Our guest opinions section offers opinion and thought leadership around different topics of the transport sector, including air quality, congestion, micro-mobility, Mobility as a Service (Maas), active travel, electrification, healthy streets, autonomous vehicles and more. To suggest a guest opinion email managing editor Mike Roberts.
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Opinion 8 Dec 2021Decarbonising transport through modal shift
Our reliance on car travel is a hard habit to break, but the Government needs to step up its efforts to encourage less polluting forms of travel.
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Opinion 7 Dec 2021Smart travel can decarbonise the business grey fleet ‘iceberg’
Ben Lawson, vice president mobility for Europe at Enterprise, looks at the relationship between smarter transport and the resurgent issue of grey fleet.
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Opinion 18 Nov 2021Integrated Rail Plan 'woefully inadequate'
Cllr Louise Gittins, interim chair of Transport for the North, describes the the DfT's Integrated Rail Plan as "woefully inadequate".
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Opinion 17 Nov 2021Birmingham plans to become a supersized low-traffic neighbourhood – will it work?
Dr Joanne Leach, research fellow, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham, reviews the city's 2031 transport plans.
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Opinion 16 Nov 2021COP26 – Transport Day arrives on time
Giles Clifford, rail, transport and infrastructure partner at the law firm, reflects on the COP26 Transport Day.
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Opinion 16 Nov 2021Making sustainable cities the future
Magway development director Huw Thomas looks at how removing vehicles from the logistics industry could transform the UK's cities.
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Opinion 3 Nov 2021Will mass electric vehicle adoption frazzle the UK grid?
Stewart Dawson, Vattenfall UK managing director, is confident the technology exists to help rebalance the grid to cope with large scale overnight charging.
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Opinion 12 Oct 2021To truly ‘build back better’ we need HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail in full
Louise Gittins, interim chair of Transport for the North (TfN) responds to reports that the Integrated Rail Plan will be “bad news” for the North of England.
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Opinion 6 Oct 2021Delivering a zero-emission transport sector
Government’s transport decarbonisation plan is welcome in general, but the devil is in the lack of detail, says Paul Tuohy of Campaign for Better Transport
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Opinion 29 Sep 2021Removing carbon from transport: users are key to success
To do things differently, we have to start from where people are, not where we want them to be, says Anthony Smith, chief executive of Transport Focus
