May 15th, 2025 Subscribe Climbing Mount Transport Reform: Supporting Political Leaders to Become Bold Transport Reformers This blog is based on a seminar I gave at the Institute of Transport and Logistics at the University of Sydney earlier this week. Key Takeaways Transport systems must climb significant reform mountains, such as increasing congestion, climate change and technological transformation. Although there are exceptions, many of our transport political leaders lack understanding of...
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Subscribe Welcome Transport Leaders Welcome to this week's edition of the Transport Leader newsletter, your 5-minute guide to strategic transport thinking from around the world. This week, I look at one reason why Anglosphere infrastructure is so much more expensive than European infrastructure, how Germanyβs experiments with public transport fares have been going, and how we can use simple rules of thumb to improve project leadership. Have a great trip! In Today's Transport Leader: The...
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May 8th, 2025 Subscribe Revolutionizing Public Transit with AI: The Power of Dynamic Route Optimization One of my hopes for the Transport Leader newsletter and blog is that they would provide a forum for those working at the cutting edge of new ideas in Transport to share what they are working on. This article by Muriel Demarcus fits that bill perfectly. Muriel is the founder and CEO of Marsham Edge, a company that helps infrastructure leaders harness AI, Smart Technologies and advanced...
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Subscribe Welcome Transport Leaders Welcome to this week's edition of the Transport Leader newsletter, your 5-minute guide to strategic transport thinking from around the world. This week, I look at vision-led planning, encouraging walking and cycling, San Diegoβs mobility roadmap and safety culture. Have a great trip! In Today's Transport Leader: Designing Tomorrow's Transport: The Vision-Led Planning Revolution Beyond infrastructure: How to get more people to walk and cycle San Diego's...
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May 1st, 2025 Subscribe Reply to this email for a printable version. The Ten Transport Questions Decision Makers Must Ask to Prevent Multi-Billion Dollar Mistakes. Key Takeaways In transport, we are poor at choosing the right initiatives to progress. This problem is well known but persists. Part of the reason is that we do not equip decision makers with the right questions to ask. The blog contains 10 questions decision makers should ask. These include questions around problem priorities, big...
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Subscribe Welcome Transport Leaders Welcome to this week's edition of the Transport Leader newsletter, your 5-minute guide to strategic transport thinking from around the world. I have slightly changed the newsletter this week to provide quick links to interesting articles and remove one of the key takeaway articles. Iβve made this change to reduce the length of the newsletter and keep it down to a 5-minute read, along with widening the topics covered so the newsletter will always bring value...
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April 24th, 2025 Subscribe Three Changes That Could Save Billions in Wasted Transport Spending Key Takeaways Poor transport decision-making wastes billions in public funds, with the worst decisions often made during election periods when political expediency trumps proper analysis. The public and many political leaders lack an understanding of modern transport principles, such as induced demand, which leads to support for ineffective solutions. Three governance reforms could significantly...
28 days agoΒ β’Β 6 min read
Subscribe Welcome Transport Leaders Welcome to this week's edition of the Transport Leader newsletter, your 5-minute guide to strategic transport thinking from around the world. This week, we cover why we continue to ignore induced demand, the accessibility revolution, getting public transport right in suburbia, what we can learn from Paris on top of what they have been doing on cycling and building new metro lines, and much more. In Today's Transport Leader: The Never-Ending Story: Why...
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April 17th, 2025 Subscribe The Poverty Tax: How 'Free' Parking Hurts Those Who Can Least Afford It Key Takeaways βFreeβ parking is provided to drivers in various ways, including commuter, on-street, retail, residential, and employer parking. It is well known that βfreeβ parking encourages car use, increases congestion and carbon emissions, and is expensive to provide. Although less well-known, βfreeβ parking disproportionately costs households on low incomes and those unable to drive,...
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