2050 feels like a long way away but it’ll come round sooner than you think. That’s why we focused our work in 2019/20 on assessing the deliverability of each interventions in the Investment Programme. This has helped TfN and our Partners to say when an intervention is most needed and likely to happen.
All of our schemes have been sorted into three time periods:
Up to 2027 | 2027 – 2033 | Beyond 2033
Both Highways England and Network Rail deliver their major improvements in five year cycles. 2027 and 2033 fall in the middle of these five-year cycles, giving us greater flexibility in delivering the Investment Programme.
We evaluated each of the 230 interventions in the Investment Programme by assessing their ability to support, improve or enable the following:
We also considered the deliverability of each intervention in terms of technical feasibility, dependencies as well as public and political support.
No one can predict the future but we can make sure our programmes are flexible and resilient to change. There are two categories of factors that can influence how we deliver the Investment Programme:
This refers to who and how the funding and governance is managed in the future. We have created three different strategies, so we will have at least one that will suit changes in each of the following areas:
Technology – driverless or electric vehicles, better Wi-Fi, user acceptance
Environment – zero net CO2 emissions by 2050, climate change
Social behaviours – shared mobility, active and public travel, remote working
Economy and Spatial Planning – urbanisation, shorter working weeks
We have created four future scenarios that cover the parameters of what may happen in the future. We will use these to test the suitability of the three strategies we have created.
Our Future Travel Scenarios
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