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Title:

Vision for a Growing World City

Accession Number:

01091558

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

T2025 is a major transport policy initiative that produced a clear vision for London's transport system. The need for T2025 arose from the scale and complexity of the growth challenges facing London. Around 900,000 more jobs and over 800,000 more people will be in London by 2025. The T2025 work involved extensive analysis, research and appraisal. New methods to measure agglomeration benefits and climate change impacts were developed. T2025 identifies the economic, environmental and social objectives and targets to support London's existing 30 million daily trips and the additional five million journeys that need to be made by public transport, walking and cycling every day by 2025. T2025 outlines an integrated comprehensive programme of transport improvements to meet the challenges and achieve the objectives. An overarching aim was to balance demand management solutions with new capacity proposals. The T2025 programme would achieve a very significant nine per cent mode shift from car and deliver 40 per cent extra public transport capacity. Crowding and congestion would be reduced below 2006 levels. An estimated £180bn in GDP would be generated from agglomeration and other economic benefits. The T2025 programme would make London a world leader in tackling global warming, reducing CO2 emissions from transport by 22 % by 2025. T2025 is therefore not just another plan but a real deliverable blue-print for London’s future transport system. The issues addressed in TfL’s analysis are relevant to the real challenges facing TRB members as they take forward and consider their own transport agendas.

Monograph Accession #:

01084478

Report/Paper Numbers:

08-2291

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Keegan, Michael
Porter, Chris
Seagriff, Elaine
Hyde, Chris

Pagination:

19p

Publication Date:

2008

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2008-1-13 to 2008-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Figures (2) ; Maps (1) ; Tables (6)

Geographic Terms:

London (England)

Subject Areas:

Economics; Environment; Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2008 Paper #08-2291

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 29 2008 4:38PM