The optimal size of a UK hub airport

Posted on: 17 February 2014
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The Independent Transport Commission commissioned a team at RDC Aviation Ltd to address two key issues. First, is the airline industry’s hub-and-spoke business model, based around large hub airports, likely to continue to be key to long-haul connectivity? Or will it be superseded by long-distance point-to-point services, flying to and from smaller airports? Second, if the UK’s prime need is indeed for additional hub capacity, how much will it actually need in the decades ahead?

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Understanding the “t” in bus rapid transit oriented development

Posted on: 11 February 2014
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Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is a cost-effective mass transportation system characterized by exclusive bus lanes and reduction of travel times, high-passenger capacity and level boarding, and a relatively short construction process. Latin America and Asia are becoming the world leaders of BRT with 63.26% and 26.43% of world ridership, respectively. The introduction of BRT systems in these emerging countries raises the question of how a BRT network shapes citywide development, and in turn, what cities can do to ensure that public transport is a positive force in shaping environmentally sustainable and economically equitable cities.

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Sustainable transport on course while Warsaw wobbles

Posted on: 10 February 2014
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This report presents a summary of the proceedings from the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 19) in Warsaw, Poland, and progress on the post 2015 sustainable development agenda and their significance for land transport. 

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Highlights of the International Transport Forum 2013. Funding transport: Session summaries

Posted on: 4 February 2014
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The International Transport Forum’s Summit, held in May 2013, brought together Ministers from ITF member countries and many business leaders in total 1,000 delegates from 79 nations to test ideas, to engage with experts, to align perceptions on the funding issue and explore ways to address it. This publication presents the essence of this substantive debate.

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EMBARQ

Posted on: 29 January 2014
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EMBARQ’s mission is to catalyze and help implement sustainable transport solutions to improve quality of life in cities. Since 2002, the EMBARQ network has expanded to Mexico, Brazil, China, India, Turkey and the Andean Region, collaborating with local transport authorities to reduce pollution, improve public health, and create safe, accessible and attractive urban public spaces. The network employs more than 120 experts in fields ranging from architecture to air quality management; geography to journalism; and sociology to civil and transport engineering.

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Employment in the EU transport sector

Posted on: 28 January 2014
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The newly released Transport Research and Innovation Portal (TRIP) Policy Brochure presents EU policy on transport employment and highlights the contribution of research in supporting policy development and implementation in meeting the challenges of retaining skilled workers and encouraging more and highly skilled people to join the transport workforce. The transport sector accounts for 4.5% of the total workforce in the European Union and represents 4.6% of the gross domestic product (GDP). As a whole within the economy, employment in the transport sector is facing the economic and societal challenges of a growing shortage of skilled workers in an increasingly competitive global environment.

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Sustainable Aviation

Posted on: 28 January 2014
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Sustainable Aviation is a long term strategy which sets out the collective approach of UK aviation to tackling the challenge of ensuring a sustainable future for our industry. A world-first, Sustainable Aviation was launched in 2005 and brings together the main players from UK airlines, airports, manufacturers and air navigation service providers. We have produced three Progress Reports to date, the latest published in March 2011, following ones in 2006 and 2009. It aims to continue to deliver on the goals and commitments identified in the strategy, monitoring and tracking the practical cooperative work being undertaken by signatories to Sustainable Aviation as well as promoting our efforts both within the UK and internationally. 

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Crossrail

Posted on: 24 January 2014
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A report on the Crossrail project, published by the National Audit Office, concludes that the Crossrail project has been well managed and controlled to date, and  is on track to deliver on time and within budget. 

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HS2 Phase One environmental statement

Posted on: 24 January 2014
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This consultation is required by parliamentary rules to allow member of the public and other interested parties to comment on the environmental statement which accompanies the HS2 Phase One hybrid Bill. The environmental statement includes likely significant environmental impacts along the route, and measures to manage and reduce these. Consultation responses will be summarised by an independent assessor appointed by Parliament and used to inform the House of Commons’ debate on the scheme at Second Reading. Comments are requested by 27 February 2014.

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EU energy, transport and GHG emissions trends to 2050

Posted on: 23 January 2014
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The European Commission has set out its goal of a Europe which, by 2030, emits 40% less carbon dioxide than it did in 1990, uses renewable energy for 27% of its energy, and employs a reserve mechanism to regulate its carbon market.

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