Consultation response
Policy
Our latest reports, briefings and consultation responses are listed below. Use the search or filter functions to discover specific policy documents.
You can also see our full list of policy topics via the link below.
Consultation response
Cycling Delivery Plan
Briefing
PTE area bus operator profitability analysis 2014
pteg briefing paper summarising the current financial position (as at October 2014) of the largest bus companies operating in metropolitan areas and the wider city regions and comparing their performance with that of their London counterparts.
Briefing
Policy Futures - Seamless public transport
This policy futures paper highlights the growing appetite for giving larger cities outside London more of the benefits that London enjoys on public transport, and brings together the ideas from the other policy futures papers.
Briefing
Policy Futures - Rail
This Policy Futures paper sets out the changed needed to ensure that modern commuter networks compliment enhanced national and inter-regional services in a way that meets the needs of the city regions.
Briefing
Policy Futures - Urban Transport outside London
This Policy Futures paper sets out the overarching policies needed to transform transport provision in the city regions in a way that supports wider objectives for growth, society and the environment.
Briefing
Policy Futures - Young Peoples' concessions
This Policy Futures paper sets out the costs and benefits of different options for concessions for children and young people, and sets them in a wider policy context of achieving more effective overall policies in this area.
Briefing
Policy Futures - Highways
This Policy Futures paper sets out the changes needed to better co-ordinate national and local highways policy to achieve wider economic, environment and social goals.
Briefing
Policy Futures - Air quality
This Policy Futures paper sets out the policy changes needed to better tackle the air quality problems caused by transport in the city regions.
Report
Air Quality in the City Regions: A Transport Toolkit
Aimed at city region authorities, this toolkit provides an accessible overview of the issues and options for tackling air pollution associated with transport.
Briefing
Policy Futures paper - Buses
This paper sets out the policy changes needed for the bus to play its full part in creating wider modern, cost effective and integrated public transport networks for the city regions.
Report
Making the connections: The cross-sector benefits of supporting bus services
The bus is key to achieving 46 policy goals of 12 of the 24 Departments across Whitehall including the Department for Work and Pensions, HM Treasury, Department of Health, Department for Education and Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Report
Economic Value of Rail in the North of England
This report shows how the North's booming railways are integral to its economic prospects; and shows why future plans for the North's railways should be based on expansion and growth.
Report
A heavy load to bear - towards a fairer allocation of rail industry costs for regional rail
This report shows how regional rail is allocated a disproportionate share of the railways' overall costs which distorts the wider debate about its value for money. The report sets out how an alternative fairer, more defensible and rational system would halve regional rail's share of government support.
Report
Bus priority works for business, shops, communities and growth
This brochure and website sets out how well planned bus priority schemes can transform roads and high streets; make walking and cycling safer; create clearer parking and drop off spaces; and reduce congestion for all road users.
Briefing
Rail in the North of England
A briefing on Rail in the North - and the case for investment and a growing railway.
Consultation response
Investing in the railway
Report
Bus Punctuality - towards a structure that can deliver
This report explains how the national system for monitoring, improving, and enforcing bus punctuality is supposed to work now, why it doesn't work well, and how it could be reformed.
Briefing
Multi operator ticketing comparison
Consultation response
Senior Traffic Commissioners bus punctuality regime consultation
Consultation response
Implementation of Competition Commission bus registration remedies
Report
Issues with DfT Concessionary Reimbursement Guidance
This paper was produced by Andrew Last, for pteg, between December 2013 and May 2014, and its purpose is two-fold: - To serve as a background resource for PTE officers by providing an overview of current reimbursement guidance and its genesis; - To identify and document a number of issues with the current DfT Concessionary reimbursement guidance, thereby supporting
Consultation response
National road and rail networks: draft national policy statement
Consultation response
Local Authority Parking
Report
Transport Works for growth and jobs
This report summarises some of the latest academic research which shows the importance of agglomeration economies (the way in which high value sectors of the economy cluster together in cities) in driving wider national economies. It also shows that these urban clusters cannot develop to their full potential without high quality and efficient transport networks.
Report
Changing Highways Policy
This report to pteg by Atkins focuses on the most important recent and forthcoming changes to highways policy and the implications of these for Metropolitan areas, including in respect of air quality, carbon emissions, technology, the Strategic Road Network, road maintenance, road safety, planning, freight, management of road space and parking policy.
Briefing
Government proposals to ban CCTV enforcement of parking and implications for buses
On 6th December 2013 the Government issued a consultation document on local government parking strategies. The stated aim of the proposals is to help with the cost of living and to support local shops. In this briefing we concentrate on the CCTV enforcement proposals – and in particular the implications for buses.
Consultation response
Government measures to support uptake of ultra low emission vehicles from 2015-2020
Briefing
Comparing operator bus fares across the PTE areas
pteg paper comparing fare offers from the 'Big Five' bus operators across the PTE areas, correct as at 18 December 2013.
Briefing
pteg Funding Gap report
Compares levels of transport spending between regions, including analysis of how levels of transport spending compare to spending on other key services.