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Sustainable transport should be in the mainstream of the transport agenda |
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| Concluding the Sustainable Mobility Convention organised by the CIVINET UK & Ireland Network in London yesterday Phil Goodwin, professor of transport policy at the University of West of England and emeritus professor at University College London, said that the clear message coming from the event was that “sustainable transport should be in the mainstream of the transport agenda, not on the fringe”. To read the full press article please click here. | |
| TTR Summer Newsletter 2010 | |
| TTR Summer Newsletter 2010 is now available to view - please click here | |
| CIVINET Network launches annual event (July 2010) | |
| The European Commission's CIVITAS Programme has helped 58 demonstration cities implement ambitious measures to achieve more sustainable transport systems. Through the CIVINET UK & Ireland Network , good practice and lessons learned are disseminated to a wide range of local authorities and transport practitioners. The First Annual Sustainable Mobility Convention on 20 – 21 September 2010 in Westminster is a key information and networking event for local authorities and other parties interested in sustainable mobility solutions. Please click here to view the event advert. | |
| Transport & Travel Research Ltd expands its freight expertise (July 2010) | |
| Stephen Kelly has joined TTR as an Associate in the freight team. Stephen, who was formerly the Head of Policy (Midlands, Wales & South West) for the Freight Transport Association based out of their Leamington Spa office, has also worked for the FTA for more than 8 years in developing and producing Regional Freight Strategies for the North West and West Midlands. He was also responsible for the FTA's Urban Logistics Policy which included night time deliveries, road user charging and local transport plans. To view the press release please click here | |
| Transport and Travel Research Limited and TRL (23/06/2010) | |
| TRL (Transport Research Laboratory) and TTR (Transport and Travel Research Limited) are holding discussions with a view to forming a partnership arrangement between the two companies. This follows a period of successful bidding and partnering in a number of projects. Further information will be announced once details have been finalised. The partnership has the potential to offer customers a wider range of services to better meet their needs and provide added value. To view the press release please click here |
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| The Desire for a quiet life: the future of urban freight deliveries (May 2010) | |
| The DfT's Quiet Deliveries Programme aims to formulate and disseminate best practice on how Councils and the freight industry can ensure goods are deliveried to retailers outside normal business hours whilst miminising the noise nusiance for residents. To find out more please click here to view the recent article in Local Transport Today | |
| British Sugar and NFU reveal transport efficiency study findings (March 2010) | |
| NFU and British Sugar inform beet growers and hauliers next week on the findings of a sugar beet transport efficiency study conducted by TTR and WSP during 2009. Read more | |
| Local authorities gather their sustainable transport experts for meeting in Winchester (March 2010) | |
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Local authorities are meeting at the Royal Hotel in Winchester on the 30 March 2010 to discuss UK and Ireland EC grant-aided sustainable transport demonstration projects. The event, hosted by Hampshire County Council, is the third of its kind for the CIVINET sustainable mobility network, a membership organisation for local authority transport experts and other professional transport organisations. CIVINET is a national network in the UK and Ireland for sustainable mobility experts and is grant-aided by the European Commission and supported by DfT and the Local Government Association. The series of events offer members the opportunity to learn about the European Commission's CIVITAS initiative and opportunities for EC research and demonstration funding. Please click here to view the press release |
| Two New Year Appointments at TTR London! (January 2010) | |
| Mark Fell has been appointed Associate at transport consultancy, Transport & Travel Research Ltd. Formerly Director of Commercial Sector with transport systems supplier, Trapeze Group, Mark will grow the Intelligent Transport Systems capability at TTR's London office. Victoria Angell, another new addition to the London office, joins TTR as Communications Manager to work on project dissemination as well as company communications. Please click here to view the press release |
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| TTR Winter Newsletter 2009 | |
| TTR Winter Newsletter 2009 is now available to view - please click here | |
| TTR London (November 2009) | ||
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TTR's dedicated London team has been working to develop sustainable transport solutions with a range of clients in the Capital. To find out more about TTR in London please click here |
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| Director Chris Douglas Adds to TTR's Sustainable Transport Expertise in London (August 2009) | ||
