Connecting for competitiveness: future transport in UK city regions

Abstract

Britain's major cities have fallen behind the best practice in transport of European and north American cities, and need to address this to compete in global markets. A number of potential mechanisms are available to UK cities, but only if central government is willing to transfer (limited) financial powers to the city regions.

Acknowledgements

We thank Grant Thornton UK LLP for funding the research on which this article is based.

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Notes on contributors

Iain Docherty

Professor of Public Policy and Governance

Jon Shaw

Professor of Human Geography and Director

Richard Knowles

Professor of Transport Geography

Danny Mackinnon

Senior Research Fellow