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      <title>PRT</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/PRT</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/PRT</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[PRT, standing for Personal Rapid Transit, is an idea that has been around for a long time but rarely implemented. Cars and bikes take us where we want to go, point to point. Buses and trains force us to[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 6 February 2012 10:50:30 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>Exhibition Road</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Exhibition_Road</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Exhibition_Road</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[I took the opportunity of a visit to the Science Museum in South Kengington, London, to walk along the renovated Exhibition Road,&nbsp; just opened as a 'shared space' for people and vehicles, rather than[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 3 February 2012 10:15:06 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>Technology companies in central London</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Technology_companies_in_central_London</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Technology_companies_in_central_London</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[An article in the Financial Times notes that technology companies are renting office space in central London. For instance, Google has taken 155,000 square feet in Covent Garden.&nbsp; In times past, a[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 2 February 2012 14:42:36 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>Rail-based regeneration</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Rail-based_regeneration</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Rail-based_regeneration</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[Much of East London is undergoing economic regeneration based on investment in rail infrastructure. This started with the Docklands Light Railway which triggered the development of Canary Wharf as a high[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 17 January 2012 12:42:58 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>High Speed 2 to go ahead</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/High_Speed_2_to_go_ahead</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/High_Speed_2_to_go_ahead</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[
The Government has announced its decision to proceed with
the High Speed 2 rail route north from London, initially
to Birmingham and in a second phase branching to
Manchester and to Leeds
in a Y[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Wed, 11 January 2012 12:33:01 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>More efficient cars</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/More_efficient_cars</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/More_efficient_cars</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[An article in The Economist reports the increasing efficiency of petrol and diesel engined vehicles, driven by more stringent regulatory requirments for CO2 emission reductions. The result will be that[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 12 December 2011 14:55:40 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>Strategic Road Network</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Strategic_Road_Network</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Strategic_Road_Network</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The Highways Agency (HA), responsible for England's Strategic Road Network (SRN), is the most cautious and conservative of all the public agencies that I have come across.&nbsp; Their forte is commissioning[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 1 December 2011 11:34:34 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>Boris Bikes</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Boris_Bikes</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Boris_Bikes</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[Tim Pharoah, a seasoned transport expert, has a letter in the current Local Transport Today in which he questions the point of the Boris Bikes, the rental bikes in central London installed by the Mayor,[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Wed, 23 November 2011 12:14:38 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>Tax Increment Financing</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Tax_Increment_Financing</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Tax_Increment_Financing</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The Government proposes to introduce Tax Increment Financing (TIF) as a means to help the regeneration of cities. TIF is a funding mechanism developed in the US, the aim of which is to allow local authorities[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 14 November 2011 17:05:45 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>High Speed Rail - Transport Committee's view</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/High_Speed_Rail_-_Transport_Committee%27s_view</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/High_Speed_Rail_-_Transport_Committee%27s_view</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The House of Commons Transport Committee has published a report on the contentious proposal to build a high speed rail line north out of London. While broadly supporting the intention, the Committee identifies[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 11 November 2011 15:48:04 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>The Quest</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/The_Quest</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/The_Quest</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[I've been reading Daniel Yergin's new book, 'The Quest', all 700 pages, which deals with oil supply and demand, climate change, other fuels including nuclear and renewables, with a final section on transport.&nbsp;[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Wed, 9 November 2011 10:58:48 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>Decoupling oil and road transport</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Decoupling_oil_and_road_transport</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Decoupling_oil_and_road_transport</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[I attended a seminar to launch a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research on decoupling oil consumption and road transport. The report recognises what is sometimes called the 'peak car' trend,[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Wed, 2 November 2011 10:00:14 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>Public transport and peak oil</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Public_transport_and_peak_oil</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Public_transport_and_peak_oil</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[I attended a recent meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil and Gas at the House of Commons at which Tim Pharoah spoke about the role of public transport in reducing oil use. Tim is a[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 24 October 2011 15:42:29 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>Trams in Bordeaux</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Trams_in_Bordeaux</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Trams_in_Bordeaux</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[I took the opportunity of a visit to France to ride on the tram system in Bordeaux.&nbsp; We drove to the Park&amp;Ride car park on the edge of the city, paid the modest sum of 3 euros for all-day parking[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 18 October 2011 14:58:19 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>New trams</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/New_trams</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/New_trams</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The Department for Transport has published a supportive report on light rail, trams and other rapid transit systems. One interesting innovation identified is the tram-train, pioneered in Germany, which[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Wed, 12 October 2011 10:54:43 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>New-build hot spots</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/New-build_hot_spots</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/New-build_hot_spots</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[An article in the Financial Times suggest that new-build property prices in parts of London are poised to rise rapidly as regeneration and new transport links make previously unloved areas more attractive[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 10 October 2011 16:03:35 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>NPPF 2</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/NPPF_2</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/NPPF_2</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 7 October 2011 14:21:54 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>Raising motorway speed limits</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Raising_motorway_speed_limits</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Raising_motorway_speed_limits</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The UK Government has announced its intention to consult on rasing the speed limit on motorways from 70 to 80mph.&nbsp; The main reason seems to be that this "could provide hundreds of millions 
of pounds[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 4 October 2011 14:08:36 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>The end of motoring?</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/The_end_of_motoring%3F</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/The_end_of_motoring%3F</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[I was quoted in a well researched article in the Guardian speculating that the love affair with the car may be over.&nbsp;
I had taken up an invitation from the author of the piece, Alex Rayner, to visit[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 30 September 2011 12:22:06 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>National Planning Policy Framework</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/National_Planning_Policy_Framework</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/National_Planning_Policy_Framework</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The Goverment has issued a draft National Planning Policy Framework for consultation.&nbsp; This has stirred up controversy on account of the proposed 'presumption in favour of sustainable development'[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 15 September 2011 14:54:57 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>New aviation forecasts</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/New_aviation_forecasts</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/New_aviation_forecasts</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[
The
Department for Transport has published new aviation forecasts.&nbsp; These differ from the 2009
forecasts in that it is now assumed, in line with the Coalition Government&rsquo;s
policy, that[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 6 September 2011 10:12:39 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>Effective use of time on trains</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Effective_use_of_time_on_trains</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Effective_use_of_time_on_trains</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[
Glenn
Lyons and his colleagues at the University of the West of England have updated
their 2004 survey of time use by rail passengers. Not surprisingly,
they conclude that the assumption in economic[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 1 September 2011 10:11:37 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>Oxera report on High Speed Rail</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Oxera_report_on_High_Speed_Rail</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Oxera_report_on_High_Speed_Rail</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[
The
economic consultancy, Oxera, has issued a critique of the economic case for the
Government&rsquo;s High Speed Rail programme, commissioned by the House of Commons
Transport Committee.&nbsp; The[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 1 September 2011 10:10:46 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>ITNAmerica</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/ITNAmerica</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/ITNAmerica</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[
I attended a most interesting seminar at
