Foreword The new Labour Government would The new Government needs to be be well advised to fully study the fully aware of the consequences of recommendations in this report. [...] With a monthly subscription for rail The recommendations put forward in this travel passengers will be encouraged to report offer a transformative approach make more trips by rail and the evidence to addressing the pressing issues of rail from across Europe is that one third of travel affordability and environmental the extra rail trips would have otherwise sustainability. [...] Professor David Begg The authors are right to recommend that Former Chair of the UK Commission the scheme should be trialled in parts for Integrated Transport of the UK where there is sufficient spare Chair of the Northern Way Transport Group capacity to accommodate the extra Non-executive director on British Rail journeys. [...] It offers the great advantage of simplicity and – in the The birth of Climate Card case of rail – it signals an end to separate charges for each and every journey. [...] Users wishing to purchase communities have additionally subsidised a new subscription for the current the ticket for those on low incomes, for month on the 11th day of the month or senior citizens and for apprentices.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 3
- Preface 4
- Foreword 6
- Executive Summary 8
- Travel in Great Britain by train today 8
- The birth of Climate Card 8
- Learnings from abroad 9
- Options and the right approach for Great Britain 9
- Benefits 9
- Staged implementation 10
- Revenue allocation systems 10
- Introduction 13
- Rail ticketing in Britain today 14
- Perceived value for money 14
- Rail travels recovery from the Coronavirus 15
- Climate Card experience across Europe 17
- Demand response 19
- Transferability 19
- The French compromise for 2024 21
- In summary 22
- Alternative ways forward for rail ticketing 25
- Ways of paying 25
- Current rail retailers 26
- London 27
- Climate Card variants for GB 31
- Options for a new way of paying for rail travel 31
- Option assessment 33
- The UK version of Climate Card Fare Britannia 35
- Preferred approach a preliminary assessment 37
- Economic case 37
- Financial case 40
- Strategic case and environmental impacts 43
- Summary of the case for Fare Britannia 44
- Rail capacity 47
- Implementation challenges and opportunities 51
- Achieving national coverage 51
- London 54
- Regions and devolved nations 55
- Conclusions 57
- Recommendations 58
- Annex A 61
- Rail market definition used for preliminary assessment of the business case for Fare Britannia 61
- Note of report authors 63
