Colin buchanan

Towards the end of 1960, Professor Sir Colin Buchanan was instructed by Ernest Marples, the then Minister of Transport, to study and report on the growing problems of accommodating traffic in towns and cities. Published in 1963 the result was the seminal report, “Traffic in Towns”, widely regarded to be the starting point of modern transportation planning.

Sir Colin and his team were the first to recognise that most transport issues cannot be solved by transport analysis alone, and that wider analysis is required, employing a variety of disciplines. In 1964 Colin Buchanan and Partners Limited was founded, taking this fundamental link between planning and transport as its ethos.