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Do elevated cycletracks solve problems or just create more?
Posted on: 5 September 2014
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Looks at two proposals on elevated cycle tracks. One, proposed for London, and another already completed in Copenhagen.
Brazilian National Association of Transport Operators national seminar
Posted on: 3 September 2014
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Conducted by the Brazilian National Association of Transport Operators (NTU), this year’s Seminar on Urban Public Transportation responded to a growing demand among Brazilian citizens for improved public transport. On August 27 and 28, 2014, city planners, experts, transport operators, and civil society, met to review and discuss all aspects of this topic that is becoming increasingly relevant to Brazilian cities. The goal of the seminar was to analyze and propose solutions to transform public transport across Brazil.
Metropolitan governance of transport and land use in Chicago
Posted on: 3 September 2014
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This study aims to assess the degree of institutional fragmentation of transport and land use planning in Chicago and to assess the main challenges related to this institutional fragmentation. It provides an overview of local governments in metropolitan Chicago and mechanisms for metropolitan coordination, including organisations at the metropolitan scale, dealing with planning, land use and transport. Five main challenges related to institutional fragmentation in transport and land use planning are identified: a lack of (1) interconnectivity, (2) coherence across transit modes, (3) regional freight planning, (4) accountability and (5) implementation power of regional planning and transport objectives. These challenges are analysed. The concluding section suggests some avenues for reform that could be explored in order to overcome the challenges of metropolitan fragmentation in transport and land use in Chicago.
Gateway to our future: Why the UK needs a new hub airport
Posted on: 29 August 2014
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This report, commissioned by the Mayor of London, aims to influence the impending decision by the government’s Airports Commission as to whether London mayor Boris Johnson’s vision for a new airport in the Thames Estuary will remain on a shortlist of airport expansion possibilities. The report claims that having a new airport in the Thames Estuary would support 336,000 jobs around the country in 2050, around a third more than an expanded Heathrow and more than five times as many jobs as an expanded Gatwick airport would provide.
East West Rail – Central Section: Conditional outputs statement
Posted on: 29 August 2014
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This report by Atkins Consultants, commissioned by the East West Rail Consortium, predicts that revival of an east-west rail link in England, from Oxford to Cambridge, could help to cut congestion on London lines as jobs in the area grow by up to 400,000. The report is the first step towards developing an outline business case for the central section of East West Rail route.
Greasing the wheels: Improving our bus and rail markets
Posted on: 29 August 2014
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Focusing on the relationship between public and private stakes in rail services, and differences between bus services in London and elsewhere, this newly published analysis weighs up the pros and cons of existing policy for both transport markets.
Transport for a changing world. Leipzig, 21-23 May 2014
Posted on: 7 August 2014
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Change is a dominant characteristic of our age. New technologies are creating unthought-of possibilities; demographic changes are altering our global society; a changing economic balance redistributes global opportunity; emerging lifestyles create more diversity and climate change poses challenges to the fundament of our existence. These megatrends impact transport and mobility in ways that decision makers need to reflect today in order to shape responses that will remain valid in a rapidly changing world. Videos of the event are available online. A report of the highlights is available at http://www.internationaltransportforum.org/Pub/pdf/14Highlights.pdf
Transport resilience review
Posted on: 7 August 2014
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The transport resilience review is an independent study of all modes of transport and their ability to function in a wide range of extreme weather events. This review was commissioned by the Secretary of State for Transport in response to the extreme weather experienced during the winter of 2013 and 2014. The report: sets out the context in which it was conducted; gives an overview of the weather events of 2013 and 2014; and provides commentary on the expected severity and frequency of such events in the future.
The case for action by the Active Transport for Healthy Living Coalition
Posted on: 14 July 2014
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This new report by the Active Transport for Healthy Living Coalition highlights the breadth of existing work that demonstrates the benefits of active transport for health, the economy and the environment. It also identifies opportunities within the planning, design, engineering and transport policy realms to increase levels of active transport. Active Transport for Healthy Living is a collaboration of Professional Institutions and other partner organisations drawn from the spheres of health, engineering, environment, architecture, planning and transport.
Transport Research & Innovation Portal: Country profiles
Posted on: 3 July 2014
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The Transport Research & Innovation Portal (TRIP) portal features a section dedicated to ‘country profiles’, which provides background information on the organisation of transport research at national level in a wide range of countries in Europe and beyond. With last year’s enlargement of the European Union, this section has now been updated with information for Croatia Besides the European Research Area, TRIP provides information on transport research at national level for additional countries worldwide. Useful information on the institutional framework for research as well as on funding sources and supporting initiatives is now available also for Brazil. Other countries covered are Canada, China, India, Russia, South Africa and the United States.
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