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Birmingham City Council has announced the launch of a major project to expand the city’s electric vehicle (EV) charging network

Network Rail has been fined £3.75m and ordered to pay costs of £175,000 over the deaths of two track workers at Margam, Wales in July 2019

The transport secretary has launched Labour’s plans for a single ‘directing mind’ that will bring together responsibility for Britain’s rail network

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

Local authority place directors have launched a recruitment campaign aimed at young people to address ‘critical’ workforce challenges in services

The transport secretary visited the West Midlands on Thursday ‘to begin work’ on a £295m West Midlands Metro extension, her department said

A London borough has complained that Transport for London (TFL) has ignored its concerns over the introduction of user charging for Blackwall Tunnel

The chancellor has confirmed government support for a third runway at Heathrow, claiming that it will be delivered in line with its ‘legal,

Former transport and Treasury minister Baroness Charlotte Vere has joined consultancy Stonehaven as a partner, to lead the organisation’s work in

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

Excluive: Rail operators have been unable to explain – or rectify – a ticketing anomaly that sees fares offered on the National Rail Enquiries

Ministers have announced measures to ‘unblock much-needed infrastructure projects’, including limiting opportunities to challenge them in the courts

The Department for Transport has confirmed that it is continuing work on the new long-term transport strategy first planned by former secretary of

The Silvertown Tunnel is due to open on 7 April, with new bus routes serving the tunnel launching the same day

Campaign for Better Transport has appointed Ben Plowden as its next chief executive officer, taking over from Paul Tuohy, who is stepping down in the

All of Greater Manchester's bus services have come under local public control following the completion of the combined authority’s phased

Welsh transport secretary Ken Skates has announced a new task force to help deliver a new strategy for the future of Holyhead Port

Ministers have confirmed an extra £500m for local road maintenance in England next year but a quarter of the cash will be held back on the basis of

The chief executive of Network Rail and two city mayors topped the list of figures from the transport sector in the 2025 New Year Honours, each

M Group Services, whose businesses include Milestone Infrastructure, has appointed former retail boss and Tory MP Archie Norman as non-executive

The new government’s plans to extend devolution may deliver very little unless there is a change in the overall framework, a top local authority

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

The transport secretary has revealed the first three rail franchises first to come under public control next year under Labour’s renationalisation

Heidi Alexander has been appointed as transport secretary after Louise Haigh resigned over a conviction for fraud

The crash rate on major local authority roads in England is four times that on National Highways’ strategic road network, a major new report has

There were 2% fewer people killed on British roads in the year to June 2024 but the number of killed or seriously injured (KSI) casualties saw

The transport secretary has appointed Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson to lead a new expert group to ‘look at’ tackling the biggest barriers to air

Roads and rail services in England and Wales continued to be hit by disruption caused by flooding from Storm Bert on Monday

The Department for Transport has announced £955m for bus services next financial year, with a shift in allocations towards more rural authorities

HS2 Ltd has awarded contracts worth around £3bn for work to turn almost 140 miles of tunnels, bridges and earthworks between London and the West

A long-awaited decision on new powers for councils to tackle pavement parking in England could still be months away, the transport secretary has told

Hitachi Rail has announced the successful completion of the UK’s first intercity battery train trial in the North of England, which the rail minister

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced extra transport cash for regional mayors alongside incremental extensions to existing rail schemes, but

AtkinsRéalis has been appointed to develop a ‘future-focused’ masterplan for Scotland’s biggest and busiest bus station

Transport for London has strengthened the requirements for its Direct Vision Standard as data shows a significant reduction in the number of fatal

Initial investigations into the fatal rail crash in Wales last month have found that one train slid for around a kilometre before colliding with the

Bus fares across the country will rise in the new year as part of a ‘managed exit’ from the £2 fare cap

Ministers have commissioned a review into the way train companies tackle suspected fare evasion following reports of firms prosecuting passengers for

Official figures have confirmed there was a rise in the number of road casualties in Scotland in 2023 but a fall in the number of people killed

The House of Commons has formally appointed the membership of its Transport Committee, following the election of Labour MP Ruth Cadbury as chair last

Transport secretary Louise Haigh has launched an ‘independent review’ to try to bring the cost of the rump HS2 project under control

Gareth Bacon has been appointed as shadow transport secretary in Kemi Badenoch’s new shadow cabinet following her election as Conservative leader at

Chris Ames visits Paris 2024 by public transport, swims in a Bruges canal, and lives to tell the tale

In the second of an occasional series, Chris Ames recounts a train trip to Austria in the aftermath of September's catastrophic floods

The Cambrian rail line in North Wales has re-opened following last week's fatal collision and Transport for Wales has resumed running services

Collisions and casualties on Welsh roads with 20mph and 30mph limits fell by around a quarter in the period between April and June of this year,

One man has died and 15 people were taken to hospital after a ‘low-speed’ collision involving two trains in North Wales on Monday evening

Nick Taylor is to step down to step down as chief executive of Waterman Group next year after 42 years at the company

Bank details of around 5,000 Transport for London customers could have been obtained in the cyber attack on the transport authority, which has had

Ruth Cadbury has been elected as the chair of the Commons Transport Committee for the new Parliament, following a ballot of MPs

Scottish Government transport secretary Fiona Hyslop will deliver the keynote address on the opening day of Road Expo and Bridges Scotland in

A new report has revealed significant disparities between local authority areas in electric vehicle (EV) charging provision for EV owners without

The Government’s extension of contactless pay-as-you-go rail travel beyond London could be completed four years late, it has emerged

Personal travel by people in England increased last year but remained below pre-pandemic trends, with cars still the ‘mode of choice’ for journeys

A further 47 rail stations in South East England are set to introduce tap-in, tap-out technology next month – around 18 months late after technical

A review commissioned by Labour when in opposition has called for an ambitious transport infrastructure plan for the next 50 years, beginning with a

The transport secretary has pledged to back councils that implement low traffic neighbourhoods and 20mph limits, with the new government ‘absolutely

A cycling charity has called for the transport secretary’s statement that she wants ‘unprecedented levels’ of investment in cycling to be turned into

Balfour Beatty VINCI has moved a 1,600-tonne steel and concrete bridge into place in Birmingham in just five hours as part of works to take HS2 to

Passengers may have to be incentivised not to travel by rail because the curtailed HS2 programme will reduce capacity, Parliament’s spending watchdog

City Hall has hailed new data which it said shows that last August’s controversial expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone across the whole of

The UK is heading for ‘roadwork gridlock’ in the face of rapid upgrades, increasing traffic and poor cross-industry collaboration, according to new

A new guide inviting people to discover the ‘rich tapestry of engineering wonders and history that are woven above, below and across’ the streets of

The King has confirmed that the new Government will bring forward legislation to bring bus and rail services more closely under public control

Network Rail has postponed the re-opening of a major road route into Oxford and has not been able to say when its beleaguered project will be

A new report from the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation has warned that controversial bus stop bypasses can deter disabled people

The rail regulator has warned the industry that it must change how it works together to meet the challenges of climate change and deliver a safe,

The new transport secretary has said she will call in Avanti West Coast bosses to discuss their ‘woeful’ performance

Transport for London has set out what it calls a ‘green and fair’ package of proposed charges for the users of two tunnels under the Thames, but

The BPA (British Parking Association) and the IPC (International Parking Community) have published a Private Parking Sector Single Code of Practice

Welsh first minister Vaughan Gething has announced plans to introduce bus franchising legislation to the devolved nation in the remainder of the

The West Yorkshire Combined Authority has launched a public consultation on options for two tram lines in the Leeds-Bradford area, mooted as the

Transport heavyweight Lord Peter Hendy has been appointed as a minister of state in the new government

Transport for London has added mobile phone coverage to around five miles of Elizabeth line tunnels as it continues to extend mobile connectivity

Mandatory safety rules introduced across the European Union at the weekend are likely to see the same technology introduced in Great Britain, the RAC

Rail passenger usage in Great Britain has continued to recover towards pre-pandemic levels, but the proportion of journeys made using traditional

Strathclyde Partnership for Transport has moved its multi-modal ZoneCard to a digital smartcard platform compatible with ticketing systems used by

Mott MacDonald has reappointed Professor Glenn Lyons as Chair of Future Mobility, as he begins his term as the new president of the Chartered

Transport for London has completed major improvements to Tolworth Roundabout In southwest London, which it said will reduce congestion and make

Active Travel Commissioner Chris Boardman and National Infrastructure Commission deputy chair Julia Prescot are among the top names from the sector

Calls are growing for the introduction of Graduated Driver Licensing, which would prevent newly qualified drivers carrying passengers of the same age

The Local Government Technical Advisers Group has published new guidance on charging of private electric vehicles on the public highway

The Conservative manifesto pledges to scrap ‘rules that stop Mayors investing in strategic roads’ as part of wider plans to invest in the 'digital,

The bidding deadline for £20m of government funding to improve traffic signals has been extended until after the election, but councils bidding for a

The Welsh Government transport minister has hailed road casualty data since a default 20mph residential speed limit was introduced last September as

Councils' plans to spend allocations under the £4.7bn Local Transport Fund will not be subject to much ‘marking’ by central government, a top

The implementation of digital traffic regulation orders is likely to be delayed because the election will put back the necessary secondary

The Department for Transport (DfT) said the ‘world-leading’ Automated Vehicles (AV) Act, which became law on Monday (20 May), enables advanced

Ann Carruthers has set out her priorities for the year ahead as she stepped into the role of president of directors’ body ADEPT

Improvement works will begin soon at Rothesay Harbour on the Isle of Bute, causing a temporary reduction in ferry services

Labour has pledged to will sweep away the ‘broken model’ of privatatised railways and bring operators into public ownership as their contracts expire

The Department for Transport (DfT) has given English highway authorities an extra month to set out what they plan to do with their share of £50m for

Public spending plans beyond the current Parliament suggest that the UK will be unable to afford the infrastructure it needs, the Government’s

New West Midlands mayor Richard Parker has commissioned a roadmap to replace the region’s ‘broken’ bus network with a franchising model, with a

West Yorkshire mayor Tracy Brabin is due to announce on Thursday whether the combined authority that she leads will take forward proposals for bus

Cambridgeshire County Council has been served a court summons over three fatalities in separate incidents on its troubled guided busway

Oxford City Council has granted planning permission for the Oxpens River Bridge over the Thames in the West End of the city

The Railway Industry Association (RIA) has described the 20% year-on-year increase in the number of passenger journeys as ‘a reminder that the

The RAC attended nearly 8,000 pothole-related breakdowns in the first quarter of 2024, up 53% on the previous quarter, ‘a clear sign that the UK is

Technology on smart motorways lost power nearly 400 times over 20 months, according to the BBC

Deaths on smart motorways have hit a record high, analysis by the Sunday Times has revealed

Welsh government ministers are set to amend their controversial policy of default 20mph limits in an effort to compromise with critics

The Government has given Hammersmith and Fulham council nearly £3m to provide a new cycle lane on Hammersmith Bridge but funding for a £250m

English Councils received nearly £2bn in income from on and off-street parking in 2022-23, but paid out nearly £1bn in running and enforcement costs

The Department for Transport (DfT) has shelved the further roll-out of powers for English councils to enforce moving traffic violations

Local authorities in the North and Midlands will be closely scrutinised over their plans to spend cash from the £4.7bn Local Transport Fund announced

The carriageway repair bill for local roads in England and Wales has reached a record high of £16.3bn – double the promised £8bn funding uplift from

National Highways is lifting more than 850 miles of roadworks as the country faces a wet bank holiday getaway, while rail passengers will see the

The Department for Transport has published the list of 80 councils sharing £40m to upgrade traffic signals

The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) has named some of the schemes that it plans to take forward with its next £2.6bn tranche of government

West Yorkshire mayor Tracy Brabin has confirmed that she will take forward proposals for bus franchising from 2027 onwards in 'the biggest shake up

The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced the 25 English councils that will receive a share of £143m to help fund ‘up to’ 955 emission buses

South Yorkshire’s buses are set to return to public control under a franchising model that would see depots and fleet owned by the mayoral combined

The Welsh Government has set out the next steps on the way to franchised bus services, which it says will radically shake-up the way public transport

An above inflation rise in regulated rail fares of 4.9% kicked in at the weekend

Officials have confirmed that last year’s allocation of £200m government funding for cycling and walking excluded low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs)

The rail industry has welcomed the Government’s draft Rail Reform Bill but warned that it is ‘no substitute for legislation’

The Department for Transport (DfT) has refused to say when it will make a decision on giving councils the power to ban pavement parking, amid

Two metro mayors from opposing political parties have put forward their own plan to run HS2 trains from Birmingham to Manchester following ministers'

Two bus operators have combined to launch the UK's biggest electric bus fleets outside London after a council agreed to implement traffic filters to

Transport for London (TfL) has announced up to £80.4m for boroughs to improve public transport, make walking and cycling safer and create new school

Air pollution in Bristol is still above legal limits after the city council brought in a Clean Air Zone that exempts private vehicles

The revamped University Station in Birmingham is now fully open following a complex three-year construction process where the existing station

The Department for Transport has updated its guidance for councils on allowing motorcycles to use bus lanes

Buckinghamshire Council has pledged to hold HS2 Ltd to account to secure compensation for damage to its highway network from HGVs helping build the

Transport for London (TfL) is set to deliver the full programme of improvements and renewals for 2024/25 following 'difficult decisions' and a £250m

A new report has highlighted the extent and toxicity of abuse experienced by women cycling in London

Labour will not re-instate plans to take HS2 beyond Birmingham if it comes to power, Keir Starmer has said, as the fallout from the decision to

The Government has announced what it called a ‘multi-billion-pound funding boost’ for the TransPennine route upgrade (TRU), but the announcement

Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen has unveiled a £1bn transport package for the region, funded by City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement cash, with

The Government has missed its target of having six or more rapid or ultra-rapid electric vehicle chargers at every motorway service area in England

A newly released Department for Transport (DfT) document has confirmed that officials had to tackle ministerial misconceptions about traffic calming

The Department for Transport has brought in rule changes to make it easier for local authorities to put up wildlife warning signs, as well as

Ministers have announced a ‘significant intervention’ to cap this year’s increase in regulated rail fares at 4.9%, rather than the 9% RPI inflation

The information rights watchdog has ruled that the Department for Transport (DfT) was wrong to refuse to disclose details of vehicle manufacturers’

The Government has claimed it is ‘on target’ to install 300,000 public electric vehicle (EV) charge points by 2030 after announcing that the number

Transport for London has appointed Claire Mann, currently managing director of South Western Railway, as its new chief operating officer

A new report from the Transport Planning Society (TPS) argues that current parking practice promotes car use and outlines 18 policy recommendations

Scotland is ready for winter, the country’s transport minister has said but warned that recent weather events should serve as a warning to take

Liverpool metro mayor Steve Rotheram has signed a 'trailblazer' rail devolution deal that could see the city region take full control of the local

Scotland’s transport minister praised a bumper year at Road Expo as she opened the devolved nation's largest traffic and transport event with a

Deaths and serious injuries caused by driver speed rose significantly last year, according to analysis of government road casualty data to mark Road

The cost of the remaining HS2 scheme from North London to Birmingham has risen by a further £3bn, according to the government-owned company

A new study has highlighted the importance of good pavements and slower traffic in helping older people get outdoors more

The Project CAVForth autonomous bus has won the top prize at an awards ceremony for the self-driving vehicles industry

Ministers have published an Automated Vehicles (AV) Bill which they said would deliver one of the most comprehensive legal frameworks in the world

Lord Davies of Gower has been appointed as a junior minister in the Department for Transport, replacing long-serving minister Baroness Vere

Council directors’ body ADEPT has published a new guide to help tackle the staff retention crisis in local authority place services

The Department for Transport (DfT) has awarded Bradford Council £400,000 ‘to kickstart master planning’ on a new railway station

Ministers Jesse Norman and Richard Holden have left the Department for Transport as part of a cabinet reshuffle that began with the sacking of Suella

The Government will bring in an automated vehicles bill in the new parliamentary session and legislate to deal with unlicensed pedicabs, King Charles

A ‘bigger, better and brighter’ Gatwick Airport rail station is set to open on 21 November, with a second concourse and airport entrance that will

A North East transport boss has slammed a bus company for its response to a long-running industrial dispute, which he said is causing real harm to

Transport planners have published a manifesto for the next government with a five-point plan to improve the transport network

London mayor Sadiq Khan has welcomed new data showing that compliance rates in the new outer London part of the Ultra Low Emission Zone have nearly

Ministers have been forced into a humiliating climbdown over plans to close the majority of rail ticket offices after massive opposition from the

Train operating companies (TOCs) and the RMT union have reached a possible resolution of their long-running dispute, which appears to involve the

Councils ‘desperately need’ more highway maintenance funding to address the deteriorating condition of local roads, the AA has said after its worst

A legal challenge to Glasgow's Low Emission Zone from a local business has failed

The RMT union has slammed the Government’s Minimum Service legislation as ‘an assault on the fundamental freedoms of working people’

Amey has appointed Danny Gilbert as transportation strategy director, with responsibility for long-term strategic growth across its Transport

MPs have warned that the Government's proposed new national policy statement for road and rail infrastructure will not solve the issues around legal

Three in four large rural councils in England are rolling out demand-responsive transport (DRT) bus services but councils have warned that they are

Roads minister Richard Holden has promised to chase down every local authority without a lane rental scheme, as part of a ‘war’ on potholes and those

MPs have criticised the rail industry’s plans to close most rail ticket offices as going too far, too fast, as well as criticising the industry’s

The Government’s infrastructure advisers have called for measures to reduce traffic in cities, including congestion charging and workplace parking

