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A love affair with cars and decades of apathy from politicians and planners has perpetuated a transport caste system - a back-to-front approach to how we organise our lives which sees people forced to defer to motorised traffic. The cost of maintaining this status quo is high: Thousands of people in Britain each year die or are seriously...

Faced with a generation of fatter and older drivers, engineers in America are building supersized crash test dummies. The current design of crash test dummy dates from the early 1970s and was modelled on the weight of a man on the 50th percentile. Since then, the average driver has become notably older and heavier....

We were asked this week to share our views on the changing face of transport in London. Here's what we said. One of Transport for London’s environmental goals is to decrease the emissions to the air from traffic. What do you see is being currently done to improve London’s transportation system from a sustainable perspective and in relation...

We're currently working with the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames to help deliver road shows to promote cycling as part of their Go Cycle programme. Win a set of lights To celebrate the start of this year's events later this month, we have five sets of LED lights and five puncture repair kits to give away. Simply leave let us know how...

Our insatiable appetite for online shopping has resulted in an explosion in the number of delivery vans on the road. The 38 per cent increase in the number of vans on British roads since 2000 - a growth faster than car traffic on all types of road - suggests we need to find a more efficient way of distributing goods. However, in a dystopian...

The more you cycle, the more you notice how many motorists are using their mobile phones while at the wheel. The threat of a penalty, which will soon comprise six points and a fine of £200, seemingly has little effect. The fact that drivers fail to take the matter seriously mirrors the apathy exhibited by the authorities; in 2015, cyclist...

Britain has become the latest European destination to receive rail freight directly from China. The first train arrived in London this week after a 15-day, 7,500-mile journey from Yiwu in Zhejiang Province. London is the latest European city to become a destination for rail cargo from China. Over 1,702 freight trains last year made the...

Just as the refrain reduce, reuse, recycle has been adopted by environmentalists worldwide to prioritise sustainable practice, so the transport engineering sector has its own equivalent – the Transport Hierarchy. Developed by Duncan Kay and Daniel Kenning, engineers with decades of experience in the field, and published by the Institution...

It looks like European law is finally about to catch up with a new breed of faster electric bicycle. And it’s about time, too. While the uptake of electric cars remains painfully slow, the popularity of the 30 mph speed pedelec is soaring. Sales in Holland increased by over 30 per cent last year alone. One such speed pedelec is the Stromer...

Whether your thing is cycling, camping or festivals, the must-have accessory for summer 2017 is the Lamzac Hangout – a pop-up sofa that seats two and packs small enough to fit in a shoe bag. The lightweight inflatable sofa takes only seconds to fill – you simply swing it through the air - and its durable...