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Our Technical Director Graham James has provided expert analysis of how the DfT’s new Connectivity Tool and metrics can help with decisions on where developments should go and how they should be connected to the transport network. The latest issue of Local Transport Today (LTT) includes Graham’s analysis of what these new resources can and…

Our Technical Director Graham James has provided expert commentary on proposed changes to values of time for road freight in England. His article, in the latest issue of Local Transport Today (LTT), sets out the background to the new valuations being proposed by the UK Department for Transport (DfT), what the new figures look like,…

Our Technical Director Graham James has co-authored a new policy paper for the Transport Planning Society (TPS), on improving transport scheme appraisal and decision-making. The report responds to the Treasury’s 2025 Green Book Review, explaining what it means for transport business cases and how the Government and the wider sector can go further to promote…

The Parking Perspectives team made their way up to Manchester this month to attend the annual Transport Practitioners’ Meeting, an event organised by PTRC, the educational arm of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT). At this two-day event, Graham James gave two presentations: “Getting the best out of the Active Mode Appraisal Toolkit”,…

Parking Perspectives has won a prestigious award for one of our projects. Our team was awarded the DfT Chief Scientific Advisor’s award for outstanding delivery in a business-led project, from among the 2024 cohort of Transport Research and Innovation Grants (TRIG) recipients. The award was for our work to develop KerbPlanner, a kerbside use optimisation…

Parking Perspectives attended the Car Parks 2025 event hosted in London on 2nd April 2025. The Landor Links event focused on key areas of the lifespan of parking structures, including design, construction, operation and maintenance. Parking Perspectives’ Director Andrew Potter spoke about drivers’ willingness to pay for wider parking bays and better ramp dimensions. He…

Andrew Potter led the Parking Game at the Traffic + Parking event held by Landor LINKS in Manchester in October 2024. Based around a parade of shops, delegates took part in role-play to explore the competing ambitions and demands for kerbspace and to examine the efficacy of different policy approaches to allocating kerbspace by local…

Graham James, Technical Director, will be presenting at the Annual Transport Practitioners’ Meeting in Manchester this month. He will be there to advise how to get the most out of the Active Mode Travel Appraisal Kit and how we might best appraise Carbon & Net Zero Andrew Potter will be reprising and adding to his…

Andrew Potter, Director at Parking Perspectives, is presenting at Intertraffic Amsterdam this April. The presentation will cover the UK’s Transport Planning Society document “Just the Ticket!”. The UK’s Transport Planning Society document “Just the Ticket!” contains 18 recommendations for parking policy to help decarbonise transport. The recommendations are set out under 3 main themes, covering…

The ‘Just the Ticket’ article is now available as a hard copy. This document provides 18 recommendations for changes in government parking policy and acts as the TPS guidelines for parking policy. The policy recommendations aim to help decarbonise transport through parking regulation. These hard copies will be distributed to members of the BPA.

Graham James MA(Cantab) MSc MPhil FCILT has joined us from AtkinsRéalis where he was a technical director in their transport planning team, working on transport strategies, schemes and business cases across the UK and beyond. He has over 25 years’ transport planning experience in the public sector and consultancy and has worked on parking and…

Andrew Potter was a guest speaker for the Reinventing Parking podcast. The interview, hosted by Paul Barter, examines the UK’s experience with parking maximums and discusses some of the successes and difficulties that have arisen since implementation. In particular the session looked at key lessons learnt and presented ideas to ensure that maximums could be…

Andrew Potter, Director at Parking Perspectives, presented at Car Parks 2024 in London. His session examined the options available to those with an ageing multi-storey car park. The day had looked at the issues arising with heavier and wider cars in car parks. These were presenting new issues for car park operators. The fire risk,…

Andrew Potter led the last session at this conference at Lambeth Town Hall. He guided both the audience and panel to share experience and advice relating to driver compliance, options of enforcement and control that didn’t rely on cameras and how the implementation of school streets might work in villages and other rural settings where…

Several of the key ideas in the “Just the Ticket” policy recommendations document were shared with the audience by Andrew Potter at this meeting at the Transport Research Board’s Annual Meeting in Washington DC. Attendance at the conference provides a wealth of new ideas and approaches being adopted across the world, and forms a mainstay…