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:
Cities throughout the world face long term strategic challenges in delivering large scale physical infrastructure development whilst addressing social and economic changes and challenges. In delivering such major program...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: UNIT 9 LIMITED
The project partially answers the question by providing improved data visualization and place-based analysis, but it does not mention local prosperity metrics or distributional weights.
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 partially answers the question by assessing the implications of transport investments for spatial economic performance, but it does not mention improved data visualization, local prosperity metrics, place-based analysis, or distributional weights.
Origin-destination (OD) matrices are a common data format used in transport planning, for understanding 'flows' of passengers, freight, or vehicles and making decisions. However, expensive modelling software or considera...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: INTEGRATED TRANSPORT PLANNING LIMITED
The project partially answers the question by providing improved data visualization and understanding of transport matrix data, but it does not mention local prosperity metrics, place-based analysis, or distributional weights.