the Young Foundation given by Katherine Freund, the founder of the Independent Transport Network which provides auto transport to US older people who can no[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 26 August 2011 10:09:33 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>National Travel Survey 2010</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/National_Travel_Survey_2010</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/National_Travel_Survey_2010</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The Department for Transport has published the findings of NTS 2010.&nbsp; This covers all modes of travel except international travel by air.&nbsp; Average travel has been on a slightly declining trend[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 1 August 2011 8:53:35 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>Oxera report on High Speed Rail</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Oxera_report_on_High_Speed_Rail</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Oxera_report_on_High_Speed_Rail</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[
The economic consultancy, Oxera, has issued a critique of
the economic case for the Government&rsquo;s High Speed Rail programme, commissioned
by the House of Commons Transport Committee.&nbsp; The[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 11 July 2011 9:08:58 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>NTS Review</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/NTS_Review</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/NTS_Review</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[
The Department for Transport is reviewing the National
Travel Survey, the jewel in the crown of DfT&rsquo;s data collection.&nbsp; The NTS is the longest and most comprehensive
of all such national[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 8 July 2011 10:30:05 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>David Simmonds</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/David_Simmonds</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/David_Simmonds</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[David Simmonds, a well-known transport and land use consultant, gave a seminar recently at University College London, a summary of which was published in Local Transport Today of 1 July. He joins with[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 7 July 2011 10:00:40 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Traffic prediction</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Traffic_prediction</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Traffic_prediction</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[
IBM are advertising their Traffic
Predication Tool that uses historical traffic data and real-time traffic input
from a municipality's transport system to predict traffic flows over pre-set
durations[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 5 July 2011 3:37:30 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Charging EVs</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Charging_EVs</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Charging_EVs</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The biggest strategic policy objective for the Department for Transport is very largely to decarbonise surface transport, consistent with an overall reduction of carbon emissions of 80% by 2050.&nbsp;[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 4 July 2011 6:54:40 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Sustrans at City Hall</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Sustrans_at_City_Hall</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Sustrans_at_City_Hall</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[With London's Mayoral election next year, Sustrans, which campaigns for bike travel, held a question session at City Hall for politicians representing the main parties. Sustrans has launched a London Manifesto[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Sun, 3 July 2011 8:06:08 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Investment in walking</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Investment_in_walking</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Investment_in_walking</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[A useful review of the research literature on the case for investment in walking commissioned by Living Streets, formerly the Pedestrians Association. Generally persuasive, with a number of case studies.&nbsp;[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 20 June 2011 9:12:18 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Crossrail: greatest in the western world</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Crossrail%3A_greatest_in_the_western_world</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Crossrail%3A_greatest_in_the_western_world</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at the Mansion House on 15 June said, of the City of London:
We&rsquo;re officially the number one place to do 
business &ndash; so 
instead of[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 17 June 2011 6:38:05 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>Peak Oil at Parliament</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Peak_Oil_at_Parliament</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Peak_Oil_at_Parliament</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[I attended a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil at which the speaker was Dr Oliver Inderwildi of the Smith School, Oxford Uiversity. He is lead author of the Future of Mobility Roadmap,[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 16 June 2011 3:57:03 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>Rail travel subsidies</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Rail_travel_subsidies</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Rail_travel_subsidies</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The Department for Transport recently published a thorough and detailed study by Sir Roy McNulty titled&nbsp; 'Realsing the potential of GB rail'.
In recent years tax payers' support for the rail industry[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 14 June 2011 8:02:10 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Peak car travel</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Peak_car_travel</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Peak_car_travel</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The OECD's International Transport Forum has published its Transport Outlook 2011, a macroscopic view of trends in transport demand and services over the next 40 years. It is admitted that projections[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 9 June 2011 1:59:07 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Wage stagnation</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Wage_stagnation</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Wage_stagnation</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The historic growth of personal travel ceased around 1995, according to the National Travel Survey, and per capita car use stopped growing a few years later.&nbsp; I have argued that this reflects the[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 7 June 2011 1:48:15 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Liveable cities</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Liveable_cities</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Liveable_cities</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[One theme to emerge at the OECD's recent International Transport Forum is the role of transport in making cities more liveable. Extensive car use works against cities that work for people.&nbsp; A nice[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 6 June 2011 7:18:03 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Cycling and evolution</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Cycling_and_evolution</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Cycling_and_evolution</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[At the recent International Transport Forum panel on mobility and access in which I participated, Manfred Neun, president of the European Cyclists' Federation, chided me for saying little about cycling[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 3 June 2011 7:58:54 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Car sharing at ITF</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Car_sharing_at_ITF</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Car_sharing_at_ITF</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[At the recent International Transport Forum which I attended there was interesting discussion about the prospects for car sharing.&nbsp; This is proposed as an efficient use of cars and of parking space.&nbsp;[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 2 June 2011 2:52:16 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>International Transport Forum</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/International_Transport_Forum</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/International_Transport_Forum</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[I was invited by the OECD to prepare a paper for, and participate in the meeting of the International Transport Forum held in Leipzig&nbsp; 25-27 May 2011.&nbsp; This is the annnual meeting on transport[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Wed, 1 June 2011 2:41:34 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>Top Gear</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Top_Gear</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Top_Gear</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[I mentioned in an April blog an article in Prospect magazine about the 'peak car' idea.&nbsp; In response, a letter in the June issue says: 'Most drivers are not really interested in cars; they see them[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 7:27:32 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>DfT prioritising investments</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/DfT_prioritising_investments</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/DfT_prioritising_investments</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The Department 
for Transport has announced a new process for prioritising transport investments.&nbsp; The 
requirement to set out the Strategic Case for an investment is a welcome 
advance.&nbsp;[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 7:59:43 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>End of the car?</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/End_of_the_car%3F</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/End_of_the_car%3F</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[Some of my analysis of car use is picked up in an article in The Independent today, along with thinking of Phil Goodwin and Lynn Sloman.&nbsp; There is emerging evidence that the historic growth of car[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 5:47:36 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>Going with the flow</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Going_with_the_flow</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Going_with_the_flow</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[
Travel is not just about getting from A to B. There is the
experience of travelling, being mobile, than can add to the quality of our
lives.&nbsp; The evidence is mostly anecdotal,
and I am interested[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 1:56:16 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>Transport use of carbon</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Transport_use_of_carbon</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Transport_use_of_carbon</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[I attended a symposium arranged by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport to discuss the draft report of a study on the transport use of carbon, aimed at informing major decisions about carbon[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 1:46:33 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>Travel in London Report 3</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Travel_in_London_Report_3</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Travel_in_London_Report_3</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[
I have been catching up with the third annual issue of
Travel in London published by Transport for London recently. This is a
substantial 290 page document, an impressively detailed compendium of data[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2011 10:57:21 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>Local Transport White Paper</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Local_Transport_White_Paper</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Local_Transport_White_Paper</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[
I have been catching up with the White Paper on
Local Transport issued by the Department for Transport last January.&nbsp; It didn&rsquo;t hit the headlines at the time,
despite the worthy title &ndash;[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2011 7:16:26 GMT</pubDate>

