What tools can we best use to reflect Levelling Up objectives within transport appraisal: for example, improved data visualisation, local prosperity metrics, place-based analysis, or distributional weights.
Background
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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Related UKRI funded projects
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Metrocare: Strategic decision-making for integrated urban infrastructure
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
Why might this be relevant?
The project addresses the need for improved data visualization and place-based analysis in transport appraisal, aligning with the question's objectives.
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Transport investments and spatial economic performance
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
Why might this be relevant?
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.
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OD Visualiser - a tool to understand and analyse transport matrix data in low-income countries
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
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on understanding and analyzing transport matrix data, which is partially relevant to the question's objectives.