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Regional Transport Strategy

The Regional Transport Strategy is a regional framework which will ensure that the investment programmes of local authorities, transport providers and other key stakeholders in the transport sector complement and support the wider regional objective of delivering a more sustainable pattern of development.

Transport Fact Book

The Regional Assembly published, on behalf of the Regional Transport Board, a practical fact book covering details of the region's 10-year transport programme and an overview of vital improvements and investment.

Mobility Management

Removing barriers to accessibility for disabled and reduced mobility people to the South East England's transport networks - 4.8 MB

Regional Funding Allocations (RFAs)

The University of Bristol has conducted research, including interviewing Assembly members and staff, to evaluate the quality and rigour of regional decision making procedures for RFAs in all English regions. It looks at how the different resource capacities and objectives of regional stakeholders are being managed in efforts to achieve integration between:

economic development
housing
transport policies
the extent to which regional policy making is underpinned by robust, inclusive and evidence based procedures.

English Regionalism: Rhetoric or Substance? Evaluating Decision Making Procedures for Regional Funding Allocations

Journey to Work Research

As part of the supporting information for the preparation of the South East Plan, the Regional Assembly commissioned work considering the output of Journey to Work data from Census 2001.

Pan Regional Research

The Assembly jointly commissioned work (with the East of England, Corporation of London and Transport for London and other regional partner) into forecasting commuting in the wider South East. This report focuses on considering possible long term commuting pattern based on modelling to 2021. The report is in three parts:

Executive Summary - 1.08 MB
Part 1 - 1.03 MB
Part 2 - 1.86 MB
Part 3 - 875 KB

Regional Funding Allocations (RFAs)

economic development
housing
transport policies
the extent to which regional policy making is underpinned by robust, inclusive and evidence based procedures.

English Regionalism: Rhetoric or Substance? Evaluating Decision Making Procedures for Regional Funding Allocations

Regional Research

The Regional Assembly has commissioned research to provide an improved understanding of where and by what mode people travel to work. This improved understanding can assist in the development of the Regional Spatial Strategy, so as to support the economic growth of the region in a manner that is socially and environmentally sustainable.

This report reviews historical, current and forecast data in assessing Journey to Work trips across the region. Part one of the report covers pan-regional and regional issues, Part Two sub-regional, and Part three contains the data draft from for the study.

Part 1 - 3.17 MB
Part 2 - 4.97 MB
Part 3 - 888 KB