Towards a Sustainable Transport System: Supporting Economic Growth in a Low Carbon World
Table of contents
- Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Transport, by Command of Her Majesty
- Foreword
- Executive summary
- History and context
- Our broad goals – and the challenge for transport
- Our plans to 2014
- A new approach to strategic transport planning
- Listening to the people
- 1. History and context
- From the 1950s to the 1990s
- More recent transport trends
- The Stern Review and Eddington
- The role of national Government
- 2. Clarifying goals
- Introduction
- Productivity and competitiveness
- Climate change
- Reducing CO2 from domestic journeys
- Safety, security and health
- Quality of life
- Equality of opportunity
- Conclusion
- 3. Our plans to 2013-14
- Introduction
- Urban, regional and local networks
- National networks
- International networks
- Cross-cutting activity
- Enabling the system to deliver
- 4. Planning for 2014-15 and beyond
- The starting point
- The Eddington recommendations
- The Government’s proposed approach
- Improving the supporting analysis
- Engaging with users and other stakeholders
- Private sector investment
- 5. First steps
- The importance of clarifying objectives and challenges
- November 2007 to December 2007
- January to April 2008
- May to July 2008
- By December 2008
- From January 2009
- Continuing to deliver
- Annex A Identifying challenges – an initial view
- Introduction
- Urban, regional and local networks
- National networks
- International networks