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TTR announces the relocation of Chris Douglas to its London Office, to further strengthen the company's sustainable transport and smarter choices team in London . He joins TTR's London Office at its new location in Grosvenor Gardens , to add his particular expertise in the field of Delivery and Servicing Plans (DSPs) and Freight Quality Partnerships to the existing team of travel planning and smarter choices experts. Chris was formerly Manager of the Department for Transport's Freight Best Practice programme, and a Regional Policy Manager and Transport Advisor for the Freight Transport Association, and is a freight & logistics specialist with over 15 years' experience. Click here to view the press release. |
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New Appointment for TTR's London Office (June 2009) |
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Donald Chalker joins the TTR London office as a Principal Consultant, from the Central London Freight Quality Partnership, which he managed for two years. He successfully applied his transport and planning background in helping to bring private and public sectors together to improve freight deliveries and servicing in central London . He developed and extended the work of the Partnership during changes in London 's sub-regional structure. He is an experienced project manager, with an understanding of freight, passenger and accessible transport, having worked in both the public and private sectors as a contractor and client . He graduated from Loughborough University of Technology with a degree in Transport Management and Planning, and also has a Master of Business Administration (MBA). |
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| European Biomethane Fuel Final Conference (to be held - 7th - 9th September 2009) | ||
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The "European Biomethane Fuel Conference” will be held in Göteborg (Sweden ), between the 7th and 9th of September 2009 . With 400 participants expected, this major event will provide a strong focus on the results brought from the demonstrations and researches carried out for 4 years by the twenty-eight BIOGASMAX partners. For more information about the Conference, please click here or to find out more about BiogasMax please click here. Otherwise if you would like to register for the event please click here. |
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TTR Recruitment (January 2009) (May 2009) |
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TTR are currently recruiting for consultants and senior consultants. To find out more please click here. |
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CIVITAS-SUCCESS Seminar (December 2008) |
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On the 18th of December 2008 , a seminar on accessibility in public transport will be organised in La Rochelle , within the frame of the CIVITAS-SUCCESS project. To find out more please click here. |
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TTR is pleased to announce the publication of our work, commissioned by Natural England on 'The Impacts of Leisure Travel'. The report identifies and quantifies the impacts of leisure travel on the natural environment and provides information on the social and economic benefits of sustainable lesiure travel. The report also highlights a number of measures which can mitigate these impacts and outlines some potential funding sources for more sustainable travel. To find out more and to download the report, please click here. |
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TTR Summer Newsletter (September 2008)
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The TTR Summer 2008 Newsletter is now available to view. Please click here to view the Newsletter. Pdf's of each of the articles are available to download if required. |
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| SUCCESS Seminar (September 2008) | ||
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Within the frameworks of the European Commission's CIVITAS Initiative and the Intelligent Energy Europe Programme, the CIVITAS-SUCCESS project is organising a training seminar in conjunction with the STEER-MIDAS project on the subject of how best to promote soft measures in transport. The seminar on 31st October 2008 will show how the cities of Liverpool , Preston , Aalborg , Clermont-Ferrand , Ploiesti , and Suceava , supported by European programmes, have undertaken actions amongst the most innovative in Europe. Please click here for more information |
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Another new arrival! (August 2008) |
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David Rushton is a new arrival in TTR's West Midlands Office, in Lichfield. David, who has lived in Lichfield all his life, joins us as a Consultant, having graduated in “Planning with Transport” from the University of the West of England, Bristol . |
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New Arrivals! (June 2008) |
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Joze Stivan is an experienced Project Manager & Programme Coordinator with eleven years' professional experience in successful support and delivery of projects in both the public and private sector. Joze's experience includes studies of airport and aviation expansion, transport planning and integration, bus priority measures, traffic enforcement, network management plans and route management strategy. Joze joins TTR as an Associate. Chris Penn , who will be working alongside Joze as a Consultant, graduated from the University of East Anglia with a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Science, and is currently working on Travel Plans for major DIY chain B&Q, Faith Destination Travel Planning and the South London Freight Quality Partnership. Samantha Jones , Samantha Jones, now a Senior Consultant in TTR's Lichfield Office, previously worked at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. Whilst at the Centre, Sam's responsibilities included project and financial management, as well as staff development and governance strategies. Sam then completed an MA in Applied Research and Consultancy at Lancaster University , during which she worked part-time for Sustrans' TravelSmart scheme during 2007. Immediately prior to joining TTR, Sam carried out some freelance consultancy contributing to community street audits for Living Streets. |
