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Mobility hubs urged for Scotland
Mobility hubs should become a feature of all major new housing developments in Scotland, shared mobility charity CoMoUK has told the Scottish Government. CoMo says the hubs, offeri
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Going, going, gone: End of the speed camera
Savage cuts government spending on road safety schemes could see thousands of speed cameras switched off across England and Wales. Speed cameras started becoming more prominent 10
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Modelling World 2022: taking a fresh look at modelling tools
Changes in societal and travel trends, and the push to decarbonise transport and development – plus new techniques and tools to help us understand, manage and model such chan
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Edinburgh tram on track as £498m price tag put on first phase route
The first phase of Edinburgh's tram project will be deliverable within the funding envelope, councillors heard this week, as the preferred bidder to build the system was named. Pr
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Tube parking fees to soar
Commuters using car parks at London Underground stations have seen parking charges increase by up to two-thirds after new charges came into effect in September. The increases at
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Regional transport strategies face the axe in Tories’ planning overhaul
The regional tier of transport planning in England will be swept away if the Conservatives win the General Election. The party’s planning Green Paper, published last week, p
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Mayor plans safer lorry charge
Boris Johnson is to consult on introducing a “substantial” charge on heavy good vehicles operating in the capital without basic safety equipment to protect cyclists. Co
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Taunton to get electronic car parking guidance system
An on-street parking guidance system connected to pay-on-foot systems in car parks is to be installed in Taunton, Somerset. The £1.2m scheme is set to start in late 2017, wit
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DfT still considering pavement parking ban
The Department of Transport (DfT) is still considering a proposal to ban parking on pavements throughout England. Pavement parking was banned in London in 1974, with exce
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Building it all wrong
“We are doggedly investing over a trillion scarce dollars a year in new carriers, ports, roads, railways and airports,” said Jeroen Overbeek from the Aurecon Group, an
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Swindon cameras turned off in road safety re-think
Wiltshire County Council has switched off road safety cameras in Swindon as part of a re-think on how best to combat road accidents. The five cameras were positioned on three of Sw
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Car parks with extras
Besides daily and season parking fees, there are several ways in which car parks can generate revenue. Some multi-storeys feature retail spaces, while car washing and valeting is b
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Flashpark: digital parking enforcement
Land owners can penalise people who park on their land under a new digital photo-based system called FlashPark launched by Vehicle Control Solutions. The system, which operates un
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The key to selling space
Colchester is bucking the trend of falling economic activity in the downturn by offering parking bargains to prospective visitors. The historic Essex town is expanding a successful
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INRIX supplies parking information for Mercedes-Benz
Drivers of Mercedes-Benz C-Class and S-Classes in Europe and the USA can now find information about off-street parking in real-time. The car-maker has adopted the INRIX Off-Street
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Cameron insists Heathrow U-turn still not on the agenda
Prime minister David Cameron has insisted that the Government is not about to perform a U-turn by sanctioning the construction of a third runway at Heathrow Airport, despite a grow
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Case for new Forth bridge quizzed
The Scottish Government's continued insistence that the proposed new Forth road bridge is a replacement for the existing crossing has been criticised by the Scottish Association fo
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DfT confirms new travel time values for project appraisal
Significant changes to the values of travel time savings used in transport scheme appraisal have been confirmed by the DfT. The changes follow a consultation last autumn, which dre
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PwC wins Thames crossing work
Consultant Pricewaterhouse- Coopers has won a £1.8m contract from the Highways Agency to provide consultancy support to the Lower Thames Crossing project. PWC’s contrac
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Air passenger demand to double, predicts DfT
Demand for air travel in the UK will almost double over the next 30 years, according to a new forecast prepared by the DfT. The prediction appears in the DfT’s consult
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P&D on the pier at Clacton
An historical pier is believed to be the first in the country to install a parking machine. A Metric Aura pay & display parking machine is now controlling parking at the front
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Preferred bidder for Mersey Gateway
Halton Borough Council has named the Merseylink consortium as the preferred bidder for the 30-year contract to design, build, finance and operate the new Mersey Gateway bridge link
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Boris makes new developments pay for Crossrail
New changes to the London Plan to make new developments pay contributions to the cost of Crossrail have been published today, with a ‘pragmatic’ get-out clause for thos
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Revamp for city’s iconic bus station
Preston’s brutalist 1960s bus station and neighbouring multi-storey car park are to be renovated rather than demolished as previously proposed by Preston City Council. Cultu
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Cash-handling specialist meets industry service and data standards
Cummins Allison, a provider of coin and currency handling solutions, has announced its recertification to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001 and ISO 2700
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Nexus reverses fall in child trips
