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Summary of key research and analysis
The Summary of Key Research and Analysis is a compilation of the main evidence that underpins the analysis in the main White Paper 'Delivering a Sustainable Railway'. There are also a set of supporting documents.
The full summary is available in PDF or Microsoft PowerPoint format below. Individual Microsoft PowerPoint slides can be accessed via the folders below.
Delivering a Sustainable Railway (3 Mb)
Full summary of key research and analysis in Portable Document Format (PDF).
- Published:
- 24 July 2007
Archived content
The following content is available from the Department for Transport web archive .
Microsoft PowerPoint version
- Delivering a Sustainable Railway - full summary (PowerPoint slides) (PPT - 32768 KB)
- Passenger travel patterns - Historical (Slides: EST1-2, TPH1-5, TPH10 and TPH11)
- Passenger travel patterns - Current (Slides: TPC2-4, TPC7-10, TPC13 and TPC15)
- Passenger travel patterns - Forecast (Slides: TPF2, TPF 5, TPF7 and TPF9a-9e)
- Economic and social trends (Slides: EST13 and EST34-36)
- Mode developments (Slide: MDC7a)
- Passenger requirements (Slides: PAX1-3, PAX20-23, and PAX43-49)
- Stations (Slides: STA1, STA3-4, STA7, STA10 and STA12)
- Capacity (Slides: CAP2, CAP6-7, CAP10-13, CAP30-32, CAP56, CAP58-60, CAP62, CAP67-68 and CAP70)
- Journey time (Slides JT1 and JT7-9)
- Reliability (Slides: REL2, REL5-5a, REL9, REL13-14a and REL16-18)
- Safety (Slides: SAF1-4, SAF7, SAF9 and SAF12)
- Environment (Slides: ENV1-2, ENV4, ENV10-11, ENV14-15, , ENV 17a-17b and ENV20a-ENV21)
- Rolling stock (Slides: ROL7 and ROL11-12)
- Freight (Slides: FRT1, FRT6-7b and FRT12)
- Financial (Slides: FIN1, FIN3-5, FIN7, FIN9, FIN12, FIN20, FIN22, FIN24a, FIN31, FIN38a-38d, FIN38f-38g, FIN38i-42, FIN44, FIN46 and FIN49)
- Glossary (Slide: GLS1)
- The rapid increase in cars and vans modal share from 1955-70 was driven by the increase in car ownership (PowerPoint slides) (PPT - 74 KB)
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