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      <title>Prospect magazine: peak car use</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Prospect_magazine%3A_peak_car_use</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Prospect_magazine%3A_peak_car_use</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[A short article in the May issue of Prospect magazine reviews recent ideas from Phil Goodwin, myself and other researchers that car use in the West might have peaked.&nbsp; The author is James Crabtree,[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 25 April 2011 3:14:07 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Aviation policy</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Aviation_policy</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Aviation_policy</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[
The Department for Transport recently published a scoping
document as a step towards developing a sustainable framework for aviation. The
starting point is the Coalition Government&rsquo;s opposition[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 21 April 2011 4:08:30 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Electric car range</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Electric_car_range</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Electric_car_range</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[An article in The Observer of 17 April reports the launch by Ford of three new vehicles, electric and hybrid.&nbsp; I was struck by what Ford said about range: 'You can get journeys of around 80 miles[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Sun, 17 April 2011 2:23:30 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Wind in your hair</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Wind_in_your_hair</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Wind_in_your_hair</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[A news story today reports that Norman Baker, junior minister at the Department for Transport responsible for cycling, walking and local
 transport and lifelong bike enthusiast, has reignited a debate[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Sat, 9 April 2011 6:56:07 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Critique of transport appraisal</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Critique_of_transport_appraisal</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Critique_of_transport_appraisal</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[There has been a good deal of debate recently amongst experts, mostly below the radar, about the validity of the standard approach to economic appraisal of transport investments.&nbsp; In a nutshell, the[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 5 April 2011 6:36:28 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Office conversions</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Office_conversions</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Office_conversions</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[News item: the Government plans to allow conversion of office blocks to housing without the need for planning consent.&nbsp; Currently 7-9% of commercial property is vacant.&nbsp; If all were converted,[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Sat, 19 March 2011 5:15:36 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Economics of High Speed Rail</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Economics_of_High_Speed_Rail</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Economics_of_High_Speed_Rail</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[
The Government has issued a consultation document on its
proposals for the High Speed 2 route from London
to Birmingham
and beyond.&nbsp; The prospectus is this:
&lsquo;A new high speed rail network[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 7 March 2011 7:37:11 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Demographic Change and the Environment</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Demographic_Change_and_the_Environment</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Demographic_Change_and_the_Environment</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[I attended the launch of the 29th and final report of The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution on the topic Demographic Change and the Environment.&nbsp; The Commission is being stood down by the[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 22 February 2011 8:22:12 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Smarter Choices in the Lords</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Smarter_Choices_in_the_Lords</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Smarter_Choices_in_the_Lords</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The House of Lords Science and Technology is holding an inquiry into behavioural change as this may reduce car use in towns and cities.&nbsp; I was invited to submit written evidence.

