The Resource Centre holds all our documents (briefings, consultation responses, press releases and reports). Signed-in members also have access to projects. You can search the Resource Centre by topic or by type of document.
Resources
Resources
Directive 2003/20/EC - Use of seatbelts and child restraints by child passengers on buses and coaches
August, 2011
Consulting body:
Department for Transport
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Underpinning Policy - Modelling Bus Subsidy in English Metropolitan Areas
August, 2011
Forecasts the medium term implications for English metropolitan areas of changes to bus subsidy.
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The rail industry - an introduction
August, 2011
A basic introduction to the way the rail industry works, highlighting its key features and mechanisms.
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Stations RUS
July, 2011
Consulting body:
Network Rail
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High Speed Rail: Investing in Britain's Future
July, 2011
Consulting body:
Department for Transport
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Value for money and appraisal of small public transport schemes
July, 2011
Builds the evidence base on the value for money of small public transport schemes by compiling and analysing a database of close to 150 schemes.
Thriving Cities - Integrated land use and transport planning
July, 2011
Setting out the stark choices ahead in new planning reforms, this report recommends three 'golden rules' for future planning policy. The report also highlights good and bad practice on transport and land use planning and calls for local authorities and Local Economic Partnerships to proactively draw up highly sustainable masterplans for development sites of key significance. More widely it argues that planning processes should universally include the bodies responsible for local transport.
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Amending licences to give passengers the information they need to plan and make journeys
June, 2011
Consulting body:
Office of Rail Regulation
Relaxation of planning rules for change of use from commercial to residential
June, 2011
Consulting body:
Department for Communities and Local Government
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Bus Market Investigation - pteg response to provisional findings and remedies
June, 2011
Consulting body:
Competition Commission
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Draft guidance for local authority promoters considering a light rail scheme - pteg supporting letter
March, 2007
Consulting body:
Department for Transport
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Draft guidance for local authority promoters considering a light rail scheme - UK Tram joint response
March, 2007
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Consulting body:
Department for Transport
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Changes to planning obligations: A planning gain supplement
March, 2007
Consulting body:
Department for Communities and Local Government
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Lyons Inquiry into Local Government - questions for stakeholders
January, 2007
Consulting body:
HM Treasury
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Transport and Disability Discrimination - a Practical Guide for Rail Services (Disability Rights Commission)
January, 2007
Consulting body:
Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee
Bus policy review
October, 2006
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Consulting body:
Department for Transport
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Keep Europe Moving - Sustainable mobility for our continent (mid term review of the European Commission's 2001 Transport White Paper)
September, 2006
Consulting body:
European Union
Draft competition law in guideline for public transport ticketing schemes block exemption
August, 2006
Consulting body:
Office of Fair Trading
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Passenger Rail Franchising
June, 2006
Consulting body:
Transport Select Committee
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Bus services across the UK
May, 2006
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Consulting body:
Transport Select Committee
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Lyons backs bus regulation
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Leaders of the biggest transport authorities outside London today welcomed the publication of Sir Michael Lyons' report into Local Government.
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City region transport authorities welcome new trains – but regions should get fair share
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Passenger Transport Authorities (PTAs) for six of Britain’s largest city regions have welcomed plans for 1,000 new carriages – but have called on Government to ensure that Britain’s booming city regions get their fair share of the investment.
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Big city transport authorities welcome Government’s new buses blueprint
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
pteg, which represents locally accountable Passenger Transport Executives in Britain’s largest city regions outside London, today welcomed the Government’s plans for a fresh start for buses outside London.
Roy Wicks, Director General of South Yorkshire PTE and Chair of pteg, said:
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Eddington report's big city focus welcomed
Friday, December 1, 2006
1 December 2006
pteg – which represents the Passenger Transport Executives in six of England’s largest conurbations - today welcomed the Eddington report as ‘the key that could unlock the door to better public transport for the city regions.’
Chair of pteg, Roy Wicks, said:
Sorting the facts from the fiction on big city bus plans
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
pteg today published a ‘myths and facts’ briefing on PTE plans to improve bus services in the largest conurbations outside London.
Neil Scales, Director General of Merseytravel, takes the lead for pteg on bus issues:
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PTEs reject Stagecoach claims
Friday, October 27, 2006
In a speech today (27/10/06) to the Landor conference in Leeds marking twenty years of bus deregulation, pteg Chair Roy Wicks, refuted Brian Souter’s accusations about the PTEs’ record on supporting the bus industry.
Commenting on Brian Souter’s claims Roy Wicks said:
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PTEs welcomes TSC report as biggest opportunity in twenty years for a fresh start for the urban bus
Thursday, October 26, 2006
pteg today welcomed the all-party House of Commons Transport Select Committee report on the future of the industry as the chance to establish a new consensus on turning around the twenty years of decline in bus use since deregulation.
Chair of pteg, Roy Wicks, said:
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pteg responds to CPT bus priority report
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Responding to today's bus priority report from the CPT Jonathan Bray, Assistant Director of the pteg Support Unit said:
"CPT are right to highlight the importance of bus priority schemes in delivering better bus services.
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Franchising is affordable route to better buses
Thursday, October 12, 2006
In its response to the Government's bus policy review, and in a new FAQ briefing, pteg argues that by redeploying existing public subsidy to the industry, franchising (or 'quality contracts' as they are known in the bus industry) will give passengers better services.
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Bus powers pledge welcomed
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
pteg today welcomed Douglas Alexander's commitment to give PTEs 'real powers' over local bus networks.
Responding to Douglas Alexander's speech to the Labour party conference, Chair of pteg, Roy Wicks, said:
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