Research Briefing
Buses: bus lanes and priority measures
This note sets out the law and practice on introducing and enforcing bus lanes and other priority bus measures, including London's 'red routes'.
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Buses: CfIT’s proposal to end free travel, 2002
This note briefly outlines a proposal in 2002 to limit bus concessions for older and disabled people to a half fare. The proposal was not taken forward by the government of the day.
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Buses: seat belts
This note describes the law covering the fitting and wearing of seat belts in coaches and buses, this includes vehicles of that type used to transport children.
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Buses: schools and young people
This note outlines the responsibilities of the Department for Transport for school buses. It describes the pilot schemes recently carried out on the use of yellow school buses and touches on some of the other areas of concern such as vehicle safety and passenger behaviour.
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Buses: deregulation in the 1980s
This note briefly summarises the bus policy of the Conservative Government in the 1980s, during which time bus services were deregulated (except in London) and bus companies were privatised.
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Roads: pedestrian accidents on the pavement
This note describes the duty of the local highway authority to maintain the highway (including, in the definition of that term, pavements) and those defences that an authority can use if a pedestrian is injured on the pavement.
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Shipping: safety on the River Thames and the Marchioness disaster
This note looks at the safety issues on the River Thames that came to light as a result of the Marchioness disaster in 1989 and measures taken to deal with them.
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Shipping: Marine Safety Act 2003
This note briefly explains how the Marine Safety Act 2003 came into being and those problems it was designed to address.
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Aviation: Manchester’s second runway, 1993-2001
This short note briefly explains the debate surrounding Manchester Airport's application to build a second runway in the late 1990s.
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Research Briefing
Aviation: Concorde
This note describes the political and economic agreement between Britain and France to build and operate Concorde. It does not cover the technology.
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Research Briefing
Aviation: disruptive passengers
There are a number of offences that can be committed by aircraft passengers under the Air Navigation Order 2009, such as: entering an aircraft while drunk; being drunk on an aircraft; using threatening language or engaging in threatening behaviour; interfering with an aircraft or its crew; endangering an aircraft; and refusing to obey an order from the aircraft commander. Various penalties are available for these offences, as set out in the following note.
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Research Briefing
Aviation: Eurocontrol air navigation charges
This note explains the single air navigation service charge legislated for in 2006 and implemented in full in January 2010.
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Research Briefing
Aviation: low cost airlines
This Note explains the legislative framework in which low cost airlines have flourished and looks at some of the issues associated with these airlines in recent years.
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Aviation: European liberalisation, 1986-2002
This note traces the developments in the liberalisation of the air transport market within the European Union between 1986 and 2002.
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Railways: Docklands Light Railway (DLR)
This note outlines the development of the Docklands Light Rail (DLR) system in East London and summarises the recent and planned expansion of the system.
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