Each sector’s section presents: • the impact of the recommendations on the Commission’s objectives to support sustainable economic growth across all regions of the UK, improve competitiveness, improve quality of life and support climate resilience and the transition to net zero • the estimated costs of the recommendations and their impact on the Commission’s fiscal and economic remits • distributi. [...] Transport Impact and Costings Section 1: Assessment recommendations and outcomes The Commission has made ten recommendations for transport within the Assessment.43 Outcomes The main outcomes of the Commission’s transport recommendations are to improve regional growth and competitiveness in major cities and underperforming regions outside of London and the South East. [...] Domestic transport produces around a quarter of carbon emissions in the UK and is the UK’s largest emitting sector, with the majority of this coming from road vehicles.64 The Commission’s recommendations recognise that credible and adaptive plans to decarbonise the road network are necessary in order for road investments to be compatible with government’s climate targets, and to reduce the risk th. [...] This reflects Transport for London’s Long Term Capital Plan with a focus on protecting core assets and service renewals to maintain the performance and reliability of the public transport network in the 2020s, with spending on new enhancements and extensions to increase the connectivity of the network in the 2030s (for example, the Bakerloo line extension to south east London). [...] The recommended approach to strategic management of the road and rail estates should help to deliver better outcomes overall for water quality and the application of the careful and considered design of new enhancements to the routine renewals and management of the rest of the network can support widespread improvements in outcomes by Water quality reducing runoff and subsequent impacts to the aqu.
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Table of Contents
- The Second National Infrastructure Assessment 1
- Impact and Costings for Recommendations 1
- Contents 1
- Introduction and Summary 2
- The Commission’s objectives 2
- The Commission’s remit 3
- Distributional impacts 3
- Accounting for uncertainty 4
- Energy Impact and Costings 5
- Section 1: Assessment recommendations and outcomes 5
- Outcomes 5
- Level of investment 5
- Funding and financing 6
- Section 2: Contribution towards the Commission’s objectives 7
- Support sustainable economic growth across all regions 7
- Improve competitiveness 7
- Improve quality of life 7
- Support climate resilience and the transition to net zero carbon emissions by 2050 9
- Section 3: Impact on the Commission’s fiscal remit 10
- Section 4: Impact on the Commission’s economic remit 11
- Costs to households and businesses 11
- Costs to the public sector 12
- Section 5: Environmental impacts 14
- Section 6: Distributional impacts 17
- Section 7: Uncertainty 19
- Transport Impact and Costings 21
- Section 1: Assessment recommendations and outcomes 21
- Outcomes 21
- Level of investment 21
- Funding and financing 21
- Section 2: Contribution towards the Commission’s objectives 22
- Support sustainable economic growth across all regions of the UK 22
- Improve competitiveness 24
- Improve quality of life 25
- Support climate resilience and the transition to net zero carbon emissions by 2050 26
- Section 3: Impact on the Commission’s fiscal remit 27
- Interurban Transport 27
- Urban and Local Transport 27
- Section 4: Impact on the Commission’s economic remit 29
- Costs to households and businesses 29
- Costs to the public sector 30
- Section 5: Environmental impacts 31
- Carbon impacts 32
- Rail emissions 33
- Section 6: Distributional impacts 34
- Distributional gaps in transport use 35
- Section 7: Uncertainty 38
- Digital Impact and Costings 41
- Section 1: Assessment recommendations and outcomes 41
- Outcomes 41
- Level of investment 41
- Funding and financing 41
- Section 2: Contribution towards the Commission’s objectives 42
- Support sustainable economic growth across all regions of the UK 42
- Improve competitiveness 42
- Improve quality of life 43
- Support climate resilience and the transition to net zero carbon emissions by 2050 45
- Section 3: Impact on the Commission’s fiscal remit 46
- Section 4: Impact on the Commission’s economic remit 48
- Costs to households and business 48
- Costs to the public sector 49
- Section 5: Environmental impacts 50
- Carbon impacts 50
- Section 6: Distributional impacts 51
- Section 7: Uncertainty 53
- Waste Impact and Costing 56
- Section 1: Assessment recommendations and outcomes 56
- Outcomes 56
- Level of investment 56
- Section 2: Contribution towards the Commission’s objectives 58
- Support sustainable economic growth across all regions of the UK 58
- Improve competitiveness 58
- Improve quality of life 58
- Support climate resilience and the transition to net zero carbon emissions by 2050 59
- Section 3: Impact on the Commission’s fiscal remit 60
- Section 4: Impact on the Commission’s economic remit 61
- Costs of recommendations to businesses, local authorities and government 62
- Section 5: Environmental impacts 63
- Non-domestic environmental impacts 64
- Carbon impacts 64
- Section 6: Distributional impacts 66
- Section 7: Uncertainty 68