My view is that[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 14 February 2011 4:19:28 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Nudging older drivers</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Nudging_older_drivers</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Nudging_older_drivers</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[I attended the launch at the RAC Club of the report 'Can older drivers be nudged?' sponsored by the RAC Foundation and the International Longevity Centre UK.&nbsp; It concludes that self-regulation by[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 10 February 2011 6:50:30 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Lagos</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Lagos</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Lagos</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[Lagos, Nigeria, has serious traffic problems.&nbsp; Car commuters may have to leave home at 5.30am to get to work at 8am.&nbsp; A Guardian article reports plans to develop a rail network.
Globally, urban[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 18 January 2011 1:55:23 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Parking availabilty</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Parking_availabilty</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Parking_availabilty</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[As part of an annoucement to allow electric car charging points to be installed in public places without the need for planning permission, ministers from the Department of Communities and Local Government[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 11 January 2011 4:51:04 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Planning Curses</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Planning_Curses</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Planning_Curses</comments>

      <description><![CDATA['Planning Curses' is the title of a paper by the economist Bridget Rosewell, published by think tank Policy Exchange, which challenges conventional approaches to justifying investment in infrastructure.[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 3 January 2011 8:02:44 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Structure and function</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Structure_and_function</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Structure_and_function</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[
David Quarmby, a very experienced transport practitioner,
recently gave a lecture to the Transport Planning Society on whether the UK&rsquo;s
institutional structure for public transport is fit for[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 20 December 2010 9:04:25 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Travel demand and demographic change</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Travel_demand_and_demographic_change</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Travel_demand_and_demographic_change</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[I have an article in the current Local Transport Today on how future travel demand will depend on where the growth of the population will be accomodated - on green field or brown field sites for new housing.&nbsp;[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 14 December 2010 2:44:47 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>The case for High Speed Rail</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/The_case_for_High_Speed_Rail</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/The_case_for_High_Speed_Rail</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The Government is strongly committed to the construction of High Speed 2, a new railway north out of London.&nbsp; The economic case for this is not clear, in my view. So I have been looking out for Department[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 6 December 2010 8:25:07 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Transport and the Economy 2</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Transport_and_the_Economy_2</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Transport_and_the_Economy_2</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The House of Commons Transport Committee continues its inquiry into Transport and the Economy. The Committee has published the written evidence it received.&nbsp; I was particularly interested in the evidence[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Wed, 1 December 2010 9:21:44 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Conference: UK Transport and the Money Squeeze</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Conference%3A_UK_Transport_and_the_Money_Squeeze</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Conference%3A_UK_Transport_and_the_Money_Squeeze</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 22 November 2010 2:47:09 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>The Maintenance of Headway</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/The_Maintenance_of_Headway</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/The_Maintenance_of_Headway</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[
The Maintenance of Headway is the title of a short novel about bus driving by Magnus Mills, who used to be a bus driver and perhaps
still is.&nbsp; It is illuminating about the
management of a bus[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 12 November 2010 7:34:19 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Policy failure</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Policy_failure</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Policy_failure</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[
William Rickett, a former senior official at the Department for
Transport (and earlier a colleague of mine in the Department of Energy), has
reflected on policy developments in &lsquo;Lessons from[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 8 November 2010 5:42:12 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Eddie Stobart</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Eddie_Stobart</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Eddie_Stobart</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[I attended a seminar at the Centre for Transport Studies, Imperial College, given by Rchard Butcher, Deputy CEO of the Stobart Group, best known for their Eddie Stobart road haulage business, but now diversifying[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 28 October 2010 3:26:09 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Driving going out of fashion?</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Driving_going_out_of_fashion%3F</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Driving_going_out_of_fashion%3F</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[Simon Kuper, in the FT magazine, suggests that driving is going out of fashion. The car we buy reflects our aspirations, but the car has been shedding status on account of its contribution to climate change,[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 25 October 2010 4:17:48 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Scrapping your car</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Scrapping_your_car</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Scrapping_your_car</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[
I&rsquo;ve come across an interesting social enterprise called
Givecar which provides a service to ensure the scrapping cars is simple,
environmentally-friendly and benefits a charity of the car owner&rsquo;s[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Wed, 20 October 2010 3:17:14 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>CfIT and Freight Transport</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/CfIT_and_Freight_Transport</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/CfIT_and_Freight_Transport</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[
The Government has announced the abolition of the Commission
for Integrated Transport, an outcome of its cull of Quangos.&nbsp; CfIT was set up in 1998, in the early days of
the Labour Government,[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 14 October 2010 6:29:41 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>WEBs</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/WEBs</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/WEBs</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[
Pedro Abrantes, an economist with the Passenger Transport
Executive Group, has a Viewpoint piece in Local
Transport Today of 1 October in which he draws attention to a recent study
of the Wider Economic[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 11 October 2010 5:36:36 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Transport and the Economy</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Transport_and_the_Economy</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Transport_and_the_Economy</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The House of Commons Transport Committee is holding an inquiry into Transport and the Economy, looking at priorities for expenditure in an era of financial stringency.&nbsp; I have submitted evidence which[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 8 October 2010 3:06:20 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>'Broadly based unease'</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/%27Broadly_based_unease%27</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/%27Broadly_based_unease%27</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The Independent Transport Commission has issued a discussion paper on The Benefit, or Hidden Costs, of Social Cost Benefit Analysis, which refers to 'broadly based unease as to the fitness-for-purpose[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 4 October 2010 7:55:09 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Obliquity</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Obliquity</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Obliquity</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[
Obliquity is the title of a recent book by John Kay, a
respected economist with wide ranging interests. His proposition is that goals
are best achieved indirectly (obliquely).&nbsp; There is no discussion[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 1 October 2010 1:56:23 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Scoot to school</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Scoot_to_school</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Scoot_to_school</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The Economist reports the increasing use of the light three-wheel scooters to get children to school.&nbsp; One primary school in London finds one in seven pupils scoot in, with the proportion arriving[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 27 September 2010 9:58:36 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Electric vehicles downplayed</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Electric_vehicles_downplayed</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Electric_vehicles_downplayed</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[
An interesting letter in Ingenia, the journal of the Royal
Academy of Engineering, from Professors David Cebon and Nick Collings of the Cambridge University engineering Department,
expresses doubts[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 16 September 2010 9:53:36 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>London Mayor's Transport Strategy</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/London_Mayor%27s_Transport_Strategy</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/London_Mayor%27s_Transport_Strategy</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[
I attended a recent meeting of the Transport Planning Society
at the HQ of Transport for London
at which the speaker was Michelle Dix, Managing Director for Planning at TfL,
who gave an illuminating[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 13 September 2010 6:48:38 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Transport for suburbia</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Transport_for_suburbia</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Transport_for_suburbia</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[
Paul Mees, of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
has written an interesting book entitled Transport for Suburbia, in which he
makes a persuasive case that public transport can be viable in[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 10 September 2010 7:54:33 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Audit of models</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Audit_of_models</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Audit_of_models</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[Vanessa Kovacevic, an economist formerly of the Highways Agency, has an interesting Viewpoint piece in Local Transport Today of 3 September. She draws attention to the risk of coding errors in transport[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 6 September 2010 6:40:01 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Reykjavik traffic</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Reykjavik_traffic</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Reykjavik_traffic</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[I blogged recently about the dire traffic conditions in Moscow.&nbsp; I was recently in Iceland,
a country of 300,000 people in an area as big as England, where the contrast could
not be greater.&nbsp;[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 27 August 2010 6:59:24 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>FT article on IT solutions to congestion</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/FT_article_on_IT_solutions_to_congestion</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/FT_article_on_IT_solutions_to_congestion</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The Financial Times of 20 August carried a full page article by its Science Editor on IT developments to reduce road congestion.&nbsp; Although I've been following this topic for some time, the particular[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 23 August 2010 6:32:35 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Moscow traffic</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Moscow_traffic</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Moscow_traffic</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[An interesting article in The New Yorker describes Moscow&rsquo;s worsening
traffic in a city on the brink of transportational collapse. A strong desire
for car ownership has led to rapid growth, from[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Wed, 11 August 2010 3:14:31 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>NTS 2009</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/NTS_2009</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/NTS_2009</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The Department for Transport has published the results of the National Travel Survey for 2009. The summary states:&nbsp; 'There has been a steady falling trend in trip rates since 1995/97, while
 average[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Wed, 4 August 2010 5:41:58 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Vauxhall Ampera</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Vauxhall_Ampera</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Vauxhall_Ampera</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The Chevrolet Volt is the extensively heralded plug-in hybrid to be launched by General Motors.&nbsp; The UK version, known as the Vauxhall Ampera (why the switch from volts to amps, one wonders), has[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 26 July 2010 7:36:30 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Peak car?</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Peak_car%3F</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Peak_car%3F</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[I read with interest Phil Goodwin&rsquo;s Comment piece in Local Transport Today of 25 June in 
which he introduced the concept of &lsquo;peak car&rsquo;, and look forward to his promised 
further exposition.&nbsp;[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 1 July 2010 8:41:59 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Rail travel growth</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Rail_travel_growth</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Rail_travel_growth</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[Since the railway was privatised, passenger travel in Britain has grown by 60%.&nbsp; Seems like a big success - except that the government is bearing nearly half of the total cost, not what was intended[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 17 June 2010 3:28:49 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>'BA threatens to favour Madrid'</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/%27BA_threatens_to_favour_Madrid%27</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/%27BA_threatens_to_favour_Madrid%27</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[This was the headline in the Financial Times, reporting Willie Walsh, CEO of British Airways, saying that BA will expand at Madrid airport after it merges with Iberia, now that the UK government has scrapped[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 11 June 2010 6:51:39 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>'Saturation of demand for daily travel'</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/%27Saturation_of_demand_for_daily_travel%27</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/%27Saturation_of_demand_for_daily_travel%27</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[This is the title of a paper of mine, just published online prior to print publication in the peer-reviewed journal 'Transport Reviews'.&nbsp; I observe that personal travel in Britain has stabilised since[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 3 June 2010 3:07:14 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Travel on horseback</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Travel_on_horseback</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Travel_on_horseback</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[I spent last weekend on horseback, along the bridleways and drover roads of Radnorshire, on the Welsh Borders, travelling over the hills and between the villages.&nbsp; The pace is slow, mostly in walk,[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 3:12:41 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>BMW 320d</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/BMW_320d</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/BMW_320d</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[A review of the BMW 320d in the Financial Times caught my eye.&nbsp; This substantial 3-series sports saloon gives 68.9 mpg, emitting just 109g/km CO2, but is not a hybrid.&nbsp; Rather, the car exhibits[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 9:10:10 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>The New Government</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/The_New_Government</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/The_New_Government</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
The agreement between the Conservatives and the Liberal
Democrats that forms the basis for the new UK government coalition includes
transport commitments: &nbsp;no new runways at
Heathrow, Gatwick[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 7:03:00 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Transport for London Report 2</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Transport_for_London_Report_2</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Transport_for_London_Report_2</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
Transport for London has
published its comprehensive annual report about (of course) transport in London.&nbsp; A noteworthy phenomenon is that the shift to
public transport persists. In 2008 this[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 4 May 2010 2:04:17 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Social and distributional impacts</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Social_and_distributional_impacts</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Social_and_distributional_impacts</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
The Department for Transport has published a report on how to
include Social and Distributional Impacts (SDI) in transport appraisal.&nbsp; One outcome is new units for the Transport
Analysis Guidance[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 3 May 2010 3:58:19 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>A scandal?</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/A_scandal%3F</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/A_scandal%3F</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
I blogged recently on the report of the House of Commons
Transport Committee on &lsquo;The major road network.&rsquo;&nbsp; I have since been reading the evidence
submitted to the inquiry.&nbsp;[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 22 April 2010 3:34:46 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Crowdsourcing</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Crowdsourcing</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Crowdsourcing</comments>

