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Garbage In, Motorway Out: Why Congestion Evaluation Keeps Failing Us
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πŸšΆβ€β™€οΈπŸš—πŸš†πŸšπŸ‘©β€πŸ¦½ Garbage In, Motorway Out: Why Congestion Evaluation Keeps Failing Us

Subscribe Welcome. In Today's Transport Leader: Garbage In, Motorway Out: Why Congestion Evaluation Keeps Failing Us Car Dependency in the Suburbs: Lessons from Europe's Best Cities Systematically Wrong: How Road Traffic Forecasting Failed the Public Purse Plus Quick Trips, Podcast and Tool. Read online Strategic Planning Garbage In, Motorway Out: Why Congestion Evaluation Keeps Failing Us There is a lot of criticism of the way we have historically measured traffic congestion costs and...

The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Holding Car Sharing Back

June 4th, 2026 Subscribe The Who, What, Why, When and How of Light Rail In the latest Transport Leaders podcast, we discuss light rail, including why Dublin, Edinburgh and Sydney all made the same mistake. πŸŽ™Listen here πŸ‘€ Watch here The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Holding Car Sharing Back Key Takeaways Car sharing's potential is being suppressed by policy barriers, cultural inertia, and subsidies for private car ownership. The absence of a transformative exemplar for car sharing is a symptom of...

Forget the Outliers: Lessons from Typical Transport Cities

Subscribe Welcome. In Today's Transport Leader: Forget the Outliers: Lessons from Typical Transport Cities What Colorado's Transport Pipeline Reveals About the Whole Sector Planning for the Future We Want: The Rise of Vision-Led Planning Plus Quick Trips, Podcast and Tool. Read online Strategic Planning Forget the Outliers: Lessons from Typical Transport Cities Transport research and policy briefs often use case studies of exceptional places. This paper takes a different approach, comparing...

 Road User Charging: Separating Fact from Fiction

May 28th, 2026 Subscribe Why You Should Care About Asset Management In the latest Transport Leaders podcast, we discuss the problems with asset management in transport and why fixing it is so important. πŸŽ™Listen here πŸ‘€ Watch here Road User Charging: Separating Fact from Fiction Key Takeaways There is a range of misconceptions about road user charging that we need to address, if it is ever to become a reality. This blog covers eight of them. Misconception 1: Road User Charging Will Hit the...

From Mandates to Management: A Smarter Approach to Parking

Subscribe Welcome. In Today's Transport Leader: From Mandates to Management: A Smarter Approach to Parking Still Stuck at the Curb: How Urban Environments Fail People with Disabilities A Framework for Human-Centred Mobility Planning Plus Quick Trips and Tool. Read online Are you frustrated with the transport and traffic advice you're receiving? From business cases and network planning to policy design and investment assurance, STEP Advisory delivers work that stands up to scrutiny and moves...

Getting AV Regulation Right: Ten Lessons from Shared Mobility

May 21st, 2026 Subscribe Are you frustrated with the transport and traffic advice you're receiving? From business cases and network planning to policy design and investment assurance, STEP Advisory delivers work that stands up to scrutiny and moves projects forward using an evidence-based approach that provides Sensible, Timely, Effective and Practical advice to support the range of Sustainable Transportation Engineer Projects, partnering with you to deliver deep technical expertise with...

The Hierarchy That Isn't: Why Walking Stays at the Bottom

Subscribe Welcome. In Today's Transport Leader: The Hierarchy That Isn't: Why Walking Stays at the Bottom Who Pays for Transport? Managing the Multi-Funder Reality Pedalling Backwards: Danish Cycling Rates Drop Plus Quick Trips, Podcast, Tool and Innovation. Read online Transport Reform Network working groups are up and running. Reform topics being worked on include: Data for Autonomous, Electric and Connected Vehicles. Increasing the support from governments for car sharing. Transport equity...

Fixing Transport: The Barriers We Need to Overcome

May 14th, 2026 Subscribe The Future of Freight The latest Transport Leaders Podcast discusses long-distance freight, the battle between road and rail freight and the future with autonomous trucks. You can listen here You can watch here Are you frustrated with the transport and traffic advice you're receiving? From business cases and network planning to policy design and investment assurance, STEP Advisory delivers work that stands up to scrutiny and moves projects forward using an...

Shrinking Cars, Big Benefits: What a New Global Analysis Found

Subscribe Welcome. In Today's Transport Leader: Shrinking Cars, Big Benefits: What a New Global Analysis Found On the Right Track: The UK Rail Industry's AI Action Plan Crisis as Catalyst: Fuel Shocks, Active Travel, and the Case for Better Infrastructure Plus Quick Trips and Podcast. Read online Are you frustrated with the transport and traffic advice you're receiving? From business cases and network planning to policy design and investment assurance, STEP Advisory delivers work that stands...

Why Good Alternatives Still Can't Get People Out of Their Cars

May 7th, 2026 Subscribe Road Safety In Practice The latest Transport Leaders Podcast discusses how we can overcome the barriers to improving road safety with special guest Claire Campbell. You can listen here You can watch here Are you frustrated with the transport and traffic advice you're receiving? From business cases and network planning to policy design and investment assurance, STEP Advisory delivers work that stands up to scrutiny and moves projects forward using an evidence-based...