Bus operators have expressed frustration over the Government’s pledge to allocate nearly £1bn of redirected HS2 cash for bus improvements in the

The Department for Transport has struggled to provide details of nearly £1bn of bus funding for the North and Midlands, announced as part of the

National Highways’ huge scheme at Junction 10 of the M25 has again impacted the Royal Horticultural Society’s flagship garden nearby, leading to the

Transport bosses have welcomed a pledge to upgrade rail infrastructure in the East of England, after years of campaigning

The Department for Transport has admitted it does not have a timescale for the billions of pounds for road resurfacing that it announced on the back

A flagship £9bn road scheme and a key electric vehicle (EV) charging policy are among the Government plans thrown into doubt, as the prime minister's

Rishi Sunak has confirmed the cancellation of the HS2 north of Birmingham but has said that the high speed rail line will still go to Euston, albeit

The Government has announced a number of minor measures to discourage English local authorities from bringing in road safety and traffic reduction

Bradford Council has denied that a graph it published showing toxic air pollution below the ‘legal limit’ was intended to demonstrate compliance with

Rishi Sunak will finally announce the cancellation of the Birmingham to Manchester leg of HS2, with money for local transport projects to soften the

The transport secretary has announced ‘up to’ £129m to help local transport authorities introduce hundreds more zero emission buses, with a pledge

Calls have grown for increased regulation of e-scooters and e-bikes following an increasing number of building fires from lithium-ion batteries in

Prime minister Rishi Sunak has delayed the Government's ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2030 to 2035, potentially slowing

Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has hailed a ‘momentous day’ as the first franchised buses on the region’s Bee Network took to the streets on

Transport for London has announced 65km of new 20mph speed limits to be introduced across eight London boroughs by the end of the year

Passenger watchdog Transport Focus has appointed Alex Robertson as its new chief executive

Kier has agreed to acquire the rail business of the collapsed Buckingham Group but administrators have been unable to save the rest of the

Behind-the-scenes discussions over cuts to HS2 could see the London Euston terminus scrapped, with cash saved potentially used to upgrade Northern

Contractors have reacted furiously to reports that ministers are considering cancelling the second phase of HS2, which is due to take the high speed

The Scottish Government has paused the procurement process for the Ardrossan Harbour Redevelopment after a ‘significant’ rise in costs

More than 50 businesses in the intelligent transport sector have written to the prime minister to call for the Government to move forward with a

Balfour Beatty VINCI has completed the first of 32 giant piers for the first Water Orton Viaduct as work ramps up to build the complex Delta Junction

More than 680,000 responses were received to the consultation on train operators’ plans to close the majority of ticket offices in England, which

West Midlands mayor Andy Street is to spend nearly half of the region’s bus service improvement cash on subsidies to private sector operators,

Opponents of plans to close most railway ticket offices are set to march on Parliament and Downing Street on Thursday, with an industry consultation

Declan Collier is to be reappointed as chair of the Office of Rail and Road for a further five-year term, transport secretary Mark Harper has

Being instructed not to travel when trains are disrupted but still running can confuse and frustrate passengers, the transport watchdog has warned

Motoring groups have expressed concern over new data showing that half of car drivers exceed the speed limit on 30mph roads

The first two sections of the HS2 rail line are currently rated ‘unachievable’ by the Government’s Infrastructure and Projects Authority, as is a

A union representing private hire drivers has claimed a significant victory in a court case that has clarified the legal status of ride-hailing

Train operating companies (TOCs) have extended the consultations on their plans to close thousands of ticket offices across the country, following

National Highways has generally delivered well for road users over the past year but faces continuing challenges with its big projects, its monitor

An estimated 260 people were killed in drink-drive road collisions in 2021, the worst casualty rate since 2009

Two disabled rail users have launched a legal challenge to the rail industry’s plans to close hundreds of rail ticket offices across England over the

A highway authority has said it is the responsibility of motorists to understand signs and lines on the road after residents criticised what they say

RAC patrols attended the highest number of what it calls ‘pothole breakdowns’ in five years during the last three months

Transport for London is to make its controversial traffic scheme on the A10 Bishopsgate permanent, despite public opposition

MPs have been ‘vindicated’ after ministers agreed to look again at key elements of the Integrated Rail Plan for the North and Midlands, including the

HS2 Ltd CEO Mark Thurston is to walk away from the struggling project after six and a half years in September, with no successor lined up

A key industry body has launched a campaign urging the Home Office to review the process by which it approves enforcement technology for use on the

Business and transport leaders from the Cambridgeshire area are pressing ministers to agree improvements to Ely Junction following a summit to

MPs have slated the Department for Transport over its handling of paused plans for an HS2 station at Euston and accused ministers of a lack of

The Department for Transport has confirmed December as the target date for the extension of pay as you go functionality to a further 53 rail stations

Newcastle City Council has insisted that a review of low traffic schemes across the city was commissioned before a former external auditor raised

Transport for London and partners including the Royal National Institute of Blind People have teamed up to trial an app designed to help blind or

A permeable paving slab that can absorb excess rainwater and a new method of repairing leaks beneath the road surface are among 20 finalists in a £4m

The opening of three rail stations on the Camp Hill line in Birmingham has been delayed after the project hit a raft of complications including the

The Government’s climate change advisers have warned against continued attempts to expand aviation capacity and thrown down a challenge to its road

The AA has suggested a system of ‘travel rationing’ as a way of relieving the impact of an expanded Ultra Low Emission zone, after its research found

A highway authority is to remove a Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) scheme that it said ‘has not been popular with many residents’, despite the scheme

London councils fined Thames Water more than £12m for late or badly managed street works over a five-year period, according to data obtained by the

Sustrans has launched what it calls a ‘breakthrough tool’ that uniquely analyses localised data on public behaviours and attitudes towards walking

The transport portfolio within the Scottish Government has been ‘explicitly’ restored as a cabinet position, with existing cabinet secretary Màiri

The transport secretary has chaired the first meeting of a new Maritime Council, the first step in untangling what MPs have called the ‘muddle’ of

Ministers will need to find cash beyond 2025 to truly transform bus services in the way envisaged by the National Bus Strategy, the chair of the

Transport bosses have announced a pilot of a contactless payment system for rail journeys in Manchester city region but passengers will have to wait

Toxic air pollution in Leeds was above legal limits in 2021 after the city council chose not to proceed with a government-mandated Clean Air Zone

Caledonian Sleeper services are now publicly run, with the Scottish Government hailing the ‘flourishing’ rail brand as it brought it within its

Figures from the transport sector are among many people recognised for their contribution to major events over the past year in the King’s Birthday

The railway line between Didcot and Oxford has re-opened after Network Rail completed accelerated repairs to the 160-year old Nuneham Viaduct

Ministers have announced up to £1.5m for six local authority-led pilots to test the capacity for ‘smart multi-purpose columns’ – or lamp posts – to

Transport secretary Mark Harper has given Transport for Greater Manchester an ‘extraordinary funding settlement’ of £18m to ensure the stability and

State-owned London North Eastern Railway (LNER) has rolled out single-leg ticketing across its network

The Government is not on track to meet its targets to increase cycling and walking and should consider whether they remain achievable, Parliament’s

Lord Peter Hendy has been reappointed as chair of Network Rail for two more years, with a brief to ensure a ‘smooth transition to Great British

A series of violent incidents in Nottingham have resulted in the deaths of three people with three more injured and disruption to transport across

Interim Transport for London commissioner Andy Lord has been appointed to the role permanently, TfL and mayor Sadiq Khan have announced

Trams are now running along the full route between Edinburgh Airport and Newhaven, with eight new stops linking the city centre with some of

Scottish Government transport minister Kevin Stewart has stepped down for the sake of his mental health, having been in post for just over two months

Campaigners have threatened ministers with legal action over the decision to slash spending on walking and cycling for the last two years of the

Transport for London has selected new sites where mowing frequency will be reduced, following trials

Rail passengers, including those hoping to go to the Epsom Derby or the FA Cup final, face more disruption this week, with the two main unions

Ministers have confirmed government funding for a new £210m rail station at Cambridge Biomedical Campus in the south of the city

Ministers have scrapped longstanding plans to build two new platforms at Manchester Piccadilly rail station, to the dismay of the city region's mayor

The AA attended more than 52,000 ‘pothole-related’ breakdowns last month, which was 1,735 a day and a 29% increase compared to the same month last

A new National Highways report says its will focus on making the most of its existing network with an 'increased focus on smaller £2-25m schemes' but

Plans for a new body to oversee the rail sector are in disarray following reports that the legislation to establish Great British Railways will not

New research has confirmed that 20mph limits backed by physical measures have substantially greater speed and casualty reduction benefits – with

The Department for Transport has announced allocations for the £200m fourth (2022-23) round of the Active Travel Fund and revealed that it had

Traffex this year is focused on the theme of 'better roads for a better tomorrow' and two issues stand out when it comes to making our highways

Data experts have successfully delivered live in-vehicle signage into a vehicle’s head unit using the car’s own connectivity rather than a tethered

Ministers are to lay legislation on Wednesday to allow longer lorries to operate on roads in Great Britain

Ministers have announced a £500m package of funding for buses, including extending the £2 cap on single journeys outside London until the end of

Rail operator Transpennine Express will lose its franchise at the end of the month and be replaced by the state-run operator of last resort

Mark Pengelly, group managing director of Kier Group’s Infrastructure business and managing director of the joint venture building an 80km section of

The transport secretary has denied ‘making up numbers’ after an MP on the Transport Select Committee challenged him over the Government’s progress

A key railway bridge in Oxfordshire is likely to remain closed for another two months over stability and safety concerns

A new guide to provide guidance to support local authorities in implementing technology that supports traffic management and the operation of streets

Prime minster Rishi Sunak has scrapped plans for new all lane running smart motorways on the grounds of cost and a lack of public confidence

The UK’s network of city region transport authorities, the Urban Transport Group, has appointed Jason Prince as its new director

Glasgow City Council and the UK Infrastructure Bank have agreed a project that seeks to accelerate the development of the Clyde Metro

Transport for London will begin work this month to improve pedestrian crossings and change road layouts at several junctions on a major road, making

Micromobility company Beryl has insisted that e-scooters will continue to play ‘a vital role’ in properly integrated multimodal urban transport,

The High Court has granted permission for a judicial review into the proposed expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) to outer London this

Parliament’s spending watchdog has called for a rethink on plans for a new HS2 station at Euston after the cost of a revised 10-platform design came

Chris Ames argues that, notwithstanding recent good news on strikes, the rail sector seems to be going downhill, slowly

Communities secretary Michael Gove has been accused of ‘treading on the Department for Transport’s toes’ after he wrote directly to councils about

The Scottish Liberal Democrats have called on the country’s new transport minister to address its ‘crumbling’ roads after pothole repairs on the

The £2 cap on single bus fares outside London is having a positive impact on bus use and saving passengers money, according to new research from the

Ministers appear to have cut Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) funding to local authorities by tens of millions over the next two years

Ministers have announced 27 local schemes that will share £47.5m road safety cash - a cutback on the 45 schemes floated in last autumn's mini budget

The Department for Transport (DfT) has ‘finally’ announced the introduction of rules that will mandate audible announcements and visual displays on

Buckinghamshire council has served a tree preservation order on HS2 Ltd after discovering that the company was cutting down trees in a site of

Hopes of a resolution some of the ongoing industrial disputes on Britain’s railways have risen after RMT union members voted to accept Network Rail’s

Transport Focus chief executive Anthony Smith has announced that he will step down at the end of the year

The Isle of Wight Council has pushed back against suggestions that it should ban cyclists from a popular coastal path, despite concerns over the

The transport secretary has announced huge cuts and delays to transport schemes to save money, including delaying HS2, pushing back major roads

A report into the Sheffield street trees scandal has laid the blame firmly at the door of the former leadership of the council for misleading its own

The chancellor has announced 'up to' £20bn for carbon capture and storage, alongside a new round of funding for city regions in England and £1bn for

Ministers are set to announce an extra £200m for local road maintenance, representing around half of the annual cut to funding that was put in place

The RMT union has suspended all industrial action on Network Rail after receiving a new offer but strikes involving train operating companies are

London mayor Sadiq Khan has faced a huge backlash after linking campaigners against his plan to extend the Ultra Low Emissions Zone to outer London

Solent Transport has become the first UK local transport authority grouping with accreditation to retail rail tickets through its

Ministers have announced a further short-term funding package worth £80m to protect bus services, alongside a three-month extension of the £2 maximum

Via East Midlands Limited has appointed Highways magazine Lifetime Achievement Award winner Matthew Lugg OBE as its non-executive chairman

Sheffield’s Clean Air Zone (CAZ) came into force on Monday, more than five years after the Government legally directed the city council to implement

Approximately 2,000 people took part in demonstrations against Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and trial traffic filters in Oxford on Saturday, according

More than 70% of local authorities and their contractors now manage their road verges 'for nature', using road verge guidance published by Plantlife,

Five Conservative councils have launched a judicial review against Transport for London (TfL) and London mayor Sadiq Khan over the expansion of the

The RMT union has rejected the latest offers on pay and conditions from Network Rail and the train operating companies, while the smaller TSSA union

Walking charity Living Streets has launched a new campaign calling for reduced waiting times for pedestrians at signal-controlled crossings

The new chair of HS2 Ltd has said that the project is more expensive than equivalent schemes in other European countries because ‘we are building HS2

The transport secretary has announced a limited extension of a single leg ticketing trial within a state-run rail franchise, alongside a trial of

The Government is set to miss another milestone on its seemingly endless journey towards smart ticketing, despite the transport secretary trumpeting

Transport for London has admitted that it based claims of ‘a significant reduction’ in collisions on key roads since 20mph speed limits were

Mark Harper has declared the Government is ‘pressing go on rail reform’, but gave no timeline for the creation of the new model for the industry

The TSSA union has suspended all five senior members of staff named in a report into sexual harassment, including former general secretary Manuel

London mayor Sadiq Khan has launched what he said is ‘the biggest scrappage scheme ever’, with £110m to help disadvantaged Londoners, charities and

Kier Group has appointed Louisa Finlay as chief people officer, to replace Helen Redfern

Ministers have announced the seven projects that will receive a share of £30m under the ADEPT Live Labs 2: Decarbonising Local Roads programme

Campaigners are calling on ministers to overhaul bus funding to local authorities after a ‘decade of decline’

The Office of Rail and Road has given failing rail firm Avanti another chance to improve after promised improvements that the regulator had trumpeted

The Chancellor has left open the possibility of a delay to the HS2 station at Euston, following a press report that soaring costs could see the high

South Western Railway is advising passengers to travel between Basingstoke and Woking only if absolutely necessary this week, with a major landslip

A London council has vowed to continue its fight to delay the expansion of the capital’s ultra low emission zone

Motoring organisations have rung alarm bells over the slow rollout of publicly available charge points for electric vehicles after new official

Train drivers are to strike for two more days next month with ministers apparently blocking an improved pay deal, despite the transport secretary

Nottingham City Council has partnered with transport technology company VivaCity to install 219 sensors with a mix of Automatic Number Plate

Transport for London has warned that works related to the new HS2 station at Euston could cause disruption to Euston Road for years

The Government has reappointed Sir John Armitt as chair of the National Infrastructure Commission for a further two years

Motoring organisations have marked National Pothole Day with calls for a cash injection to improve local roads and new statistics which they said

Ministers and Network Rail have given no sign of compromise over the ongoing industrial action as the first of five days of strikes saw 80% of trains

HS2 Ltd and its contractors are claiming a world-first after sliding a 12,600 tonne bridge 165 metres into position across the M42 in Warwickshire

Active Travel England has announced £32.9m to support local authorities train staff on the design of active travel schemes and drive behaviour change

The passenger watchdog has slammed rail firms for their inability to offer a reliable service on days when no strikes are taking place

National Highways needs to urgently improve the operation of stopped vehicle detection technology, which is missing one in three live lane stops, the

Transport for London has published a report that it says shows a ‘continued boom’ in walking and cycling in the capital, with cycling levels

English councils outside London are to lobby ministers to secure the same powers to issue fixed penalty notices for highway obstruction offences as

Rail companies have issued a new injunction to passengers to only travel if absolutely necessary on both strike days and non-strike days next week,

Many passengers using Avanti and TransPennine Express in the North of England have become so disillusioned with delays and cancellations that they

Cash-strapped Scottish councils dealing with the impact of soaring inflation and a huge pay rise for workers can hope to preserve their existing road

The Scottish Government should continue to set targets that are ‘just about within reach’ for the transition to sustainable transport, even if they

Low-traffic neighbourhoods reduce traffic and air pollution without displacing the problem to nearby streets, new research has shown

London mayor Sadiq Khan has backed down on a threat of large-scale cuts to the capital’s bus network after finding additional funding of around £25m

Conservative MP Iain Stewart has been elected as the new chair of the Transport Select Committee, replacing Huw Merriman, who is now a minister in

The chancellor has abandoned his predecessor’s list of infrastructure schemes slated for acceleration and confirmed that the Government will only

Campaigners have warned the chancellor that the country ‘cannot afford’ to lose more bus routes and called for more cash support, including targeted

Ministers have announced more than £5m in grants to help deliver innovations that aim to improve rail travel and help decarbonise the network

The chairman of the UK’s Climate Change Committee has told council bosses to avoid companies that hold back the fight against climate change, citing

The ongoing industrial action on the rail network has escalated with the RMT announcing four weeks of strikes and an overtime ban into the new year

Northern Ireland’s public transport operator is on its way to a national account-based ticketing (ABT) system, providing capped contactless fares

City region transport authorities have warned that attempts to introduce London-style ticketing could be heading in the wrong direction because of a

