By Greg Marsden, This originally appeared on Fleet News What do people want from their transport system? Sustainable Mobility Week and the forthcoming Integrated National Transport Strategy are both opportunities to further flesh out what can feel like an age-old debate. It is possible to point to places in the middle of big cities where … Read more
By Elena Alyavina and Carlos Lopez-Galviz, “How many different alternative uses can you imagine for a parking space?” read the opening question of the first Creative Sprint, run by the INFUZE team and Ahead Partnership at Carr Manor Community School in Moortown, Leeds. In just three minutes, nine groups of four to six Year 10 … Read more
by Greg Marsden, The INFUZE response to the Integrated National Transport Strategy is now available. Drawing on our Call to Action which engaged around 500 citizens in Leeds, we have provided some reflections on what an integrated transport strategy should deliver. Defining success Of course, there are lots of day-to-day experiences of things that don’t … Read more
By Jillian Anable, In my work on car dependence and travel demand reduction, there is something that I have been fascinated and frustrated by in equal measure. Rarely have I had a personal or professional conversation about the need to reduce car dependence without immediately triggering an extreme reaction seemingly out of nowhere. It goes … Read more
By Greg Marsden, The media is full of coverage of the dilemma facing Chancellor Rachel Reeves at the forthcoming budget. Professor Greg Marsden suggests that anything that is announced in the budget will just be a sticking plaster. The real issue, he argues is the £79bn we spend on simply owning, maintaining and insuring cars … Read more