Dr Patrizia Franco is starting a new position as Associate Director - Activity and Agent-based Modelling SYSTRA UK & Ireland. She was previously at Connected Places... continue
Aiofe Hunt MBE has taken on a new role as Professor of Crowd Safety and Security, and M34Impact Business Development and Partnerships Lead at the University of Greenwich. This follows seven years at... continue
Devon Barrett has been named Young Transport Planner of the Year by the Transport Planning Society. He is Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer and at Podaris, the online collaboration platform... continue
There were calls for accessibility, rather than transport, to be the measure of assessment of the impacts of new housing developments under the new National Planning Policy Framework, at the LTT/TPS event held last week to discuss achieving vision-led outcomes rather than car-dependency. Other... continue
A report reviewing how wellbeing-based evidence could be applied in appraisal within the Department for Transport’s Transport Analysis Guidance (TAG) has been published by the DfT. It also details how the concept of wellbeing can be used to assess the impact of transport projects and... continue
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced that the UK will aim for an 81% cut in emissions by 2035 compared with 1990 levels by 2035, a target in line with the recommendations of the Climate Change Committee (CCC). The new target is up from the previous pledge of 78% made by the previous... continue
New Shadow Transport Secretary Gareth Bacon has suggested that the Government’s bus franchising plan is “unfunded”. During a parliamentary debate on the Government’s new draft Franchising Schemes Regulations, Bacon, just appointed... continue
The Office for Place established by the last government is being closed down,... continue
Eight projects have been awarded £150,000 each to trial systems aimed at better connecting rural communities around the UK. The winning projects include digital tools to support mobility decision-making by a local authority ,and technolgy to aid cycle saftey on flood -prone roads. Other... continue
Six SMEs are working with local transport authorities as they develop innovative solutions to decarbonisation, as part of Connected Places Catapult’s ‘Local Authority Transport Decarbonisation Accelerator’. England’s Economic Heartland is working with two SMEs to better... continue
A wide range of improvements are needed if bus usage is to rise and... continue
Construction technology provider Causeway Technologies has acquired Buchanan Computing, a provider of traffic engineering and highways management... continue
The Rees Jeffreys Road Fund is running its Transport MSc Bursary programme, for the academic year 2025-26, which will offer up to eight bursaries of £10,000 each. It is aimed at students who would not be able to afford to study without the bursary. The Trustees of the Fund said they are... continue
Paul Lynch, Managing Director of Stagecoach London, will continue as Confederation of Passenger Transport's President until the end of January 2026, with a one-year extension... continue
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