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The benefits of a ‘decide and provide’ approach to transport planning

Ahead of publication of our Future Travel Scenarios, to support resilient and future-proofed decision-making to deliver our vision set out in the Strategic Transport Plan, Professor Glenn Lyons (Mott MacDonald, Professor ...
Friday 4th December 2020
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Seven reasons the North needs Northern Powerhouse Rail

Why does the North need a new rail network to power up its economy? Here are seven reasons why the UK needs to prioritise building Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR). 1. Growth The Industrial ...
Wednesday 25th November 2020
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Why this week’s Green Book rule changes could help ‘level up’ the North

The North of England has been held back by decades of underinvestment. Chancellor Rishi Sunak is this week expected to unveil changes to the way HM Treasury assesses projects for public funding. Could ...
Tuesday 24th November 2020
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Creating a roadmap to decarbonise transport across the North

During recent years the road to achieving a zero-carbon society has become a key focus across the world. In May 2019, the UK Government legislated a NetZero greenhouse gas emissions target to ...
Wednesday 4th November 2020
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Achieving an integrated energy future

When we launched the Future Transport insights series, we outlined how our future transport will require a combination of technology advancement, shared mobility, automation and digitality supported transport systems ...
Monday 12th October 2020
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Movement is medicine: How staying active helps my mental health

The prevalence of mental health issues across the globe continues to rise, and we face challenges around anxiety, depression and other mental health problems due to the current COVID-19 pandemic ...
Friday 9th October 2020
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Setting the challenge for decarbonising the transport network

In March 2020, the Department for Transport (DfT) published their policy paper ‘Decarbonising transport: setting the challenge’. The document set out six priority areas around which a national transport decarbonisation plan ...
Thursday 8th October 2020
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The Analytical Framework – a new digital asset for the North

Transport for the North’s vision is of a thriving North of England, where world class transport supports sustainable economic growth, excellent quality of life and improved opportunities for all ...
Friday 2nd October 2020
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How can transport help us level up the North?

In this exclusive Insights piece, Transport for the North’s chairman John Cridland looks at how transport can help us level up the North ...
Thursday 1st October 2020
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