Mar 20, 2023 Devolution still on the agenda By Nicola Kane Rhetoric on devolution has grown in recent months as the government and opposition both jostle to give powers away to city regions and...
Mar 17, 2023 Looking below the Budget bonnet By Neil Chadwick When it comes to Budgets, it’s always good to look beyond the headlines and delve into the detail. Published as soon as the Chancellor...
Mar 16, 2023 Taking Charge of EV Infrastructure Changes By Elaine Meskhi One of the most significant barriers to the rollout of Electric Vehicles (EV) chargers, and particularly rapid and ultra-rapid chargers...
Mar 16, 2023 A simpler, better way to plan a railway? By Neil Kirkwood How we decide on the best use of finite network capacity and give access to operate services is one of the most fraught, but fundamental,...
Feb 09, 2023 Urban Public Transport Funding – Options for Reform By Neil Chadwick This week, the Urban Transport Group published our report on options for reforming how the Government financially supports local public...
Feb 09, 2023 Taking the hovercraft to Future Transport Forum 2023 By Matthew Trigg How many transport conferences include a ride on a hovercraft? This was one of many highlights from the recent Future Transport Forum...
Jan 30, 2023 Validation of Our Focus By Rich Overmoyer A report issued by the Brookings Institute last week highlights what has been core to our economic strategy work with communities... that...
Jan 24, 2023 Six rules for communicating major infrastructure upgrades By Matthew Trigg Looking back at the £1.2 billion East Coast Upgrade, the following lessons from this project still very much hold true two years later....
Jan 18, 2023 Railway infrastructure: a platform for value By Mike Goggin I have had the pleasure over the last few weeks of seeing in person how the railway infrastructure's can bring about vibrancy in...
Dec 01, 2022 What Government wants from the railway: summary of CP7 HLOS for England & Wales By Mike Goggin The Secretary of State for Transport (SoS) today published the Government's High Level Output Specification (HLOS) and Statement of...
Oct 26, 2022 Dear Secretary of State (October edit) By Mike Goggin In early September I wrote on these pages my thoughts on some of the challenges and issues that then new Secretary of State would likely...
Oct 05, 2022 Heat still not rising up the agenda? By Mark Easter At a recent Infrastructure Forum Special Roundtable with Lord Bridges (Chair of the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee) on his...
Sep 30, 2022 Beware the stillness of the storm By Mike Goggin I have the pleasure of being on a cruise right now, and it’s heavily populated by people from the USA, particularly Floridians. Cocktail...
Sep 22, 2022 The "tripwire" summer is over, it is time to tone down the rhetoric and find solutions By Stephen D. Van Beek A rough summer for aviation operations and customer service has come to a close. If you listen to leaders in aviation, you will hear a...
Sep 13, 2022 Modernize the Passenger Facility Charge? Yes, With Deregulated Rate-Setting By Stephen D. Van Beek Reason Foundation: Moderninizing the PFC A timely article by Mark Scribner of the Reason Foundation, writing about the need to lift the...
Sep 11, 2022 The Biden-Harris Economic Blueprint: Implications for Transport & Aviation Policy By Stephen D. Van Beek On September 9, the White House released the President's Economic Blueprint, laying out "five pillars" for the economic agenda going...