Michael Roberts will take over as chief executive officer of London TravelWatch from January

Opponents of HS2 have again claimed that the project will cost significantly more and be delivered significantly later than ministers have admitted

Northern political and business have condemned what they call the Government’s ‘broken promises’ on Northern Powerhouse Rail and called on Rishi

Bath & North East Somerset council has begun the deployment of 20mph speed limits to around six miles of roads outside of the centre of Bath that

The president of ADEPT has said that while it appears that levelling up is back on the agenda for the Sunak administration, climate must not come off

The AA has warned that England’s local road network ‘cannot take another round of cuts’ after official figures showed that a third of English

Three new Department for Transport (DfT) ministers have had their portfolios allocated, with former transport committee chair Huw Merriman getting

England’s chief medical officer, Sir Chris Whitty, has been appointed to a new advisory panel for Active Travel England alongside three other expert

The head of council directors’ body ADEPT has called for 'early clarity' from the Government on its spending plans, and faster progress on enabling

The new transport secretary has pushed back against pledges by former prime minister Liz Truss that Northern Powerhouse Rail would be delivered ‘in

Rail firms have sent out mixed messages ahead of three days of strike action, with some advising passengers to only travel only if absolutely

Property group Eddisons has expanded its Manchester-based transport planning and highway design consultancy with three new appointments

The Department for Transport has its third secretary of state this year, with Mark Harper replacing Anne-Marie Trevelyan, who only came into the role

HS2 again faces the prospect of being cut back after a senior minister cited it as ‘a significant investment’ that will be reviewed, with the

Bristol Temple Meads rail station is to become the UK’s first ‘Station Innovation Zone’, trialling new technologies designed to upgrade passengers’

National Highways has announced that it has put ‘key contracts’ in place to deliver its scheme to build a tunnel for the A303 at Stonehenge

The Government has launched a trial of a camera designed to identify and track drivers who break the law by revving engines and using modified

The Department for Transport has poached the chair of the Transport Select Committee for a ministerial role and sacked another Truss administration

Bus fares in the West Midlands are to be frozen at current levels until 2025 under a new plan agreed between the region’s combined authority and bus

The final station in the delayed central section of the Elizabeth line is set to open later this month

Final data for 2021 confirms that road casualties returned to pre-pandemic levels as traffic returned following lockdowns in 2020

Transport for London has announced new senior leadership appointments ahead of the departure of commissioner Andy Byford

Liz Truss has confirmed that her pledge to build Northern Powerhouse Rail ‘in full’ means a full new line all the way from Liverpool to Hull with a

International infrastructure group Balfour Beatty has been appointed as the sole contractor to two SCAPE civil engineering frameworks worth a

The rail regulator failed to secure a timescale by which the country’s biggest rail franchise would implement a key part of its accessibility plan,

Labour’s shadow transport secretary has restated the party’s commitment to bringing rail services into public ownership, as well as delivering

First Bus Scotland is to spend £35m on 74 new electric buses and supporting infrastructure, taking emission free buses in Aberdeen to more than 50%

Politicians in the north of England have called on Liz Truss to honour her pledge to deliver Northern Powerhouse Rail ‘in full’, including new track

This year’s ADEPT Autumn Conference will build on the council directors body's priority themes for this year - people, place and planet

London Transport Commissioner Andy Byford is to leave the role after just two years, but ‘having delivered against the priorities he set at the start

The rail network is set to be hit by new strikes next month, with drivers at 12 train operating companies walking out for two further days in their

Two new ministers have been appointed at the Department for Transport, with three leaving the department, including the sacking of one minister who

The Government and the rail industry have said no ‘final decision’ has been taken on ticket office closures, despite a press report stating that

Hopes for the second and third stages of East West Rail (EWR) have been all but extinguished after the transport secretary described the scheme as

Campaigners against the Silvertown tunnel have said the start of tunnelling on the project is not the end of their attempts to stop what they called

The RAC has warned that higher electricity prices could derail the Government’s net-zero transport ambitions, despite the minister latest attempt to

The boss of the firm that holds the West Coast Main Line rail franchise is to quit amid an ongoing row over severe cuts to services on the route

Customers on TransPennine Express (TPE) have been hit by new cancellations, ahead of a ‘temporary amended timetable’ on the rail operator’s West

The Scottish Government has sought to spread the blame for the likely failure of its election pledge to ‘remove the majority of diesel buses from

The chair of the sub-national transport body whose area includes the proposed East West Rail scheme has called on ministers to provide certainty over

The company operating Britain’s biggest rail franchise has denied breaking equalities law, despite a leaked internal document that warns it has been

Ministers have announced a £2 cap on ‘almost’ every single bus journey in England for three months next year

A key industry figure has slammed the Government and councils over their ‘failure’ to maintain the surge in cycling levels seen during the first year

Grant Shapps has launched a new attack on London mayor Sadiq Khan after agreeing a new funding deal to give Transport for London around £1.2bn to the

Ministers have announced a further £130m to continue Covid recovery funding for buses for a further six months, following warnings of massive service

Oxfordshire County Council is to launch a consultation on proposals to introduce six trial traffic filters in Oxford

The equalities watchdog is considering an intervention over claims that staffing cuts will lead to a ‘human rights crisis on Britain’s railways’

Ministers have confirmed a further £78.6m for Network Rail to support the redevelopment of Oxford rail station and rail lines in the area

Research by the AA has revealed huge gaps across the UK where there is little to no residential on-street electric vehicle charging, with government

Transport for London has announced the next stage in the integration of the Elizabeth line, with direct trains from Reading and Heathrow to Abbey

National Highways met its road investment strategy targets in 2021-22, but its official monitor has raised concerns about three ‘critical’ areas of

Ministers have pledged to keep next year’s increase in regulated rail fares below the current RPI rate of inflation, which has now hit 12.3%

Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has ridiculed Grant Shapps after the transport secretary incorrectly claimed that rail operator Avanti, which is

Cycling groups have hit back at comments from Grant Shapps in which he suggested that speed limits should apply to cyclists and ‘proposed’ a review

The transport secretary and the Labour mayors of three major cities have continued to argue over cuts to Avanti rail services caused by staff

West Midlands’ public transport network reached record numbers during the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, the region’s transport bosses have

Buckinghamshire Council will not appeal after the High Court backed a decision by planning inspectors to allow four ‘environmentally damaging’ lorry

Transport secretary Grant Shapps has ‘proposed’ a £2 fare cap for bus journeys in England outside London, but there is no sign the plan, which could

Following extremely hot weather when passengers were advised not to travel unless necessary, rail firms have updated their advice this week, creating

Transport users have been advised against all but essential travel as networks in England and Wales face significant disruption from what are

Kent County Council and its local partners have called for an urgent national response to the chaos and delays approaching the Port of Dover after

Transport secretary Grant Shapps has pledged to meet the estimated £9bn cost of the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU), announced in the wake of HS2

Around 20% of the £1bn Network Rail has spent on major upgrade work to trans-Pennine rail links has been wasted on 'work no longer needed',

Software provider Amdocs has announced a collaboration with smart ticketing and payment solutions firm Unicard to create a ticketing product that can

Drivers working for eight rail firms in England have voted overwhelmingly to strike in a pay dispute but their Scottish counterparts have accepted an

The Welsh Senedd has approved legislation to lower the default national speed limit on residential roads and busy pedestrian streets in the country

Karl McCartney MP has been appointed as a parliamentary under secretary of state at the Department for Transport, following the departure of Laura

Northern Trains is rolling out what it is calling ‘intelligent trains’, using technology to improve its ability to monitor what is happening both

A more cohesive approach to accelerating the uptake of zero emission vehicles across the UK’s city regions is vital if decarbonisation targets are to

Bath’s Clean Air Zone (CAZ), which exempts private cars from charging, failed to bring toxic air pollution within the city within legal limits last

HS2 Ltd is set to hand Laing O’Rourke a £370m contract to build the high speed rail link’s new Interchange Station in Solihull

The organisers of The Open golf championship next week have advised people not to travel to the event by train after Scotrail warned of ‘a very

Barking Riverside station on the London Overground is set to open next week, late and over budget

New rules covering taxis and private hire vehicles (PHVs) have come into force, described as the most significant change to taxi accessibility

A new report argues that metropolitan transport authorities have an integral role to play in responding to the global climate crisis by reducing

The Government’s policy of asking local authorities to compete for local transport funding is producing the same winners and ‘perennial’ losers,

The Government’s focus on electric vehicles has left it in denial about the role of road building in increasing traffic levels and carbon emissions,

Campaigners have called for a rethink on ‘floating bus stops’, which require passengers to cross cycle lanes to board buses, highlighting the danger

The Scottish Government has now commenced powers in the Transport (Scotland) Act for local authorities to run their own bus services

Ministers have confirmed the permanent appointment of Chris Boardman as England’s active travel commissioner and announced a raft of appointments to

Grant Shapps has continued to put pressure on London mayor Sadiq Khan to worsen the employment conditions of Transport for London employees with

Ministers have announced the creation of the country’s first ever Road Safety Investigation Branch, following a four-year project to investigate the

The Scottish Government has confirmed an additional £25.7m to extend recovery funding for the country’s bus sector but the current support scheme

The first tranche of local authorities in England are set to get new powers to fine motorists for moving traffic violations next month after

Oxfordshire County Council has urged residents and road users ‘to engage constructively’ with its consultation on trial low traffic neighbourhoods

More than twice the number of rail journeys were made between April 2021 and March 2022 than during the previous year

A new project is getting underway to analyse the potential benefits of increasing connectivity and the use of digital technology on local roads in

South Western Railway has appointed Stuart Meek to its leadership team as chief operating officer, following the retirement of Mike Houghton earlier

The body that represents the rail industry supply chain has called on the Government to ensure that the transition to its new model for the industry

Rail services are being cut back on Monday ahead of three one-day strikes across the network this week, as well as a one-day strike on London’s Tube

The Scottish Government has set out its plan to improve the country’s transport network over the next year, with promises to improve public transport

A Scottish council is to trial the use of drones to deliver school meals

Ministers have announced the end of the plug-in car grant to new orders, which it said was to allow £300m to be refocused towards extending grants

The Department for Transport has issued statutory guidance for local authorities outside London on applying for and using civil enforcement powers

The Department for Transport has announced that it will remove the £3bn Golborne Link from the current HS2 Bill

A national cycling charity has called on employers to do more to encourage active travel to help workers with the increasing transport costs

The RMT union claimed to have shut down the London Underground with a one-day strike that it said was ‘to oppose pension attacks and job cuts’

The top civil servant at the Department for Transport (DfT) heads the list of transport figures recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours

More than 50,000 railway workers will walk out later this month in three days of national strike action called by the RMT union, potentially

Scotrail has cut around a third of its weekday trains after a pay dispute led to a shortage of drivers, with a knock-on effect on services

There were an estimated 1,560 deaths on British roads last year, as traffic levels recovered from significant falls in 2020

Self-driving car developer Oxbotica has completed what it says is the first ‘safe and sustainable’ deployment of a zero-occupancy, fully autonomous

Low Emission Zones have been formally introduced in Scotland’s four main cities but will not be enforced for up to two years

Ministers have announced £200m for new active travel cycling schemes across England

Ministers have announced plans for seafarers regularly entering UK ports to be paid the national minimum wage while in UK waters but the proposals

Leeds City Council has unveiled a ‘stylish new look’ for one of the most famous landmarks in the centre of the city

Transport for London has dropped a longstanding pledge to run 37 cross-river buses in East London after opening the Silvertown tunnel, with a likely

The slow pace of transition to self-driving has again been highlighted after ministers confirmed changes to the Highway Code to cover ‘the first

Levelling up secretary Michael Gove has agreed to let commissioners at Liverpool City Council delay their latest report amid their warnings that

Grant Shapps has indicated that he plans to lift the ban on privately owned e-scooters, with legislation expected in the Queen's Speech in May

Prime minister Boris Johnson is set to fail in his pledge to deliver 4,000 zero emission buses to England's roads, despite the Department for

The Transport Select Committee has announced an inquiry into the prime minister’s flagship National Bus Strategy, called ‘Bus Back Better’, one year

Materials firm Hanson is supplying a lower carbon concrete as part of the multi-million pound project to upgrade the Gatwick Airport rail station

The ADEPT SMART Places Live Labs Programme has published its final programme review, which highlights the successes and difficulties experienced by

The Government has published guidance for applications to the second round of its flagship Levelling Up Fund, which could see up to £50m awarded for

Ministers have announced a ‘Great British Rail Sale’, offering savings of up to 50% on more than a million off-peak fares, billed as the shape of

The head of the body that represents rural councils has slammed ministers for pressuring authorities to keep ‘redundant’ plans for bus partnerships

A senior Department for Transport (DFT) official has played down the possibility that city regions will divert government cash intended for road

Environmental activists have invited West London residents to imagine the ‘fantastic possibilities that could be in store’ if Hammersmith Bridge

Ministers have announced a second, UK-wide round of the ADEPT Live Labs programme, with a particular focus on making the construction, maintenance

Fares on buses in Cornwall operated by the Go-Ahead Group have been cut by up to 40% under a government-backed pilot scheme that is aiming for a 10%

Cycling campaigners have accused a local highway authority of ‘robbing’ residents of sustainable transport options by re-opening a bridge underpass

The Government has announced ‘new measures to protect seafarers’, including banning ferries that don’t pay the National Minimum Wage (NMW) from

The new ferry serving the island of Lismore off the west coast of Scotland has arrived at Port Appin after a journey of 302 nautical miles from

The RAC has called on the Government to improve its guidance to councils on yellow box junctions to avoid thousands of drivers being wrongly fined

The Welsh Government has pledged to work closely with local government, the bus industry and passengers on a proposed franchising model that it says

A senior councillor in Portsmouth has said she is still ‘eagerly’ waiting clarification of possible funding for bus improvements in the city, nearly

Ministers have awarded Govia Thameslink Railway a new contract to continue operating the UK’s largest railway network, despite having just fined

Twelve areas in England will share grants totalling nearly £200m to help fund zero emission buses and charging or fuelling infrastructure

The CEO of P&O Ferries has told MPs that the company knowingly and deliberately broke employment law when it sacked 800 employees without

The rail regulator is prosecuting Transport for London and the tram’s operator and driver over the fatal Croydon tram crash more than five years ago

Construction work has started on the new £26.5m White Rose Rail Station in Leeds

In a sign of the drastic financial situation the bus sector faces, plans to improve services in South Yorkshire alone depend on hundreds of millions

A key road safety group has called on ministers to take immediate action to tackle the growing danger from private e-scooters after it was revealed

Boris Johnson has pledged to take legal action against P&O after it fired 800 workers without notice, warning that the company could face fines

A senior council transport boss has warned that inadequate government cash funding for local authority bus service improvement plans (BSIPs) could

The Department for Transport has announced £84m of rail spend for the North West - although the announcement ran into its own signalling problems

Three people died in the August 2020 train derailment in Aberdeenshire after the original designs for a drainage system were not followed – a finding

The first ever female chair of ADEPT’s Transport and Connectivity Board has said she hopes her achievement will give confidence to young people

The chair of the Transport Select Committee has warned that the British public ‘will not wear’ an attempt by P&O ferries to replace its workforce

Essex County Council has responded to attempts by Sir Rod Stewart to repair potholes near his home by warning that people who take matters into their

England’s Economic Heartland has appointed Naomi Green as its new managing director

Network Rail has appointed Kier to deliver the detailed design and enabling works package at Oxford railway station

The giant Stagecoach Group has failed in its attempt to block plans for bus franchising in Greater Manchester

Campaigners have warned that the bus sector is facing another round of big cuts to services or cash earmarked for improving local buses being

The Scottish Government has said it plans to commence by July powers that will formally allow local authorities to run their own bus services

HS2 Ltd has published an updated design for the high speed railway’s London terminus at Euston, which it described as one of the largest

Opposition MSPs have slammed the Scottish Government after it named a Turkish shipyard as the preferred bidder for a contract to build two new

Ministers have cut the working hours expected of a new chair of HS2 Ltd as the Department for Transport relaunched attempts to replace Allan Cook,

Local leaders on the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority have voted unanimously to confirm franchising as its preferred future model for the

HS2 Ltd does not yet know how much the decision to curtail the Eastern Leg of the new high-speed rail line will save taxpayers, its boss has told MPs

The Department for Transport has launched a consultation on proposed changes to the rules around traffic regulation orders (TROs), including creating

A road safety charity has called for British drivers to be better educated about autonomous vehicle technology, including making it part of the

Glasgow City Council has approved unfunded plans to build a City Network of active travel infrastructure priced at nearly half a billion pounds

Campaigners have criticised the limited ambition behind the Government’s so-called ‘flexible season tickets’ as rail fares rise by nearly 4%, with

City region transport authorities are calling for a new ‘national enabling framework’ to allow councils to regulate and charge operators of e-scooter

Ministers have announced a £150m, ‘final tranche’ of pandemic-related support to bus and light rail operators across England, a month before existing

South Yorkshire metro mayor Dan Jarvis has taken a step towards bus franchising for the region but will also continue work ‘in parallel’ to implement

Ministers and Transport for London have agreed a new four-month funding settlement but the transport authority has still not secured the longer-term

Construction of the UK’s first vertical launch spaceport could begin later this month after it received planning approval from the local authority,

At the time of Salisbury rail crash last Autumn, in which one train appears to have skidded into another, work to clean the rails of leaf debris had

Crossrail Ltd has still not ruled out opening the central section of the new cross-London railway next month, it has emerged

Transport for London (TfL) will no longer require passengers to wear face coverings on its services but will ‘strongly encourage’ them to do so

