March 26th, 2026 Subscribe The Mid-Size City Trap The latest Transport Leaders Podcast discusses how to escape the mid-size city trap of car-dependency. You can listen here You can watch here Sponsorship Opportunities Are you interested in reaching over 3000 transport leaders? Please email me: russell@transportlc.org The Road Not Priced: Learning from Our EV Mistakes Before AVs Change Everything Key Takeaways AVs have enormous potential to transform our cities, but without road user charging...
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Subscribe Welcome. In Today's Transport Leader: London's Vision Zero: Promising Progress, But Not Fast Enough Redesigning Streets for People: Key Lessons from the Active Cities Project What 50 Studies Say About Transport Governance Plus Quick Trips, Podcast and Tool. Read online Join A Working Group The Transport Reform Network (TRN) is setting up working groups to pull together resources to overcome barriers to reform. Working group topics include public and active transport, integrated...
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March 19th, 2026 Subscribe Australian High Speed Rail The latest version of the Transport Leaders Podcast discusses what is in Australia's recently released high-speed rail business case (warning: we were not impressed). You can listen here You can watch here A quick recommendation from me: go subscribe to the Freewheeling Blog by Thomas Ableman. He is one of the best thinkers on improving transport systems. His latest blog provides plenty of food for thought on how we pilot new ideas and...
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Subscribe Welcome. In Today's Transport Leader: Ireland's New Transport Strategy: Ambitious Vision, Cautious Action Roads Less Travelled: The Case for Traffic Evaporation Car Insurance: Reform For Safer Roads? Plus Quick Trips, Tool and Innovation. Read online Join The Network The Transport Reform Network (TRN) will soon offer workshops to help community members get transport reforms unstuck. To be kept up to date, make sure you have signed up for the network. Register An Interest Sponsorship...
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March 12th, 2026 Subscribe Sponsorship Opportunities Are you interested in reaching over 3000 transport leaders? Please email me: russell@transportlc.org More Roads, More Problems: The Mid-Size City Trap and How to Escape It Key Takeaways Growing mid-size cities are caught in a trap: sprawling and building more roads to fix congestion creates more traffic, which creates demand for more roads. This cycle is poorly understood by the public and by most politicians. Half-measures do not work:...
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Subscribe Welcome. In Today's Transport Leader: A Blueprint for Micromobility Global Road Safety: Progress Stalls as 2030 Target Slips Out of Reach Ten Technologies, Four Priorities, One Big Caveat Plus Quick Trips, Podcast, and Tool. Read online Join a Transport Reform Network Working Group The Transport Reform Network (TRN) is now setting up its working groups. The working groups are free and the engine rooms of the community. They are where resources to support reform are pulled together...
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March 5th, 2026 Subscribe Sponsorship Opportunities Are you interested in reaching over 3000 transport leaders? Please email me: russell@transportlc.org The Barriers to Reform: A Framework for Making Transport Change Happen Key Takeaways Most transport reforms fail not because the idea was wrong, but because the barriers standing in the way were never properly identified or addressed. The Barriers to Reform model organises every obstacle into three buckets: stakeholders, political, and...
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Subscribe Welcome. In Today's Transport Leader: Slower Speeds, Stronger Economy: The Evidence Stacks Up A Vision for 2040 - The Right Priorities? Roads: Time to Build Less, Maintain More Plus Quick Trips, Podcast, Innovation and Tool. Read online Do You Know What Change Is Needed To Improve Transport But Need Support In Overcoming The Barriers? The Transport Reform Project is a new global community being built for reformers. Whether you are a transport professional, consultant, academic,...
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February 26th, 2026 Subscribe Sponsorship Opportunities Are you interested in reaching over 3000 transport leaders? Please email me: russell@transportlc.org There Was An Idea, To Bring Together A Group of Remarkable People Key Takeaways Transport systems around the world are falling short, and the pace of reform is far too slow. The barriers to transport reform are rarely technical; they are political, institutional, and human. A wealth of hard-won knowledge about transport reform exists, but...
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