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Our latest reports, briefings and consultation responses are listed below. Use the search or filter functions to discover specific policy documents.
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Consultation response
Whole Industry Strategic Plan - Call for Evidence Response Form
Consulting body
Network Rail
Report
Strategic analysis of current bus safety issues
This report from the Transport Safety Research Centre at Loughborough University reviews the regulatory framework for bus safety in England outside London and makes comparisons with the safety regime in place both elsewhere and for other modes.
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Report
Delivering a greener future - Urban freight and the decarbonisation of the city regions
This report sets out the role for freight in decarbonising city regions and the need for freight to play its part in creating urban areas that are greener, fairer, happier, healthier and more prosperous places.
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Report
Making rail reform work for people and places in the city regions
This statement calls for rail reform to both build on the success of the devolution of rail powers which has already taken place, and for structured and meaningful involvement for the city regions in how rail reform plans unfold.
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Briefing
The threat to public transport in the city regions
Urban public transport is in danger of entering a new period of retrenchment and decline, following on from years of decline in bus services outside London and the body blow of Covid-19 pandemic. To avoid this, we set out what needs to happen.
Consultation response
Creating a Road Collision Investigation Branch
Consulting body
Department for Transport
Briefing
Urban Transport Group briefing on Comprehensive Spending Review 2021
Consultation response
Future of Transport regulatory review: regulatory sandboxes
Consulting body
Department for Transport
Report
Fully charged: Powering up the potential of e-bikes in the city regions
This report, produced by consultants Steer for the Urban Transport Group, aims to quantify and understand the potential to increase e-bike uptake in the UK, particularly in the city regions, and the benefits that could be realised as a result.
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Consultation response
Future of transport regulatory review: zero emission vehicles
Consulting body
Department for Transport
Report
Leading Light: What Light Rail can do for City Regions
This report, produced by Steer for the Urban Transport Group, shows how Britain’s light rail systems have supported economic growth in the areas that they serve, promoted social inclusion and led to environmental gain, including a reduction in carbon emissions.
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Consultation response
Traffic Commissioner Function
Consulting body
Traffic Commissioners
Consultation response
Concessionary Travel Covid-19 Recovery Strategy - Consultation: call for evidence
Consulting body
Department for Transport
Consultation response
Submission to the Comprehensive Spending Review 2021
Consulting body
HM Treasury
Report
Back the Bus to Level Up
This report makes the case for bus revenue funding and reform of how it is provided. It aims to arrive at a realistic assessment of the revenue funding that will be needed to support the ambitious transformation in bus services envisaged by the National Bus Strategy.
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Report
Building back better on urban transport
In this paper we set out how, with the right policy framework from Government, we can meet the challenge of ramping up public transport and prioritising cycling and walking to support a green and just recovery.
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Briefing
The role of LRT during and after the pandemic
This factsheet sets out examples and statistics on the key role that light rail has played in getting key workers where they need to be during the pandemic and the essential role it will have in building back better afterwards.
Briefing
COVID19 funding challenges on urban transport
Government has put in place emergency funding packages to allow public transport to be maintained during the pandemic. This funding has been welcome as it closes the gap between the costs of providing local public transport and the revenue gap created by much lower levels of patronage than normal. However these various funding packages are nearing ‘cliff edge’ end dates
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Consultation response
Public Transport Ticketing Scheme Block Exemption
Consulting body
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Consultation response
Automated Vehicles: Consultation Paper 3 – A regulatory framework for automated vehicles
Consulting body
Law Commission
Report
A new deal for urban transport: for the pandemic and beyond
This short paper shows how urban transport authorities have been keeping the wheels of public transport turning during the pandemic, working together to meet the challenges of COVID-19, whilst delivering better transport for a green and just recovery from it.
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Consultation response
Major transport infrastructure projects: appraisal and delivery
Consulting body
Transport Select Committee
Consultation response
Reforming Public Transport after the Pandemic
Consulting body
Transport Select Committee
Briefing
Funding and delivering bus services during the pandemic and beyond
This document proposes a two stage approach to ensuring the most efficient use of public funding to provide the best possible bus service during the pandemic, whilst setting in place the foundations for reversing the decline in bus use that was taking place before the pandemic.
Consultation response
Pavement parking: options for change
Consulting body
Department for Transport
Consultation response
Planning for the future
Consulting body
Department for Communities and Local Government
Consultation response
Submission to the Comprehensive Spending Review 2020
Consulting body
HM Treasury
Report
The Covid-19 Funding Gap: The Case for Continuing Support for Urban Public Transport
This report, produced by transport consultancy Steer for the Urban Transport Group, warns that the future of local public transport services is at serious risk without continued COVID-19 financial support from Government.
Report
Towards an appropriate legal and regulatory framework for smart futures on transport
Commissioned from consultants Steer, this report seeks to provide an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses the current UK legal and regulatory framework for smart transport futures in relation to the key challenges that UK transport authorities face.