PTAL methodology to be refined (ibid). There seems to be an over-reliance on PTAL in London and too much importance given to this outdated scoring methodology. All a PTAL measure is currently showing is the... continue
Via, the New York ride sharing start-up, has launched its ViaVan service in London. ViaVan is a partnership with Mercedes, which invested $50m in Via last year. ViaVans are hailed using the Via app and operate in London’s travelcards zones 1 and 2. They will charge a flat rate of... continue
Scottish transport minister Hunza Yousaf has pledged to ensure the next phase of Scotland’s road improvement programme takes into account the needs of autonomous vehicles. The Sunday Times reports that Yousaf has been in talks with the UK Government about an autonomous vehicle pilot... continue
Transport for the West Midlands is conducting a one-year trial of bus service planning software developed by US firm Remix. Remix Planning enables users to test and visualise service and route scenarios, and understand their cost and demographic impacts. Edmund Salt, TfWM’s network... continue
Bedford Borough Council has praised route planning software for helping to deliver savings to its education transport expenditure. The council uses the cloud-based QRoutes software. Chris Pettifer, Bedford’s chief officer for transport, said: “It used to take days or weeks to re-plan... continue
Mobility organisation Carplus Bikeplus is to rebrand as CoMoUK next month.... continue
Residents of a new housing development in the London Borough of Newham will be given three years membership of a car club and £50 of driving credits under a Section 106 agreement proposed by the council. East Ham Regeneration Ltd and BDW Trading are promoting a mixed use development featuring... continue
The news that taxi firm Uber is to buy an electric bike hire firm called Jump prompted some analysis of what appeared to be something very like Mobility as a Service in the media, although the term MaaS did not seem to have been used by the papers. Victoria Fritz, the BBC transport’s... continue
For over 40 years John Grimshaw has been at the forefront... continue
Rhodri Clark makes a number of good points on transport issues outside of large metropolis (‘Can towns share the benefits of the new mobility revolution?’?LTT 30 Mar) but the reality is a decaying public transport system coupled with crumbling roads and frequent delays caused by... continue
Rhodri Clark’s excellent article on innovative transport outside cities (ibid), set me thinking on many issues but I will focus on his last five paragraphs, which dealt with transport in tourist areas. I was initially horrified to read that people take the train to Oxenholme or Windermere and... continue
Richard Harris has been appointed director, Europe, for Ohmio Automotion Ltd, a manufacturer of self-driving shuttle vehicles. Ohmio is a spin-off from New Zealand’s HMI Group. Harris joined HMI last summer from Conduent, where he was director for communications, marketing,... continue
“Parallel parking” are the two words every learner driver dreads to hear. This slow, slight and precise manoeuvre has been revealed as the nation’s trickiest driving manoeuvre, according to a poll of 2,000 UK motorists. When searching for a parking spot, drivers seem happy to... continue
Your last issue highlights responses by the RAC Foundation and East Sussex County Council to the DfT’s consultation proposals for a Major Road Network (‘MRN vision is too limited, councils tell DfT’ LTT16 Mar). The Government’s MRN proposals descend directly from the... continue
Your 03 March issue made me feel old. First there was a blast from the past with a splendid letter from veteran campaigner Don Mathew excoriating the claims for road-building and economic health. Then there was the news of Stephen Joseph leaving the Campaign for Better Transport. I was at the... continue
A scientist who implanted the electronic chip from his public transport smartcard into his hand has been fined for failing to show a valid ticket to a train guard in Sydney, Australia. The authorities doled out a A$1220 (£680) fine, even though the guard’s ticket scanner detected that... continue
Britain is awash with innovative transport products and services, either in development or here right now. Most of the innovation is focused on big cities, where commercial operators are most likely to receive good returns on their... continue
“The internal combustion engine has changed the world as much as almost any other invention of the last 150 years,” The Guardian suggested in an editorial on 25 March. “The car has reshaped our cities and colonised our imaginations [because] it seems to offer autonomy for... continue
On 23 March The Scotsman’s transport correspondent, Alastair Dalton, contemplated the ongoing ‘battle’ between pedestrians and motorised vehicles for space in our cities. “They are greener and perhaps safer than other cars, but if the future of our most popular form of... continue
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John Dales
Never judge a street by its photo
My last two pieces were reflections on different aspects of the process of creating better streets. This time, I want to turn my...