Over the years since TAS started monitoring the development of rapid transit schemes, there have been several swings of the pendulum. In the very early 1990s, there was an upsurge of interest, with feasibility studies undertaken in as many as 40 towns and cities around the UK.  As might have been expected, many of these quickly concluded that there [...]

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It’s that time of year again, and the UK Bus Awards will be officially launched on 12th March by transport minister Rosie Winterton at the DfT. This is the 13th annual competition in a scheme originally launched in 1996, when we started with no more than five or six award categories, some 40 entries and [...]

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As you may have read in the trade press, a new awards scheme for the UK passenger transport industry has been announced: in a joint venture between my colleagues and Transit magazine. The Passenger Transport Management Awards scheme is seeking nominations, and the prizes will be presented for the first time this summer. PTMA is [...]

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There seems to be a movement in some academic/consultancy circles which seeks to denigrate and dismiss the whole concept of generalised cost modeling as “deterministic”, and replace it with some fuzzy concepts built round web marketing. These would be designed, to quote one recent letter to the editor of ‘Local Transport Today’ magazine to “make [...]

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