Highway authorities could gain powers to charge utilities up to £2,500 a day to perform roadworks, under plans put out for consultation today by the government.
Local authorities have been given eight months to produce initial plans to tackle nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution produced by diesel-fuelled vehicles.
Rail passengers’ satisfaction with train operators either improved or remained static in the past year, the annual survey by watchdog Transport Focus has found.
The government’s decision to green light Crossrail 2, while plunging the future of a series of northern projects into doubt shows that decision-making needs to relocate, says IPPR North’s...
Transport secretary Chris Grayling has given the green light to London’s Crossrail 2 project, infuriating northern councils who only a few days earlier saw key rail electrification projects...
HS2 Ltd ignored orders from the Department for Transport and wasted £1.76m of public money on an excessively generous redundancy scheme, auditors have found.
Campaign groups hoping to open new rail lines or stations must assemble a persuasive business case and know how to access funds, a new guide to the process advises.
MSPs have backed the principle behind Scottish Government plans to cut and eventually abolish air travel tax, but criticised finance secretary Derek Mackay for failing to commission any independent...
A government programme to roll-out smart ticketing on train lines in the South East of England failed to meet its original objectives, a National Audit Office report has found.
The use of local buses has increased by 19% in some urban areas, driven by the introduction of greener and more convenient services, according to Greener Journeys.
MPs have called for significant reforms to the rail franchising system including how contracts are managed, following high-profile disputes on the Southern network.
The Scottish Government is to pilot raising a levy on exhaust pollution from heavy vehicles, as part of a renewed drive to meet long-term C02 emissions reduction targets.
Government proposals to improve the coordination between different parts of the rail industry may make sense, but they are unlikely to be enough to drive real change
A government project to build a commercial airport on the UK overseas territory of St Helena at a cost of £285m was a “fiasco” that “unquestionably failed” taxpayers, the Public Accounts Committee...
Transport secretary Chris Grayling has today set out reform plans for the rail network that will see state-owned Network Rail work more closely with train operators under new franchise agreements.
Facts and figures from the December 2016 edition of Public Finance magazine on infrastructure, state pensions, the benefits of buses, and crime big and small
The Department for Transport’s bungled modernisation of the Great Western railway offers “a case study in how not to manage a major programme”, the head of the National Audit Office has said.
