The grow and level up the economy strategic priority is at the heart of the government’s agenda to spread opportunity across the UK. Transport has a crucial role to play, whether it be through improving connectivity across the United Kingdom and growing the economy by enhancing the transport network, on time and on budget. DfT has a number of specific interests in this space, notably our infrastructure projects, Places for Growth and our apprenticeships and skills work.
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
The research is seeking to understand the implications of transport investments for the spatial economy by identifying effects on workers and firms (e.g. productivity, employment, wages). The research will provide the fi...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: London School of Economics and Political Science
The project aims to understand the implications of transport investments for the spatial economy and assess the implications of the findings for scheme appraisal, which directly addresses the question.
Numerous research studies use commuting data, collected through the Census of Population, to understand social, economic and environmental challenges in the UK. This commuting data has been used to understand patterns; a...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Manchester
The project aims to develop a toolkit to help decision-makers better target investment in transport capacity and infrastructure, which directly addresses the question.
This study will link the changing nature of jobs due to automation and the platform economy to regional infrastructure planning and transport operations, and the role specifically of transport automation within this cont...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Glasgow
The project focuses on the changing nature of jobs due to automation and the platform economy, which is partially relevant to the question about how workers move across space due to better transport connections.