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:
We have developed a model that simulates the pattern of land use and transportation for Great Britain which is configured in terms of thousands of small zones and three modes of transport which bind together employment a...
Funded by: STFC
Lead research organisation: University College London
The project has developed a model that simulates land use and transportation patterns for Great Britain, allowing users to derive and test future scenarios for land use and transport changes.
The VALUES project seeks to combine environmental data sets to build a prototype Geographical Information System (GIS) based tool which will support identification of optimum routes for large scale corridor style infrast...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: SCOTTISH HYDRO ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION PLC
The VALUES project seeks to model and value changes in land-use arising from transport interventions, which directly addresses the question.
The U.K. population is projected to reach 80 million by 2050 and it is anticipated that the overwhelming majority will continue to live in cities. Besides becoming more densely populated, future cities will be surrounded...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: Newcastle University