Steer Davies Gleave

For many transport professionals the current pinch on public sector spending is forcing a rethink on the future of local transport planning. Does this present a real opportunity for smarter choice interventions to come to the fore in local transport planning? I suggest that it does. The reasons for this are two-fold: More >>

Modern football stadia attract thousands of fans on match days. A recent survey of Newcastle United FC season ticket holders discovered that 54% come to the stadium on match by car, with 37% using public transport and only 7% choosing to walk.  This causes a number of issues including bottlenecks on key motorway junctions, congestion caused by cars looking for parking at an already busy time of the week and the associated local environmental problems.

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SDG consultant Charlotte Welch talks to Mark Frost from London Borough of Hounslow to find out what they are currently working on and how their new LIP is coming along. More >>

Steer Davies Gleave (SDG) has been commissioned to carry out an evaluation of  Regulation 881/2004 (now amended by Regulation 1335/2008) which set up the European Railway Agency (ERA). More >>

Steer Davies Gleave is sponsoring the ‘Why freight matters in Local Transport Planning 3’ conference, being organised by the Freight Transport Association (FTA). More >>

Steer Davies Gleave (SDG) is pleased to announce the appointment of two new Directors – Neil Chadwick and Phil Berczuk. More >>

Steer Davies Gleave, leading international transport consultancy, is delighted to announce the appointment of joint CEOs, Steve Hewitt and Hugh Jones, who will form a new chief executive team to support the continued growth of SDG in its UK and global markets. More >>

Steer Davies Gleave has been appointed by the London Borough of Hounslow to develop an infrastructure strategy for the Isleworth and Brentford ‘cycle hub’. More >>

Societal changes seem to be particularly hard to predict because they rarely keep to straight line trajectories (unlike demographic trends, for example) but instead tend to be subject to tipping points and radical shifts in direction. Furthermore, they tend to be fuzzy by nature, hard to describe, and even harder to quantify. Nevertheless, since travel is heavily dependent on travel for social reasons (with work travel also affected by how society is organised) it follows that it is affected by societal changes. More >>