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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here are policy announcements: creating GB Grid, removing domestic VAT on electricity, National Energy Plan, mandating landlords make home improvements, £2 bus fare cap (modal shift), water companies (more related to adaptation than mitigation). Any I missed? I also want more!

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That's not quite right, see this in the middle of the speech (pictured) labour.org.uk/updates/stor...

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Yes, I saw the enforcement action at Wellington Arch on Friday evening. It drew a lot of attention.

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Pete Dyson - Bicycle Mayor for Bath, UK @bicyclemayorbath.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Compelling speech from Guy Hodgson yesterday @bath-bicyclist.bsky.social, and when Council Leader Kevin Guy accidently thanks 'Councillor Hodgson' he makes our point perfectly.....when moving at speed, us humans easily make mistakes! That's why... bath20mphcity.org

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Yes, in that they cite the curve as Goodwin, P. (2006). The gestation process for road pricing schemes. Local Transport Today, 444. It's listed on trid.trb.org/View/790777 still online at www.transportxtra.com/publications...

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The gestation process for road pricing schemes - TRID

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Is is primarily a libel thing? In journalisms need to state the facts, they fear describing the driver as the pilot of the vehicle would imply the driver is at fault. In aviation, the pilot is an employee which makes it a bit different?

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The Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) @cast-centre.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

We were proud to see CAST affiliate, Pete Dyson, a leading behavioural scientist and transport expert, give evidence to MPs on the Transport Select Committee on how better integrated transport systems could shape travel behaviour across the UK 🚌 Read the full news story from the University of Bath👇

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Transport expert Pete Dyson gives evidence to Parliament’s Transport Select Committee

Transport and sustainability research from the University of Bath was debated by MPs as part of the Select Committee Inquiry.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

As I was made to wait 2.5 minutes to cross a road this morning, let's again do the maths simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...

A diagram showing how a 2 minute delay to an active travel trip reduces the accessible area from a 15-minute trip by 25%

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

It takes the top spot, mounted on the wall by my desk. I think it looks klaas, Thanks!

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Laura Laker @lauralaker.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I’m very proud to have been part of this report with @pactsuk.bsky.social and @sarahcoombesmp.bsky.social on the serious and growing problem of Ghost Plates. The past couple of months have been incredibly eye-opening, to say the least: transportsafetyappg.org.uk/inquiries/ve...

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Ghosts on the Road – Tackling the rise in illegal registration plates - APPG

Ghosts on the Road – Tackling the rise in illegal registration plates The All Party Parliamentary Group for Transport (APPGTS)...

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Updated based on today's Budget. I explain how the charge 'splits the difference', it is consistent (not confusing) to offer a grant while also introducing a fee to balance cost of usage, and how it has opened the door to increasing fuel duty in 2026. www.linkedin.com/pulse/3p-per...

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How does the 3p-per-mile EV charge split the difference?

This article was drafted pre-UK Budget announcement, then updated based on Budget details announced on Wednesday 26th November 2025. An abridged version of this article will be published in Local Tran...

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Here's my analysis of the 3p-per-mile EV charge, already proposed ahead next week's UK budget. The policy has strengths of simplicity and fairness, two countries already do it, so I review the potential debate around charging equity and vehicle efficiency. www.linkedin.com/pulse/3p-per...

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Will the 3p-per-mile EV charge split the difference?

In this article I offer commentary ahead of the UK Budget on Thursday 27th November, previewing the context, behavioural change principles and implications of this potential new policy. If the policy ...

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Nice! Such an ensemble cast of researchers from UK and Europe :) BTW, I believe the URL is missing a '3' at the end. This link works for me: doi.org/10.1016/j.jc... Whereas the one above does not: doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Nice, will be useful. Wherever I go in the UK, I always seem to end up at the nearest canal or railway path. Putting old infrastructure to new use (though not sure if the Victorians would be impressed, disappointed or ambivalent!)

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Yes, I see gauge-changing train is mentioned, seems like you're not optimistic.

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

youtu.be/zGz22MHMvj8?... Like the Swiss trains, is this technology suitable for any of the countries you mention? Or too niche?