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British Retail Consortium (May 2008)
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We at TTR have been working with the British Retail Consortium to help retailers and local councils to discuss the issue of access to town centres. Retailers know that better parking and reduced congestion can increase footfall. The result of this work has been the production of a 'tool-kit' for addressing town centre access issues, which has recently been distributed to local authorities. For a fuller description of this project please click to be taken to our current newsletter for more information. |
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The TTR Winter 2007 Newsletter is now available to view. Please click here to view the Newsletter. Pdf's of each of the articles are available to download if required. |
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ECLIPSE (October 2007)
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ECLIPSE ( European Cooperation and Learning to Implement Transport Solutions to combat E xclusion) is one of 24 projects funded under the European Commission 2nd Transnational Exchange Programme (TEP) which forms part of the Community Programme. The aim of ECLIPSE was to address the issue of the transport impacts on social exclusion and build on the conclusions of MATISSE which highlights the important impacts that transport can have in increasing exclusion; and how transport policy, properly integrated in joint working with social agencies could encourage greater inclusion. The project commenced in September 2005 and finished August 2007. To view the ECLIPSE website and associated deliverables produced as part of the work - please click here www.eclipse-eu.net |
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Off Street Parking for Disabled People (October 2007)
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TTR are pleased to announce the publication of our work on tackling the abuse of off-street parking spaces for disabled people in Scotland. The reports and research findings for the above report can be found be clicking the relevant link. |
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Able-bodied drivers abusing parking bays for disabled (29.09.2007)
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Transport and Travel Research Ltd interviewed 30 parking bay abusers for a report, published by the Scottish Government to highlight the number and type of drivers who wrongly use parking bays meant for disabled people. To read the whole article located in The Herald Newspaper please click here. |
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Partner Project Final Conference (September 2007)
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The PARTNER project Final Conference entitled “Sustainable Transport Options for City Visitors” was held on 27 th September 2007. The conference hosted by Merseytravel with support from TTR was held at Blackburne House in Liverpool and reflected the results achieved within the European INTERREGIIIB PARTNER project. The conference, which attracted 80 delegates from the UK and Europe , took a practical approach and covered the following topics:
To download a report on the event and copies of the presentations click here. |
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TTR Summer Newsletter (August 2007)
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The TTR Summer 2007 Newsletter is now available to view. Please click here to view the Newsletter. Pdf's of each of the articles are available to download if required. |
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Transport Practitioners Meeting, Manchester, 7th July 2007
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At the 2007 Transport Practitioners' Meeting, held at the University of Manchester, Transport & Travel Research conducted an informal survey of the travel choices of those attending the meeting. A total of 49 people participated in the survey, which asked the following questions: How did you travel to the conference in Manchester? Where did you travel from? What was the greatest influence on your choice? Please click here to review the analysis fact sheet of the 49 surveys completed. |
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Chris Douglas joins TTR! (July 2007) |
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TTR welcomed a new senior member of staff on the 2nd of July. Chris Douglas joined us as a Senior Associate. Chris is a freight specialist with over 13 years\' experience in operational, advisory and consultancy roles, having previously been with Faber Maunsell, where he was Programme Manager of Freight Best Practice, on behalf of the Department for Transport. His particular project interests include local HGV overnight parking studies, Freight Quality Partnerships (FQPs) and fuel management programmes for operators. Chris is based in TTR\'s Bristol Office. Chris will be assisted in the development of TTR's freight interests by Alan Lewis, who has recently been promoted from Senior Associate to Director, with a place on the Main Board. Alan, who is based in TTR's Nottingham Office, also has interests in the areas of sustainable transport, clean vehicles and alternative fuels. |
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