ABSTRACT
Transport policy and planning in Britain over the last ten years has been a period of intense activity. Many individual changes have been positive but viewed from a broader perspective the improvements delivered have been patchy and strategically it has been ineffective. As we noted in Chapter 3 except for greater use of rail we are as car dependent a nation as we were a decade ago. The overall volume of motorised traffic has increased by a fifth and the volume of CO2 emissions from surface transport has risen by about 8%.
