Contribute to the TPS' response to the Transport Select Committee call for evidence on Strategic Road Investment

The Transport Select Committee has issued a call for evidence on Strategic Road Investment, how well RIS2 has been managed and whether RIS3 meets the needs of current and future travellers and business. The Transport Planning Society will submit a response and invites its members to contribute, ensuring we build on the collective knowledge of our full membership. The questions that the Transport Select Committee is asking are here: https://committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evidence/3003/.

If you can and want to contribute, please send your response to Tom van Vuren, TPS Policy Director, on tom.vanvuren@veitchlister.com, and by Friday 20 January:

• In a Word document no longer than 2 pages
• In easy to copy/paste paragraphs or bullet points
• Clearly setting out to which question you respond
• Providing evidence rather than opinion, and including hyperlinked references to reports etc

In summary, the questions raised are:

1. How effectively the RIS2 enhancements portfolio has been managed to date;
2. Whether risks to the enhancements portfolio for the remainder of the RIS2 period are being well managed;
3. What the impacts of delays and cost overruns are on the overall programme, and whether the revised programme can be delivered to schedule and on budget;
4. What progress is being made on planning for the next Road Investment Strategy;
5. What lessons from RIS2 need to be incorporated into RIS3 to ensure it is achievable and delivers on policy objectives;
6. Whether the Government’s current and forthcoming roads investment programme is meeting the current and future needs of consumers and business;
7. Whether the Government’s roads investment programme aligns with other policy priorities, such as decarbonisation, levelling up, productivity and growth;
8. How RIS3 should take account of technological developments, and evidence on ways of increasing capacity on the Strategic Road Network (such as smart motorways and potential alternatives to them).