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We were delighted for our client, and everyone involved in the wider Battersea Power Station and Northern Line Extension (NLE) projects to see the opening of Battersea Power Station and Nine Elms Stations this week.

You probably do not need to be a transport planner to be aware of Dr Beeching. Almost 60 years ago, he published a report that spelt the end for over 2,300 stations, 5,000 miles of track and ultimately closed numerous branch lines up and down the country.

Even without the upheaval of a global pandemic, most of us would say there are more cars in London now than there used to be, so it seems logical to assume more cars equals more car ownership. Except this is assuming that ‘car ownership’ is just a gross count of the number of cars in any given area, and as anyone who has dipped a toe in psychology or statistics will tell you, that’s just not how either numbers or people work.

It has been 10 years since I started using geographic information system (GIS) software.

GIS is computer-based software that allows the user to create interactive queries, store and edit spatial and non-spatial data and visually share the results of these operations by presenting them as maps. The production and presentation of maps using GIS software is common in many disciplines, including environmental science and architecture.

Andreas Markides as vice-chair of the Academy of Urbanism (AoU) was instrumental in organising and running this seminar on rapid transport and urban recovery, which produced some key outputs and recommendations, as outlined in the report by Dr Nicholas Falk below: 

People from outside my profession will invariably refer to my fellow professionals as highway engineers or transport planners and sometimes as just traffic consultants. There is a huge difference between these terms but for the purpose of this article I shall use the term “highway engineer” to represent myself and all of my misunderstood fellow professionals.

Andreas Markides

The London Resort Theme Park is a nationally significant infrastructure project located on the Swanscombe Peninsula, within Kent, which lies on the south bank of the River Thames, approximately 30 miles to the east of London.

MA are very proud to announce that, together with supporters from MA Aarchitects, Peacock & Smith, AHMM, CBRE, DWD, Reside, West End Project, Town Legal, Countryside, New Steer, MAA, HGH, Murphy's, HEOR and Gillings Planning, we have managed to raise more than £7,000 for Crisis. 

With the nation filling out census forms, MA's Edward Holmes provides his thoughts on what the census means to transport planning and the limitations of the 2021 census. 

Andreas Markides, as the new vice chair of the The Academy of Urbanism, is pleased to make a contribution to the Academy’s journal with the following article:

https://journal.theaou.org/articles/everything-flows/