10 Mar 2025EVolution Features
Looser European emissions targets are bad for business

Looser European emissions targets are bad for business

Dominic Phinn

The European Commission’s CO2 targets for cars... continue

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9 Mar 2025EVolution Opinion
Automotive manufacturers feel optimistic about electric vehicles

Automotive manufacturers feel optimistic about electric vehicles

Automotive manufacturing leaders feel positive about the future of electric vehciles, with 75% predicting EV production growth in 2025. However, doubts increase over meeting current ‘full EV production’ deadlines. These are among the key... continue

7 Mar 2025EVolution Features
£42m ‘Healthy Low-carbon Transport Hub’ seeks  net zero health benefits

£42m ‘Healthy Low-carbon Transport Hub’ seeks net zero health benefits

Peter Stonham

A new £42m Healthy Low-carbon Transport Hub (HLTH) project led... continue

6 Mar 2025Local Transport Today News
Climate Change Committee banks on accelerated electric vehicle switch-over

Climate Change Committee banks on accelerated electric vehicle switch-over

Deniz Huseyin

Electric vehicles (EVs) will be the key driver of decarbonisation in the... continue

6 Mar 2025Local Transport Today News

A fifth of Sustrans staff to lose jobs due to drop in funding

Deniz Huseyin

Sustrans has reported that 20% of its workforce will be made redundant by the end of this financial year due to a drop in funding. The charity, which works to improve walking, wheeling, and cycling in the UK, carried out a “restructure” at senior level late last year and said that... continue

6 Mar 2025Local Transport Today News
'I'm not a flight-shaming eco warrior’ says Alexander

'I'm not a flight-shaming eco warrior’ says Alexander

Transport secretary Heidi sand and pretend that people for Gatwick and Luton are on Alexander has told don’t want to fly. Pretend that my desk. And the government an aviation industry families aren’t... continue

6 Mar 2025Local Transport Today News

Schools get 1,400 charging places

More than 1,400 electric vehicle charging sockets have been installed at UK schools and colleges with Government funding support via the Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS), which provides funding for chargepoints at flats, rental properties, schools, offices and workplaces. In addition to... continue

6 Mar 2025Local Transport Today News

75,000 public chargepoints now in place

The UK now has 75,000 public EV charge points, according to new data published by Zapmap. The charge point mapping service notes that, as of the end of February, there are 75,675 charge points in the UK, representing a 32% year-on-year increase compared with February 2024, when 57,290 devices... continue

6 Mar 2025Local Transport Today News

ITF launches ‘Safe System’ digital assessment tool

The International Transport Forum (ITF) has launched an acessible digital platform designed to support road safety assessments and interventions. The Safe System Tool is designed to empower stakeholders to evaluate and enhance their strategies, projects, and plans, aligning them with the Safe... continue

6 Mar 2025Local Transport Today News

Huge rise in children caught riding or driving illegally linked to e-scooters

Deniz Huseyin

Private e-scooters are likely to be behind a huge surge in children caught riding or driving illegally and without insurance, according to IAM RoadSmart. Since 2021, there has been a 2100% rise in the number of children receiving uninsured driving endorsements, according to a Freedom of Information... continue

6 Mar 2025Local Transport Today News
Needs of children ignored in active travel policy, says Sustrans

Needs of children ignored in active travel policy, says Sustrans

Deniz Huseyin

Children have the highest modal share of any age group for... continue

6 Mar 2025Local Transport Today News

‘Desire to care’ stops parents giving up cars, analysis suggests

Deniz Huseyin

Parents find it hard to give up their cars even when their children reach adulthood because of an “ongoing desire to care”, according to a new study. Private car use appears to have strong ties with parenting even as children become increasingly independent, says the report, by Jennifer... continue

6 Mar 2025Local Transport Today News

Mayors want power ‘to deliver transformational local rail services’

Mayors and devolved authorities must have a central role in the running of local rail services set out in the forthcoming Rail Reform Bill, say the Urban Transport Group. Its member network of transport authorities say they want to ensure rail complements local plans for growth, housing, skills and... continue

6 Mar 2025Local Transport Today News

ORR will guard integrity of five-year railway funding programmes

Rhodri Clark

The role of the Office of Rail and Road after Great British Railways is established will include guarding the integrity of five-year railway funding settlements, the UK Government has proposed. The ORR would watch for any attempts by a future Secretary of State to direct GBR to undertake... continue

6 Mar 2025Local Transport Today News

Legislation will place the minimum of conditions on GBR’s licence

Rhodri Clark

The Government proposes that GBR’s licence to operate the rail network will come with the minimum possible conditions, to give GBR a lighter regulatory burden than Network Rail currently has. Today’s licensing and oversight regime was designed for a fully privatised railway, but the... continue

6 Mar 2025Local Transport Today News

Simplified processes for non-GBR rail infrastructure managers

Rhodri Clark

The Railways Bill to establish GBR also provides an opportunity to simplify processes for other rail infrastructure and facilities managers, including the Welsh Government as owner of the Core Valley Lines and HS1 Ltd, which operates the high speed line between London St Pancras and the Channel... continue

6 Mar 2025Local Transport Today News
6 Mar 2025Local Transport Today News
6 Mar 2025Local Transport Today News

Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles issues guidance on 2024 AV Act

The Government’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles has issued guidance on the The Automated Vehicles Act Implementation Programme, to secure the safe deployment of automated vehicles (AVs) on roads in Great Britain. CCAV is responsible for carrying out the full policy, legislative... continue

6 Mar 2025Local Transport Today News
6 Mar 2025Local Transport Today News

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