Improving seemless energy-efficient mobility chains for all (ISEMOA)

Posted on: 28 May 2013
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ISEMOA seeks to improve accessibility of pedestrian, cyclist, and public transport services and facilities allowing citizens to adopt a less car-dependent life-style. The ISEMOA Quality Management System (ISEMOA QMS) closely examines the whole journey – from door-to-door. Each journey is composed of several elements that together make up the “mobility chain”. The ISEMOA QMS follows a structured quality management approach based on a moderated audit process. This proven approach, guided by an ISEMOA auditor, helps local and regional stakeholders to assess the level of accessibility of public space and public transport in their area, and it helps to develop strategies and measures for improving the accessibility work.

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Options for a new Lower Thames crossing

Posted on: 24 May 2013
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This consultation is designed to gather views on the preferred location for additional road-based river crossing capacity in the Lower Thames area. Responses to this consultation will form part of the evidence base that government will use to make a decision on where to locate a new crossing. Comments are requested by 16 July 2013.

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The politics of transport infrastructure policies in Colombia

Posted on: 17 May 2013
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This paper analyses the Policy-Making Process (PMP) of transport infrastructure projects in Colombia for the period 2002-10. It aims to identify the main bottlenecks to improve the implementation of public policies in the main phases of the transport infrastructure policy cycle, namely planning, budgeting, execution, and monitoring and evaluation. The main results draw three conclusions. Firstly, there is a need to improve the planning and prioritisation stages of roads construction. Secondly, information problems affect monitoring and evaluation. Finally, the institutional weakness in the transport sector causes co-ordination failures between different transport modes (horizontal level) as well as inadequate separation of responsibilities and management of resources between national and sub-national governments (vertical level). This paper contributes to the research studying the PMP in Latin American economies.

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Airport operational models

Posted on: 17 May 2013
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This paper considers the distinguishing features of a hub or ‘focal’ airport and what enables an airport to assume this role. It discusses current trends in the global aviation sector, how they might develop in the future, and considers the potential implications for airport capacity in the UK.

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Draft ‘Environmental statement’ and design refinement consultations on HS2

Posted on: 17 May 2013
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Further consultations have been launched regarding the first phase of HS2, the planned high speed railway between London, the West Midlands, Manchester and Leeds . The draft Environmental Statement sets out HS2 Ltd’s current thinking on plans to integrate the line into the landscape using the very latest design and construction methods, both during building and operation. The design refinement consultation provides an opportunity to comment on the most significant proposed changes to the design of phase one of the scheme between London and Birmingham.

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High Speed 2: A review of early programme preparation

Posted on: 16 May 2013
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The National Audit Office has published a report which claims that there was little evidence to support the case for building the HS2 rail link between London and the North. It adds that data used to make the case for HS2 was out of date, and there was a potential £3.3bn funding gap in the scheme.

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Crossrail2

Posted on: 15 May 2013
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Transport for London (TfL) and Network Rail (NR) are seeking the views of people in London and south east England on Crossrail 2. Crossrail 2 would create a new high-frequency, high-capacity rail line running between south west and north east London. Crossrail 2 replaces an earlier scheme known as the Chelsea-Hackney Line. Comments are requested by 2 August 2013.

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CityMobil2

Posted on: 14 May 2013
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CityMobil2 is a multi-stakeholder project co-funded by the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme for research and technological development. CityMobil2 is setting up a pilot platform for automated road transport systems, which will be implemented in several urban environments across Europe. Automated transport systems are made up of vehicles operating without a driver in collective mode. They are deemed to play a useful role in the transport mix as they can supply a good transport service (individual or collective) in areas of low or dispersed demand complementing the main public transport network.

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East London river crossing

Posted on: 9 May 2013
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The river crossings consultation report shows there is continued support for a new road tunnel between Silvertown and the Greenwich Peninsula and a new river crossing at Gallions Reach.

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Action stations: The impacts of Crossrail on residential property in central London

Posted on: 8 May 2013
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Crossrail is the biggest infrastructure project in London in nearly two decades. Knight Frank’s Crossrail report monitors how house prices have performed since 2008 and forecast how far they will outperform the wider market in the run up to 2018.

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