ITC announces new attitudinal research study
July 2013
The Independent Transport Commission (ITC) welcomes the Government’s new command paper entitled ‘Action for Roads’. We note that the Government is now seeking views on options for how roads are managed at the same time as increasing accountability. The ITC wants to stimulate public debate on this important policy challenge, and so is today announcing a new research study to help us better understand public attitudes on how our road network should be managed and how we should pay for this in Britain over the longer term.
The ITC research work will investigate the current mindset across the country, using a wide range of consultation methods, including workshops, surveys and citizens’ panels in order to develop a valuable picture of the acceptability of some of the lead options for reform. We will be concentrating on reactions to different ways of paying for road use, and also on attitudes towards different governance options for the strategic road network. To accompany this announcement the ITC is also releasing a paper on the European experience of Motorway vignette systems . The final report from the research will be completed and released later in the Autumn.
For further details please read our Press Notice at this link.
This research is being kindly supported by the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund