Ansons Consulting

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16.06.2025 07:17 — 👍 7    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Beyond the flexibility narrative of automobility: How regular are car users’ mobility patterns? The widespread reliance on cars for daily mobility is often justified by a perceived need for flexibility, allowing travelers to adjust activities, sc…

Interesting new study finds that, although people say they need the flexibility that a car offers, drivers' journeys are no more flexible than people who travel with other modes
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

14.06.2025 10:39 — 👍 54    🔁 16    💬 3    📌 3

The household auto fleet is a money pit What if wealth wasn’t a driveway full of cars—but the freedom to not need them?

What if owning fewer cars was a sign of more success?

What if wealth wasn’t a driveway full of cars—but the freedom to not need them?

My latest in @fastcompany.com

www.fastcompany.com/91341903/hou...

02.06.2025 11:02 — 👍 65    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 2

Very welcome - fare caps across both bus and trams.

🚌 🚃 “caps will work in conjunction with the bus operator, meaning that caps will apply across Lothian Buses and Edinburgh Trams, ensuring customers no longer need to purchase a day ticket from the bus driver, or the tram stop ticket machine.”

14.04.2025 21:04 — 👍 16    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 1

Investing in active mobility could reduce emissions from the transport sector by 50%.

The Pan African Action Plan for Active Mobility by UNEP and partners aims to advance a better walking and cycling environment #ForPeopleForPlanet.

See how: www.unep.org/topics/trans...

14.04.2025 21:13 — 👍 21    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

Powerful actors who undermine physical activity policy must be challenged As a fifth of adults in the UK have diabetes or pre-diabetes, the politics of physical activity policy must be tackled, argue Karen Milton and colleagues Recent data show that one in five adults in ...

"transport sector’s response to climate change has focused mitigation policy on scaling up electric vehicles. This serves the interests of the automotive and allied industries while undermining the opportunity to reorientate transport systems towards non-motorised travel"
www.bmj.com/content/388/...

19.03.2025 09:13 — 👍 30    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 2

An image showing air travel side-by-side with train travel, to help make the point that low carbon travel options for visitors already exist in many circumstances.

🚆✈️ Tourism’s biggest carbon problem? Travel. The solution? More trains, buses & EVs. Less reliance on offsets. We need action now! Let’s talk. 💬

📖 Read the great insights in this report: www.thetravelfoundation.org.uk/resources/en...

#Tourism #ClimateAction #NetZeroTravel #SustainableTransport

18.03.2025 17:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Impressive results!

08.03.2025 18:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The March progress report from BusConnects in Dublin shows some fairly amazing results.... the 48% increase in passenger boardings on the redesigned bus network is remarkable... wait till we start to see the infrastructure too

www.nationaltransport.ie/wp-content/u...

06.03.2025 18:07 — 👍 49    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 4

Climate FORTH Project Officer - Community & Youth Development (Maternity Cover) RSPB, Skinflats and Black Devon Reserve, Falkirk, Scotland, £26,379 - £28,319 pro rata

04.03.2025 12:00 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0