Department for Transport Annual Report 2006 (Cm 6817)
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Introduction and structure
- Chapter 1: The year in brief
- Chapter 2: The responsibilities and organisation of the Department
- Chapters 3-12: the Department's main activities
- Appendices
- Other key policy documents
- Index to information about PSA targets and other objectives for the period 2005-06
- Chapter 1 The year in brief: our key achievements 2005-06
- Sustained investment
- Improvements in transport management
- Planning for the long term
- European Union
- Chapter 2 The responsibilities and organisation of the Department
- Aims
- The strategy
- Key objectives
- Evidence and research strategies
- Evidence and research quality framework
- How the Department is organised
- The role of executive agencies
- Non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs)
- Other NDPBs
- Trust Ports
- Useful web sites
- Chapter 3 Effectiveness and efficiency
- Efficiency
- Improving Departmental capability
- Valuing diversity
- Occupational health and safety
- Corporate relations
- Chapter 4 - Roads
- Strategy and objectives
- Responsibility for delivery
- Capacity
- Network management
- The Traffic Management Act 2004 - new traffic management roles
- New ways of paying for road use
- Smarter choices
- Chapter 5 - Rail
- Developing a longer-term rail strategy
- Responsibility for delivery: reorganisation of the rail industry
- Progress in delivering objectives
- Investment and capacity enhancement
- Accessibility
- Railways expenditure
- Network Rail (NR)
- The Office of Rail Regulation (ORR)
- European Union (EU)
- Useful websites
- Chapter 6 - Buses
- Strategy and objectives
- Responsibility for delivery
- Progress in delivering objectives
- Central and local government spending to support bus services
- Other initiatives to promote better bus services
- Bus Quality Contracts Schemes
- Concessionary travel
- Bus reliability
- Accessible buses
- Personal security on buses
- London's bus network
- Taxis
- Chapter 7 - Making choices locally and regionally
- Local transport funding
- Local transport plans (LTPs)
- Regional funding guidelines
- Light rail
- Walking and cycling
- London
- Chapter 8: Aviation and shipping
- Aviation
- Aviation and shipping
- Progress in delivering objectives
- Air Traffic Management
- Shipping and ports
- Ports and navigation
- Useful website addresses
- Chapter 9: Freight
- Strategy and objectives
- Responsibility for delivery
- Progress in delivering objectives
- Better regulation
- Chapter 10 Protecting the environment
- Strategy and objectives
- Progress in delivering objectives
- Encouraging a move towards more environmentally friendly forms of transport
- Working towards the inclusion of transport in emissions trading schemes
- Air quality
- Shipping and aviation
- Noise
- Planning
- Sustainable development
- Appraisal
- Chapter 11: Safety and security
- Road Safety Public Service Agreement (PSA) target
- The Driver, Vehicle and Operator (DVO) Group
- The Board of Transport Accident Investigators
- Railway safety
- The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB)
- Aviation safety
- Shipping safety
- Reducing crime on public transport
- Transport security
- Chapter 12: Electronic services for customers
- e-business
- Transport Direct
- Providing travel information via third parties
- Feedback from users
- The wider Transport Direct programme
- Driver, Vehicle and Operator (DVO) Group e-service delivery
- Everything in one place
- Customer take-up