Campaigners have called for Network Rail and the wider rail industry to work together to install tactile surfaces on platforms by 2025 after it

North East transport body Nexus has warned that some bus services in Newcastle and North Tyneside will be lost next month, despite a £4.5m rescue

Sustrans appear to be fighting a losing battle in its attempts to remove barriers from the National Cycle Network (NCN), having removed just over 100

National Highways closed major bridges and a number of roads on the strategic network on Friday morning, while rail services were expected to be

The passenger watchdog has said Avanti West Coast is 'going to have to do better' after customers slammed the rail firm over the impact of late

Transport for London fares will increase by 1% above inflation next month, mayor Sadiq Khan has announced

Scotrail has said it will wind down services by 4pm on Wednesday ahead of heavy rain and high winds that are forecast to hit Scotland later in the

South Western Railway has announced a new timetable from next Monday which it said will ‘essentially’ reinstate services to pre-Omicron levels

Cumbria County Council has finalised and published a transport infrastructure plan for the next 15 years, despite being slated for abolition

Stabilisation works under the Hammersmith Bridge Restoration Project will start this month, Hammersmith & Fulham Council has announced

Nine out of the 10 central Elizabeth line station stations have now been transferred to Transport for London ahead of the start of passenger services

The Welsh Government has announced a new commission that will develop a pipeline of transport schemes for North Wales

Transportation robotics company Superpedestrian is to deploy its AI-based safety system across its LINK e-scooter fleets, including those that are

The UK’s second-largest train operator has used National Apprenticeship Week to urge Generation X to consider applying to its ‘industry-leading’

South Western Railway (SWR) has contradicted a claim by the prime minister that its timetable will return to last December’s pre-Omicron levels in a

Scottish transport minister Jenny Gilruth has offered ‘a national conversation’ on the future of the country’s rail services as she confirmed the

The Scottish Government has said a new grant will help maintain bus services while passenger numbers recover from the effects of the pandemic

The Government’s announcement of new funding to improve bus services is in tatters after it emerged that no cash has been allocated, even to councils

The Department for Transport has said it ‘does not recognise’ a claim that the rail industry has been asked to deliver cuts of 10% over the next

Our intrepid deputy editor tries out an e-scooter, as part of a legal rental scheme in Nottingham

People under 22 living in Scotland can now travel free on the country’s buses, although only a small percentage of those eligible have the necessary

Rail infrastructure contractors have lambasted the Government for being two years late on the release of delivery strategies and questioned

Legal experts have called for a new Automated Vehicles Act to draw a clear distinction between genuine self-driving features and those that merely

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has appointed long-serving employee Andrew Hall as its next chief inspector of rail accidents

Ministers have agreed to a five-year pause on new smart motorway schemes following a Transport Select Committee enquiry into the controversial road

Councillors in Brent have voted to remove four low traffic neighbourhood schemes after significant opposition from residents

The Government’s Integrated Rail Plan (IRP) could leave train services in the North of England behind other regions for two centuries, Manchester’s

Scottish Government transport minister Graeme Dey has resigned ‘for health-related reasons’

Political leaders in the North of England remain hamstrung in their attempts to improve transport and cut carbon emissions as they lack the powers

Campaigners claim to have 'drawn a line in the sand' after a highway authority admitted it acted unlawfully when it decided to remove a popular cycle

A long-standing Tory commitment to have ‘fully self-driving cars’ on UK roads by last year has not been met, the Government has admitted

London must implement a pay per mile road charging system to achieve its targets for cutting toxic air and carbon emissions, according to a new

A new blueprint that ‘repositions’ the Scottish Government’s transport investment priorities could see new mass transit schemes for Glasgow,

Train services across England have been drastically cut back, with operators pleading necessity due to staff illnesses from the Omicron variant

Campaigners have challenged the Government’s decision to continue with work to convert a section of the M6 to all lane running (ALR), despite the

Strikes on two of London Underground’s Night Tube lines are continuing, with the RMT union and Transport for London (TfL), unable even to agree on

Ministers have announced that HS2 trains will be powered by zero carbon energy ‘from day one of operation’ as part of ambitions to make the project

The Government has published two key documents that aim to improve disabled people’s mobility and safety while travelling

London mayor Sadiq Khan, has warned that the capital ‘could move from one public health and economy crisis to another’ as City Hall put the cost of

Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed that penalty charges for driving and parking contraventions on its roads will increase from £130 to £160

With train firms across the UK once again cutting services, it has emerged that Network Rail is not currently attempting to restore the guarantee

East Midlands Railway has said it will increase the number of seats available at busy times during the weekend

Transport for London has banned privately-owned e-scooters from its network for safety reasons

The Department for Transport has appointed Gareth Davies, currently a director general within the department, as its new second permanent secretary

The Great British Railways Transition Team is inviting views from within and beyond the rail sector to inform the development of a 30-year whole

The Government has confirmed the release of £35m of Local Growth Fund cash for a park and ride scheme and walking, cycling and bus improvements on

More than 1,300 First Bus Glasgow drivers are set to receive pay rises of up to 21.5% after members of the Unite union accepted the company’s latest

Grant Shapps has announced an ‘interim extension’ of the current Transport for London (TfL) funding settlement after TfL went three weeks past its

Taxpayers forked out four-fifths of the £21bn cost of running Britain’s railways as fare revenue fell by £8.6bn from the previous year due to

Network Rail has awarded Siemens Mobility a contract worth £50m for the next stages of the signalling element to remodel a major junction on the West

The new Lismore ferry is expected to arrive at Port Appin this month, weather permitting

Electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure is struggling to keep up with rising sales, with more than a quarter of new cars currently being sold

Gloucestershire County Council has appointed Jason Humm to the role of director of transport and highways

The Scottish Government will struggle to return public transport service levels in the face of uncertain demand following the pandemic, transport

A new hierarchy of road users, where those who can do the greatest harm have the greatest responsibility, has been included in changes to the

Northern political leaders have written to the transport secretary to ‘propose a way forward’ on Northern Powerhouse Rail

Politicians and transport sector leaders have questioned the Government’s commitment to its ‘levelling up’ agenda in reaction to last week’s

A fixed transport link between Scotland and Northern Ireland will remain a pipe dream after analysis found that it could cost around 22 times Boris

Face coverings will be mandatory for most passengers on public transport in England from Tuesday as part of new measures in response to the

Electric cars will not solve issues of pollution and climate change or tackle the dominance of the vehicles on roads and footways, local government

Transport for London (TfL) has warned that London's transport assets, including bridges and tunnels, face closure due to the ongoing multi-billion

Transport for London has signed a new contract with construction business management consultant SECBE to deliver the Construction Logistics and

Transport secretary Grant Shapps has switched the focus of funding for contactless ticketing from the South East to the North, despite a Conservative

Local authorities need to capture the new enthusiasm within their communities for tackling climate change, the president of the council directors’

Buckinghamshire Council has issued High Court challenges against six decisions by the Planning Inspectorate in a dispute over lorry routes for HS2

Campaigners have accused the transport secretary of undermining his own decarbonisation pledges after it emerged that he secretly agreed to keep

Hitachi Rail, Angel Trains and TransPennine Express (TPE) have agreed ‘in principle’ to retrofit a battery to one of TPE’s hybrid trains for a trial

Greater Manchester has set out its ambition to become the first city-region with a carbon neutral transport network

Ministers appear set to ditch both the eastern leg of HS2 and a new Northern Powerhouse Rail line across the Pennines via Bradford

Tilbury Douglas has appointed Jamie Swanston as procurement and supply chain director

A cross-party committee of peers has called on ministers to set out a clear strategy for rail fare reform before Great British Railways (GBR) goes

South Western Railway (SWR) has praised its driver for helping prevent a more serious incident at Salisbury this week after it was revealed his train

Bristol will launch a clean air zone (CAZ) that charges private cars next summer, after several years of avoidance, delays and missed deadlines

Telematics technology firm Teletrac Navman has launched an interactive online dashboard that provides insights into the issues that influence road

Greater Manchester’s mayor and transport commissioner have written to the transport secretary seeking permission for a mass trial of zebra markings

The ‘new and improved’ Island Line on the Isle of Wight finally opened to passengers on Monday

The new passenger ferry for the island of Lismore is nearing completion and preparing for delivery in December

By the time passengers can travel the full length of the Elizabeth line, which remains uncertain, the Crossrail project will have cost around £19bn,

MPs have called on ministers to pause the rollout of all-lane running (ALR) ‘smart motorways’ until the safety and economic case for the schemes is

Road maintenance funding for councils not receiving settlements through combined authorities appears to be facing a cut of around £200m over three

The Welsh Government has dropped its support and funding for the Llanbedr Access Road scheme, which was seen as essential for the development of a

The Government’s integrated rail plan will be published ‘soon’, the chancellor has said as he announced cash for pay-as-you-go ticketing and the

The Government has announced the first 100 projects to share £1.7bn to upgrade local infrastructure through the first bidding round of the £4.8bn

The Scottish Government has given the go-ahead to a £63m electrification scheme to the south of Glasgow but a linked scheme will now only be single

The biggest impact of the Government’s Net Zero Strategy will be from the loss of tax revenues from fossil fuels, particularly as drivers adopt

The technology exists to deliver any system of road pricing that can be delivered politically, a transport policy expert has told MPs

Councillors in Oxfordshire have backed plans for widespread 20mph limits as part of an ‘ambitious and innovative’ new transport plan that aims to

As London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) sees a massive expansion, a think tank has called on mayor Sadiq Khan to go further and introduce a

Roads minister Baroness Vere delayed handing crucial reports on smart motorway schemes to MPs while her officials discussed with National Highways

Transport for London has appointed Sopra Steria to run the FORS fleet accreditation scheme in a deal worth £45m

Campaigners have accused the Scottish Government of ‘a brazen attempt to revive the failed policy of bus deregulation’ by ‘coercing’ local

The Unite union has called off a series of strikes by bus drivers in Greater Manchester after operator Stagecoach made an improved pay offer

Electric transportation firm Bird has announced new ‘smart sidewalk protection' technology which aims to prevent e-scooters and other micromobility

Transport Scotland has said it recognises the frustration of communities in the islands off its west coast over disruption to services run by the

Transport for London has released designs for a new permanent memorial to London's transport workers who have died from coronavirus

Scotland’s nationally-owned ferry service has bought a second hand ferry to boost resilience on the Clyde and Hebrides network

Sunderland’s e-scooter trial will continue into 2022 so that more data on usage can be gathered

The levelling up agenda ‘needs to move beyond rhetoric and on to delivery, requiring targets and metrics to enable Parliament and public to identify

A leading road safety charity has called on the Government ‘to make up its mind now’ to drive down injuries on UK roads caused by e-scooters

Police forces across the UK are carrying out the first ever National Safe Speeds Day to highlight the human cost of excessive speed and encourage

The Metropolitan Police have seized more than 2,500 private electric scooters since the beginning of this year, it has been disclosed as Camden

Protestors have again blocked part of the M25, in breach of the injunction granted by the High Court last week

Parliamentarians have called for a new Highways Act and significantly increasing funding to achieve the levels of active travel needed to support

The rail industry has launched a new, green version of the classic British Rail logo to promote rail’s environmental benefits, but the original

New travel statistics that show the impact of the pandemic and lockdowns, found that while people in England obviously travelled less often and less

The Department for Transport (DfT) has admitted overpaying Merseytravel by more than £45m in grants over 10 years

The first stretch of tram tracks has been installed outside Wolverhampton’s revitalised railway station as part of the metro extension in the city

SWARCO Smart Charging has appointed Tom Davies as strategic business development manager and has linked up with Solihull Council to help expand the

ITS (UK) will be an official partner for this year's Road Expo Scotland when it returns to the SEC, Glasgow Exhibition Centre in December

Cycling UK has won the right to challenge a council’s decision to remove a popular cycle lane after a High Court ruling refusing permission for a

The third ADEPT National Traffic Managers Conference will take place on Wednesday 13 October at the Welford Road Stadium, Leicester under the

A commuter group has called on ministers to ‘pause’ their flagship National Bus Strategy and urgently review the legislation behind it, describing

Greater Anglia has reintroduced some services that were cut because of the pandemic and added more new electric commuter trains to its fleet

The Scottish Government has approved a further £42m of support for bus operators, to run up to the end of March

Ministers have promised that the Government's National Disability Strategy will boost inclusivity across the entire transport network but the

The two new Tube stations making up the Northern Line Extension – the first major Tube extension this century – will open to the public later this

A new plan for the infrastructure sector, supported by industry and government, has highlighted the need for better use of data, respect for nature

HS2 Ltd has started a major project to restore the Grade 1 listed Old Curzon Street Station in Birmingham, one of the world's oldest surviving pieces

Rail passengers can now access customised real-time travel information for their journeys through WhatsApp

The operator of one of the biggest freight depots in Britain has been found guilty of failing to prevent unauthorised access to the depot after an

The Government has agreed to review the National Networks National Policy Statement, which governs the development of major projects on England’s

Transport for London (TfL) has published a revised budget for 2021/22, which it said closes the gap between costs and depleted income, but will still

MPs have warned of a potential ‘not spot lottery’ for electric vehicle charging and called for a clear policy framework to ensure that industry can

The launch of the Government’s ‘flexible season tickets’ backfired on Monday as it emerged that some users of existing carnet tickets will face price

The Welsh Government has confirmed plans to reduce the national default speed limit from 30mph to 20mph on residential roads and busy pedestrian

The Scottish Government is to provide a further £5.6m for Glasgow Subway and Edinburgh Trams in response to the ongoing financial impacts of the

Deaths on Britain’s roads fell by 16% last year but traffic levels were down 22%, meaning that fatality rates rose. The latest government figures

Network Rail has fitted sleepers made of recycled plastic to one of its main line tracks for the first time after an impending ban on creosote

Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has ‘put local taxi drivers first’ by adding them to a list of vehicle operators who will initially be exempt

The Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation has announced the election of Deborah Sims as its president for 2021/22

The UK came 31st out of 32 European countries in terms of progress in reducing road deaths over the past 10 years, new statistics have revealed

The Welsh Government is set to announce a freeze on new road-building projects, while a review of highway schemes across the country is carried out

The Scottish Green Party has not ruled out supporting a Scottish National Party (SNP) administration that continues with major roadbuilding plans

Women and men who have helped keep the transport network running during the pandemic have again been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours

Powers to enforce moving traffic offences will not be extended to local authorities in England outside London until the end of the year, a Department

The Scottish Government has approved additional funding of up to £35.4m to enable bus operators to maintain services

Transport for London and five London boroughs have launched the capital’s long-awaited e-scooter rental trial, although one participant withdrew from

Local authorities are fighting to keep on top of the maintenance needs of public rights of way alongside a backdrop of increased public expectations,

Birmingham’s Clean Air Zone finally went live on Monday, but with a two-week ‘soft launch period’ where no charges will be levied

Transport for London has slapped HGV operators with penalty charge notices worth nearly £4m since March under its Direct Vision Standard road safety

Tilbury Douglas has appointed Catherine Brookes as highways sector director for its infrastructure business

The Government and London mayor Sadiq Khan have agreed a new £1.08bn funding package to take Transport for London through to December but ministers

HS2 Ltd was 'dishonest, misleading and inconsistent' and failed to follow its own processes when negotiating compensation claims with a home owner,

Ministers have said that spaceports are expected to be in operation in the UK from next summer after laying regulations in Parliament that will mean

The Government’s new flexible season tickets could offer discounts as low as 10% compared to peak-time daily tickets and see commuters paying up to

Ministers have pledged to end a quarter of a century of fragmentation on the railways by bringing them under ‘single, accountable national

Ministers appear to be backing away from the idea of electrifying the whole Transpennine rail route, relying instead on bi-mode trains that run on

The Government has admitted that current guidance on new models of improving local bus services may not be compatible with its flagship National Bus

Amey Consulting has won a place on a £300m framework that will see a range of providers deliver technical and professional services across South East

The latest evaluation of an all lane running smart motorway scheme suggests that the increase in greenhouse gas emissions was nearly double what was

Capacity on public transport has been increased and social distancing relaxed from Monday to coincide with the easing of COVID-19 prevention measures

The Government and London mayor Sadiq Khan have agreed a 10-day extension on the current Transport for London (TfL) funding deal, which was due to

The rail regulator has said it will take action to improve competition in Great Britain's railway signalling market

Plans for a county-wide autonomous metro system for Cambridgeshire are set to be scrapped after the election of a new metro mayor for the region

Transport Network speaks to Christina Calderato, head of transport planning at Transport for London, about where its recently launched Direct Vision

Transport for the North chairman John Cridland is to retire in July and the sub-national transport body has now begun the process of appointing his

Ministers have attempted to distance themselves from the continued disruption to a couple of major long distance rail routes, following the discovery

HS2 Ltd has awarded a joint venture (JV) of Mace and Dragados a £570m contract to design and build the new Curzon Street high speed railway station

More than half a million ultra low emission vehicles are now on British roads, with nearly one in seven new cars sold this year having a charging

New data shows that traffic levels in Edinburgh and Glasgow have exceeded pre-pandemic levels, adding to fears about air quality following delays to

The complexity of the current structure of the rail industry in England makes it difficult for MPs and the public to understand where public money is

The re-opening of the Island Line railway on the Isle of Wight has been delayed to later this summer ‘due to challenges with the delivery of the new

Rail investigators have insisted their probe into last year’s fatal derailment at Carmont, near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire, will be ‘detailed and

Tyne and Wear Metro operator Nexus has been fined £1.5m following the death of an employee at its South Gosforth depot in 2014

