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TRANSPORT STUDIES
* UK - Eddington Puts Freight Back on the Map Says FTA
UK -TNN -28 Nov 2006: -- The Freight Transport Association welcomes today's publication of the Eddington Transport Study which puts the importance of freight back on the map, and hopes that the Government will accept its recommendations... The Eddington Study has recognised the importance of the UK's international gateways - the Freight Future report shows the impact of expected economic growth of these gateways in the future will generate important additional freight flows along key road and rail routes, and these must be protected against delay and congestion caused by the much bigger growth in cars and passenger trains... Eddington has recognised the need to release bottlenecks as a first step to reducing congestion and improving transport flow...
* UK - RHA Urges Caution on Road Charging - More Questions than Answers?
UK -TNN -29 Nov 2006: -- In response to today's report from Sir Rod Eddington on future transport policy, the Road Haulage Association has urged caution on the concept of universal road charging... The Association believes that such a solution cannot, by itself, provide answers to growing road congestion... ”According to some, road traffic will grow by 30 per cent between now and 2015", said RHA Chief Executive Roger King. "It is hard to see, for instance, how road pricing in 2015 could reduce congestion levels to those of 2006 without resorting to penal rates"... The RHA believes that parallel to the introduction of any road pricing, investment in the strategic road system must take place. Extra lanes on motorways and better junction engineering will, for example, ease congestion hot spots... "All we know is that peak time travel on the railway continues to rise despite ever increasing ticket prices - demand management that doesn't seem to work. So will it work for motorists?"...
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