Local decision making on transport expenditure
December, 2013
Consulting body:
Transport Select Committee
Topic:
Funding
Resources
Delivering Successful Local Transport - the City Region Experience
October, 2013
Report by JMP demonstrating the sound processes that PTEs have for identifying the right projects and then delivering them efficiently and effectively.
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HMT 2013 Spending Review: transport number crunch
October, 2013
Briefing analysing what the 2013 Spending Review means for transport. It takes a closer look at the overall funding envelope for the UK government and the Department for Transport and how this has evolved, before looking at the balance between resource/revenue and capital budgets and the specific challenges facing local transport over the next couple of years.
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LSTF Monitoring and Evaluation Guidance - Final Report
May, 2013
Building on the work of the Department for Transport, pteg commissioned AECOM to prepare additional guidance for PTEs and other Local Transport Authorities to assist in the monitoring and evaluation of Local Sustainable Transport Fund projects. The guidance provides a practical approach to developing cost effective and affordable monitoring and evaluation programmes.
A better deal for the bus from the Spending Review
April, 2013
Summarises how buses are funded, the raw deal they have been getting, and how the Spending Review can give the bus the greater share of available funding that it deserves given its contribution to multiple Government policy goals.
Integrated Transport Block Funding
March, 2013
Consulting body:
Department for Transport
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The Case for the Urban Bus - the economic and social benefits of investing in the urban bus
February, 2013
A detailed evaluation of the economic and social benefits of investing in the urban bus.
Transport number crunch
February, 2013
In this briefing we seek to place the 2011 and 2012 Autumn Statements in the context of other major changes in transport funding that have taken place since May 2010, analysing the implications for local transport.
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Funding shift - How the regional cities lose out on transport
February, 2013
This briefing looks at three current and emerging trends on transport funding which threaten to take funding out of the major urban areas of the Midlands and the North.
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Concessionary Travel: The funding timebomb for PTEs
November, 2012
The English National Concessionary Travel Scheme has been highly successful in giving older and disabled people the freedom of free off‐peak bus travel. But the costs of the scheme are rising fast whilst funding is falling. This financial ‘timebomb’ will lead to severe cuts in other frontline transport services unless a sustainable funding solution can be found.
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Breakthrough on devolution of bus funding
Monday, March 26, 2012
PTE bus powers reaffirmed
England's big city transport authorities today welcomed Norman Baker's decision to begin a process of devolving bus subsidies to local transport authorities.
David Brown, who leads on bus issues for pteg, said:
New Treasury figures show massive transport funding gap between London and the regions
Monday, November 7, 2011
New public spending figures released by the Treasury show transport spend in London is now nearing triple the spend in the North of England and West Midlands.
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Transport Works!
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
New alliance makes case for big city transport investment
For the first time the evidence base for investing in urban transport has been brought together in a single website: www.transportworks.org.
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Transport funding gap grows even wider
Monday, July 11, 2011
New figures show transport spend in London is now close to triple the spend in the North of England and West Midlands.
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New Chair of pteg calls for more investment in local rail
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Geoff Inskip, chief executive of Centro, has been appointed as the new Chair of pteg, taking over the role from Neil Scales.
New report shows local transport spending outside London could be decimated in spending review
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Government urged to consider regional dimension in determining funding cuts
A new report for pteg by finance and business advisors Grant Thornton UK LLP, shows that unprotected areas of the transport budget could be facing devastating cuts.
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Green transport is working
Monday, July 19, 2010
New report shows sustainable transport is better for jobs than motor industry
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pteg launches new campaign on city region transport investment
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
New report shows investing in transport can help city regions achieve green and smart exit from recession
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