Network Rail has been fined £696,666 after pleading guilty to an offence under the Health and Safety at Work Act, following a fire at an electrical

Plans to legally define vehicles with Automated Lane Keeping System technology as self-driving and allow them on British roads this year have been

A London highway authority has failed in a judicial review against ministers over the council’s ability to control construction traffic for HS2

Spending on smart motorways fails to deliver the economic benefits predicted because local road users take up the increased capacity, negating the

The UK’s sixth Carbon Budget will incorporate 'the UK’s share' of international aviation and shipping emissions for the first time, and bring the

Transport for the North has confirmed the appointment of Martin Tugwell as its next chief executive

Parts of the rail industry need an overhaul to adapt to 'the unpredictability of the times’, Network Rail has said after it emerged that one operator

The long-running dispute between the RMT union and South Western Railway (SWR) over the role of guards has ended after union members ‘voted

The island of Lismore will have a new ferry running to Port Appin by the end of this year after Argyll and Bute Council awarded a £500,000 contract

Transport secretary Grant Shapps has appointed Sir Jonathan Thompson as a non-executive director 'to represent the Government’s interests' on the

Drone technology developer sees.ai has become the first company in the UK to secure authorisation from the Civil Aviation Authority to trial a

New ‘flexible' rail season tickets for part-time commuters are set to offer much lower savings than full-time season tickets, with just a 15%

The aviation minister has refused to confirm that the country is ‘on track’ to restart international travel next month or to confirm that he will

Returning to a car-dominated transport network will put climate targets and a ‘fair’ economic recovery at risk, transport campaigners have warned

Balfour Beatty has said it anticipates strong growth in key markets, including transport infrastructure and services

Network Rail and its contractors have completed work over the winter to restore the world-renowned Ribblehead viaduct in North Yorkshire

The Institution of Civil Engineers has questioned whether Britain’s model of planning and prioritising – as led by the National infrastructure

Living Streets is urging London mayoral candidates to ‘put walking first’ to tackle illegal levels of air pollution

Transport for London has said it is looking to restore Night Tube services on some lines after its boss said the service could be out of action for a

A new industry-wide system is ‘set to transform’ the pre-qualification process within the construction industry, its backers have said

The transport watchdog has called on the Government and the rail industry to ‘be straight with passengers’ about the fact that social distancing may

The Government has launched a £120m fund to help local transport authorities in England roll out zero-emission buses

The estimated one-time cost to get local roads in England and Wales back into a ‘reasonable, steady state’ is £10.24bn, according to this year’s

The Government is to draw up a second Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy, having already fallen behind on the prime minister’s pledge of £2bn

Sunderland will begin an electric scooter rental trial on Wednesday, backed by accident prevention charity RoSPA

Transport secretary Grant Shapps has said he intends to delay publishing a progress report on smart motorway safety until ‘the summer’, despite

Labour has slammed ministers for ‘announcing then re-announcing the same funding under different names’ after the Government refused to disclose how

Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has confirmed that he plans to implement bus franchising in the city region ‘as part of plans for a joined-up

An independent report into the procurement of highways-related services at Liverpool City Council has called for the highways service to be

Merseyrail has installed contactless platform validators for electronic ‘smart cards’ at the majority of its stations but the roll-out of flexible

The Scottish Government has announced that ScotRail services will come under its ownership from the expiry of the current franchise next year

The RMT has said it is set for a nationwide rail dispute with Network Rail in response to the ‘threat of thousands of rail worker redundancies and a

David Lowery has taken over as managing director of Galliford Try’s Highways business, after Duncan Elliott brought forward his departure

The Welsh Government has announced an extra £12m for local authorities to 'fix potholes and improve roads, pavements and active travel routes' across

Central government cash for buses in England outside London could exceed the £3bn pledged in the Government’s new Bus Strategy, it has emerged

Coventry is set to become the UK’s first All Electric Bus City after the West Midlands Combined Authority backed the project

Network Rail has said extra safety spending to address the recommendations of a major report into the Stonehaven train derailment, which killed three

Transport secretary Grant Shapps and London mayor Sadiq Khan have agreed that central government emergency funding for Transport for London will

The deaths of some of the 51 London bus drivers who died from coronavirus could have been saved if the Government had ordered last year’s first

Uber’s announcement that it will now treat all of its 70,000 UK drivers as workers, with ‘at least’ the minimum wage and holiday and pension rights

In the first of a series of case studies, Transport Network looks at Suffolk County Council’s Live Labs project, which has used sensor technology in

Senior councillors in a London borough are to meet without the relevant lead member to discuss the possible reinstatement of controversial cycle

County councils have welcomed the Government’s National Bus Strategy for England, which they said, ‘puts councils in the driving seat of reforms’

Bath and North East Somerset Council has launched the UK’s first Clean Air Zone (CAZ) outside of London as neighbour Bristol is finally forced to

The Government has given Network Rail £137m to design and deliver the long-delayed upgrade to the Hope Valley line between Sheffield and Manchester

A national cycling charity has accused the Government of hiding evidence from Parliament by suppressing a report that shows more money is needed to

The Government has released controversial proposals for boosting transport connectivity ‘across and between the whole of the UK', including air duty

Transport for London (TfL) and Siemens Mobility have unveiled the detailed design of the new trains for the Piccadilly Line, which they said will

London mayor Sadiq Khan and Transport for London have announced that construction work on four ‘trial’ cycling infrastructure projects will start

Thousands of children are exposed to dangerous levels of air pollution because their schools are located close to major roads, campaigners have

Only half of the cameras capable of enforcing violations of lane closures on smart motorways are fully operational, a year and a half after a change

Campaigners have criticised the chancellor’s decision to maintain the freeze in fuel duty, with the bus industry accusing him of putting ‘the prime

London mayor Sadiq Khan has called on a borough council to reinstate protected cycle lanes on a main road after research found that a majority of

Transport for London (TfL) has installed new ‘green woman’ traffic signals at more than 20 pedestrian crossings across the capital to celebrate the

The new National Infrastructure Bank will be based in Leeds, the chancellor revealed alongside other Budget announcements badged under the

The transport user watchdog has repeated its call for more flexible rail ticketing as passengers were hit by an above inflation rise in regulated

A cycling charity is taking legal action against a council’s decision to scrap a pop-up cycle lane introduced during lockdown

More than 10,000 people have signed an online petition objecting to Highways England’s plans to infill or demolish more than 100 disused railway

London’s new Direct Vision Standard (DVS) for HGVs has come into force, aimed at tackling the issue of drivers' blind spots by employing safety

Transport for London (TfL) has started work on a ‘trial upgrade’ of a stretch of cycle route in south London but has still not addressed the issues

Ministers have pledged to roll out ‘new and innovative’ ways of working across rail upgrade schemes, eight months after the prime minister announced

The number of journeys being made by public transport in Scotland fell before the pandemic while vehicle ownership and use reached record levels,

A leading environmental campaigner has questioned the benefits of introducing what ministers have called an ‘eco-friendly’ petrol, arguing that a

Transport for London (TfL) has said a planned replacement ferry service for the closed Hammersmith Bridge is unlikely to begin operating before the

Regulator the Office of Rail and Road has confirmed John Larkinson as its permanent chief executive officer, following a public competition and the

Sub-national transport body England’s Economic Heartland has published an ‘ambitious’ transport strategy which ‘sets out how the region’s transport

The chief inspector of rail accidents has called for a rethink on the provision of tactile strips following the death of a visually impaired

Rail campaigners are calling for a new type of flexible season ticket that will give part-time commuters the level of discount offered by weekly

New concerns have been raised over the safety of ‘smart motorway’ schemes after it emerged that deaths on such roads reached their highest ever level

Stevenage Borough Council has appointed Willmott Dixon for an £8m project to build a new bus interchange as part of the town’s 20-year £1bn

The Department for Transport has described moves that could see it take over struggling rail franchises as ‘contingency planning to protect vital

Regulated fares on rail services run by the Welsh government will rise by 2.6% next month to help ‘keep fares simple for people travelling between

Network Rail has said it does not have the funds to electrify two new stretches of the Transpennine Route, despite a promise from ministers last year

The West Midlands Combined Authority has given the green light for the new £24m Dudley Interchange

Construction work at the new Tottenham Court Road Elizabeth line station is ‘sufficiently finished for final commissioning activities to start’,

County councils have said they will have ‘no choice’ but to cancel high priority highway maintenance works next year after the Government announced

The Government has launched a consultation on ways to improve the consumer experience for electric vehicle drivers at public chargepoints

A £19m package of cycling schemes in Cornwall risks going significantly over budget and missing what is already a revised delivery date, auditors

Transport Scotland has selected Unicard’s central back-office solution to manage both commercial journeys and the Scottish National Concessionary

The High Court has overturned London mayor Sadiq Khan’s Streetspace for London Plan, which was introduced in May last year in response to the

The transport secretary has admitted that it was ‘entirely wrong’ to roll out all lane running ‘smart motorways’ without the stopped vehicle

The first of 270 trains in Govia Thameslink Railway’s (GTR) £55m fleet modernisation programme has entered service with new features designed to

Transport secretary Grant Shapps has confirmed £93m for three major road upgrade schemes across the country, including schemes funded as part of the

Glasgow and Edinburgh could get new mass transit systems under the first part of the Scottish Government’s blueprint for strategic transport links

Jacobs has developed a Travel Service Optimization tool, which it said would transform the home-to-school travel experience for children and young

Part-time commuters are set to be denied similar discounts to full-time season tickets because of fears that this could undermine a key revenue

Brittany Ferries has announced three new weekly freight-only sailings between Ireland and France, aimed at hauliers seeking to bypass the UK 'due to

Bristol City Council has named Arcadis as its new strategic partner to aid the delivery of new infrastructure, homes and regeneration across the city

The UK needs to install public electric vehicle chargepoints five times faster than the current rate and spend up to eight times more, or £10bn by

Herefordshire County Council has scrapped plans for two major roadbuilding schemes near the city of Hereford, citing the climate emergency and the

The number of substandard road bridges managed by councils across Great Britain is increasing, new research shows

Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has welcomed 'a significant moment for the city-region’s long-term vision for rail' as its transport body began

A new consortium has been launched to support and protect the future of drones and unmanned aircraft systems

Aberdeen has claimed a world first after a fleet of double-decker hydrogen buses officially launched into service on Thursday (28 January)

The Scottish Government is facing calls to adapt its approach to the Bellwin emergency scheme to help cash strapped councils hit by extreme weather

Councils are issuing fines worth an average of £850,000 a year for parking offences, with one raking in more than £10m, according to new research

Greater Manchester and Birmingham are progressing plans to introduce clean air zones despite hopes that the pandemic might cut levels of pollution

Transport for West Midlands managing director Laura Shoaf is the new chair of the Urban Transport Group

Environment Agency inspections found that more than 3,400 vital flood defence assets across England were in poor condition last year

Transport for London has secured planning permission for a new development that it said will deliver 852 new homes for rent and sale, including 50%

Government policies to reduce drink driving will lack credibility if they fail to cut the legal limit in England and Wales, a key transport safety

The transport secretary has insisted that the allocation of three quarters of billion pounds towards a rail scheme in the South is part of the

Homes have been evacuated in Northern England and Wales and transport disrupted after storm Christoph caused severe flooding

Transport for London (TfL) has made a pitch for £3.1bn government funding for the next financial year as it published details of fare rises and cuts

International train operator Eurostar has warned that its survival is at risk without further financial support from the Government

The Welsh Government has set up a dedicated 'Development Unit' to take forward the recommendations of the South East Wales Transport Commission after

The widow of a man killed on a smart motorway has thanked the coroner who described such schemes as presenting ‘an ongoing risk of future deaths’ and

The chief executive of Transport for the North has warned that government cuts to its funding will cause a ‘significant scaling back’ of its work,

Transport for London has unveiled a new online tool that it said will enable organisations and the public to see the level of road casualties in the

UPDATE:All travel corridors to the UK were closed from 4am Monday (18 January) meaning any passengers travelling to the country must obtain a

Local government directors are asking councils across England for more information about the pressures on public rights of way due to increased use

TRL will this year launch a new academic service to support organisations in the new aspects of the transition to zero-carbon transport

Rail services across Great Britain are set to be cut to around 72% of pre-pandemic levels

The Department for Transport has published examples of new signs to guide traffic to COVID-19 vaccination centres in support of the national

Bus services in Wrexham, North Wales have been severely disrupted after 28 drivers tested positive for COVID-19

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority has selected three firms to develop ‘bold, innovative conceptual designs’ to help inform and

Transport for the North (TfN) is to reconvene its contingency planning group to help ‘tailor and protect’ rail services for essential users as demand

Transport secretary Grant Shapps has announced that from ‘next week’ passengers travelling from all international destinations will be required to

Ministers are considering new measures to prevent new cases of COVID-19 being imported into the UK, including pre-departure testing for people

GeoPlace has published guidance for local authority officers in England and Wales who are responsible for naming and renaming streets and buildings

Essential workers risk losing hundreds of pounds on rail season tickets because the Government has failed to progress industry proposals for flexible

Rail services could be cut by half to hit levels seen during the first lockdown as the latest restrictions again significantly cut passenger demand

Bus operators running local services in England must publish timetables, fares and location data by 7 January, after which they could face legal

A landmark judgement has determined that exposure to excessive air pollution, mainly from traffic emissions, contributed to the death of a

New car registrations fell by 30% in 2020, but it was ‘a bumper year’ for battery and plug-in hybrid electric cars

The extension of the London Underground Northern Line has passed a major milestone after passenger trains successfully completed the journey through

The prime minister has announced a new national lockdown for England, re-instating the ‘stay at home’ instruction with limited exceptions

Transport authorities have launched what they called ‘the most sophisticated tool currently available’ for modelling bus use in city regions

The Supreme Court has ruled that ministers were entitled to back the expansion of Heathrow Airport, overturning a Court of Appeal decision earlier

Ministers have announced an above-inflation rise in regulated rail fares from March as they seek to recoup some of the cost of running services with

Rail accident investigators have criticised Network Rail after a near miss at a level crossing placed car drivers and train passengers in ‘deadly’

Ministers have asked the council responsible for Hammersmith Bridge to pay £64m towards its restoration, it has been reported

RAC Foundation director Steve Gooding will be the president of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK for 2021

Ministers should not 'lose momentum' over the legalisation of electric scooters on UK roads, MPs have said

London mayor Sadiq Khan has threatened to introduce a charge of £3.50 a day for drivers coming into the capital if ministers do not 'play fair' over

Midlands transport bosses have reacted with dismay to a report that suggests that HS2 could be scaled back to pay for Northern Powerhouse Rail

Local and regional leaders representing around a third of the population of England and Scotland have committed to going ‘further and faster’ than

Claire Mann has been appointed managing director of South Western Railway (SWR) with current MD Mark Hopwood returning to sister company GWR

Labour-controlled unitary authorities in England are more likely to implement Conservative government policy supporting cycling, new research has

A coalition of campaigners has taken the first step towards a legal challenge against the Government’s plan to build a tunnel at Stonehenge

Ministers have admitted that the cash available for enhancements to the rail network during the current five-year period will be £1bn lower than

The Government’s pledge to go ‘further and faster to tackle climate change’ has taken a blow after the Department for Transport (DfT) admitted its

Smart cards are still not universally interoperable across the rail network and a limited number of tickets are available in the format, despite a

The Government has admitted it has limited scope to postpone rail upgrades over Christmas, despite pledging 'to try to ease journeys' during the

The Northern Ireland Executive has ordered 145 new zero and low emission buses from local supplier Wrightbus

Kensington and Chelsea council is to remove a temporary cycle lane after bowing to pressure from local businesses

The Department for Transport (DfT) has said that it will not provide any more money for the stalled Crossrail project, despite a claim in this week’s

The Government has denied that ‘levelling up’ the rest of the UK means ‘levelling London down' as it published the long-awaited National

The Welsh Government has published its new draft Transport Strategy, which pledges a major reduction in carbon emissions from the country’s transport

The chancellor has used the Spending Review to confirm billions of pounds for public transport, low emission vehicles and active travel, including

Transport technology experts have urged ministers to ‘pick up and run with’ the findings of a new report that calls for a step change in work to

The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) has launched an online dashboard that provides information about crashes in each MP’s

Transport for London has threatened to mothball Crossrail if ministers do not agree another bailout, according to reports

Charlie Hodgson has taken over as managing director of WSP’s UK Transport & Infrastructure (T&I) business from Steve Smith, who has retired after

More than a quarter of male drivers admit having driven above 100mph, according to new research published to mark Road Safety Week 2020

Network Rail has been fined £10,000 for allowing trains to travel at more than 100mph over a badly storm-damaged viaduct

Transport secretary Grant Shapps has announced councils' allocations for the £175m second tranche of the Active Travel Fund

The chancellor is reportedly considering introducing road pricing to address a tax shortfall of up to £40bn that is expected to arise as drivers

The first of 27 new Metrolink trams has arrived in Manchester after a 1,800km journey across Europe

The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced an overhaul of land and property acquisition for HS2, which it said will deliver ‘a fairer deal for

South Western Railway faces prosecution if it fails to ensure that people using wheelchairs can board and alight at one of its Hampshire stations

Transport for London and London’s boroughs have launched a competition to select up to three operators for a twelve-month trial of rental electric

The rail regulator has opened a new market study into the supply of rail signalling systems

As news of a potential COVID vaccine broke, the government also announced further details of its new ‘test to release’ programme to reduce the period

Ministers are taking forward plans to allow longer lorries on UK roads, despite two deaths involving the vehicles last year

The ADEPT SMART Places Live Labs programme has identified four ‘stretch’ aspirations for the next year, with the importance of communications at the

