Vision for a Growing World City

T2025 is a major transport policy initiative that produced a clear vision for London's transport system. The need for T2025 arose from the scale and complexity of the growth challenges facing London. Around 900,000 more jobs and over 800,000 more people will be in London by 2025. The T2025 work involved extensive analysis, research and appraisal. New methods to measure agglomeration benefits and climate change impacts were developed. T2025 identifies the economic, environmental and social objectives and targets to support London's existing 30 million daily trips and the additional five million journeys that need to be made by public transport, walking and cycling every day by 2025. T2025 outlines an integrated comprehensive programme of transport improvements to meet the challenges and achieve the objectives. An overarching aim was to balance demand management solutions with new capacity proposals. The T2025 programme would achieve a very significant nine per cent mode shift from car and deliver 40 per cent extra public transport capacity. Crowding and congestion would be reduced below 2006 levels. An estimated £180bn in GDP would be generated from agglomeration and other economic benefits. The T2025 programme would make London a world leader in tackling global warming, reducing CO2 emissions from transport by 22 % by 2025. T2025 is therefore not just another plan but a real deliverable blue-print for London’s future transport system. The issues addressed in TfL’s analysis are relevant to the real challenges facing TRB members as they take forward and consider their own transport agendas.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Keegan, Michael
  • Porter, Chris
  • Seagriff, Elaine
  • Hyde, Chris
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2008-1-13 to 2008-1-17
• Date: 2008

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: DVD
• Features: Figures; Maps; Tables;
• Pagination: 19p
• Monograph Title: TRB 87th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bicycling; Climate change; Global warming; Public transit; Socioeconomic factors; Traffic congestion; Transportation modes; Transportation policy; Travel demand; Walking
• Geographic Terms: London (England)
• Subject Areas: Economics; Environment; Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01091558
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 08-2291
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Apr 23 2008 9:25AM