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One again Government transport-related policy matters continue to dominate our news coverage- plus a significant change at the top pf the Department for Transport.
We look in detail at the latest piece of new legislation impacting transport in a number of significant ways- the Planning and Infrastructure Bill just published, which covers Spatial Planning, EV charging, the powers of Development Corporations, the delivery of Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects, and Transport and Works Act and Highways Act processes, amongst other matters.
Meanwhile there is news of further developments in bus franchising, transport accessibility, travel behaviour patterns, the go ahead for more road schemes and of emergence of new local and regional transport strategies.
We reveal the departure of DfT Permanent Secretary Dame Bernadette Kelly, and have an interesting record of recent controversies surrounding her activity regarding HS2 delivery and finances.
We continue with the new Local Transport Today Deep Thinking initiative for 2025, seeking new ways of considering transport in a world of fast-changing technology, social and economic activity and concerns about sustainability. Our contributor this issue is Emma Woods, who questions the increasingly dominant basis of 'Economic Thinking' across transport planning and decision-making, and its consequences.
We invite all of our readers to engage in this discussion, and perhaps contribute their own thinking. Later in the year, we will hold a major event to explore and exchange ideas and perspectives.
Our regular contributing columnist in this issue is Professor Phil Goodwin, who believes current discussions about growth, efficiency and considerations of equity raise important questions for future appraisal of transport projects, and in particular the treatment of time savings. He draws some interesting detailed conclusions about the flawed economic and behavioural basis of the current values used.
In his Editorial Opinion, Peter Stonham looks at the two thoughtful LTT contributors in the issue who challenge conventional thinking on the role of economics in transport decision-making. He shares their frustration that a full discussion of the implications of looking at things through different lenses seems hard to get, and how it might be achieved to reflect the wider interests of society rather than the political, industrial and administrative establishment. How do new values and objectives actually emerge, and lead to change in processes and outcomes, he wonders.
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Local Transport Today has been providing a unique service of news, analysis and comment about everything relating to transport at urban, conurbation, rural and regional levels in Britain for over 30 years.
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