Transport and the Supply Chain Posts
Britain’s need for speed
Abandoning HS2 would be a terrible mistake
Read the full article...Who killed the car industry?
The British state’s green diktats are making drivers’ lives a misery
Read the full article...The war on motorists is out of control
Making it more difficult for people to take short car journeys will hit the elderly and immobile the hardest
Read the full article...Why the Elizabeth line is worth celebrating
We need more big, ambitious infrastructure projects across the UK
Read the full article...Electric cars are going nowhere fast
They are far too expensive to displace petrol cars anytime soon
Read the full article...The Stalinist folly of the ban on petrol cars
The government’s mad target of phasing out petrol, diesel and hybrid cars is not even close to achievable
Read the full article...The war on transport
Even before Covid-19, elites were keen to reduce our mobility
Read the full article...The end of oil is not in sight
Environmentalists dreaming of a post-pandemic future free of fossil fuels need to wake up
Read the full article...HS2: a principle worth upholding
It’s time to advance a strong, democratic case for high speed trains in Britain
Read the full article...In defence of HS2
Planning and execution have been pure Theresa May, but the principle is right
Read the full article...Rail delays
Sky News on rail delays after 13 year low according to the Office of Rail and Road, which is symptomatic of a wider problem than just the railways
Read the full article...HS2 and the buffers of Brexit
Between the old North-South divide and the more recent Referendum falls a tricky rail project
Read the full article...Heathrow expansion
Ahead of the parliamentary vote on a third runway for Heathrow airport, Sky News asked James to outline the technological dimensions of the issue
Read the full article...Wanted: a post-Brexit industrial strategy for electric cars
When Britain was fully signed up to the EU, the EU’s German-inspired bans on most state aids meant that Whitehall couldn’t really develop a genuine industrial strategy.
Read the full article...Heathrow’s third runway: delayed, delayed, delayed
After decades of dithering, we must demand action on airport expansion.
Read the full article...Toward a new customer experience, European rail, 2030
The opportunity to do better
In the past 20 years, neither energy suppliers nor telecommunications firms have truly completed their journey toward providing a good customer experience, whether off-line or online.
Read the full article...VW: a panto of Green politics
Paul Seaman and James Woudhuysen
Last week, everyone learned that Volkswagen (VW) fitted special, duplicitous software to its diesel-powered cars.
Read the full article...The attractiveness of cars in a Green age
Britons want to do their bit for the environment. We are conscious of energy ratings when we buy or rent houses; we give money and time to green causes; we recycle more of our waste. Moreover Britain’s political parties continuously repeat how committed they are to fighting global warming.
Read the full article...Mobility trends and the professional use of IT in European rail, 2015-2025
Perhaps the growing attention given to major disasters at sea, on the roads, in the air and on the railways is just to do with the speed and video quality of news now available on the Web.
Read the full article...Mobility trends and the professional use of IT in European aviation, 2015-2025
In 2012, the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development said that air passenger traffic could double in 15 years; airfreight could treble in 20 years.(1)
Read the full article...Transport in the UK election, 2015
While Japan is building floating trains, British politicians are promising (slightly) lower fares.
Read the full article...Strategies in Lean IT: their relevance to the travel business
This White Paper by James Woudhuysen looks at strategies in ‘Lean IT’ and their relevance to the travel business.
Read the full article...Transport: breaking through the impasse
ESSAY: Six arguments for innovation in transport.
Read the full article...High Speed 2: an impoverished debate
The one thing worse than the UK government’s case for HS2 is the case being made against it.
Read the full article...Back on track
Europe’s railways need to up their game in IT.
Read the full article...Don’t let the miserabilists clip humanity’s wings
Flying away on your holidays this August? The consensus is growing that you should feel guiltier than ever about it.
Read the full article...Who’s afraid of electric vehicles?
Green opposition even to eco-friendly electric cars shows that what environmentalists really dislike is travel itself.
Read the full article...Britain’s airports: the case for three Heathrows
Why it makes sense to even out international flights over England’s green and pleasant land
Read the full article...The Electric Car Conspiracy… that never was
What a hit movie really tells us about innovation.
Read the full article...Future traveller tribes
A new way of classifying air travellers has implications for hoteliers
Read the full article...Transport innovation: slowing to a standstill
New Labour’s deep-seated hostility to popular mobility is holding back advances on roads, railways and in the air.
Read the full article...IT gets behind the wheel of a car
IT in cars may not create mobile offices, but there will be productivity benefits
Read the full article...Construction and transport: Victorian Britain lives on
Risk-aversion, short-termism and technophobia are holding back the UK’s roads, railways and buildings.
Read the full article...Things to come … X-ray eyes for roadmenders
Holes in the road dug by public utility firms can be a headache for traffic and pedestrians.
Read the full article...Air cares
Awareness-raisers about flying and blood clots raise public anxiety sky-high.
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Details in this Sunday Times article are extraordinary but unsurprising: Seems the PUBLIC are seen as a problematic threat to be managed/manipulated. Surely CPS impartiality is compromised by this decision? Read on...
1.6GW total from wind and solar this morning, from a total of ~45GW installed capacity. We're keeping the lights on by burning trees and gas. Nukes and reliance upon interconnectors making up the difference. No chance we can hit Net Zero grid by 2030.
“Mother Nature is in charge, and so we must make sure we adjust”.
Ex-cop Democratic Party mayor, indicted on federal bribery and corruption charges, supported by Trump and critical of antisemitism, tells people to tighten their... throats.
What a mess! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/02/new-york-water-shortage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Innovators I like
Robert Furchgott – discovered that nitric oxide transmits signals within the human body
Barry Marshall – showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid
N Joseph Woodland – co-inventor of the barcode
Jocelyn Bell Burnell – she discovered the first radio pulsars
John Tyndall – the man who worked out why the sky was blue
Rosalind Franklin co-discovered the structure of DNA, with Crick and Watson
Rosalyn Sussman Yallow – development of radioimmunoassay (RIA), a method of quantifying minute amounts of biological substances in the body
Jonas Salk – discovery and development of the first successful polio vaccine
John Waterlow – discovered that lack of body potassium causes altitude sickness. First experiment: on himself
Werner Forssmann – the first man to insert a catheter into a human heart: his own
Bruce Bayer – scientist with Kodak whose invention of a colour filter array enabled digital imaging sensors to capture colour
Yuri Gagarin – first man in space. My piece of fandom: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/10421
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield – inventor, with Robert Ledley, of the CAT scanner
Martin Cooper – inventor of the mobile phone
George Devol – 'father of robotics’ who helped to revolutionise carmaking
Thomas Tuohy – Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire
Eugene Polley – TV remote controls