      <description><![CDATA['Crowdsourcing' is shorthand for the trend of leveraging the mass collaboration enabled by Web 2.0
 technologies to achieve business goals. Wikipedia, from which this definition is taken, is the best[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 16 April 2010 4:38:01 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Population growth and transport</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Population_growth_and_transport</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Population_growth_and_transport</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution is carrying out a study into the environmetal effects of demographic change in the UK. The main concerns are

projected increases in the total population,
the[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 9 April 2010 3:44:59 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Transport Committee report: major road network</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Transport_Committee_report%3A_major_road_network</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Transport_Committee_report%3A_major_road_network</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The House of Commons Transport Committee has issued a report on &lsquo;The major road network.&rsquo;&nbsp; I had
submitted a memorandum when the inquiry was announced, and was invited to give
oral evidence.[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 1 April 2010 3:07:43 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>HS2 - the Report</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/HS2_-_the_Report</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/HS2_-_the_Report</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
I&rsquo;ve been catching up with the Government&rsquo;s bold plans for
High Speed Rail connections out of London to the
Midlands and the North, announced on 11
March.&nbsp; 
The Government considers[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 26 March 2010 9:05:03 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Health and travel</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Health_and_travel</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Health_and_travel</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
I attended a recent meeting of the London NHS Travel Network which promotes the development and uptake of travel plans among NHS Trusts, as
well as healthy lifestyles through walking and cycling schemes[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 22 March 2010 4:43:46 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>HS2</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/HS2</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/HS2</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
I attended a meeting of the Foundation for Science &amp;
Technology on the future strategy for High Speed Rail in the UK.&nbsp; The speakers were all rail enthusiasts, not
least Lord Adonis, Secretary[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 18 March 2010 6:39:49 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Effects of Smarter Choices</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Effects_of_Smarter_Choices</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Effects_of_Smarter_Choices</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The Department for Transport has published a research report on the effects of Smarter Choice programmes on the Sustainable Travel Towns
(Darlington, Worcester and Peterborough). Measures implemented[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 12 March 2010 6:26:54 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>London minicabs predicting journey times</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/London_minicabs_predicting_journey_times</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/London_minicabs_predicting_journey_times</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[Addison Lee is London&rsquo;s
largest minicab operator.&nbsp; The Financial
Times reports that the firm is using GPS to track the movements of its cars
over a three year period.&nbsp; This archive
allows[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 8 March 2010 7:30:45 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>North going South</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/North_going_South</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/North_going_South</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[A report in the Financial Times of 17 February is headlined 'North suffers from the pull south'.&nbsp; It records that the number of sizeable public companies with head-quarters outside London has declined[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Wed, 17 February 2010 16:49:13 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Motorway speed limits</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Motorway_speed_limits</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Motorway_speed_limits</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
The Department for Transport has announced a consultation on
motorway speed limits for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs).&nbsp; It is proposed to reduce the speed limit for
all HGVs from 70 to 60mph.&nbsp;[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 11 February 2010 15:02:19 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Transport modelling deficiencies</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Transport_modelling_deficiencies</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Transport_modelling_deficiencies</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The Department for Transport has published an incisive
report on transport modelling at regional level, commissioned from the seasoned
consultant Denvil Coombe.&nbsp; 30 models are
reviewed against[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 9 February 2010 14:26:16 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Green Metropolis</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Green_Metropolis</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Green_Metropolis</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
Green Metropolis is the title of a well written book by
David Owen which challenges conventional thinking. He argues that residents of compact
urban centres, such as New York,
individually consume[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 2 February 2010 10:13:41 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Electric vehicles - no heat</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Electric_vehicles_-_no_heat</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Electric_vehicles_-_no_heat</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[A letter from Adrian Hetherington in Local Transport Today of 22 January draws attention to a problem with electric vehicles that I hadn't previously appreciated.&nbsp; Discarded heat from an internal[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 26 January 2010 12:34:10 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Behavioural change</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Behavioural_change</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Behavioural_change</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The Department for Transport has published a number of
think-pieces about behavioural change &ndash; worth looking at.
One is structured round Nine Big Questions. &nbsp;This leads to the conclusion that[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 21 January 2010 17:46:36 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Fewer US cars</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Fewer_US_cars</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Fewer_US_cars</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
A report from the Earth Policy Institute suggests that the
size of the US
car fleet has apparently peaked and is now in decline.&nbsp; In 2009, cars scrapped (14m) exceeded the new
cars sold (10m)[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 7 January 2010 10:42:37 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Aviation and climate change</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Aviation_and_climate_change</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Aviation_and_climate_change</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
The UK Government has set a target to reduce UK aviation
emissions in 2050 back to 2005 levels or below.&nbsp; The Committee on Climate Change recently published a report which
considers how this[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Sun, 27 December 2009 15:19:09 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>High-speed commuting</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/High-speed_commuting</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/High-speed_commuting</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
The Financial Times of 14 December reports that journey times
of thousands of London-bound commuters will be slashed as high-speed domestic
services start on the Channel tunnel rail route.&nbsp;[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 15 December 2009 16:47:30 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Urban transport</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Urban_transport</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Urban_transport</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
The Cabinet Office Strategy Unit has issued a report on
Urban Transport &ndash; 131 pages of bullet points and figures:
o&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; a helpful summary of trends
o&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; concise[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 17 November 2009 18:46:24 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>High Speed Rail</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/High_Speed_Rail</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/High_Speed_Rail</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
I was at a well attended meeting of the Transport
Economist&rsquo;s Group on 28 October to hear a presentation on High Speed Rail by
John Segal, of the consultants MVA, who had been commissioned[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Wed, 11 November 2009 14:48:03 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Boris's transport strategy</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Boris%27s_transport_strategy</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Boris%27s_transport_strategy</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, recently issued his Transport
Strategy for public consultation.&nbsp; In
Chapter 4, dealing with challenges and strategic policies, it is noted that London achieved[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 6 November 2009 10:20:08 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Population growth: how much more traffic?</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Population_growth%3A_how_much_more_traffic%3F</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Population_growth%3A_how_much_more_traffic%3F</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
Latest population projections for the UK published by the Office of
National Statistics record a current 61.4m in mid-2008, projected to rise to
71.6m by 2033.
  
