Local Authority major schemes

Guidance for Local Authorities seeking Government funding for major transport schemes

This is the current guidance for English Local Authorities who are intending to seek funding from the Department for major capital transport schemes, or who already have a scheme going through the approvals process.

Local Transport Major Scheme Information (57 kb)

This table provides information on each of the local major schemes, costing over £5m - which are at various stages within the local transport major scheme approval process. The information includes the cost of each scheme at each approval stage; the latest Ministerially approved costs and the current estimated scheme cost. It also provides a weblink, where available, to the respective local authority website so further specific scheme information can be accessed.

Published:

30 June 2008

Summary of responses to consultations on local authority major transport schemes

The current major schemes guidance for local authorities published in August 2007 follows two separate consultations on major schemes in 2005 and 2006. This document summarises the responses to the consultations.

Published:

16 August 2007

Transport Analysis Guidance (WebTAG)

Describes the Transport Analysis Guidance web site (www.webtag.org.uk) that updates some of the material on this page. Major Scheme Guidance in Local Transport Plans: Part 1 is available on WebTAG.

Published:

31 May 2005

The Evaluation of Major Local Authority Transport Projects: A Guide (811 kb)

The aim of the guidance is to support Local Authorities in evaluating their Major Transport Schemes. The guidance was written by NERA, MVA and David Simmonds consultancy.

Published:

22 November 2006

Procedures for dealing with optimism bias in transport planning

This research focuses on capital cost optimism bias of local transport plan major schemes. It provides specific uplifts for road and rail systems and looks into some of the possible underlying factors which may cause this bias.

Published:

22 December 2005

DIRECTS road charging research (394 kb)

Research into the feasibility of an electronic system for charging drivers to use busy roads.

Published:

27 July 2005