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Revolutionary technology puts GoldenPass trains on the right track

YouTube video by SWI swissinfo.ch - English

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Saskia Heijltjes @saskiaheijltjes.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Bath’s streets are better when filled with bikes and laughter! 🚲🥳 Join our next Kidical Mass family cycle ride at 2pm on Sat (13 September) - starting at Orange Grove. www.facebook.com/events/79625...

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Yes true, just giving the HS leg as an example. Based on my TGV window gazing through France, I would say a high speed view is different, in some ways better, than a typical speed train because the landscape changes even more. Wonder if TGV or other HS operators have done any research?

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Interesting, though from the London-Birmingham leg I've heard the statistic (repeated on R4) that across the ~60min journey only 10mins will have a view (that isn't tunnel/steep banks/sound insulation walls). So perhaps there's an extra challenge to be solved, giving people something to look at?

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Indeed, in addition to a crude ratio, widening the distribution of chargers to more places important. Also, as numbers increase there's less chance of having zero chargers available (e.g. a car park with just one or two chargers is more likely to be 100% occupied).

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

This is welcome news for EV transition, but the ratio of EVs to chargers is a key metric for prospective owners. In the UK, the number of EV is also increasing fast (in 2025, roughly +450,000 which is +33% YoY), so I made to chart to show ratio over time. www.transportxtra.com/publications...

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

And welcome to transport studies Jason Frerich! The paper author appears to be a spinal surgeon (based on previous articles) and supervised by @casssunstein.bsky.social on this research. Explains the walking example being in Boston.

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Nice spot. I long for the day our journey planners are tweaked to sustainable defaults and customisable by the user. Two extra interesting points (1) the walk default also boosted to cycling (2) the health and norms messaging didn't budge driving choice when driving was the default.

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Nice! And part of that investment was bus stop infrastructure and real time information, which is ongoing. I think the gains will be additive. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @bettertransport.bsky.social

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Millions could be spent on Norfolk bus stop arrival screens

Real-time information screens are already at more than 150 bus shelters in the county.

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Interesting article, though it doesn't explore fear or the Goodwin Curve. It looks at support and perceived fairness. Separately, a shame sampling on Exp1 (speed) + 2 (road pricing) are so underpowered and skewed (no power calc or acknowledgment as a limitation). Exp 3 on train tickets is better.

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

@gideonsalutin.bsky.social is the report available? Looks pretty technical on the secondary data analysis of NTS, I'd like to read.

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Looks interesting, but frustrating the Guardian report on the findings without the report being available to read. I've looked on SMF and can't find.

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

It's also an uncomfortable truth that, if people knew the harms of noise, they'd be more vocal and supportive of action. But, like air pollution, there is a process of acceptance to acknowledge your life (and your love ones) has been harmed. I say that as a busy road dweller of 15yrs and counting.

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Indeed, less discussed among policymakers and politicians, but common place in day-to-day frustrations (when an obscenely loud vehicle passes by) and bigger life choices (like where to live). Sustainable transport sorely needs more widely popular policies, designing/regulating/policing noise 👍

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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

One of the less discussed impacts of transport. “Noise pollution is often overlooked, considered just an annoyance of everyday life. However, long-term impacts of noise on our health and environment are widespread and significant. Children are also particularly vulnerable to the effects of noise…”

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Noise pollution harms health of millions across Europe, report finds

About 110 million people suffer stress and sleep disturbance that lead to tens of thousands of early deaths

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Bikes go a long way, if our minds and bodies let them 😀. Cycling non stop from London to Edinburgh in 17hrs was a personal challenge, also fundraising for a local charity. In this case not a scalable mode of transport, but shows what's possible at a human scale! 🚲 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ☀️ share.google/ybbfT4KMW1Zz...

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Cycling from London to Edinburgh, fundraising for Milestone's Trust

Help Pete Dyson raise money to support Milestones Trust

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I discussed developments in cycling safety and active travel more generally. Thanks to RWK Goodman for hosting us: a barrister, a lawyer and a BYCS bicycle mayor for Bath :)

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Harry Rutter @harryrutter.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Excellent @who.int webinar launching their impressive new toolkit for promoting walking and cycling. www.who.int/publications... Great to hear mention of the WHO HEAT tool during the discussion. www.who.int/tools/heat-f...