Earlier this year the Department[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 26 October 2009 12:09:34 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Predictive Navigation: the solution to the problem of congestion?</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Predictive_Navigation%3A_the_solution_to_the_problem_of_congestion%3F</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Predictive_Navigation%3A_the_solution_to_the_problem_of_congestion%3F</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
I have an article in the October issue of Transport Times on the topic of
&lsquo;Predictive Navigation&rsquo;.&nbsp; By this I mean
technology for predicting the journey time by car along the best[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 23 October 2009 11:14:18 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Transport Statistics Users Group</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Transport_Statistics_Users_Group</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Transport_Statistics_Users_Group</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
I was a speaker at a meeting of the Transport Statistics
Users Group, held at the Department for Transport on 21 October, when I outlined
my analysis of National Travel Survey data which points to[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 23 October 2009 11:04:03 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Investment in High Speed Rail?</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Investment_in_High_Speed_Rail%3F</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Investment_in_High_Speed_Rail%3F</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
The Committee on Climate Change has recently published its
first annual report, arguing that a major priority is to decarbonise
electricity generation. For road transport, the CCC seeks a saving[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 15 October 2009 8:41:21 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Battery technology</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Battery_technology</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Battery_technology</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
A good briefing in The Economist of 5 September about developments
in batteries for electric cars. &nbsp;The lithium-ion
battery is the leading technology, having entered the market in small devices
like[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 14 September 2009 16:20:39 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>London congestion charging: progress?</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/London_congestion_charging%3A_progress%3F</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/London_congestion_charging%3A_progress%3F</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[It was a brave move to introduce congestion charging into central London in 2003.&nbsp; Transport for London subsequently published detailed annual reports on how the scheme was affecting traffic conditions.&nbsp;[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 8 September 2009 11:14:39 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>National Travel Survey 2008</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/National_Travel_Survey_2008</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/National_Travel_Survey_2008</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
The Department for Transport recently published the latest
results of the National Travel Survey.&nbsp; This covers data collected in 2007 and 2008 in respect of what might be
termed &lsquo;daily[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 1 September 2009 14:37:21 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Transport air pollution</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Transport_air_pollution</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Transport_air_pollution</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
With the current focus of concern about carbon emissions from
transport, we tend to overlook the possible impact of other kinds of emissions.
&nbsp;Relevant to this, the UK Committee on
the Medical[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 21 August 2009 12:36:58 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Experiencing congestion</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Experiencing_congestion</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Experiencing_congestion</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
Two recent studies from the Department for Transport point
to similar concerns about traffic congestion. Responses from a Citizen&rsquo;s Panel of
over 500 participants indicated that the main concern[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 14 August 2009 11:10:00 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Chevrolet Volt</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Chevrolet_Volt</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Chevrolet_Volt</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[General Motors has announced that its Chevrolet Volt hybrid car, due to go into production in 2010, would achieve 230 mpg in city driving.&nbsp; The Volt is powered mainly by its battery within a 40 mile[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Wed, 12 August 2009 10:49:31 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Difficulty of land use and transport planning</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Difficulty_of_land_use_and_transport_planning</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Difficulty_of_land_use_and_transport_planning</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
The Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for
Transport has published three &lsquo;think pieces&rsquo; commissioned from experts. &nbsp;The most interesting is entitled Reducing the need for[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 4 August 2009 11:07:38 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Low Carbon Transition Plan</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Low_Carbon_Transition_Plan</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Low_Carbon_Transition_Plan</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
The UK Government has published its Low Carbon Transition
Plan, aimed at implementing the first stage of a legally binding commitment to cut
carbon emissions 80% by 2050, with an intermediate target[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 23 July 2009 11:11:26 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Two Billion Cars</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Two_Billion_Cars</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Two_Billion_Cars</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
I have been reading Two
Billion Cars, a recent book by Daniel Sperling and Deborah Gordon, which
considers the implications of the expected global growth of motor vehicles from
the present billion[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 10 July 2009 11:35:17 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Validity of transport models</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Validity_of_transport_models</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Validity_of_transport_models</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[I recently attended the annual Transport Modelling Forum in London.&nbsp; Copies of the presentations are available.&nbsp; I subsequently sent a letter to the editor of Local Transport Today, which has[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 6 July 2009 9:20:50 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Adonis says 'no' to road pricing</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Adonis_says_%27no%27_to_road_pricing</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Adonis_says_%27no%27_to_road_pricing</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
The Financial Times of 25 June quotes Lord Adonis, the new
Secretary of State for Transport, as saying that the government will &lsquo;definitely
not&rsquo; proceed with a national road-user charging[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 25 June 2009 10:04:34 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Obama and hydrogen</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Obama_and_hydrogen</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Obama_and_hydrogen</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
  
