Subscribe Welcome. In Today's Transport Leader: From Paris to Madrid: Lessons for Better High-Speed Rail Urban Living Labs: Good Intentions, Limited Transformation Inside the UK’s New Transport Resilience Strategy Plus Quick Trips, Tool, Special Offer and Jobs Read online High-Speed Rail From Paris to Madrid: Lessons for Better High-Speed Rail What lessons can we learn from Spain and France's High-Speed Rail systems? This report from a study tour identified 8 lessons. Key Takeaways HSR works...
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November 5th, 2026 Subscribe Podcast How to (Wisely) Spend a Fortune on Transit, Down Under This week, I appeared as a guest on the Curbivore podcast. You can access below. Access Here Why New Timetables Go Off the Rails, and How To Avoid It Key Takeaways On 15 October, the NSW Government announced a new Sydney train timetable with 200 extra weekly services, then cancelled it nine days later after a backlash over longer journey times Treat a timetable in the same way you would a policy...
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Subscribe Welcome. In Today's Transport Leader: The Unanswered Questions of Autonomous Vehicles Strong on Vision, Short on Accountability: Northern Ireland’s Transport Strategy E-Bike Subsidies Shift Car Trips, But Can They Scale? Plus Quick Trips and Jobs Read online Autonomous Vehicles The Unanswered Questions of Autonomous Vehicles The impact of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) will go well beyond transport systems. This paper from the Institute for Driverless Transport identifies 65 questions we...
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October 29th, 2026 Subscribe Beyond the Zimmer Frame: Transport Policy for the Older Adults We Actually Have Key Takeaways Older adults are not a homogeneous group, spanning more than 40 years and widely different levels of wealth, health and ability to drive. Outdated stereotypes of older people as poor, frail and unable to drive are producing bad transport policy. Households headed by someone aged 65+ hold substantial wealth, and most over-65s rate their health as good or better. Universal...
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Subscribe Welcome. In Today's Transport Leader: Why Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans Struggle to Deliver Why Europe’s Rail Freight Is Losing Ground Licence to Build: Why Mayors Need More Than Permission Plus Quick Trips, Podcast, Tool and Jobs Read online A$8.00 / month 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 Strategic Planning Why...
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October 22nd, 2026 Subscribe Why “Accessible” Transport Will Continue to Fail People with Disabilities Key Takeaways Almost every transport strategy commits to meeting the needs of people with disabilities, but most fail when it comes to delivery. Accessibility legislation has often come with little or no extra funding, making it more about virtue signalling than real change. Even if every accessibility law were fully met, transport would still fail many people with disabilities. Being...
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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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