Single bus fares are being capped at £3 until the end of 2025, the Prime Minister announced ahead of the Budget, claiming the arrangement to replace the £2 rate comes on top of nearly... continue
Transport Minister Lord Hendy has indicated that land purchased for the now cancelled HS2 line between Lichfield, Staffordshire and High Legh in Cheshire will not be sold but be ringfenced until the Government has considered alternative options. Lord Hendy was responding to a question by... continue
In further indications of a shake up of its approach to project appraisal and decision-making under new chief Analyst and Economist Ian Mulheirn, the Department for Transport (DfT) is seeking to contract provision for a Transport Appraisal and Modelling panel with a £300,000 three year... continue
National Highways is working with the Department for Transport to seek feedback about how its role in the planning process could be improved in relation to implementing vision-led planning approaches within the local plan and development processes. As part of this, consultant SYSTRA has been... continue
At least two of the Welsh Corporate Joint Committees (CJCs) have conceded they cannot complete their Regional Transport Plans this financial year. One is re-writing its RTP because the Welsh Government was “unclear” about the requirements to match the plan to the Integrated Well Being... continue
The UK must urgently improve resilience across the highways network to... continue
KeolisAmey has retained the Transport for London franchise to operate and maintain the Docklands Light Railway for another eight years. Tfl will be introducing 54 new DLR trains on to the network to help improve the frequency and reliability of services over the next few years. The new trains will... continue
FirstGroup has continued its aggressive purchasing of independent bus and coach operators, adding both Anderson Travel in London and the Lakeside Group in Cheshire and Shropshire in the past two weeks. The Lakeside deal includes the Lakeside Coaches, Merediths Coaches and AT Brown Coaches brands,... continue
The huge costs of replacing fleets with zero-emission buses and what it would take to restore bus networks to previous levels are explored in a... continue
Up to 15 companies will be selected to receive up to £150,000 each in a new transport accessibility innovation competition. Connected Places Catapult, the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport, and place leadership, is hosting the Scaling Innovation Programme, led by the... continue
It is time to embrace the potential for new mobility to “fill... continue
A free travel scheme to encourage people to commute by bus has generated a million journeys in under a year, Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) has reported. The £19m scheme, funded by the Government, is primarily aimed at employers and large organisations to encourage staff to leave... continue
The Department for Transport has signalled “the biggest shake up to airspace design in 70 years” with proposed new use allocation and management processes set to cut flight delays, reduce carbon emissions and noise and deliver growth, DfT says. It is being suggested that similar... continue
One of the Welsh 20mph Key Performance Indicators is “change in vehicle and pedestrian yielding behaviours”, but initial monitoring results are inconclusive. The sample size is also small, with data before and after the speed- limit change having been gathered at only three locations:... continue
More data relating to the Welsh default 20mph limit in urban areas has been published, including analysis which suggests that journey times have become less variable since the default limit changed in September 2023. The latest Welsh road safety data, published last week, shows that the numbers of... continue
Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ decision to again freeze road vehicle fuel duty in her first budget has brought criticism and disappointment in transport policy circles - especially alongside the 50% increase imposed on the bus fare cap, which wil go up from £2 to... continue
Projects focussing on local transport decarbonisation, maritime... continue
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