2025: Regional Transport Success Stories
Vernon Everitt (Transport Commissioner for Greater Manchester) and Deloitte hosted a roundtable attended by leaders across the regional transport to discuss future trends and to launch the report Regional Transport Success Stories | Deloitte UK.
The wide ranging discussion covered topics as diverse as:
How to factor growth into Green Book Business Cases, and the future of the Green Book is in the context of devolved financial powers
Transport’s role as a major energy consumer, and how to optimise usage, for example by balancing night time bus charging with day time tram operation
Ensuring the talent pipeline of the future, recognising that authorities will need a broader range of skills and that these will be very different from today
The report itself looks at recent successes in the regional transport sector. It covers six themes:
How transport can enable growth, noting that success comes when key parts of the economy are linked effectively
The need for long term funding packages and financial innovation to fund upgrades
The power of local leadership, often via newly elected Mayors, in driving forward change
Improvements to customer experience require a long term commitment, with a focus on immediate benefit release
Authorities role as a data aggregator, driving integrated transport by setting the data standards and deploying the tools to allow for seamless travel
The challenges of implementing zero emission transport, including the choice between Hydrogen and battery powered buses
The report finishes with a maturity matrix to allow authorities to score themselves against themes.