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Housing and Transport: The importance of achieving an integrated approach

Published on: 4th December 2018

The Transport Knowledge Hub (TKH) is currently holding a series of events across the UK on the topic of how sustainable transport can unlock the benefits of new housing which has been attended by experts across the housing and transport sector, in addition to representatives from local and national government. Given the scale and challenge…

Liverpool Event: How sustainable transport can unlock the potential of new development

Published on: 3rd December 2018

This week saw KPMG hosting the third Transport Knowledge (TKH) event of the series, this time on the dockside of the great port of Liverpool. The focus was again on how sustainable transport can unlock the potential of new development and we welcomed an eight-strong panel of experts from local authorities, bus companies and housing.…

Transport Knowledge Hub Midlands event on sustainable transport and housing

Published on: 26th November 2018

The Transport Knowledge (TKH) hosted the second of a series of events across the UK on the importance of sustainable transport in the development of new housing. This week, we were in the Midlands to hear about the opportunities and barriers for a more integrated approach between housing and transport. It was kindly hosted by…

The role that sound sustainable transport investment can play in unlocking the benefits of new housing

Published on: 19th November 2018

This week the Transport Knowledge Hub (TKH) launched a series of speaker meetings across the UK on the importance of sustainable transport in the development of new housing. The event, kindly hosted by KPMG in their Glasgow offices, highlighted the role that sound sustainable transport investment can play in unlocking the benefits of new housing.…

Devolving our railways: Learning the lessons from a summer of Northern chaos

Published on: 5th November 2018 by Henri Murison.

This summer saw an unacceptable and deeply damaging series of delays and cancellations to rail services right across the Northern Powerhouse. Companies were faced with a decimated workforce, employees missed meetings, career opportunities and some even lost their jobs, and parents were left stranded, unable to get home to put their children to bed. This…

Removing the barriers to integrating sustainable transport and new homes

Published on: 5th November 2018

There is widespread consensus that as a country we need to build significantly more homes if we are going to address the national housing crisis; to the tune of some 300,000 per year. At the same time, the role of sustainable transport in unlocking the economic and social benefits of new housing, as well as…

Buses – now here’s the good news

Published on: 2nd November 2018 by Stephen Joseph.

To the extent that there is any media coverage of buses, it tends to be bad news. The stories are about cuts in services leaving people isolated, declining use and fares increases. I’ve helped contribute to this over time – when at the Campaign for Better Transport I helped set up a “Save our Buses”…

Cycling and walking – an essential component of tackling poor air quality in cities’

Published on: 10th October 2018 by Matt Easter.

Air pollution is one of the leading public health crises today, killing tens of thousands of people prematurely across the UK every year, with higher exposure affecting those in towns and city centres. Two of the most harmful forms of air pollution, Nitrogen Dioxide and particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), are largely produced from motorised…

A Mission for the Future of Mobility

Published on: 21st September 2018 by Claire Haigh.

The pace of change in the UK’s mobility landscape is arguably at its fastest ever. New forms of transport are emerging, and customer expectations are continually being redefined by experiences that would once have been unimaginable. Two recent consultations have looked at the impacts of these changes from very different perspectives. The Government’s consultation on…

Rail expansion is the ‘only viable option’ to help UK cities thrive

Published on: 9th August 2018 by Jonathan Bray.

The recent meltdown on the UK’s rail networks and the major disruption it caused was rightly met with criticism and condemnation from rail users, politicians and the media – who have been searching for answers as to how this could have happened. And while timetabling and staffing issues have led to a miserable experience for…

Buses matter

Published on: 9th August 2018 by Stephen Joseph.

Buses tend to get neglected in transport policy debates. They are treated as entirely a local matter, for local authorities, not as an issue for national government. Buses and coaches are now the only modes of transport that do not have a national investment strategy. But even at local level, outside London, buses don’t feature…

Delivering a World Class Heartland

Published on: 9th July 2018 by Martin Tugwell.

England’s Economic Heartland has the potential to become the UK’s Silicon Valley: so said the National Infrastructure Commission in their report to Government last autumn. It is a potential that the strategic political and business leaders across the corridor have long understood, with England’s Economic Heartland Strategic Alliance tracing its origins back to 2014, predating…