Are the current methods for assessing proposed transport schemes satisfactory?
The flaws in the Government’s New Approach to Transport Appraisal (NATA) are widely acknowledged. Appraisal reform was a cornerstone of the Coalition Agreement, and all three parties included some form of reform in their manifestos. Campaign for Better Transport set out the case for NATA reform in a recent letter to the Secretary of State for Transport, Philip Hammond, which accompanies this submission. Time savings do not reflect real-world economic benefits Time savings dominate benefit-cost ratios: 85% of the benefits of the Bexhill-Hastings Link Road come from time savings averaging just 15 seconds. However, research by the Department for Transport and elsewhere has questioned whether drivers even notice such minor time savings, let alone use them to generate additional economic activity. Very minor time savings are especially vulnerable to slight changes in traffic levels; even minor congestion would wipe out savings of less than a minute. The focus on time savings also leads to r
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