Sustainable Transport Alliance uses COP26 to warn that solely focusing on electric vehicles would ignore their social and environmental drawbacks Transport secretary Grant Shapps posed with an electric car at COP26 The UK’s leading sustainable transport NGOs this week appealed to world leaders to recognise that technology alone cannot reduce transport emissions. Instead,...
Event offers chance to showcase success and raise awareness Stagecoach partnered with ADL BYD to provide a fleet of electric double deckers to transport world leaders, including prime minister Boris Johnson (pictured), at this month’s COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow The passenger transport sector used this month’s COP26 climate change summit in...
The Comprehensive Spending Review heralded good news and not-so-good news for public transport. Tough decisions are needed Boris Johnson at the launch of the National Bus Strategy for England in March Now that the dust has settled from Comprehensive Spending Review, it’s becoming easier to see through the smoke and mirrors and...
During the transition to GBR, it’s important that the age-old challenge of rail replacement provision doesn’t get forgotten This is how many people feel about rail replacement services – and something must be done to change it The Department for Transport’s excellent market engagement day to start the process towards the procurement...
Welcome to Destination Net Zero: Decarbonising Transport. This special publication considers the scale of the Net Zero challenge for transport and examines the work that is being done by different organisations to reduce the impact of our mobility needs on the environment. It has been produced to co-incide with COP26, the 2021 United...
The passenger transport sector is selling itself as part of the solution to climate change ahead of COP26, but the government is being urged to do more to encourage modal shift With global leaders preparing to gather in Glasgow next week for the COP26 climate summit, the UK passenger transport sector has been...
Rail travel is becoming optional. There is no longer a captive commuter market and the case for fares reform must be heard We’ve taken the message to No 10 and 11. Will they listen? Last weekend, the media was given the good news that £7bn was going to be spent on green...
Treasury announces additional £355m of funding for zero emission buses, but the bus industry says pledge to deliver 4,000 vehicles is still at risk Tom Randall, Conservative MP for Gelding (left) and Buta Atwal, CEO of Wrightbus The bus industry welcomed news of additional funding for transport schemes in this week’s Autumn Budget,...
Ahead of this week’s spending review, chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the seven ‘metro mayor’ city regions will share £7bn over five years Greater Manchester metro mayor Andy Burnham hailed the funding announcement as a demonstration that regional leaders and Whitehall were at last now more aligned in their thinking Ahead of this week’s...
The bus industry is short of 4,000 drivers and there are fears this could do untold damage to the future commercial viability of the sector The Confederation of Passenger Transport estimates there is a national shortage of 4,000 bus drivers BY ANDREW GARNETT There are deepening concerns in the bus industry about the...
World’s first operational system will open in 2025 at the National Railway Museum in Shildon, but UK-based firm plans global transport revolution A visualisation of ‘floc®’ technology A driverless, zero-emission mass transit technology – comprising autonomous electric “pods” capable of traveling on both road and rail – launched this week by UK-start up...
The big issues were debated at this year’s lively party conferences, but there are huge questions to be answered on transport policy A vision of Greater Manchester’s fully integrated network, championed by mayor Andy Burnham It felt like the fallow Covid period has reinvigorated party conferences as institutions that previously felt like...
Funding and a finely balanced future