The Department for Transport (DfT) has published a new report on Impacts of integrating land-use and transport planning: a rapid evidence assessment. Integrated land use and transport planning is a policy and practice... continue
Chief Medical Officer for England Professor Chris Whitty has been made an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Highways and... continue
Robert Llewellyn, actor, comedian and writer, will be the host for the Decarbonising Transport Awards 2026 on Friday 27 March at the Royal Lancaster Hotel. Llewellyn is famous for his... continue
Katolyvios Polyviou is new Head of Highways & Sustainable Transport Policy at Southwark Council. He spent nearly two years... continue
Saila Acton has been promoted to the role of Business Manager at the Urban Transport Group. She has been with the body for 11... continue
The new General Secretary of train drivers’ union ASLEF is Dave Calfe. He is replacing Mick Whelan, who has been General Secretary since 2011. Calfe has been president of the union’s executive committee for seven years. ... continue
The Chancellor has been urged to reform a range of vehicle charges and duties in her forthcoming budget in a submission by a newly revived group seeking significant changes to transport-related taxation. “Overall the system is surprisingly complicated, especially for HGVs, out of date and in... continue
Accelerating the shift towards zero emission cars is among the central ambitions set out in the Government’s new Carbon Budget and Growth and Delivery Plan (CBGDP).According to the multi-sector plan, the UK’s shift to a “cleaner, more efficient and better integrated transport... continue
The Government’s whole economy Carbon Budget and Growth Delivery Plan (CBGDP) ought to give us a steer on what it is expecting from the transport sector in delivering the decarbonisation pathway to the end of the 6th Carbon Budget. But it is pretty opaque on that matter. This plan follows two previous attempts which were both thrown out in the courts... continue
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has reacted angrily to the leader of Warwickshire... continue
Councils are struggling to balance their legal duty to provide transport for eligible pupils and the duty to balance budgets, states a new report by the National Audit Office (NAO). The body recommends that the Department for Education’s upcoming reforms to the SEND (Special Educational Needs... continue
Transport for Wales (TfW) has become a Principal Member of the Urban Transport Group (UTG), the UK’s network of transport authorities. TfW is a not-for-profit organisation wholly owned by the Welsh Government and established to deliver a multi-modal transport network in Wales and the Borders.... continue
London Mayor Sadiq Khan should reconsider his plan to end the full exemption for electric vehicles (EVs) from the Congestion Charge, President of the AA Edmund King has stated. The Cleaner Vehicle Discount (CVD), which means EV drivers do not have to pay to enter the charge zone, is due to end on 1... continue
Electric vehicles will lose the 100% discount they receive... continue
The late Peter Hall in his book Good Cities, Better Lives considered that the UK is no longer creating... continue
Thousands of EV drivers have rated the UK’s rapid and... continue
Motoring journalist, fuel pricing campaigner and electric car... continue
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