Transport professionals have called for sustainable transport to be at the heart of the planning system through local targets, ‘rather than an

The squabble between ministers and London’s City Hall over Hammersmith Bridge has continued, with the Government claiming to have ‘required’

Capital expenditure by local authorities in England totalled £26.3bn in 2019-20, with highways and transport leading the way at £7.5bn

Vodafone is to deploy and build a 4G and 5G mobile private network at HORIBA MIRA’s Midlands headquarters

West Sussex County Council is set to remove pop-up cycle lanes just as England enters a new lockdown, arguing that they are no longer needed with

The Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) has released road safety audit guidance

Wales now has electrified rail track for the first time in 60 years but the amount of diesel used for both passenger and freight trains on Britain’s

TIER has committed to adding sound to its e-scooters to alert blind and partially sighted people that they are approaching

Around one in four rail journeys still involves at least one station that does not have step-free access, the Government has admitted

Surrey County Council is to convert all of its 89,000 street lights to LEDs over the next three years at a cost of £20m

Grant Shapps has announced that £13m major road network (MRN) cash will be released for upgrades to the A595 at Grizebeck, Cumbria – two years after

The UK’s first stainless steel road bridge has officially opened – nearly five years after its predecessor was swept away in a storm

Former Transport for London commissioner Mike Brown has been awarded a CBE in the delayed Queen’s Birthday Honours, which have seen transport workers

Transport secretary Grant Shapps has tried to backtrack over an assertion by a junior minister that the Government ‘would not approve any proposals

Three quarters of a million young people could benefit from a Scottish Government proposal to extend free bus travel to residents under 19

Ministers have announced up to £67.8m of new funding to keep tram services running in the North and Midlands – with no new cash for London

Researchers and insurers have urged ministers to rethink a plan to introduce self-driving technology onto UK roads early next year ‘because it will

The Welsh Government is to bring the Wales and Borders rail franchise under public control, ‘in the face of dramatic falls in passenger numbers’

The Government has confirmed that all HGVs using the Short Straits channel crossings will need a permit to enter Kent

Two more government-approved e-scooter rental trials are underway

The proportion of rail passengers claiming compensation for delayed journeys has risen but is still less than half of all those eligible, according

HS2 Ltd has published new designs for two viaducts in Northamptonshire, with a strong emphasis on their aesthetic appeal and environmental impact

The Construction Leadership Council has published guidance for companies in the sector on how to manage the movement of people and workers into the

Ministers have awarded Arriva a new contract to run CrossCountry rail services for three more years ‘as the future direction of rail reform takes

Ministers have announced that a much-delayed £17m scheme to upgrade freight services around Southampton will go ahead

The Government has signed agreements valued at £78m with four 'experienced' ferry operators to mitigate the risk of disruption ‘as the UK and EU

Ministers have agreed to extend Transport for London’s (TfL) emergency funding for a further two weeks amid claims that they are pressing City Hall

Grant Shapps has continued his attempts to mollify motorists over the impact of new measures to boost active travel with a letter to local

Bath and North East Somerset Council is set to extend 20mph limits to some of the main routes in and out of Bath for the first time

Network Rail will ‘refine’ plans to improve resilience along a 1.8km stretch of railway in the South West after more than half of respondents to a

There is no sign of a promised process for approving advanced trials of autonomous vehicles, nearly three years after ministers pledged to ‘make

The Scottish Government has approved new spending of up to £52.6m to help bus operators maintain services during the pandemic

A new research project aims to help cities harness the latest autonomous vehicle (AV) technologies and incorporate them into a complex urban

Authorities in Scotland will spend more than £16m to reinstate Scotland’s only funicular railway, as part of a £20.5m package to make Cairn Gorm a

The Aberdeenshire town of Kintore will this week see the return of rail services after an absence of almost 60 years

Leeds City Council is set to scrap its Clean Air Zone (CAZ) plans after businesses switched to cleaner vehicles in anticipation, and could repurpose

The AA has accused some councils in England of doing ‘next to nothing’ by way of maintenance on their road network

Transport for London (TfL) has apologised after it posted a tweet calling passengers who do not wear face coverings ‘selfish’, without acknowledging

Failing to build HS2 in full could add up to £13bn to the cost of Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) and undermine the business case for the regional

Ministers have come under fire after council-owned Manchester Airports Group announced plans for nearly 900 job losses, citing the end of the

The £23m ADEPT SMART Places Live Labs Programme has published the first of a series of White Papers with an invitation to other sectors to share in

The Unite union has said it will to escalate its campaign for stricter safety measures on London buses after it emerged that one of its members died

Heathrow Airport has begun a Supreme Court appeal against a ruling earlier this year that the Government’s support for a third runway was unlawful

Active travel charity Sustrans Cymru has appointed Christine Boston as its new director

The Campaign for Better Transport (CfBT) has appointed Paul Tuohy as its new chief executive

Transport for the North has welcomed new plans for the integration of HS2 with the proposed Northern Powerhouse Rail network but warned that the

The Government's top infrastrucure adviser has called on ministers to speed up the devolution of funding and powers to city leaders so they can

New statistics have confirmed that the number of deaths on British roads continued to flatline at the end of the last decade, although the number of

Local authority leaders in the Midlands have called on ministers to provide £20m for a regional smart ticketing platform

Network Rail has published a new Environmental Sustainability Strategy, setting out a vision ‘to serve the nation with the cleanest, greenest mass

MPs have given qualified backing to the legalisation of electric scooters, including privately owned ones, but warned that this should not be to the

Uber has won its appeal to be allowed to operate in London despite its 'historical failings'

HS2 Ltd has come under fire for removing a large tree in central London as part of preparation work for the high speed rail line’s southern terminus

Four train firms have launched a new pilot in London with British Transport Police (BTP) ‘to further encourage people to wear face coverings’, backed

The body that represents the rail industry has announced a new chair and a new structure, with the organisation's functions split under a chief

Renowned civil engineer Lord Robert Mair CBE has been lined up as chair of the delivery company for the Cambridgeshire Autonomous Metro (CAM)

Slough Borough Council and Neuron Mobility have announced a new e-scooter trial, starting next month

The rail regulator has announced new safeguarding measures to improve the reliability of passenger requests for assistance

The Welsh Government transport minister has criticised his Westminster counterpart over a claim that the country’s rail network was to benefit from

The United Nations has backed the use of 30km/h (approx 20mph) limits as part of a worldwide drive to cut road deaths and injuries by half

The Welsh Government has announced a further £84.6m for the country’s bus industry, which it said will help companies ‘meet the challenges of

Staffordshire County Council and Amey have partnered with two electric scooter providers to launch micromobility trials as part of the ADEPT Smart

Regional transport bosses have backed ministers’ plan to stabilize and reform the rail industry but called for more decentralisation and devolution

A senior Tory MP has slammed ministers for a lack of detail over what will replace the current system of rail franchising

Trials of an autonomous passenger shuttle in Cambridge have been scaled back and will no longer seek to use the city’s controversial guided busway

A senior rail executive has warned that Britain ‘stands on the precipice of a car-led recovery’ from the pandemic

London mayor Sadiq Khan has made a new pitch for government funding for the capital’s cash strapped transport services, warning that jobs across the

Ministers have ‘ended’ rail franchising after 24 years but placed existing operators onto transitional contracts while they work out exactly what to

Croydon Council is pressing ahead with low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs), undeterred by criticism from a neighbouring authority

A new report has called for an investment package of £1.2bn to improve the safety of more than 5,000km of roads and prevent more than 8,000 fatal and

A metro mayor of has claimed a quick victory over cuts to rail services in his area but warned the train operator that ‘the jury’s out’ on whether it

Bus ridership in Scotland has fallen to its lowest modal share since comparable records began

The rail regulator has called on train operating companies (TOCs) to ensure that rail replacement vehicles are more suitable for people with physical

Wandsworth Council has suspended its Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) trials over ‘concerns with emergency access and traffic flows’

Govia Thameslink Railway and leasing company Porterbrook have announced a five-year, £55m programme to modernise 270 trains in the operator’s fleet

Welsh ministers have called on the UK Government to ‘play its part’ in delivering improvements to the country’s railway network

Council place directors have backed the legalisation of e-scooters but said there are a number of questions that need to be answered

Highways England is trialling 60mph speed limits on short sections of its network to bring air pollution within legal limits

Amid calls for the rail industry to offer new products for part-time commuters, another train operating company (TOC) has launched a carnet-style

Transport planning professionals and campaigners have launched a poster competition for primary school children to promote environmentally friendly

MPs have criticised ministers for not taking action over British Airways’ controversial employment practices and described the Government’s

The rail regulator has said its insistence on better passenger information has prompted industry to develop a new strategy overseen by a new

The central section of Crossrail will not be fully open until ‘the first half of 2022’ and the project has gone further over budget, the company

Gatwick Airport made a loss of £321m in the first six months of 2020, with a 66% fall in passenger numbers and a consequent 61% fall in revenue

Transport secretary Grant Shapps has come under fire after claiming that local authorities were ‘abusing’ cash for improving road layouts for

A new social-distancing app is ready for industry-wide deployment after a successful pilot with Network Rail, its developers have said

People arriving in England from Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Jamaica after 4am Saturday (29 August) will need to self-isolate for two weeks

Transport secretary Grant Shapps has launched what his department called a first-of-its-kind audit into the mapping of potholes in England ‘to better

The Department for Transport has published a consultation setting out three options to tackle the issue of pavement parking

VolkerHighways has been awarded a street lighting contract with Medway Council, worth over £9m, that will see thousands of energy efficient lights

Fatalities on the strategic road network (SRN) have fallen to a level last seen in 2014, new statistics suggest

Former Crossrail chief executive Simon Wright OBE has been appointed to support the development of the Cambridgeshire Autonomous Metro

South Western Railway has announced the name for its new £1bn fleet of trains but has given no firm date for their introduction on its network

Rail firms are promising to increase services ‘close to pre-pandemic levels’ next month

British micromobility provider Beryl has said it will be the world’s first provider of a city-wide multimodal fleet of pedal bikes, e-bikes and

Berlin-based e-scooter company TIER has unveiled what it called ‘the most advanced scooter yet to hit the streets’

The Scottish Government has cut its match funding requirement for permanent active travel infrastructure after giving councils nearly £39m for pop-up

Highways England chief executive Jim O’Sullivan is to stand down early next year

After a torrid period for the Government, ministers have delayed the much-expected confirmation that they will allow rail firms to increase regulated

The transport secretary has appointed Darren Shirley to lead the Department for Transport’s new Acceleration Unit

Councils in London and Cardiff made £58.2m from moving traffic offences in 2018/19, according to the RAC

The Government has launched a call for evidence on the possible introduction of Automated Lane Keeping System on UK motorways

Network Rail has pledged to work around the clock to repair flood damage on the main Edinburgh-Glasgow line, but warned passengers that it could take

The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has set up a dedicated Brexit Working Group as the clock ticks towards a possible no deal exit from the

Heavy rainfall has caused disruption and damage on roads across Scotland

The passenger watchdog has joined calls for rail passengers to be offered better value for money fares to get them back on trains

COVID-19 will not result in a drastic shift for infrastructure, but to lead the recovery the sector needs a long-term green strategy, with investment

Leeds City Council could scrap its planned Clean Air Zone if levels of toxic air pollution remain within legal limits

An initial investigation into the fatal train derailment in Aberdeenshire has confirmed that the train struck a landslip, having turned back after

London City Airport has announced a ‘temporary pause’ to its development programme while Ryanair has cut capacity in the autumn by nearly a fifth

The Welsh Government has withdrawn its message that public transport in the country was restricted to essential travel by key workers and people with

Hammersmith Bridge in West London is now closed to pedestrians, cyclists and river traffic after engineers discovered ‘a sudden deterioration in key

The Government has removed six destinations, including France and the Netherlands, from its list of 'travel corridors'

Network Rail's chief executive has vowed to ‘understand the cause and put immediate additional safety measures in place’ following Wednesday’s

Highways England has met its reduced target for the delivery of major schemes but must do more to improve safety on its network, the strategic roads

The Welsh Government has announced an additional £10m to help the country’s bus industry

National Standards Body BSI has published the first taxonomy for specifying the conditions in which an automated vehicle has been designed to

The condition of Transport for London’s major structures could be at risk as the cash-strapped authority considers the future of its Surface

Train companies have called for a shake-up in transport tax policy that would see taxes on air travel rise to make long-distance rail fares cheaper

Contractors working for HS2 Ltd have installed a 65-metre road bridge across the M42 in Solihull in just two days

Transport for London has awarded Capita an extension to its contracts to manage London’s Congestion Charge, Low Emission Zone and the Ultra Low

Ministers are giving bus and tram services in England outside London up to £256m to help them ramp up services ahead of expected increases in public

A leading think tank has called on transport authorities to help city centres bounce back by allowing flexible part-time season tickets for those who

New official statistics have highlighted the challenge facing ministers in increasing active travel, with the distance people in England walked and

The Foundation for Integrated Transport (FIT) has appointed Professor Phil Goodwin and Professor John Whitelegg as its first two Senior Fellows

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority has agreed to form an arm’s length body to take forward the delivery of the Cambridgeshire

A major motor insurance firm has compared local transport plans across the UK to understand the future of the city after COVID-19

Ministers have announced the 300 schemes that will receive a share of the £900m Getting Building Fund and confirmed £360m for mayoral combined

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reclassified train companies operating under emergency measures agreements (EMAs) as part of the public

Ministers have hailed the early delivery of a new platform at rail Stevenage station, which was originally due to be delivered in 2018

The San Giorgio bridge in Genoa is set to open just 15 months from the start of construction work and less than two years since its predecessor, the

Transport for London has hailed ‘a successful decade of cycle hire in the capital’, ten years on from the launch of the flagship scheme officially

The Department for Transport (DfT) has ‘confirmed’ £589m to ‘kickstart’ work on the Transpennine main line through Huddersfield, which is the first

The battle over how much taxpayer cash the rail industry will get from September has sharpened, with train operating companies (TOCs) facing cuts

England's Economic Heartland (EEH) has launched a new strategy to enable the region's transport system to underpin a green recovery from COVID-19

The Welsh Government has announced £38m ‘to make Wales a safer place to cycle, scoot and walk’

A transport minister has described e-scooters as an ‘active’ form of travel, despite fears that their introduction could see a reduction in walking

A major rail operator plans to bring in a season ticket giving passengers cut-priced travel three days a week, to reflect changed working patterns

The next physical Cold Comfort Scotland event will now take place on 22 April 2021 with its place in the calendar this September filled by a new

Rail firms have raised the prospect of the industry being renationalised as they battle for more public cash in the face of huge drops in passenger

Network Rail’s plans to increase resilience are not keeping up with severe weather events, the rail regulator has said

Ministers have announced a ban on tyres aged 10 years and older on lorries, buses and coaches on roads in England, Scotland and Wales

Transport authorities in the West Midlands are aiming to begin a trial of rental e-scooters next month

Siemens Mobility is to supply ‘a broad range’ of intelligent infrastructure solutions for the City of Edinburgh Council’s Trams to Newhaven project

Local bus company Warrington’s Own Buses is said to have become the first bus company in the world to install air cleaning devices across its entire

Midlands Connect has submitted plans to the Government for a scheme that it says will give more than two million people access to new direct rail

The South East of England has won the largest chunk of a £900m cash pot for ‘shovel ready’ projects aimed at giving the economy a quick boost as part

Transport for the North and rail operator Northern have launched the region’s first ‘flexi season ticket’, which offers a 10% discount on an anytime

Transport for the North has appointed Jeremy Acklam as the new director for its struggling Integrated and Smart Travel (IST) programme

Scottish ministers have urged residents and businesses to ‘grasp a chance to change the daily commute for good’ as the country begins to re-open

Campaigners have called on ministers to accelerate the shift to sustainable transport by introducing new charges for drivers and improving public

The rail industry has published a Safer Travel Pledge to coincide with the return of workers to many sectors but is still asking people to use public

The Welsh Government has announced a further bailout for the bus industry that it says will ‘rescue’ operators but also lead to public sector funders

A leading sub-national transport body has expressed disappointment at the lack of new infrastructure spending in the chancellor’s economic statement

Politicians and transport operators have given a cautious welcome to the prime minister’s announcement that guidance advising people to keep two

The UK Government has published a list of 59 places from which people can arrive in England without having to self-isolate for 14 days

The Central London Congestion Charge has increased to £15 per day from Monday

ADEPT stalwart Mike Ashworth is to retire as executive director for economy, transport and environment at Derbyshire County Council

MPs have described British Airways’ plans to make at least 12,000 staff redundant, despite taking Government furlough money, as ‘a national disgrace’

The Welsh Government has announced nearly £17m in transport grants, with £5m of the cash to be spent on repairing damage from storms earlier this

North Yorkshire County Council’s newly-formed highways company has appointed Ross Bullerwell as its managing director

Council place directors have written to central government to highlight the role of local authorities in a ‘clean, inclusive and sustainable’

New rules requiring public transport users in England to wear face coverings came into force on Monday, backed by £100 fines, but the scope for

A number of rail operators have reintroduced rail services cut as a result of the pandemic but have warned of limited capacity under social

Two rail operators have announced the trial of a powerful sanitising treatment that is said to kill 99.99% of viruses and bacteria on surfaces for

Transport secretary Grant Shapps has announceed that 'green' number plates for electric vehicles will be rolled out across the UK from the autumn

Council directors have called on ministers to ensure that clean growth is at the heart of post COVID-19 recovery and renewal

Engineering professional services consultancy WSP has developed new user guidance for the updated Active Mode Appraisal Toolkit on behalf of the

More than 500 coach travel operators have written to the chancellor to warn that without urgent support many of their businesses will go under as a

