New Deal for 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).

"should be on every consultant’s, politician’s and planner’s desk and in the library of every institution where transport is seriously studied" (Logistic and Transport Focus, March 2004)"This book outlines the political and implementation questions relating to transport policy delivery in the UK. Despite good intentions and a radical policy agenda this book reveals the Labour Government has failed to reduce the need to travel and to improve travel choice. Society has become more car dependent, levels of congestion and unreliability have increased, and the goal of sustainable transport has disappeared. The contributors to this book systematically document and assess the record of the Government on transport over the last six years."--David Banister, University College London "This book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in UK transport policy. It debunks, in forensic detail, the myth that the government has a coherent strategy for transport."--Christian Wolmar, author of Broke Rails – How Privatisation Wrecked Britain’s Railways "This book is valuable not only to transport geographers and the growing literature on sustainable transport, but to anyone interested in how government promises fail to come to fruition." (The Geographical Journal)

• Series Editors’ Preface ixNotes on Contributors xForeword xivPreface xviiiList of Abbreviations xxiiPart I Policy and Politics 11 Policy, Politics and Sustainable Transport: The Nature of Labour’s Dilemma 3Iain Docherty2 Devolution and Sustainable Transport 30Austin Smyth3 Local Transport Planning under Labour 51Geoff Vigar and Dominic SteadPart II Progress in Policy Implementation 734 Roads and Traffic Congestion Policies: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back 75William Walton5 A Railway Renaissance? 108Jon Shaw and John Farrington6 Light Rail and the London Underground 135Richard Knowles and Peter White7 A ‘Thoroughbred’ in the Making? The Bus Industry under Labour 158John Preston8 Ubiquitous, Everyday Walking and Cycling: The Acid Test of a Sustainable Transport Policy 178Rodney Tolley9 Air Transport Policy: Reconciling Growth and Sustainability? 198Brian GrahamPart III The Future 22710 Towards a Genuinely Sustainable Transport Agenda for the United Kingdom 229Phil GoodwinIndex 245