Screenshot showing Prof Fiona Bull from WHO describing the seven policy action areas in the toolkit:

1. Integrate walking and cycling into all relevant policies Embed walking and cycling objectives across transport, health, environment, education, and tourism policies. Establish clear, measurable targets and crossgovernment coordination mechanisms.

2. Provide safe and connected walking and cycling networks Develop well-connected, well-maintained infrastructure that links homes to key destinations (e.g. schools, transit, workplaces). Integrate green spaces and apply inclusive and sustainable urban design principles.

3. Design inclusive and safe streets for all Use human-centred design principles to create streets that accommodate all users, including pedestrians and cyclists of all ages and abilities. Implement safe system approach to improve road safety including best practice legislation to reduce speed limits where necessary.

4. Improve safe road user behaviour Enforce speed limits, tackle distracted and impaired driving, and promote safe use by all road users.

5. Protect and prioritize walking and cycling Create, maintain and protect allocation of road space to walking and cycling, implement pedestrian zones, and enforce parking regulations.

6. Facilitate integrated transport options Ensure walking and cycling are part of a seamless transport experience through integration with public transport and shared mobility services.

7. Promote and incentivize walking and cycling Create a culture of walking and cycling through communication campaigns, events, financial incentives, and workplace and school programmes.

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This is worth unpicking further. "Turning parkrun into a prescription makes it less about pleasure and fun, more like work and compliance". I suspect many park runners are already ambivalent; duty/duress/need/extrinsic motivation to maintain health goals. Status quo isn't all pleasure and fun.

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Nice initiative. On that, I want to find out if there are places in the UK with a reputation for being good for accessibility. And whether any local authority sees accessibility as a competitive advantage for attracting tourists/families/retirees/'purple pound'.

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Indeed. And this jogs my memory, for a detailed case study of a UK town @ianloader.bsky.social found road/traffic/parking safety (not typically what we think of as 'crime') ranks very highly among the public's concerns. www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...

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Professor Ian Loader participates in study on

Professor Ian Loader has taken part in a collaborative study with academics from the Universities of

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

On that note, Healthy Streets has a wonderful tool for public engagement with street design. Is this what you're after? www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFcT...

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Healthy Streets Introduction

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Here are people with specialist knowledge of road safety: Nick Reed (consulting for National Highways), Shaun Helman (Transport Research Laboratory), Dan Campsall (PACTS) and Lucy Saunders (Healthy Streets).

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Overall, I don't think there's a validated scale/measure of pedestrian perceived road safety. Perhaps because the items would be very different for rural/urban contexts. If I made one, I'd also want to include non-road dangers (like crime) as a more holistic assessment of barriers to walking

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Arriving late here, catching up from 2 weeks away. Good question. I found two good sources: Literature review here (section 2.1) gives a good overview www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... EU study from Brussels has a sample survey www.esranet.eu/storage/mini...

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Towards safer streets: A framework for unveiling pedestrians’ perceived road safety using street view imagery

Road safety has become a global concern but its impact in low- and middle-income countries is widespread mainly due to lack of appropriate crash datab…

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Thomas Ableman @freewheeling.info · 19/12/2024

@petedyson.bsky.social told me why a focus on rigid metrics risks distracting us from the things that users most care about, and how groupthink threatens the quality of our decision-making. He’s passionate that behavioural science has much more to offer the transport. bit.ly/3VIlvIr

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Pete Dyson on Transport for Humans — Freewheeling

Pete Dyson is the author of Transport for Humans. In this episode, he explains why our focus on rigid metrics risks distracting us from the things that users most care about, and how groupthink thre...

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The report invites some sub-regional questions, given the data show a weak correlation*, so they've really got to investigate within different geographic and demographic contexts [regression shows regional-level chargepoint density explains 3.61% of the variance from the variable EV:ICE adoption]

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Pete Dyson @petedyson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Thanks for sharing. Here's an extra statistic for the UK, Fig1 data shows UK outbound tourism is larger than its domestic passenger transport emissions (104Mt vs 81Mt) (only South Korea is higher). And our inbound tourism (46Mt) is over half of our domestic travel. Tourism emissions are a big deal.

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