Clean air zones and low emission zones, safer lorry schemes, alternative fuels, Brexit... Central and local government is presenting the road freight sector with a plateful of policy challenges, making life busy for... continue
Hundreds of new housing developments across the country could... continue
The development planning system in England has an... continue
The Welsh Government has embarked on a new method of... continue
The Rail Safety and Standards Board is researching if new designs of freight container could increase the volume of freight carried by rail. A study will assess the technical and economic feasibility of options, before developing supplementary container gauges for inclusion in the rail... continue
The Welsh Government has allocated the first funding for councils to implement schemes developed under the Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013. The Act is the world’s first legislation requiring all councils to map and subsequently construct active travel networks. The first years since the Act... continue
The DfT is to update its guidance documents on tactile paving and inclusive mobility after researchers found that many authorities are failing to... continue
The House of Commons transport committee is to hold an inquiry into ways of increasing active travel across England. Committee chair Lilian Greenwood said take-up of active travel was still “disappointingly low”. The committee has invited written evidence on matters... continue
Whether it’s planning inquiries into new housing developments or new pieces of transport infrastructure, or calculating bus operators’ entitlement to concessionary fares reimbursement, the job of many transport planning consultants is to represent clients... continue
Highways England has appointed consultant WSP to provide engineering and design services for two new smart motorway projects. A 20-mile stretch of the M62 between junctions 20 and 25 linking Yorkshire and Lancashire will be upgraded from three lanes to four in each direction. The existing two lane... continue
With profound apologies to The Temptations, and to those of you who... continue
The Government has threatened to intervene to prevent... continue
Remember the first day at sustainable transport boot camp? That’s... continue
The DfT’s decision to ask councils to pause work on level surface street schemes has opened up a can of worms, as we report on the front page. As well as town centre schemes and residential streets, Robert Huxford, director of the Urban Design Group, asked the DfT for clarification about... continue
One can perhaps picture the scene: the summer parliamentary recess approaching, and ministers and civil servants are clearing outstanding matters from their in-trays before heading off for their well-earned breaks. One of the items on transport minister Nusrat Ghani’s desk is what to do about... continue
The serious criticism of HS2 reported in the last issue and the more subtle changes suggested in the Greengauge 21 report Beyond HS2 in late May show that present HS2 proposals are coming under increasing attack for failing to recognise major changes in trends affecting movement and access... continue
Ashford Borough Council in Kent says it is taking a pro-active approach to ease illegal lorry parking and congestion by approving plans to develop Waterbrook Park, a 140-acre site near junction 10 of the M20. Ashford International Truckstop will double in size to allow overnight parking for up to... continue
The car park serving an inter-war apartment building in Westminster, London has been refurbished. Dorset House is a block of 185 upmarket flats built in Marylebone... continue
Last month, the Governement launched the first stages of its Future of Mobility Grand Challenge, declaring that the UK is on the cusp of 'a profound change in how we move people, goods and services around our towns, cities and countryside...driven by extraordinary innovation in engineering,... continue
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