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From Department for Transport (DfT)
  • Considers whether current appraisal methods properly capture the benefits of transport schemes that change how people and jobs are distributed.

  • Scoping research to identify and provide evidence for the wider economic impacts of road freight interventions.

  • Uses meta‑analysis and a causal estimate to assess the impact of transport investment on economic growth in the UK.

  • A think piece exploring whether activity and agent-based models can support transport appraisal, how they could affect it and where further research is needed.

  • Evaluates the transport safety officer (TSO) pilot programme to tackle anti-social behaviour and violence against women and girls on buses and trains in England.

  • Explores integrating time use surveys and travel diaries with anonymised smartphone location data to improve evidence for activity-based travel modelling.

  • Explores the relationship between additional road capacity and travel demand, and the implications for transport appraisal.

  • Explores the role and methodology for using distributional weights in transport appraisal.

  • A narrative literature review looking at the barriers to train travel and what can be done to remove them.

  • A summary of the analysis conducted to calculate the number of passenger flights removed from the schedule between 3 May 2026 and 14 June 2026.

  • DfT’s approach to developing robust, stakeholder‑informed analysis for Road Investment Strategy 3 (RIS3).

  • Survey of maritime passengers, including people with reduced mobility, to find out about their experiences of using ferries or cruise ships.

  • Assesses the UK supply and demand for trained seafarers to fulfil roles at sea and onshore over the next 10 years.

  • This meta-evaluation presents findings from 36 local authority major schemes funded between 2008 and 2020 in England.

  • Anticipated zero emission bus orders from local transport authorities and bus operators in Great Britain for 2026 to 2035.

  • An analysis that shows there are more electric vehicle (EV) public chargers than fuel pumps across the UK.

  • Study exploring how safe people feel on the transport network and their experience of incidents impacting their personal safety.

  • Analysis establishing the viability of using anonymised and aggregated mobile phone data to support evaluation and future study of electric vehicle usage.

  • Research with rail passengers on awareness, experiences and behaviours around compensation schemes from the latest fieldwork in March 2025.

  • Department for Transport estimate of the effect of national strike action between 2022 and 2024 on rail services in Great Britain.