Subscribe Welcome. In Today's Transport Leader: Mind the Gap: Britain’s 2.4 Million Missing Station Homes From Predicting to Shaping: What 40 Transport Scenario Projects Teach Us Beyond Safety: Why London Should Price Robotaxis From Day One Plus Quick Trips, Tool and Jobs Read online Integrated transport and land use Mind the Gap: Britain’s 2.4 Million Missing Station Homes Lots of countries struggle to build housing near stations. The UK is particularly bad at it. This report from the UK's...
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October 15th, 2026 Subscribe Help keep Transport Leader free, for everyone. Become a Supporter It’s the Car, Not the Fare: Rethinking Transport Poverty Key Takeaways Our current transport systems are bad for households on low incomes and the policies we put in place to address it are at best, misguided. Many households without a car aren’t car-free by choice, and are often cut off from jobs and services because they live where non-car alternatives are poor. For many low-income households, the...
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Subscribe Welcome. In Today's Transport Leader: A better CBA won’t help if the decision came first Mobility credits could sell road pricing, if people can understand them Who speeds, where, and why? What 300,000 Italian vehicles reveal Plus Quick Trips, Tool and Jobs Read online Planning A better CBA won’t help if the decision came first Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) has become a central part of what we do in transport. This research examined criticisms of CBA and whether its use can be...
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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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