Is the bus sector young at heart?
In his latest column for Passenger Transport magazine, pteg Director Jonathan Bray asks if the bus sector is doing all it can for young people. Young people are the most regular users of buses and they are the future – yet their needs are too often overlooked by operators.
Change is in the air – the new big issues
In his regular column for Passenger Transport Magazine pteg Director Jonathan Bray reflects on some of the more interesting (but overlooked) trends from the last five years, which raise questions for the next five.
Why Nottingham wants change
In his latest column for Passenger Transport Magazine, Jonathan Bray explains why Nottingham’s leaders want a city that’s more legible and easier to get around, and why the city’s buses must find their place in this vision.
What I discovered on Planet Freight
In his latest column for Passenger Transport magazine, pteg Director Jonathan Bray asks if freight is from Mars, is public transport from Venus? He presents ten key lessons for the inhabitants of Planet Public Transport from his trip to Planet Freight and argues that if it often seems like the two are world’s apart, they certainly […]
Are we in the last days of public transport?
In his regular column for Passenger Transport magazine, pteg Director Jonathan Bray explores the potential of disruptive technology to turn the world of public transport upside down.
The ‘big mo’ is now with devolution and bus regulation
An unstoppable momentum appears to be building around devolution and bus regulation. What a difference a week makes. It’s not clear yet whether this is quite a Berlin Wall moment on buses and devolution – but at the very least it’s the equivalent of mass demonstrations in Leipzig. And we all know where that led […]
Nine things I learnt at our 'Urban Freight: The Last Mile Challenge for Cities' conference
On Friday 26th September 2014, pteg, together with Landor Links and Transport for London, held a conference on ‘Urban Freight: The Last Mile Challenge for Cities’. The event was attended by over 60 UK and international delegates and speakers from transport authorities, freight operators, retailers, campaign groups, charities, consultancies and research bodies. The ‘last mile’ of […]
Greater devolution is coming. Shift up!
The North will rise again. Not in ten thousand years … Shift up! So, said Mark E Smith of the peerless and irascible band The Fall, in the brooding, relentless, mancabilly epic which is ‘The North Will Rise Again’. And post the Scottish referendum it does feel like there is a ‘shift up’ in the […]
Liberate us from the London-based elite
The relationship between London and the rest of the country is the most important single factor in transport policy. Every time the London-based policy elite are taken out of decision-making on local transport, local transport gets better. First of all a spoiler alert – this isn’t going to be a London bashing article or a […]
What a way to cost a railway
The railway’s cost allocation system is dumping costs on the sector least able to afford them – regional rail. It must be changed. And so it came to pass that the Office of Rail Regulation issued the subsidy figures for the different parts of the railway which were engraved on tablets of stone. And a […]