Campaign For Better Transport
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The road haulage industry has an insatiable appetite for ever bigger lorries and each time uses the same justification for bigger trucks – that there will be fewer, bigger, fuller…
However, the MD of TRL, which will carry out the £8m independent evaluation and trial for the Government, was already hugely supportive of the technology in a Channel Four News…
In fact every rail freight slot (path) which comes free at Felixstowe can be filled straight away with repressed demand for another 15 trains a day out of Felixstowe on…
The poll, commissioned by Campaign for Better Transport, shows that almost two thirds of the public (61%) want more freight on the railways with only two per cent wanting to…
How do you put a monetary value on the health impacts of air pollution, a price on the environmental damage from CO2, or the safety of pedestrians on a specific…
Direct Rail Services (DRS) has bought 10 class 88 locomotives from Stadler in Spain which it is introducing into the UK now. The Class 88 can go anywhere on the…
Campaign for Better Transport has long urged the Government to look at transport infrastructure holistically across the modes on the basis that building more road capacity will stimulate more road…
A freight train carrying clothing and a range of consumer products will arrive at the DB Cargo Eurohub terminal at Barking, London, all the way from China at 1pm on…
Consumer traffic grew 7 per cent in the first quarter of the 2016-17 year, which is the highest level since 1998; and 4 per cent in the second quarter compared…
Carbon reduction through greater use of rail is rightly centre stage in both this Government’s policy and the DfT Freight Carbon Review, due to be published shortly. If Arup’s recommendations,…
Freight logistics expert AV Dawson is a £23m, family-owned and run business that has been operating in the Teesside area for over 78 years. Its 100-acre freight handling facility is…
There are significant opportunities to reduce freight’s emissions so it is welcome that the Department for Transport (DfT) has initiated this review to feed into the DECC carbon budget 5…
Unit 407
164/180 Union Street,
Waterloo,
London,
SE1 0LH