Simpler and cheaper fares are being credited with reversing a 20-year decline in public transport trips made by children in Tyne and Wear. Nexus reports an 11% rise in child trips
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Crackdown on Wimbledon permit scam
Wandsworth Borough Council has withdrawn special residents parking permits issued during the Wimbledon fortnight after it emerged that some people were selling them on eBay and oth
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Portsmouth’s residents get phone permits for visitors
Portsmouth City Council is introducing a phone-based resident visitor permit system. The council is the first to adopt the RingGo resident visitor permits (RVPs), which is being ro
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Training: Learning across boundaries
A common approach can help local authorities deliver a more consistent service, says Penny Winder It is now almost five years since the RAC Foundation’s then traffic and roa
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West Road improvements, Newcastle
Newcastle City Council is consulting on proposals to reduce congestion, improve facilities for cyclists and pedestrians and give greater priority to buses along West Road, one of t
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Replace BSOG with new bus fund – PTEs
PTEs are urging the Government to scrap Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG) in England, saying it should be replaced by a bigger ‘Connectivity Fund’ for bus services man
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Poor transport plans could lead to axe for majority of Eco-towns
Inadequate transport plans for many of the shortlisted Eco-towns could help lead to only a handful of the shortlisted locations being taken forward to implementation, it emerged th
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Fife asks public to shape transport spend
people in Fife are to be given a say in how the council spends its passenger transport budget. Fife Council has chosen passenger transport as the subject for a trial of part
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Addressing the transport skills shortage
Over 3,500 candidates are actively looking to further their career on the UK's leading transport recruitment site, Jobs-in-Transport.com. Through its strong links with all sides of
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Wales secures short-term rail access to Manchester Airport
THE OFFICE of Rail and Road has granted Arriva Trains Wales only short-term access to Manchester Airport after regional bodies clashed over the prioritisation of rail capacity. Th
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Council creates cycle road repair budget
The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead is allocating £7,000 to road maintenance measures to improve conditions for cyclists, in recognition that their concerns are not a
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TfL revises incentives for low emission taxis
Transport for London has reformed the incentives for taxi drivers to acquire low or zero emission vehicles, after the original system failed to attract significant interest.
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Baker frees up highway authorities from sign lighting requirements
The local transport minister Norman Baker announced today that highway authorities will from 2015 no longer be required to light a number of traffic signs. Baker said that there h
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Ford to test real-time pothole detection
Costly car repairs could be prevented with the help of a crow-sourced virtual pothole map to be tested by Ford later this year. The map would show drivers, in real-time, on in
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Getting a grip of rail
The Government’s decision to defer four parts of the Great Western electrification programme this week was greeted with understandable dismay by the public transport and gree
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Nottingham WPL painted as harbinger of national parking tax
The most distinctive aspect of the media’s coverage of the announcement of the country’s first workplace parking levy in Nottingham (see page 3) was the extent to which
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DfT awards £1m to bike scheme
The DfT is putting £1m into a programme to encourage more people to cycle. The funding will allow cycle organisation the CTC to expand its ‘Big Bike Revival’ prog
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Better transport ‘vital to SE economy’
The economic case for investing in the South East’s inter-urban transport corridors is set out in a new report published by shadow sub-national transport body, Transport for
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Lessons from beyond UK transport – getting the most out of LSTF behaviour change programmes
With the outlook for the European market still gloomy at best, many UK businesses are looking abroad for new opportunities. At SKM Colin Buchanan, we are not only looking overseas
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Lawyer claims legal action will result in more 20mph zones
The Corporation of London is to reconsider plans for a 20mph zone in the City, following legal action which it is claimed could have significant impact on wider introduction of 20m
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Freight’s cost treatment is flawed, complain operators
Network Rail’s plan to allocate £566m of the rail network’s fixed costs to freight is flawed because freight services are often forced to use secondary lines so t
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Car toll on Humber bridge halved
Car tolls on the Humber Bridge will fall from £3 to £1.50 from 1 April, to reflect the Government’s decision to write down £150m of the bridge’s debt.
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Explore the Parking World on 24 November
The efficient management of the kerbside and roadspace is essential to the health, wealth and vitality of urban centres. This will be a central theme of Parking World 2016, which t
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Ford opens smart mobility innovation office in London
US carmaker Ford has launched an innovation office in London that will target the near-term development of smart mobility technologies while focussing on the specific requirements
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Transport policy role for Linton at WYCA
Clare Linton is starting a new post on secondment as Policy Manager (Transport) at West Yorkshire Combined Authority for the next 12 months. She has spent more than six years at Ur
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