Title: WHAT HAS TO BE INTEGRATED FOR INTEGRATION TO AMOUNT TO A TRANSPORT POLICY
Abstract: Physical life is led in the context of environment, economy and health. Transport is a necessity for physical life and requires infrastructure and vehicles. Transport has to be congenial for the environment, efficient for the economy and safe for health. The UK Government has introduced intermodal integration. This means trying to fit together by timetables and physical interchanges passenger movement by air, railway, coach, bus and taxi and freight movement by air, coastal shipping, railway and pipeline. The railways are crucial to intermodal integration, but growth has been slow. Motorways now carry over half the vehicle kilometres travelled by articulated lorries and a third of all freight traffic. The volume of freight traffic is a function of the activity of the economy. The volume of movement of people is also related to the performance of the economy. The implications for transport policy development are considered.
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-03-01
Language: en
Type: article
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