Aviation sector is part of the public transport family

Planes, trains and buses must co-ordinate

It’s our fourth issue and we’re really taking off! Welcome to ‘the aviation issue’. This month we look up to the skies and explore the relationship between land-based public transport and aviation.

We see it as part of our mission to map out the territory for public transport, in all its different guises, and consider fresh perspectives.

Increasingly, those in the aviation sector have come to regard themselves as public transport. Travelling by plane, train or bus all...