A news article in the US journal Science reports that the
Obama administration wants to end the hydrogen fuel cell vehicles research programme.&nbsp; Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced
that[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 22 June 2009 9:24:23 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Car sharing</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Car_sharing</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Car_sharing</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
I met recently Ali Clabborn, founder of liftshare.com, the social enterprise he set up ten years ago whose aim
is to make more efficient use of the 38 million empty car seats on UK roads
every day[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 18 June 2009 15:23:29 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Viruses and batteries</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Viruses_and_batteries</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Viruses_and_batteries</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
During an early phase of my scientific career I worked in a
laboratory as a research virologist.&nbsp; Despite
having a fairly good knowledge of the principles of virology, I had never
expected[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 15 June 2009 19:43:37 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>A car of one's own</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/A_car_of_one%27s_own</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/A_car_of_one%27s_own</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[Andrew O'Hagan, writer and novelist, has an essay in the 11 June issue of the London Review of Books about the car industry which includes a personal reflection:
We love driving and we hate it, we praise[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 12 June 2009 15:50:51 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Stern on Heathrow</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Stern_on_Heathrow</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Stern_on_Heathrow</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The Guardian of 23 May reports Lord Stern (author of the eponymous report on the economics of climate change) as saying that the decision to allow a third runway at Heathrow was a mistake.&nbsp;The debate[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 8:32:28 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>House of Commons</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/House_of_Commons</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/House_of_Commons</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
The House of Commons Transport Committee is carrying out an inquiry into the
Major Road Network.&nbsp; &nbsp;I had submitted a memorandum and on 20 May
attended by invitation to give oral evidence.[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:07:20 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>More about electric cars</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/More_about_electric_cars</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/More_about_electric_cars</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
The Financial Times of 20 May reports impressive results
from an &lsquo;eco-car tax break&rsquo; in Japan
which can reduce the cost of the most fuel-efficient vehicles by several
thousand dollars.[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 16:34:27 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Business for road pricing?</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Business_for_road_pricing%3F</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Business_for_road_pricing%3F</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and the Freight
Transport Association (FTA) have published a study which purports to argue that
road pricing in cities would benefit business. &nbsp;The[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 14:02:11 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Reducing carbon emissions</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Reducing_carbon_emissions</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Reducing_carbon_emissions</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
I attended recently the UK Energy Research Centre, based at Imperial College, for the launch of a substantial
literature review of what policies are effective in reducing carbon emissions
from surface[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 5 May 2009 11:16:43 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>London buses</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/London_buses</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/London_buses</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
I attended a recent meeting in London
of the Transport Economists&rsquo; Group at which Professor Peter White, University of Westminster,
talked illuminatingly about recent developments in local[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 4 May 2009 14:50:35 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>RAC Foundation report</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/RAC_Foundation_report</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/RAC_Foundation_report</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
The Royal Automobile Club Foundation for Motoring has issued
a report on &lsquo;The Car in British Society&rsquo;, authored by Karen Lucas (Oxford
University) and Peter Jones (my colleague at University[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Wed, 22 April 2009 15:17:06 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Sustainable Travel Behaviour</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Sustainable_Travel_Behaviour</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Sustainable_Travel_Behaviour</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
I&rsquo;ve had the opportunity to make presentations to a number
of organisations in recent months, including the Universities Transport Studies
Group annual conference, the Transport Planning Society,[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 20 April 2009 21:53:45 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>Policy for electric cars</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Policy_for_electric_cars</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Policy_for_electric_cars</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
The British government recently announced plans worth &pound;250m
to promote the uptake of electric vehicles, including a scheme to reduce the price
of electric cars and plug-in hybrids, to make[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 20 April 2009 11:08:14 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
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      <title>NATA refresh</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/NATA_refresh</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/NATA_refresh</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
The Department for Transport has been using its &lsquo;New
Approach to Appraisal&rsquo; &ndash; NATA for short &ndash; for some ten years. &nbsp;In essence, this attempts a systematic
statement of[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 17 April 2009 11:01:57 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Rail and property prices</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Rail_and_property_prices</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Rail_and_property_prices</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
A recent article in the Financial Times drew attention to an
expected increase in house values near the Channel Tunnel Rail Link stations
after fast domestic services start later this year, based[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 27 March 2009 16:49:46 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Low income motorists</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Low_income_motorists</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Low_income_motorists</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
The National Centre for Social Research has issued an
informative report on the role of the car in the travel choices and needs of
low income households.&nbsp; The research employed
focus groups[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Wed, 11 March 2009 17:14:44 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Agglomeration</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Agglomeration</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Agglomeration</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
I attended an interesting meeting in London of the Transport Economists&rsquo; Group on
the topic &lsquo;Transport &ndash; lifeblood of every city?&rsquo;.&nbsp;&nbsp; This looked at the &lsquo;wider[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 9 March 2009 10:32:14 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Rail electrification</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Rail_electrification</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Rail_electrification</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
I attended a meeting of the Transport Economists Group in London
at which Chris Stokes, a lifetime railways&rsquo; man, talked about the prospects for
further rail electrification.&nbsp; Only 40%
of[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 26 February 2009 10:34:57 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Travel, transport and land use</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Travel%2C_transport_and_land_use</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Travel%2C_transport_and_land_use</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[One of the &lsquo;big&rsquo; issues for those of us interested in travel
and transport is the relationship with land use &ndash; clearly crucial but hard to
understand.&nbsp;&nbsp; The credit crunch[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 23 February 2009 15:10:59 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Rail fares</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Rail_fares</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Rail_fares</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
Passenger Focus, the rail consumer watchdog, has published a
study of UK
rail fares and services which concludes that the price of commuting to London
is high in comparison with other European countries.&nbsp;[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 20 February 2009 10:36:22 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Heathrow expansion: carbon emissions</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Heathrow_expansion%3A_carbon_emissions</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Heathrow_expansion%3A_carbon_emissions</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
I have been catching up with the Department for Transport&rsquo;s
latest &lsquo;UK Air Passenger Demand and Carbon Dioxide Forecasts&rsquo;, issued in
January at the time of the decision to build[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 19 February 2009 11:14:27 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Peak oil</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Peak_oil</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Peak_oil</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The question of whether and when 'peak oil' output will be reach is a key debate for our time.&nbsp;&nbsp; It has seemed as though the debate was polarised between ex-oil company geologists (proponents[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 17 February 2009 11:13:29 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Future of the car</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Future_of_the_car</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Future_of_the_car</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[An article in the Financial Times of 3 February (title: 'The thrill is gone') argues that the the current slump in new car sales is due not just to belt-tightening and lack of consumer credit, but also[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 5 February 2009 18:28:13 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Batteries and carbon</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Batteries_and_carbon</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Batteries_and_carbon</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
The second section of the London
Financial Times, dealing with company
and market news, is often illuminating. &nbsp;On 2 February, there were contrasting articles,
one on the &lsquo;battery boom&rsquo;[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 2 February 2009 18:48:03 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Managed motorways</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Managed_motorways</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Managed_motorways</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
Alongside its proposals for the third Heathrow runway on 15 January, the
Government announced plans to expand the motorway system by opening up the hard
shoulders, normally used for emergency stopping,[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 19 January 2009 15:08:54 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Heathrow third runway</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Heathrow_third_runway</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Heathrow_third_runway</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
The statement by Geoff Hoon, Secretary of State for Transport, on 15 January
about the Government&rsquo;s proposal to build a third runway at Heathrow airport
drew predictable criticism from those[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 19 January 2009 12:29:49 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Myth of travel time saving</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Myth_of_travel_time_saving</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Myth_of_travel_time_saving</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The main benefit that is supposed to arise from investment in transport infrastructure is the saving of travel time.&nbsp;&nbsp; Widening a congested road allows the traffic to flow freely and the time[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Sat, 10 January 2009 18:45:25 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Manchester rejects congestion charge</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Manchester_rejects_congestion_charge</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Manchester_rejects_congestion_charge</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The people of Manchester have voted overwhelmingly, by a margin of
almost four to one, against congestion charging in a blow to a
flagship government policy