The UK’s three largest airlines have threatened legal action over new quarantine measures for passengers arriving in the UK, which came into force on

The RMT has written to transport secretary Grant Shapps to warn that the introduction of compulsory face masks on public transport from next week

A bus firm in Sussex has announced extra early morning services for hospital workers dealing with the coronavirus outbreak

The Department for Transport (DfT) has admitted that net zero carbon cannot be achieved without major interventions in the transport sector

Telensa has announced a partnership with Yotta to bring together its PLANet Central Management System with Yotta’s Alloy platform

Chris Ames looks at the whether HS2 will help the UK cut carbon emissions anytime soon

The Gatwick Express rail service will be suspended indefinitely, as part of further cuts announced by the country’s biggest rail franchise

Highways England has shortlisted three ‘international joint ventures’ to go through to the next stage of the procurement process for the £1.7bn

With the headlines dominated by coronavirus, not least on this website, Transport Network again brings you a brief selection of good news stories. As

The trade body for bus and coach operators has given a cautious welcome to the Government’s measures to support jobs but said it is seeking

The Government is suspending rail franchise agreements for six months and asking existing operators to run services under management contracts

Rail firms across Britain have cut services with frequencies likely to be cut further, but services could be ramped up again if needed to maintain

Northern Ireland’s public transport operator, Translink, has announced details of service cuts from Monday (23 March) in response to the COVID-19

The Government has announced a ‘gradual reduction’ in train services across the country from Monday in line with passenger demand but pledged to keep

Transport operators in Scotland are planning significant cuts to services as the coronavirus outbreak affects both demand and staffing

The Coronavirus Bill has been published, putting many of the measures announced by ministers to tackle the outbreak on a statutory footing

The head of the body representing the bus and coach industry has warned that the closure of UK schools from tomorrow could put coach firms out of

London’s Transport Commissioner, Mike Brown MVO, is to delay his departure for a number of months to continue to lead Transport for London (TfL)

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The GMB union has called on the Government to step in after British Airways (BA) issued a consultation notice for redundancies without specifying the

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The Government has postponed changes to the IR35 tax rules for a year in response to the coronavirus pandemic

We regret to announce that the winter service conferences Cold Comfort and Cold Comfort Scotland have been postponed, and new dates will be confirmed

The Government has advised with immediate effect against all non-essential international travel for at least a month

A transport union leader has urged the Government to immediately set up a ‘Ministry of Supply’ in the battle against Coronavirus

Bus and coach operators have called on the Government to provide £1bn in emergency support to keep networks functioning for people making essential

Highways England is significantly off track against its key 2015-2020 road safety target, according to data obtained by Transport Network

The Government has published new travel advice in response to the coronavirus pandemic advising against all but essential travel to some destinations

Transport secretary Grant Shapps has hinted that ministers will be sympathetic to pleas for financial help that could run into billions of pounds

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced more than £27bn will now be spent under the second Road Investment Strategy (RIS2) between 2020 and 2025, as he

The Department for Transport (DfT) has pledged to set out new plans to tackle pavement parking, which it said would make streets safer for parents

The chair of the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has said he is ‘disappointed’ by the delay to publication of the Government’s National

Council directors’ body ADEPT has called for a national strategy on aviation to address both climate change and the economy

The chancellor will ‘double’ funding for flood defences to £5.2bn over five years in this week’s Budget, the Treasury has said

The RMT rail union has suspended next week’s strike action on South Western Railway for talks with the company on Friday

Broadcaster Chris Packham is challenging the Government’s decision to back HS2 following the Oakervee review, arguing that it will have severe

The Government is consulting on plans for E10, a lower carbon fuel made with up to 10% ethanol, to become the standard grade of petrol at UK filling

The Government has declined to deny reports that the Road Investment Strategy (RIS) is to be delayed further

Regional airline Flybe has gone into administration, just two months after the Government agreed a rescue package

London mayor Sadiq Khan claims to have met a pledge to triple the amount of protected space for cycling in the capital during his tenure – but only

Struggling Northern Trains has moved into public ownership with a new managing director but a new job for the old one

The Department for Transport has issued new guidance for transport workers on dealing with COVID-19

Campaigners have slammed Bristol City Council and the Government for ‘softening and stalling’ plans to tackle toxic air pollution in the city

The Department for Transport (DfT) has revealed which councils will receive a share of the latest £93m round of Challenge Fund cash

The number of journeys by public transport in Scotland has fallen again, according to official statistics, while car vehicle mileage continues to

Speed limits of 20mph are now in force across 8.9km of roads within London’s Congestion Charging Zone

A new nationwide campaign aims to put pressure on Highways England to improve the quality of its signage and road safety

The Court of Appeal has ruled the Government’s support for Heathrow expansion illegal on climate change grounds

Highways England has re-opened the debate over the effectiveness of its current stopped vehicle detection (SVD) technology, claiming that it is

The Court of Appeal is due to rule this morning on a case that could see the end of plans to build a third runway at Heathrow Airport

HS2 Ltd has unveiled updated designs for the ‘super-hub’ at Old Oak Common in west London, following the Government’s decision to proceed with the

Liverpool City Region’s metro mayor has described franchising as the ‘leading option’ under plans to overhaul the region’s bus services

Struggling South Western Railway appears to have lowered the threshold for its trains to skip stops to make up time, despite a pledge from its new

Bristol City Council looks set to miss the latest deadline over its plans to tackle air pollution, due to ministerial indecision

The Government’s new online vehicle checker for Clean Air Zones has caused confusion after it wrongly told drivers of compliant vehicles that they

Number 10 has caused confusion after pledging to upgrade a non-existent station as part of the prime minister's revolution in local transport

The Department for Transport has released the self-assessment questionnaire that will determine the 2020/2021 Incentive Fund allocations for highway

The ongoing battle between Bristol City Council and government over the authority's failure to address air quality issues has taken another turn

Grant Shapps has announced that the Government will take over running services on the Northern rail network from 1 March, despite acknowledging that

The Government has approved the HS2 project in full

The Scottish Government has published its National Transport Strategy (NTS), but arguments over its wider road spending plans could derail the

The Government's plans for up to 10 'Freeports' in the UK have been met with scepticism, despite claims that they would ‘unlock a new era of jobs and

State-owned rail firm Trenitalia has threatened to pull out of all UK rail franchises if it does not receive a bailout from the UK Government, it has

The Department for Transport has denied that it has the final report of the 'independent' HS2 review but has refused to clarify its own role in the

Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has called on ministers to build the east-west Northern Powerhouse Rail before the section of HS2 from the

The Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA) is recruiting a new chief executive after Mike Harper announced that he will be stepping down from the

West Midlands Trains (WMT) will be required to spend an extra £20m on improving services after ‘badly breaching its performance targets’, the

Kier has appointed Nicola Hindle as group managing director for its highways business, taking over the role vacated last year by Dave Wright

Durham County Council has unveiled plans to spend up to £50m tackling climate change, including LED streetlighting and electric and low emission

The official surveillance camera watchdog has criticised Government proposals to introduce green number plates for ultra-low emission vehicles as a

Boris Johnson will confirm plans to end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans in 2035 or earlier, including banning the sale of new hybrids

Many passengers still experience ‘dire performance’ and remain unable to rely on their train service, according to the official passenger watchdog

Two years after his predecessor announced plans to reverse some of the massive Beeching cuts to rail lines, Grant Shapps has invited local

Highways England is still sending much-criticised warning letters to drivers who illegally drive under red X signs on smart motorways, six months

The issue of climate change and the scale of the challenge for local authorities and others in tackling it dominated the 2019 ADEPT Autumn Conference

The transport secretary is finalising ‘a serious package of measures’ to tackle concerns over the safety of smart motorways, MPs have been told

The Government has told BBC's Panorama that 38 people have been killed on smart motorways over the last five years

The South Western Railway (SWR) network could go back into public hands after government officials concluded its position is not sustainable in the

The rail regulator has put Network Rail ‘on a warning’ over its poor service in the North West and Central region in England

Non-residents could be charged £2 a day to drive into Cardiff after the city council unveiled a £2bn vision to transform the transport network in the

HS2 is over budget and behind schedule because the Government underestimated its complexity and risk, auditors have said

Ministers have pledged to ‘ensure postcode plays no part in how easy it is to use an electric car’ after adding £5m to funding for on-street

Network Rail is consulting on new but currently unfunded, plans to protect a 1.8km coastal stretch of track in South Devon

Plans to take high-speed rail to Manchester and Leeds are in doubt as a leaked copy of the official report into HS2 backed claims that the project

The transport secretary has launched the West Midlands’ Regional Transport Coordination Centre (RTCC), which will bring real-time information across

Councillors in Newcastle have backed plans for a charging clean air zone (CAZ) in the city centre

The RAC attended significantly fewer breakdowns for pothole-related faults in 2019 than the previous year, despite a surge in the last quarter

Ministers have confirmed reviews of Air Passenger Duty (APD) and regional connectivity but have not given further details of government action to

Troubled South Western Railway has re-introduced refurbished trains on long-distance routes with more spacious seating and Axminster carpets

Edinburgh’s tram network could be extended and many of the city’s streets pedestrianised under ‘radical’ new plans to be considered by councillors

Ministers are reportedly considering a cut to Air Passenger Duty to help rescue regional airline Flybe

Amey has appointed Lucy Fell as account director for the Highways England Area 10 maintenance and response contract

Warwickshire County Council has been named the country’s joint top performing county council for highway maintenance in a key survey for the second

The HS2 rail project will cause destruction to nature on a vast scale, environmental campaigners have warned

Crossrail Ltd plans to open the central section of the Elizabeth line in summer 2021, the firm said on Friday

London mayor Sadiq Khan has called for more government cash to tackle road run-off after a ‘pioneering’ new study found that it is a significant

Council leaders in Birmingham are planning a dramatic shift away from car use, including discouraging trips through the city centre

The country’s only statutory sub-national transport body (STB) has had to scale back its roll-out of capped contactless fare payment after bus

Liverpool City Region Combined Authority is seeking a partner to deliver a dedicated full fibre backhaul network

The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority is to take forward plans for the regional arms of the planned Cambridgeshire Autonomous Metro

Two bus firms in High Wycombe have launched a joint ticket that allows passengers to transfer between their services

The official statistics watchdog has called for ‘substantial action’ to improve the official measure of rail passenger satisfaction so that it can be

Northern mayors and council leaders have called for deadlines and final demands to be issued to the operators of the region’s unreliable rail

HS2 will cost at least £107bn to complete and its business case is based on unrealistic claims about how many trains could run on the new line,

The firm behind South Western Railway has warned that it could be stripped of its franchise after forecasting losses of up to £146m during the

Local authorities in West Yorkshire have published plans for a new bus station in Halifax, costing £15.4m

The City of Wolverhampton Council has announced a second phase of electric vehicle charging points to be installed by the summer

New car registrations fell for the third consecutive year in 2019, with a major drop in the number of new diesel cars but a rise in electric vehicle

The new managing director of South Western Railway has admitted that the firm’s performance has not been good enough and pledged to resolve the

Ministers have announced ‘steps to pilot’ new flexible rail fare systems but the announcement is short on detail

Ministers have criticised train and light rail operators for failing to meet a deadline to make trains accessible but have allowed them to continue

The transport secretary has been accused of diversionary tactics after the latest annual fare rise provoked controversy over the state of the

A year after its central section was due to open, Crossrail has claimed ‘significant progress’ during 2019 but has still failed to provide a firm

The Scottish Government has published its plans to keep the country ‘at the forefront’ of developments in the connected and autonomous vehicle

Infrastructure firm Kier Group has announced the appointment of Matthew Lester as chairman of its board of directors with effect from 1 January

HS2 Ltd has insisted that it has not changed any of its environmental commitments after publishing a slimmed-down policy

An inquest into the death of a nine-year-old girl who died after suffering an asthma attack will consider whether her right to life was breached by

Senior officials at the Department for Transport (DfT) have again been recognised in the New Year Honours 2020

Authorities and companies working on the English and Scottish road networks sent gritters out at the weekend as low temperatures saw significant

Metro mayors have called on the new Government to strip Northern rail of its franchise ‘as a first step’ after a new timetable on the rail network

Hochtief UK Construction Ltd has announced a loss of £21.5m for 2018

Procurement body YORhub has appointed eight firms to a framework for major civil engineering and highways works in the Yorkshire and Humber region

Birmingham Airport has replaced its bus fleet with fully electric buses

Siemens Mobility has announced a partnership to deliver a series of new charging hubs and more than 120 new electric vehicle (EV) connections across

Amey has appointed Amanda Fisher as acting CEO after showing the door to incumbent Andy Milner

Council-owned Stansted Airport is rethinking its plans for a new arrivals building in the face of fluctuating travel demand and political and

Urban transport bosses have commissioned a new and improved model to help city regions plan the future of their bus networks

When rain and floods hit South Yorkshire early in November, Amey, which provides highway maintenance services to Sheffield City Council through the

A metro mayor has hosted the first meeting of a ‘bus reform task force’ – nearly a year after a report highlighted an opportunity to ‘start

The new franchise holder on the West Coast Main Line has officially taken over long-distance train services to complaints from passengers about its

Labour and the the Conservatives have clashed over the Tories' pledge to spend £4.2bn on local transport – spread over two parliaments

Walking and cycling charity Sustrans has adapted computer aided design software to help planners design streets that work better for non-standard

Councillors in Glasgow have recommended the adoption of 20mph speed limit for most roads in the city, but with limited, if any, traffic calming

Rail fares will go up on average by 2.7% next month, the body that represents train firms has announced

Amey is putting its environment and waste and utilities businesses up for sale, according to reports

City leaders have put transport at the top of their agenda for additional spending, driven by concerns over climate change

Chris Ames spoke to the five councils with the biggest deficits on their parking accounts and found that many see parking more as a service than a

Transport Network speaks to Professor Jim Hall, director of the Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium, about the Oxford-Milton

Bristol City Council has suspended its roll-out of a new vehicle fleet after purchasing dozens of diesel vehicles despite a planned city centre

The Government has again refused to disclose how much, if any, taxpayers’ money it is giving the owners of South Western Railway (SWR) in financial

Seats on buses could be redesigned to help passengers socialise, transport bosses have said, after new research revealed how passengers spend their

The South East Local Enterprise Partnership (SELEP) is to provide £7.1m for the construction of a £12m underpass below a railway line in Grays town

The union behind 28 days of strikes on a rail franchise has said it believes there is a deal to be done as it meets bosses for peace talks

Rail passengers in the south are still facing 28 days of strikes from next week and into the new year, as bosses and unions show no signs of

Politicians need to change the way they present planned infrastructure improvements to ensure that residents support them, a metro mayor has said

Transport for London (TfL) has ‘completed’ the £1bn contract for the controversial Silvertown Tunnel under the Thames in east London, despite an

The two firms that will jointly run the new West Coast rail franchise have appointed two managing directors

Council place directors have joined with their social services and public health counterparts to call for better overall funding and prevent

Top academic researchers have said development of the Oxford-Milton Keynes-Cambridge arc will require a shift from road to rail

The Conservative Party has pledged £2bn over the next four years for filling potholes and hinted at restricting the right of transport sector workers

Cranfield Aerospace Solutions (CAeS), an aircraft integrator in green commercial aviation, has received a £9m UK Government grant for a project to

Scape Group has added ‘Place Shaping’ to its upcoming £1bn National Consultancy frameworks

London mayor Sadiq Khan has confirmed that some Transport for London (TfL) fares will be frozen again next year despite a budget deficit of around

Following publication by the Law Commissions of England and Wales and of Scotland of a consultation on regulating autonomous passenger vehicles,

Local political leaders have called on ministers to provide more funding for disaster relief as communities are braced for the prospect of further

Transport bosses in Scotland are promising a smarter travel experience after technology improvements allowed all 16 types of public transport

British cities have failed to break into the top 10 in a listing of the best – and worst – cities in the world for driving

New research has revealed English councils made £930m from parking activities last year

The Oakervee review into HS2, commissioned by the government, has recommended the full high speed rail network go ahead including the eastern leg,

The new West Coast rail franchise, which is due to begin next month, could have competition restrictions placed on it after regulators raised

London’s troubled Crossrail scheme has been hit with yet another delay and cost overrun - this time between £400m and £650m could be added to the

Bus and coach operators have warned that plans for a £30,000 salary threshold as part of a future immigration system risk a shortage of workers in

Ministers have pledged more accessible buses around Great Britain under a new £2m partnership to help small operators provide audible and visible

The deputy chair of the official review of HS2 has claimed that he has been sidelined and that the report, which remains unfinished, is likely to be

Bristol City Council is set to adopt a plan that would see the city continue to breach legal limits for air pollution until at least 2025

Birmingham City Council is to take forward work to develop a workplace parking levy of £500 per space per year

The driver of the tram that crashed in Croydon nearly three years ago will not face charges

Edinburgh Airport is to spend more than £20m to improve access for taxis and deliver other vehicle access improvements

Edinburgh City Council is to consult on a plan to extend the operation of bus lanes from 7am to 7pm, seven days a week

Highways England has confirmed that work to deactivate Operation Brock will be carried out late on Tuesday but some restrictions will be left in

Highways England is set to deactivate its plan to manage lorries in Kent in the event of a no-deal Brexit after the EU agreed to an extension of the

Ministers have invited ‘innovative and tech-focused transport start-ups’ to bid for a share of almost £1m

The Government has announced ‘the next stage in the development’ of the York Outer Ring Road – a year after the previous transport secretary said the

Hospital admissions for a range of acute conditions increase in major English cities on days of higher air pollution, researchers have found

