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Higher grant for shifting freight off local roads

FREIGHT

09 January 2015
 

The DfT has significantly increased the grant value for shifting freight off local roads and on to rail or water. 

The revised mode shift benefit values will be used for calculating grant paid through the Mode Shift Revenue Support grant and the Waterborne Freight Grant schemes in England. Values were last updated in 2009. 

The new values, with the old values in brackets, are: 

• Motorways with ‘high’ traffic: 89p per lorry mile saved (86p)

• Other...

+81% more

 

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