October 8th, 2026 Subscribe Could Health Do for Transport What It Did for Smoking? Key Takeaways Our transport systems harm our health in many ways, from crashes and air pollution to stress, loneliness and inactivity. Many governments now include healthier transport in their strategies, and some have written it into law, but little has changed on the ground. Once health benefits are counted, walking and cycling projects often have the strongest business cases in transport, but decisions tend...
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Subscribe Welcome. In Today's Transport Leader: Are Your Strategies Coherent? A Checklist Worth Borrowing Right Direction, Missing Numbers: The UK's New Rolling Stock Strategy Can Freight Help Fund Public Transport? Evidence From Germany Plus Quick Trips, Tool and Jobs Read online Strategy Are Your Strategies Coherent? A Checklist Worth Borrowing The UK has recently created a swathe of strategies affecting the railway, alongside a major reorganisation as privatisation is reversed. The Railway...
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October 1st, 2026 Subscribe Help keep Transport Leader free, for everyone. Become a Supporter Stop Selling Sustainability: What Paris Teaches Us About Greener Transport Key Takeaways Our transport systems are optimised for moving cars rather than people, and the environment pays the price in far more ways than carbon emissions alone. Electrifying vehicles is necessary but nowhere near sufficient to make transport genuinely better for the environment. Even when the political mood favoured...
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Subscribe Welcome. In Today's Transport Leader: Bus Speeds Are Falling. Here's What 15 Cities Reveal About Why Contactless Ticketing Is Already Obsolete. Here's What's Next Road Safety Needs More Than Funding. It Needs Social License Plus Quick Trips and Jobs Read online Help keep Transport Leader free, for everyone. No paywall. No locked content. Just a way for readers who've gotten value from it to help keep it going. Every issue of... Read more Become a Supporter Buses Bus Speeds Are...
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September 24th, 2026 Subscribe Building Better Transport Systems Part 3 - Direct Costs, Hidden Costs: The Real Transport Bill Key Takeaways Car-dependent transport systems have a high overall cost with low direct costs but high hidden costs. An alternative transport system where driving paid a much greater proportion of the hidden (social) costs it creates would have a much lower overall cost. The debate over who pays for transport is built on a myth: driving isn't self-funding, and public...
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Subscribe Welcome. In Today's Transport Leader: We Think Everyone Else Is Okay With Speeding. That's Part of the Problem NYC's Vision Zero Reboot: Bold on Actions, More Needed on Outcomes A Framework for Delivering Sustainable Transport? Plus Quick Trips, Tool and Jobs Read online Help keep Transport Leader free, for everyone. No paywall. No locked content. Just a way for readers who've gotten value from it to help keep it going. Every issue of... Read more Become a Supporter Road Safety We...
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September 17th, 2026 Subscribe Defining a Better Transport System, Part 2: Freedom to Drive, or Freedom from Driving? Key Takeaways Freedom is central to the pro-car argument, but it rarely gets tested against what freedom actually means. Individualist freedom rests on the harm principle: you're free to act until your choices start harming others. Ranked by harm to others, transport modes fall into a familiar hierarchy: the private car does the most harm. Our transport system isn't the...
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Subscribe Welcome. In Today's Transport Leader: Does Working From Home Cut Emissions? It's Complicated. The Global Costs of Driving Commingling Paratransit and Demand-Responsive Transport Plus Quick Trips and Jobs Read online Help keep Transport Leader free, for everyone. No paywall. No locked content. Just a way for readers who've gotten value from it to help keep it going. Every issue of... Read more Become a Supporter Planning Does Working From Home Cut Emissions? It's Complicated. Remote...
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September 10th, 2026 Subscribe Defining a Better Transport System, Part 1: Getting Productivity Right Key Takeaways This is part of a series of posts on what a better transport system would look like from different perspectives, starting with economic productivity. Economic productivity in transport isn't about how fast one trip is; it's about how efficiently the whole system moves people and goods. Cars can harm productivity in multiple ways beyond congestion, including through land used for...
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