What follows if the new traffic forecasts are valid?

Phil Goodwin
09 August 2013
 

The DfT has published new traffic forecasts, as they do from time to time. Their credibility is seriously challenged, but that is not the point of this article – they are the view of the default future which the modellers in DfT envisage, so the forecasts, whether valid or not, will be influential.

Let us assume, for the moment, that they are valid, and consider what might follow for transport policy if people believe them. The headline forecast is of 43% more road traffic in 2040 than in...

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Phil Goodwin

Phil Goodwin

Phil Goodwin

Phil Goodwin is professor of transport policy at the Centre for Transport and Society, University of West of England, Bristol, and emeritus professor at University College London. Email: philinelh@yahoo.com

 



 

 
 
 

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