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.
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Ticket to Thrive: The role of urban public transport in tackling unemployment
February, 2015
This report reveals the vital role of public transport, and the bus in particular, in enabling people to find and sustain employment. Some 77% of jobseekers in British cities outside London do not have regular access to a car, van or motorbike and can face significant barriers to work as a result. The report finds that these barriers include expensive public transport tickets; poorly connected employment sites; mismatches between working hours and available transport; and limited travel horizons. It recommends seven key policies that could help overcome these obstacles, including: a new funding deal to enable local councils to protect lifeline bus services and connect people to opportunity; more effective powers over bus services for local transport authorities, offering them greater control over where and when buses run and the affordability of fares; a review of the potential for an adequately funded national jobseeker and apprentice travel concession.
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Oxford SmartZone
February, 2015
In 2011, the two main bus operators in the city of Oxford introduced an inter-operable smart ticketing system known as the SmartZone. Meanwhile, many other parts of the country have faced significant challenges in attempting to introduce inter-operable smart ticketing in deregulated bus markets. The Oxford system has therefore attracted considerable attention and it has been suggested that it could offer valuable lessons for other areas. This paper explains the context within which the scheme was developed and describes the key features of bus ticketing in the city of Oxford and in its wider travel to work area. The paper then compares the Oxford system with the aspirations of Passenger Transport Executives (PTEs).
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Senior Traffic Commissioners Guidance document no. 14 on Local Bus Services
January, 2015
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Traffic Commissioners
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Local Authority highways maintenance funding
December, 2014
Consulting body:
Department for Transport
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ORR Retail market review
November, 2014
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Office of Rail Regulation
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Cycling Delivery Plan
November, 2014
pteg response to the Department for Transport's informal consultation on the draft Cycling Delivery Plan which sets out the Government’s 10 year strategy for increasing cycling and walking across England.
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Department for Transport
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Policy Futures - Seamless public transport
September, 2014
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.
Policy Futures - Rail
September, 2014
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.
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Policy Futures - Urban Transport outside London
September, 2014
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.
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Policy Futures - Highways
September, 2014
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.
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Reforming Rail Franchising
October, 2010
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Department for Transport
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Local Government Finance Formula Grant Distribution
October, 2010
Consulting body:
Department for Communities and Local Government
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Transport and the economy
September, 2010
Consulting body:
Transport Select Committee
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Review of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) Policy
September, 2010
Consulting body:
Department for Transport
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High level review of track access charges
August, 2010
Consulting body:
Office of Rail Regulation
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Regional Growth Fund
August, 2010
Consulting body:
Department for Communities and Local Government
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Regional Growth Fund
August, 2010
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Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
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Improving Bus Passenger Services through the Regulatory Framework
June, 2010
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Department for Transport
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pteg welcomes high-speed rail decision
Monday, January 28, 2013
Following the announcement today of the next phase of high speed rail and the publication of the routes to Leeds and Manchester, Geoff Inskip, the lead on rail issues for pteg said:
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David Brown is new Chair of pteg
Monday, January 21, 2013
SYPTE Director General, David Brown, is the new Chair of pteg. He takes over following on from Centro DG Geoff Inskip’s two year term in the role.
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pteg welcomes further support on rail devolution
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Commenting on the publication by the Department for Transport today of the outcomes of the Brown Review of the Rail Franchising Programme, Geoff Inskip, Chair of pteg said:
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Warning over concessionary travel 'timebomb'
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Funding for concessionary travel could lead to 75% cut in spending on other transport services in ten years’ time
pteg welcomes rail devolution progress
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Commenting on the publication by the Department for Transport today of the outcomes of the consultation on the scope for further rail devolution, and rail Minister Simon Burns's accompanying statement, Geoff Inskip, Chair of pteg said:
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New figures show widening funding gap between transport spending in London and the regions
Monday, November 12, 2012
New analysis of Treasury public spending figures reveals that spending on transport in London has now risen to £644 per head compared with £243 per head for the West Midlands and the North of England combined.
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Tough times require fresh thinking on young people’s transport
Thursday, October 25, 2012
New report urges local transport authorities to work with young people to develop simple packages of measures
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pteg responds to DfT bus subsidy plans
Thursday, September 13, 2012
David Brown, who leads on bus issues for pteg, said:
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Urban transport authorities welcome MPs’ bus report
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Responding to today’s House of Commons Transport Select Committee report on competition in the local bus market, David Brown, who leads for pteg on bus issues, said:
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