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The transport secretary has described a pledge by the previous government of £4.7bn for transport in north and midlands areas of England as 'fantasy money'.
The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced that the rollout of ‘tap-in and tap-out ticketing’ at a further 47 rail stations in the South East will happen next month, nearly two years behind schedule.
Former transport and Treasury minister Baroness Charlotte Vere has joined consultancy Stonehaven as a partner, to lead the organisation’s work in transport.
Excluive: Rail operators have been unable to explain – or rectify – a ticketing anomaly that sees fares offered on the National Rail Enquiries website disappear when customers are transferred to Avanti West Coast to purchase tickets.
Cuts to bus provision in England led to an estimated 1.1 billion extra miles driven by cars and taxis in 2023 alone, according to new research.
All of Greater Manchester's bus services have come under local public control following the completion of the combined authority’s phased implementation of a new franchising system.
The number of bus and coach services operating on Christmas Day this year is expected to hit a record high of 100,000.
Portsmouth City Council has attributed a resurgence in bus usage over the past year to its Bus Service Improvement Plan, launched in 2022.
The transport secretary has set out her vision for ‘more joined up and locally-led transport across England’ in what her department said will be the first integrated national transport strategy in a quarter of a century.
“ Mark Gill, associate transport planner at Buro Happold, looks at what the sector can do to reduce emissions. ”
Tom Cummins and Viraf Avari, customer experience and operating model experts at PA Consulting, ask: How can transport organisations deliver excellent customer experience enabled by their operating model and AI?
West Yorkshire mayor Tracy Brabin is due to announce on Thursday whether the combined authority that she leads will take forward proposals for bus franchising, but bus operators have poured resources into promoting their preferred option.
In the second of an occasional series, Chris Ames recounts a train trip to Austria in the aftermath of September's catastrophic floods.