Ministers have announced plans for the UK’s first Transport Decarbonisation Plan as part of efforts to achieve net zero emissions by 2050

The Government could take over the struggling Northern rail franchise or allow its existing operator to continue under a new contract, MPs have heard

London Transport Commissioner Mike Brown is to leave Transport for London to head up the restoration of the Houses of Parliament

Highways England’s target to cut the number of people killed or seriously injured (KSI) on its network could be revised for a second time, it has

Work on the Edinburgh tram extension will begin next month, while the findings of an inquiry into the existing scheme remain unpublished

There was no safe system of work in place when two rail workers were killed by a high speed train in South Wales in July, according to a report into

The sub-national transport body (STB) for the South East has launched a 30-year strategy document that warns indulging continued traffic growth is

Scottish councils have the power to introduce workplace parking levies (WPL) following the flagship Transport Bill being passed by the Scottish

Chris Ames looks at the reality behind the safety issues on all lane running 'smart motorways'

The winners for this year’s Highways Awards were revealed on Wednesday evening in front of nearly 500 industry professionals at the Lancaster London

The Commons Transport Committee has said it wants to start a national debate about road pricing – ‘something that has been lacking for more than a

A system of road pricing varying by time and location would be ‘the ideal approach’ in the face of falling revenue from existing sources, public

The new Highbury Corner junction has officially opened after what Transport for London (TfL) described as a transformation ‘from one of London's most

Edinburgh Council could add more roads to the city’s 20mph network although the scheme has had a limited impact on traffic speeds

Climate change protesters have blocked roads close to the Department for Transport headquarters and glued themselves to the building in central

Council leaders in West Yorkshire have warned of ‘grave consequences’ after it was reported that the leg of HS2 from the Midlands to Leeds could be

Costain has appointed former army officer Nathan Marsh as its first ever chief digital officer and a member of its executive board

Reform of rail fare regulations could deliver a significant reduction in Britain’s carbon footprint over the next 10 years, a key industry body has

Transport bosses in the West Midlands have signed contracts worth £83.5m for 21 new trams for the region’s Metro network

Govia Thameslink Railway has completed a five-year £2bn rolling stock procurement programme, which it says has turned ‘one of the UK’s oldest fleets

Four in five areas still have illegal levels of toxic air pollution, almost a decade after legal limits were introduced, campaigners have said

A major bus operator has rolled out daily capping on contactless fares across two of its companies in the South East

Transport for London will take over the stopping rail services between Paddington and Reading from December with passengers able to use contactless

Sheffield City Region mayor Dan Jarvis has accused Network Rail of treating people in the region as ‘second class citizens’ after another delay to

Environment and public health chiefs have made a raft of recommendations to tackle air pollution in London, including new local measures to reduce

Two councils in Hertfordshire are set to bring in a charging Clean Air Zone (CAZ) to tackle pollution on a major A road

HS2 Ltd has signed a contract worth at least £1bn with the joint venture developing the new station at Old Oak Common, despite pending legal action

The rail minister has announced a £26m upgrade to the Isle of Wight, including repurposed Tube trains to replace the UK’s oldest rail fleet

Trains arrived at fewer than two in three rail stations on time in the last year according to new statistics, not including trains that were

Compliance with London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) has continued to improve over the summer, resulting in millions of pounds of lost income for

Council bosses have called for automatic access to franchising powers after new polling showed that two thirds of residents want councils to decide

To address the digital skills gap, firms in the infrastructure sector should develop new career paths and competencies for their future workforce,

Highways England is ‘struggling to understand’ the recent controversy over the safety of all lane running ‘smart motorways’, its chief executive has

Satisfaction with public transport in Scotland has dropped by 10 percentage points over the past four years, while levels of walking have also fallen

Ministers have ‘launched’ a £400m fund to accelerate electric vehicle charging, nearly two years after the cash was first announced and over a year

Rail firm Southeastern has launched an improved compensation scheme under which passengers can claim for delays from 15 minutes upwards

Bus operators have set out a strategy to help tackle climate change and get a billion more passenger journeys by bus by 2030

Campaigners have called for speeding fines on smart motorways to be spent on safety improvements after it was revealed that one stretch where four

Transport for London (TfL) is set to take forward plans to lower speed limits on its roads across central London

Three West Midlands councils are seeking contractors for a new construction framework that could be worth up to £1.4bn over four years

New planning rules will allow residents to see how ‘every pound’ of property developers’ cash is spent

Reported crime on the rail network rose by 12% during the last year

Road safety body the European Road Assessment Programme has appointed Lina Konstantinopoulou as its secretary general in Brussels

Key figures in the local authority and transport sectors have declared themselves to be underwhelmed by the chancellor’s promise of an

The emerging sub-national transport body (STB) for the East of England has submitted bids for a share of £3.5bn local share of the National Roads

Leeds City Council has announced that triathlete and double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee MBE will be the city's first Active Travel ambassador

Scotland’s first minister has set out plans for an ‘embryonic Scottish Green Deal’ including £500m for bus priority infrastructure and a target to

HS2 Ltd has welcomed a decision by construction giant Bechtel to allow it to award a £1.3bn contract for a new station at Old Oak Common, despite an

Services on South Western Railway (SWR) have been disrupted for a fourth consecutive day on Monday as the dispute between the firm and the RMT union

Work to demolish the Churchill Way flyovers in Liverpool will get underway this week using what the council called an ‘innovative methodology’

An alliance of councils and mapping experts is playing a key role in Government plans to open up data around Traffic Regulation Orders (TROs) to help

The sub-national transport body for the Midlands has submitted 11 priority road improvement schemes for a share of £3.5bn government cash

Motoring groups have called for tougher action on drink driving after new statistics showed a 25% increase in related fatalities since 2015

Bristol City Council has been forced into developing stronger measures to tackle air pollution, including charging private cars, after it became

Birmingham City Council’s highways PFI vehicle has launched a search for a subcontractor to operate and maintain the city’s roads for a 15-month

The Government is providing £1m for UK universities researching new aviation security solutions

The South West peninsula’s regional transport body has submitted a list of nine high-priority road improvement schemes for a share of £3.5bn

The Government has announced £9m to help local areas and major ports prepare for Brexit

Labour has backed the Government’s review of HS2 while business and regional transport leaders have leapt to the project’s defence

Ministers have launched an 'independent' review to consider all aspects of the multi-billion pound HS2 project, including whether it should go ahead

Public sector procurement organisation Scape Group has unveiled its new National Consultancy frameworks, which cover the whole of the UK and will be

The Local Government Technical Advisers Group (LGTAG) has announced that its president for 2019 will be Andrew Cassells

Five councils will share £600m government cash to support the delivery of up to 50,000 new homes in high demand areas by helping pay for related

Luton council has said it will continue its red route trial after catching nearly 5,000 drivers stopping illegally

The boss of Lothian buses has warned that there is no guarantee that the council-owned company will provide a £20m contribution to Edinburgh’s

Northern rail has taken the first of its Pacer trains out of service but admitted that some of the ‘out-dated and unpopular’ buses on rails will

A centre right think tank has called for tough action to tackle air pollution, particularly from road transport, including higher fuel prices and a

The West of England Combined Authority (WECA) has begun work on a programme to improve smart ticketing on public transport across the region but a

Influential MPs have called on government to consider a ban on using 'hands free' phones while driving to prevent ‘entirely avoidable’ road deaths

Doubts have arisen over ministers’ claims to have ‘doubled’ funding for electric vehicle chargepoints after the Government would not deny that it was

We look at the new ministerial team at the Department for Transport, their sometimes controversial backgrounds and their briefs

Highways England’s regulator has backtracked on its claims that the government-owned company had ‘demonstrated that it is applying an evidence-based

The country’s biggest rail franchise has promised to carry out a full investigation to establish why its new flagship trains shut down and would not

Chris Ames asks what passengers on the South Eastern rail franchise are getting in return for the scrapping of the search for a new operator, which

The use of bioenergy needs to be carefully managed to avoid risks to food security, biodiversity and land degradation, the UN’s top experts on

Passengers on part of the London Overground network are to get a month of free travel because of delays in upgrading and electrifying the line – and

Ministers have scrapped the competition for the South Eastern rail franchise and handed the current operator a further extension

Chris Ames asks, from personal experience, whether rail firms are being unnecessarily obstructive in response to compensation claims

Transport for London (TfL) has been accused of burying climate change and pollution issues during the Silvertown Tunnel approval process, in breach

The RMT union has accused the Government of operating behind a cloak of secrecy over the possibility that millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money

Councils fined motorists £1.6bn last year –equivalent to £200,000 an hour – it has been reported

The Scottish Government has published a new National Transport Strategy for consultation, which it described as a step-change in the country’s

The owner of the Toddbrook Reservoir in Derbyshire has said it is still too early to say how the reservoir came close to collapse and pledged that a

City region transport bosses have called on ministers to make ‘five practical policy changes’ to help them improve air quality, including requiring

The Department for Transport has published guidance to help councils apply for a share of nearly £350m to improve local roads

New transport secretary Grant Shapps is facing calls to make road safety a priority after new statistics showed little change in the number of people

The City of Rome has launched a new scheme where residents can trade plastic bottles for travel on its public transport system

The construction of Cardiff's long-awaited bus interchange has finally been given the go-ahead as part of a redevelopment project worth hundreds of

People are walking more often than three years ago but the number of cycling trips has stagnated, according to new official statistics which show

Boris Johnson has appointed two new ministers of state, Chris Heaton-Harris MP and George Freeman MP, at the Department for Transport

HS2 Ltd has pledged that the infrastructure for the new railway will be designed to manage the effects of extreme weather such as the high

Key figures in the transport sector have called for increased investment in rail alongside ticketing reform as statistics showed seating capacity

Rail passengers are experiencing further disruption on Friday, after Thursday's extreme heat brought parts of the network to a halt

Grant Shapps MP has replaced Chris Grayling as secretary of state for transport in Boris Johnson’s new cabinet

Network Rail has taken a hit of around £210m to its finances after the cost of its part of the late running and over-budget Crossrail project rose

Several London boroughs are considering introducing workplace parking levies (WPLs) of at least £750 a year to cut pollution and encourage active

The Department for Transport has (DfT) confirmed funding of nearly £350m for councils to improve local roads

The Government’s latest road safety action plan has floated a number of possible measures to cut fatalities but makes very few firm commitments

The transport watchdog has launched a campaign to encourage more rail passengers to claim compensation for delays as currently only one in three do

MPs have criticised the Government for inadequate and ‘piecemeal’ active travel investment and called for a dedicated funding stream for local

The taxpayer will have to stump up a further £20m to support Gatwick Airport's rail station expansion as costs on the project have risen sharply

A leading safety charity has called on ministers to set safety goals for the proposed major road network of local authority roads and for over £500m

Council leaders have admitted the money they cut from road maintenance funding since 2010 could have paid for the repair of nearly eight million

The owner of British Airways has pledged to 'defend the airline’s position vigorously' against a proposed record-breaking £183m fine for breaches of

Council directors’ body ADEPT has called on ministers to put a coherent policy and regulatory framework in place to support local authority efforts

Two rail workers who were killed after being hit by a train in South Wales on Wednesday morning may not have heard the train approaching because they

Ministers have promised disabled rail passengers across the UK a raft of accessibility improvements with the opening of a £20m fund

MPs have called on ministers to provide more clarity on plans to make rail links into Devon and Cornwall more resilient and how they will support a

Amey has agreed to pay Birmingham City Council £215m to terminate its Highways PFI contract following a high profile court case

MPs have called for a front-loaded, five-year funding settlement to tackle the ‘extreme state of disrepair of the English local road network’

Councillors in Basildon have passed a near-unanimous resolution to tell ministers that they will not implement a ‘congestion charge’ to tackle

Key bodies in the sector have backed the Commons Transport Committee’s call for the local road network to be given the type of five-year funding

Chris Grayling has signalled his intention to increase fines for drivers who leave their engines running while parked in what would be 'the biggest

Key figures in the sector have backed Theresa May’s pledge to eradicate the UK’s net contribution to climate change by 2050 but called for action to

The US aviation regulator has uncovered another fault with Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft that is likely to delay further the model’s return to passenger

The number of rail passenger journeys in Great Britain rose by 3% to a record high in 2018-19, while total passenger revenue increased 6% to more

Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has become the first in the country to recommend bus franchising, as part of a 10-year plan to create ‘an

Heathrow Airport has launched its masterplan for a third runway, with measures to manage emissions and noise but few concrete proposals for public

London mayor Sadiq Khan has shelved plans for a walking and cycling bridge between Canary Wharf and Rotherhithe as the projected cost of the scheme

With entry still open for the 2019 Highways Awards, we look back at last year's impressive roll call of winning projects and people

Nicola Bell, Highways England’s regional operations director for the South East and a judge at this year’s Highways Awards, tells Transport Network

England’s two largest councils have blamed the government for ‘significant’ delays to their plans to introduce charging Clean Air Zones to tackle air

A think tank has urged London mayor Sadiq Khan to go beyond car free days and introduce per-mile charging ‘to lock-in car-free lifestyles for good’

The Scottish Government has announced ‘record’ funding of up to £51m for walking and cycling infrastructure in 2019

Passengers on South Western Railway (SWR) services experienced cancellations and delays on Tuesday morning as the RMT union resumed industrial action

Cycling and walking advocates from England and Scotland have called for minimum quality standards for infrastructure to prevent public money being

A South West Conservative MP has called on the Government to produce a genuine transport strategy for the region after Department for Transport (DfT)

The Government has announced the 24 projects awarded a share of £7.8m to develop innovations on the railway, including one to address the thorny

Kier topped the construction contractors league table in May, having been awarded 12 contracts that month with a total value of £397m

A group representing bus users across the UK has published a 10-point plan to reverse the decline in rural services

Transport for London has awarded multinational firm CAF a contract worth around £350m to replace the oldest trains on the Docklands Light Railway and

Bristol is set to achieve compliance with legal pollution limits years later than other cities, as senior councillors are to consider two options to

Highways England has sought to play down the additional carbon dioxide emissions from its planned Stonehenge tunnel, which will increase congestion

Sue Percy, chief executive of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation, has been awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours

Europe’s first horizontal launch Spaceport could be based in Cornwall, after nearly £8m was secured for the project from the UK Space Agency

A cycling and walking charity has warned that women and older and disabled people ‘continue to be neglected in cycling’, despite anti-discrimination

Boeing has notified airlines of another problem with its 737 model, following two fatal crashes involving one variant

Walking and cycling charity Sustrans has made a raft of senior appointments across the UK and Ireland, including its first ‘director of urbanism’

Bristol City Council has missed another Government deadline for progressing its plans to tackle illegal air pollution but ministerial threats of

Emeritus Professor Phil Goodwin has set out ideas for tackling ‘a failure of the democratic process to achieve what is best in the long term for

Transport for London has named the Riverlinx consortium as the preferred bidder to build a new tunnel under the Thames in East London

Paul Campion will succeed Rob Wallis as chief executive of transport research company TRL from 1 July

Two North West metro mayors have called on transport secretary Chris Grayling to terminate the Northern rail franchise ‘as soon as possible’

Potential spaceports can now apply for a share of £2m to support plans for small satellite launch from aircraft and sub-orbital flight from the UK

The punctuality and reliability of Britain’s rail network worsened in the last financial year, largely because of the impact of the timetable debacle

Analysis by Sustrans Scotland has revealed that the rate of traffic incidents involving children on foot or bike in the most deprived areas of

Bus operators should put more focus on young passengers as a dissatisfied and undervalued market, Transport Focus has said

The British Safety Council has called for air pollution to be recognised as an occupational health hazard

The planned tunnel at Stonehenge, which could now cost £2.4bn, risks costing more to build than the economic benefits it is expected to provide, the

Rail passengers lost almost four million hours to ‘significantly delayed’ journeys in 2018 with nearly a quarter of a million trains cancelled,

The Government has approved the use of gantry mounted cameras to fine drivers for ignoring red X signs on smart motorways, more than three years

The fastest ever train service between Norwich and London began on Monday, delivering ‘Norwich in 90’ five and a half years after the previous

The head of the National Audit Office (NAO) has said HS2 is close to a point where it would be difficult to cancel the project, despite delays and

London’s transport commissioner has revealed serious concerns about political decisions taken by former mayor Boris Johnson as he prepared to leave

A House of Lords committee has called on ministers to rethink HS2 after finding evidence that the costs of the high speed rail link ‘appear to be out

The AA has warned that delivery firms could respond to Clean Air Zones by adding to the ever-increasing number of vans on the road, worsening

Rail operator Arriva has joined Stagecoach in taking ministers to court over the East Midlands rail franchise

International engineering and underground construction experts have joined forces to publish a new form of contract for tunnelling and underground

Network Rail has awarded the contract for the new sea wall at Dawlish to BAM

The sub-national transport body (STB) for the South East has set out its case to become a statutory body with wide powers to improve the region’s

Registrations of new all-electric and hybrid vehicles rose significantly last month, despite an overall fall in new car sales

The Environment Agency (EA) has called for £1bn a year to be spent on flood and coastal defences in preparation for a possible 4°C rise in global

Which? has accused train operating companies of making it ‘very difficult’ for passengers to get compensation by demanding up to 24 pieces of

The head of the body that represents the rail industry is to retire amid reports of disagreement over its submission to the Government’s rail review

Ministers have invited academics and industry experts to bid for a share of £4.5m to develop the next generation of aviation and border security

Rob Wallis is to leave TRL after six years as its chief executive and chief executive of its parent company

Labour has accused Chris Grayling of ‘not being straight with Parliament’ in the ongoing row over the disqualification of Stagecoach from bidding for