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Delivering a Sustainable Railway - White Paper CM 7176
Table of contents
- Delivering a Sustainable Railway
- Foreword
- Executive summary
- Present achievement, future challenge
- Tackling the legacy, delivering stability
- The formal specification and long-term strategy
- Improvements to be delivered between now and 2014
- Delivering a better service for passengers
- Delivering rail’s environmental potential
- The plans beyond 2014
- Anticipating the very long term
- A sustainable future railway
- 1. Context
- The starting point
- Economic, environmental and social goals
- Short, medium and long-term planning
- The scope of the White Paper
- 2. Safety and security
- Context and recent trends
- Measuring safety
- Improvements in the period to 2014
- Safety – risks to third parties
- Safety and security – crime, terrorism and health risks
- Future trends
- 3. Reliability
- Context and recent trends
- Causes of delay
- Improvement sought to 2014
- Measuring reliability
- Longer-term challenges and opportunities
- 4. The capacity challenge
- Context and recent trends
- The capacity challenge
- Demand forecasting
- Load factors
- The Government’s capacity specification for 2013/14
- 5. Services for urban areas
- Context and recent trends
- Future prospects
- Delivering improvements for London and the South East
- Delivering improvements for other urban areas
- Planning and greater devolved responsibility
- Future trends in patterns of travel
- 6. Inter-urban services
- Context and recent trends
- Future prospects
- Strategy and delivery
- Planning for flexibility
- 7. Regional and rural services
- Context and recent trends
- Future prospects
- Strategy and delivery
- 8. International
- Context
- Access to airports
- International rail passenger services
- Freight
- The EU role
- 9. Freight
- The need to plan for rail freight
- Rail freight’s history
- Rail freight’s prospects
- Network constraints
- Strategy – the Strategic Freight Network
- Funding
- 10. Delivering for passengers
- Context and recent trends
- Future prospects
- Developing a passenger strategy
- Fare levels
- Fares structure
- Making it easier to buy tickets
- Fast, accurate, helpful information
- Meeting the specific needs of disabled passengers
- Better access to stations
- Improving conditions at stations
- Better travelling conditions on trains
- 11. Improving environmental performance
- Context
- Making a contribution to the environmental agenda
- Future trends
- Framing an environmental strategy
- Government and industry responsibilities
- 12. Costs and funding
- Context
- Post-privatisation financial trends
- Present position and projections for 2009–14
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