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Fast track to growth: transport priorities for stronger cities
Posted on: 20 October 2014
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This report from the Centre for Cities finds that in order to support agglomeration in our largest cities, the Department for Transport should look to improve transport links within the largest cities outside London to reduce the costs of commuting into their city centres. Public transport is much less well developed in all of these cities, and given the shifting geography of jobs, this should be seen as a priority by both local and national government.
How to restore walking as a way of life
Posted on: 20 October 2014
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This blog describes emerging pedestrian safety initiatives around the world.
Cycling Delivery Plan
Posted on: 16 October 2014
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The cycling delivery plan is the government’s 10 year strategy on how we plan to increase cycling and walking across England. It includes an ambition to double cycling levels by 2025 and increase the percentage of school children aged 5-10 years walking to school to 55% by 2025. The delivery plan includes a number of actions to meet these targets including, plans for infrastructure developments, cycle-proofing roads and wider transport infrastructure, and for facilitating behaviour change across the country by promoting cycling and walking as alternative sustainable travel modes. A draft version of the delivery plan has been published for informal consultation. Comments are requested by 13 November 2014.
The economic case for HS2: Oral and written evidence
Posted on: 16 October 2014
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This report presents the oral and written evidence submitted to the House of Commons Select Committee on Economic Affairs regarding the economic case for the HS2 rail project.
Transport innovation deployment for Europe
Posted on: 16 October 2014
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The TIDE (Transport Innovation Deployment for Europe) project recently published two important handbooks on innovative transport measures. The TIDE Impact Assessment Handbook is a practitioners’ guide to cost-benefit and impact analysis of innovative urban transport measures. The handbook can be applied to a wide range of measures, and can therefore be used by cities across Europe. The assessment method developed by TIDE is the result of an extensive review of current transport project appraisal methods referred to in scientific literature and in practitioners’ guides and handbooks. The second publication, the Transferability Handbook, was developed using the same approach as the Impact Assessment Handbook, with a review of current methodologies and substantial involvement from city representatives and TIDE partner cities. The Transferability Handbook describes the methodology developed under TIDE, and is illustrated with concrete examples demonstrating how it can be applied to innovative measures within each TIDE thematic cluster. This will be available shortly at http://www.tide-innovation.eu/en/
Eurostat Regional Yearbook 2014 and Statistical Atlas
Posted on: 9 October 2014
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The Eurostat regional yearbook 2014 gives a detailed picture relating to a broad range of statistical topics across the regions of the Member States of the European Union (EU), as well as the regions of EFTA and candidate countries. Each chapter presents statistical information in maps, figures and tables, accompanied by a description of the policy context, main findings and data sources. These regional indicators are presented for the following 11 subjects: population, health, education, the labour market, the economy, structural business statistics, research and innovation, the information society, tourism, transport, and agriculture. In addition, four special focus chapters are included in this edition: these look at the environment, land cover and land use, European cities, and regional competitiveness. The Statistical Atlas is an interactive map viewer, which contains statistical maps from the Eurostat regional yearbook and provides the possibility to download these maps as high-resolution PDFs.
The future of air transport
Posted on: 9 October 2014
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In the next 10 years, a new breed of super-hub airport is going to appear. It will be able to deal with half a million passengers a day, and it will form the centre of entire urban regions. This special report in Global Construction Review looks at the surge in demand for air travel and gives an airport-by-airport guide to the largest 30 in 2030.
Car-free concept in Changzhou high-speed rail station area development
Posted on: 7 October 2014
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Rapid urban development and increased car ownership and use in China bring many social and environmental problems. Many Chinese cities are promoting numerous large-scale transport infrastructures and development projects. How to shift the car-oriented development paradigm in the planning and construction of these projects is a challenge for planners and engineers. In the planning of the new town of Changzhou high-speed rail station, the car-free development concept was introduced to create a pedestrian-friendly urban space with easy transportation accessibility, safety and vitality. The planning team studied the car-free development concept and practices, and proposed an adaptive integrated solution for the HSR station project. It consists of four components: mixed-use development, maximum accessibility by public transportation, seamless transport transfer and continuous pedestrian network, which were integrated in the urban design by interfacing with land use, landscape and architecture. The result of the urban design is acknowledged and used as a guiding and control instrument by the city planning bureau for planning and management, serving as a basis for the regulatory planning and further spatial design.
Freight transport statistics: modal split
Posted on: 6 October 2014
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This article analyses the relative importance of the different inland transport modes (road, rail, inland waterways) in the European Union. It explains the principles of the modal split for the inland transport modes and the adjustments applied to the road freight data in order to allow for a comparison of the shares taken by each of the three modes in the transport performance on a given country’s territory.
A vision for transport planning: A framework for better, more prosperous places
Posted on: 6 October 2014
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This report from the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport examines how transport planning can play a role in addressing the challenges faced in the UK between now and 2035.
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