A way of switching from polluting, rubber-tyred cars, buses and freight vehicles to energy-efficient, steel-wheeled, ultra-lightweight trams in town centres.

Advantages such as freeing up parking areas and permitting low-cost passenger journeys and goods distribution.

An overview of the economic and environmental case for ULR based on studies for specific towns.  

An overview of the information collected and its importance  

A discussion of its challenges including COVID and a societal decrease in government trust 

An overview of the latest findings.  

Information on access for non New Zealand researchers. 

An overview of rail statistics published by ORR. 

ORR’s data portal and recent improvements. 

An overview of the latest trends in both passenger usage and freight usage of statistics to end March 2023 which will be published in early June. 

Future developments in rail statistics, including new environmental data.

Tying together all the various workstreams and initiatives to make best use of limited resources and ensure consistent approach.

Helping to address the underlying barriers to data access / sharing and use.

Facilitating the growth of the right infrastructure and creating a heathy data ecosystem that fosters innovation.

Supporting data interoperability between modes and geographical areas and systems (e.g. transport with energy and smart infrastructure).

A review on how COVID has affected bus demand, the extent to which it has recovered, and what the future holds.

A comparison of the effects of the pandemic on bus trends, against that from rail and car.

A summary of the implications for the future of local bus industuries and research issues.

A summary of the aviation statistics currently published by the DfT.

An overview of recent trends in the sector (passenger and freight), in particular the impact of the pandemic and the extent of recovery.

Future developments in aviation statistics, with a brief look at areas of current interest, such as decarbonisation and aviation noise.

A discussion of the use of current statistics by TSUG members, current data gaps, and whether there are other statistics which would be beneficial for users.

An overview of work undertaken using the DfT's Propensity to Cycle Toll (PCT) to explore the e-bike boost that could be provided by the mass take-up of e-bikes, above and beyond achieving a Dutch-style cycline culture and infrastructure.

An overview of the Promise of Low Cargo Freight project which analysed the logistics potential of cargo bikes for urban deliveries using GPS data.

An overview of long term trends in road safety statistics, back to 1901, and more recent comparisons with some European and non-European countries.

A particular focus on trends in British road casualties, types of road users involved, and the factors contributing to casualties.

An overview of the latest NTS results, and what insights they provide into trends in travel patterns during the COVID-19 and post-pandemic periods, including who is travelling and why.

Challenges of running the survey during the lockdown, how the survey methodology was adapted to over come these challenges, and impacts on how the resulting data should be analysed.

Future developments in the NTS, in particular, progress of the work to move towards digital travel diaries.