What future for light rail in the UK after Ten Year Transport Plan targets are scrapped? (2007)
Journal Article
Knowles, R. (2007). What future for light rail in the UK after Ten Year Transport Plan targets are scrapped?. Transport Policy, 14(1), 81-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2006.10.001

Light Rail schemes were key components of plans to improve accessibility and personal mobility in conurbations as part of the UK Government's Integrated Transport Policy and its 2000 Ten Year Transport Plan. However by 2004 light rail's future in Bri... Read More about What future for light rail in the UK after Ten Year Transport Plan targets are scrapped?.

Transport shaping space: the differential collapse of time/space (2006)
Journal Article
Knowles, R. (2006). Transport shaping space: the differential collapse of time/space. Journal of Transport Geography, 14(6), 407-425. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2006.07.001

Although the tyranny of distance has been reduced by cheaper and faster transport, important geographical differences remain. Transport provision varies enormously. Globalization is uneven. Location remains all-important as time/space relationships c... Read More about Transport shaping space: the differential collapse of time/space.

Bus quality partnerships, modal shift and traffic decongestion (2006)
Journal Article
Davison, L., & Knowles, R. (2006). Bus quality partnerships, modal shift and traffic decongestion. Journal of Transport Geography, 14(3), 177-194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2005.06.008

A more sustainable transport system requires effective alternatives to private cars. Despite more than 40 years of declining use, buses are still the main form of local public transport outside central London. Government policy focuses upon Bus Quali... Read More about Bus quality partnerships, modal shift and traffic decongestion.

Impacts of Privatising Britain’s Rail Passenger Services - Franchising, Refranchising and Ten Year Transport Plan Targets (2004)
Journal Article
Knowles, R. (2004). Impacts of Privatising Britain’s Rail Passenger Services - Franchising, Refranchising and Ten Year Transport Plan Targets. Environment and Planning A, 36(11), 2065-2087. https://doi.org/10.1068/a36300

Britain's passenger rail services were privatised in 1996/97 to reduce public subsidies and produce customer benefits through the private sector competing for medium or long-term franchises. Private sector franchisees were committed to investment in... Read More about Impacts of Privatising Britain’s Rail Passenger Services - Franchising, Refranchising and Ten Year Transport Plan Targets.