A New Deal for Transport? The UK's struggle

Comprising contributions from a range of experts, this volume offers a critical commentary on the government's sustainable transport policy. A critical commentary on the Blair government's sustainable transport policy and its implementation. Firmly rooted in an appreciation of the politics of this controversial field. Experts contribute up-to-the-minute analyses of the key issues. Will inform debate over the future of transport policy. Includes a Foreword by David Begg, Chair of the Commission for Integrated Transport.

Iain Docherty is a Research Fellow in the Department of Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow and an expert in urban governance, particularly the implementation of planning and transport policies. His previous publications include Making Tracks (1999), which looks at the transport planning system in major British cities.

Jon Shaw is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Aberdeen. His recent work has examined the privatization of British Rail and road building in England. He is the author of Competition, Regulation and the Privatisation of British Rail (2000) and co-editor of All Change: British Railway Privatisation (2000).

Series Editors' Preface

ix

Notes on Contributors

x

Foreword

xiv

Preface

xviii

List of Abbreviations

xxii

Part I Policy and Politics

1

(12)

1 Policy, Politics and Sustainable Transport: The Nature of Labour's Dilemma

3

(27)

Iain Docherty

2 Devolution and Sustainable Transport

30

(21)

Austin Smyth

3 Local Transport Planning under labour

51

Geoff Vigar and Dominic Stead

Part II Progress in Policy Implementation

13

(208)

4 Roads and Traffic Congestion Policies: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

15

(93)

William Walton

5 A Railway Renaissance?

108

(27)

Jon Shaw and John Farrington

6 Light Rail and the London Underground

135

(23)

Richard Knowles and Peter White

7 A 'Thoroughbred' in the Making? The Bus Industry under Labour

158

John Preston

8 Ubiquitous, Everyday Walking and Cycling: The Acid Test of a Sustainable Transport Policy

118

(80)

Rodney Tolleg

9 Air Transport Policy: Reconciling Growth and Sustainability?

198

(23)

Brian Graham

Part III The future

221

(24)

10 Towards a Genuinely Sustainable Transport Agenda for the United Kingdom

229

(16)

Phil Goodwin

Index

245

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A New Deal for Transport? The UK's struggle with the sustainable transport agenda

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