David Bayliss, Stephen Glaister and Tony Travers address the problems of funding local transport infrastructure and transport services without making additional financial demands on central or local government. They propose the creation of regional, public interest transport funding bodies. Their income would be an allocation of the extra revenue from increasing the rate of road…
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Claire Haigh, Founder & CEO of Greener Transport Solutions, writes a monthly column for Passenger Transport magazine. You can read in this report 2019 issues, including: 13th December 2019: We must see this as an opportunity. Next year’s COP26 climate summit takes place in Glasgow. As the host nation we must keep our own house…
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Britons urged to “get the bus and talk more”, as new research reveals that more than one in 10 people feel lonely every day.
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The opportunity to maximise the economic and social benefits of public and private investment in new housing are being missed due to a disconnect between sustainable transport and the location of new developments. There is widespread consensus that as a country we need to build significantly more homes if we are going to address the…
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This paper by Professor David Begg discusses the challenges involved in implementing road pricing. The dilemma and the challenge we face in paying for roads is how to achieve the economic and environmental objective of ensuring that road users cover their external (social costs) while at the same time winning public and political acceptance. Economists believe…
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This report by Professor David Begg and Claire Haigh examines the unintended consequences of freezing fuel duty. Increasing costs for road users is politically difficult. This is one of the reasons why we have had eleven years where fuel duty has been frozen at a time of historically low oil prices. While the freeze has…
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This report explores the relationship between sustainable transport and housing, and the corresponding impacts on the economy and society. This work was funded by Greener Journeys and the Department for Transport for the Transport Knowledge Hub, and independently undertaken by KPMG. We need to build approximately 300,000 new homes per year for the foreseeable future…
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The overall objective of The Tabula Project is to provide a new perspective on the mind so we might improve how we think and evolve as a society. The paintings depict states of consciousness and thought, and the development of the project is informed by extensive research across a range of disciplines. How we think…
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The overall objective of The Tabula Project is to provide a new perspective on the mind so we might improve how we think and evolve as a society. The paintings depict states of consciousness and thought, and the development of the project is informed by extensive research across a range of disciplines. In this report…
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The report, The ‘true value’ of local bus services, was compiled by KPMG LLP for Greener Journeys. It provides a summary of updated ‘value for money’ appraisals for: bus priority measures; concessionary travel for older and disabled people; concessionary travel for apprentices; tax incentives for commuters; and the Bus Services Operators Grant.
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This report by Professor David Begg and Claire Haigh examines the Government’s plans to tackle poor air quality. The key conclusion is that while it is essential to clean up diesel vehicles, it is also crucial that congestion and the continual decline in urban traffic speeds across the UK is tackled. Congestion is not just…
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The Government will announce its new clean air strategy imminently. In response to the successful High Court challenge it will be tougher and geographically more comprehensive than previous policies. This is justified. The evidence is compelling about the harm to people’s health and premature deaths from NOx emissions. This report by Professor David Begg shows…
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