writeDate( 1229093408000, 'Grey', 'Dec-12',[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 12 December 2008 15:46:30 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Climate Change Committee</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Climate_Change_Committee</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Climate_Change_Committee</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
The UK Climate Change Committee was set up under the Climate Change Act 2008 with a remit to advise on carbon budgets to
2050.&nbsp; Its first report, published at the beginning
of December, argues[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 12 December 2008 12:02:20 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Electric cars</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Electric_cars</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Electric_cars</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
A report on the scope for switching to electric vehicles and
plug-in hybrids was published in October.&nbsp;&nbsp; The study was carried out by the consultants Arup and Cenex for the UK
government.&nbsp;&nbsp;[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 21 November 2008 12:44:56 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>The price of oil</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/The_price_of_oil</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/The_price_of_oil</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
A new report, The Oil Crunch, persuasively argues that constraints in oil
supplies are developing and that attention must be paid to the implications.&nbsp;&nbsp; There is no shortage of oil, but[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 30 October 2008 13:07:44 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>The price of carbon</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/The_price_of_carbon</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/The_price_of_carbon</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
In my blog about aviation carbon emissions in August, I noted that one
commentator was arguing for a near term price of carbon of &nbsp;&euro;100/tCO2, based on an expected shortage in
the market[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Wed, 22 October 2008 11:14:13 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Climate change</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Climate_change</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Climate_change</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
On 7 October, Lord Turner, chairman of the Committee on Climate Change,
wrote to Ed Miliband, the cabinet minister heading the new UK Department of Energy
&amp; Climate Change, with interim advice.&nbsp;&nbsp;[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 10 October 2008 13:37:47 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Tunneling</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Tunneling</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Tunneling</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
Congestion takes place in the two dimensions of the road network.&nbsp;&nbsp; Making use of the third dimension could be a
means of relieving congestion.&nbsp;&nbsp; Helicopters are noisy, expensive,[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 7 October 2008 9:48:26 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Heathrow expansion</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Heathrow_expansion</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Heathrow_expansion</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
The UK Government takes seriously the issue of climate change.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is therefore rather surprising that it is
so supportive of the building of an additional runway at Heathrow, London&rsquo;s
main[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 30 September 2008 10:13:06 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Travel surveys</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Travel_surveys</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Travel_surveys</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
Publication of findings from the Department for Transport&rsquo;s National Travel
Survey 2007 has been delayed on account of concerns about data quality. &nbsp;The Survey employs a seven-day travel[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Mon, 29 September 2008 10:06:55 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>New book about traffic</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/New_book_about_traffic</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/New_book_about_traffic</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
When I was looking for a publisher for &lsquo;The Limits to Travel&rsquo; one response
was that an American science and technology writer called Tom Vanderbilt had
just secured a very large advance[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Fri, 26 September 2008 9:36:22 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>System Dynamics</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/System_Dynamics</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/System_Dynamics</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
I attended a recent meeting of the Transport Economists Group to hear
John Swanson, of the transport consultancy Steer Davies Gleave, talk about the
application of System Dynamics to transport modelling.&nbsp;&nbsp;[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 25 September 2008 13:39:23 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Behavioural economics</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Behavioural_economics</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Behavioural_economics</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
Behavioural economics is a topic that has come into public prominence in
recent months, having been a recognised sub-discipline for some years.&nbsp;&nbsp; As an editorial in The Guardian newspaper[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 2 September 2008 13:14:45 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Airport capacity</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Airport_capacity</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Airport_capacity</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[  
The Competition Commission has published the provisional findings of
its investigation into BAA Ltd, the privatised entity that operates the main
airports in the London area.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Commission&rsquo;s[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 28 August 2008 16:20:45 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>London congestion charging</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/London_congestion_charging</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/London_congestion_charging</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[Transport for London has
published its latest annual report on the impact of congestion charging.&nbsp;&nbsp; In the original central London
charging zone, congestion further intensified in 2007, and[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Thu, 7 August 2008 15:43:45 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Trade union membership</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Trade_union_membership</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Trade_union_membership</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[&nbsp;
The proportion of workers who are trade union members has continued to slide
and is almost a quarter lower than it was 16 years ago, according to official
figures quoted in the Financial Times[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Wed, 6 August 2008 9:22:55 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Roads policy</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Roads_policy</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Roads_policy</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[In his report of December 2006 Sir Rod Eddington saw no alternative to a
national scheme for road pricing, which would reduce the case for additional
road infrastructure investment by 80%.&nbsp;&nbsp;[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Wed, 30 July 2008 12:07:56 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Aviation carbon emissions</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Aviation_carbon_emissions</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Aviation_carbon_emissions</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The Department for Transport recently published an assessment of the costs of aviation emissions, intended to provide a view of the extent to which this sector is covering its climate change costs.   The[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Tue, 29 July 2008 13:21:32 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>Railway futures</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Railway_futures</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/Railway_futures</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[The Transport Committee of the House of Commons published on
21 July 2008 a report on a 30 year strategy for Britain&rsquo;s
railways. This is in part a response to the
Government&rsquo;s Railways White[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Wed, 23 July 2008 14:34:10 GMT</pubDate>

    </item>
<item>

      <title>This Blog</title>

      <link>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/This_Blog</link>

	  <comments>http://limitstotravel.org.uk/article/This_Blog</comments>

      <description><![CDATA[[...]]]></description>

      <pubDate>Wed, 23 July 2008 14:26:05 GMT</pubDate>

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