The £3 cap for single bus fares in England is to be extended into 2027, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced during her Spending Review statement in the Commons. The cap, which was due to end in December, will now continue until “at least” March 2027, said Reeves. The initial... continue
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has put a major focus on investment in transport in the northern and midlands mayoral areas in the DfT’s allocation under her government spending announcement. Promised changes to the Treasury Green Book investment appraisal rules have been published which should mean... continue
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has claimed to have more than doubled existing investment in local transport in England’s city regions in a package of funding allocations worth £15.6bn over the next five years. The announcement came a week ahead of the full Spending Review in speeches in... continue
There has been some relief at how transport fared in the spending round despite the Department for Transport (DfT) seeing its annual day-to-day budget decrease by 5% for the five year period ahead - one of the largest cuts in the review. The reduction is said to be mostly down to a big drop in the... continue
The DfT has published the details for the annual allocations to the nine mayoral transport authorities announced in the Spending Review. The total of £15.6 billion is now being called Transport for City Regions (TCR) funding and replaces what was previously the City Region Sustainable... continue
The Treasury’s Green Book Review , published alongside the Chancellor’s spending statement , claims to mark “a new approach to appraisal in the public sector”. It is one which should enable the more effective assessment of place-based interventions, and is expected to have significant implications for transport scheme assessment and... continue
Local authorities which currently own bus companies do not currently envisage going down the franchising road, but could that change as pressures on local government finances increase even further, or if there’s a view in a larger LTA that franchising should be introduced? After bus... continue
Blending real time data and modelling, leading to dynamic short-term predictions, should be a productive avenue to release the value of the mass of transport- related data now available, but causing challenges in processing and presentation say authors Tom van Vuren and Philippe Perret in two new... continue
The robustness of DfT road traffic projections over recent years and into the... continue
The Department for Transport has published its latest forecasts for freight traffic at UK ports, through to 2050. They supersede the previous set produced in 2019. Compared to 2023, total UK port traffic is forecast to have grown by 1.2% in 2035 and by 7.8% in 2050, that is from 420.6 m tonnes in... continue
A new vision for UK ports will propel prosperity in Britain’s coastal communities says DfT. Plans to boost expansion of the ports are linked to the release of proposed new national policy statement for ports (NPSP). The guidance is designed to help ports save time and money on planning... continue
The government has set out its ambition to roll out... continue
A trial of driverless taxis is due to start in London next spring after the... continue
Nearly 40,000 jobs could be created, roads could be safer, and... continue
The £3 cap for single bus fares in England is to be extended until March 2027, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced during her Spending Review statement in the Commons on Wednesday. The cap, which was due to end in December, will now continue until “at least” March 2027, said... continue
A trial banning through traffic in Bath has been made permanent despite the efforts of opposition councillors. Bath & North East Somerset Council has recommended that the experimental modal filter on New Sydney Place and Sydney Road should remain. The Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN), comprising... continue
Consultancy SYSTRA is to use TomTom’s technology to help shape its transport solutions. SYSTRA said it will use TomTom’s Orbis Maps and suite of traffic analytics products to build transport models that replicate real-world traffic conditions. The models are used by SYSTRA’s teams... continue
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