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Our blog offers commentary, analysis and insights on the latest urban transport debates from our team of experts, as well as our Director’s regular column for Passenger Transport magazine.

Stephen Edwards

Tackling transport challenges, together

People will always need to travel to places. So, there is a strong consensus around the need for high quality, integrated urban public transport networks that can support the greener, healthier and more prosperous city regions that we want to see.

I build therefore I sprawl

In his latest article for Passenger Transport Magazine, Jonathan Bray asks will where future Britons, live, rely on, or ignore public transport?
Data hub

Debating with data

What is Data? A character from Star Trek? Or is it factual information or numbers that can be used to help inform decision making?

Six ways transport can help combat climate change

Lord Deben, Chair of the UK’s Committee on Climate Change, the Government’s climate watchdog,  recently called on the transport secretary to “Do more to cut transport CO2 emissions”. This follows hot on the heels of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a special report on global warming of 1.5°C.

The best transport secretary we’ve had?

Barbara Castle was the first woman to be secretary of state for transport, but was she also the best secretary of state for transport we ever had?

Fifty years since her landmark Transport Act received Royal Assent on October 24 (at the time, the largest piece of non-financial legislation since the war), it’s a good time to look at her legacy on transport, and the relevance of what she did for today.