Briefing
The rail industry - an introduction
A basic introduction to the way the rail industry works, highlighting its key features and mechanisms.
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Briefing
A basic introduction to the way the rail industry works, highlighting its key features and mechanisms.
Consultation response
Consultation response
Report
Forecasts the medium term implications for English metropolitan areas of changes to bus subsidy.
Consultation response
Consultation response
Report
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.
Report
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.
Consultation response
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Report
This report highlights the essential role of public transport, walking and cycling in achieving key health, social care and employment policy goals. It warns that this contribution could be put at risk unless there is more focus on collaborative, cross-sector funding and delivery of transport interventions.
Report
This guidance has been drafted by industry and government stakeholders to assist anyone responsible for health and safety in a bus or coach station. The group identified key hazards and risk associated with the operation and design of bus stations, and provides practical advice on how they can be managed effectively.
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Report
The study was commissioned to identify and review alternative structures of responsibility for railway station sponsorship, stewardship, and service delivery, in the context of potential scope for greater devolvement of responsibility for urban rail to the PTEs.
Report
This document reports the results of a series of modelling exercises intended to estimate the potential impact and value for money of a step change in the delivery of interventions to support and promote cycling in the six PTE areas. The purpose of this exercise is to support decision-makers in developing effective strategies aimed at increasing cycling levels in the metropolitan areas.
Report
This report explores the potential impact of a step change in the delivery of interventions to support and promote cycling in the English city regions outside of London. It finds that the greatest potential for increasing cycling in the UK can be found in the city regions.
Consultation response
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Briefing
pteg's vision for rail in the city regions
Consultation response
Consultation response
Consultation response