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Regional Funding
Allocations 2
TRANSPORT
Chris Mitchell
Emerging National Guidance
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Eddington
Stern
Towards a Sustainable Transport System
2007 White Paper Delivering a Sustainable
Railway
RFA2
Supplementary Transport Advice
• Decisions made in 5 year cycles
• 2009/10 to 2013/14 – firm & deliverable priorities
- existing commitments – programme entry
• 2014/15 to 2018/19 – can be provisional & subject
to change – seeking outcomes
• Sensible level over programming – 20%
WHAT IS INCLUDED IN
RFA 2?
• Major Schemes included as RFA1 & RFA2
– Local transport major schemes (over £5m) including
maintenance schemes
– Highways Agency investment (over £5m) on roads of
regional significance (i.e. not M4 & M5)
• New for RFA2
– Local integrated transport and maintenance block (post
2010/11) – size & distribution
– Effects of RFA2 on carbon dioxide emissions
RFA2 Transport Funding
250
200
£m
150
100
50
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Block
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20
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Integrated Transport and Highways Maintenance Block already
allocated 2010/11
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Integrated Transport
Highways Maintenance
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Timetable
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RFA2 launched end July 2008
Sept/Oct - Evidence Gathering
Nov - Development Transport Draft Advice
Dec - Development Integrated Draft Advice
Jan - Development Integrated Final Advice
End Feb 2009 – advice submitted to
Government
Involving Stakeholders
• Regular meetings with Technical Officers
and Directors
• Advice sought from Regional Transport
Board (members & SEEPs)
• Engagement with Regional Transport
Forum
• Wider involvement – transport providers
Challenges for RFA2
• Over subscribed – what are the key
priorities
• Avoid over optimistic assumptions about
timescales and costs
• Minimising delays in appraisal process
• Managing the programme – avoid bunching
• Spending the allocation
Estimated RFA Spend
200
180
160
140
£ (Mill)
120
Regional Funding Allocation
Total Estimated Spend (Sept 06)
Total Estimated Spend (Apr 08)
100
80
60
40
20
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2006/07
2007/08
2008/09
2009/10
2010/11
2011/12
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2012/13
2013/14
2014/15
2015/16
RFA2 Issues
• RFA flat rate increase by 2% per annum but
current construction inflation @ 10% pa (?)
• RFA now to include major maintenance schemes
• Can include Rail but no extra money in RFA
• HA connectivity schemes beyond funding scope of
RFA budget
• Climate change and CO2 emissions
How important is transport
Transport is not an end in itself!
• Role of the RTS is to make the Spatial Strategy
work – SSCTs – growth & regeneration
• Support the economy – address connectivity
• ‘Constraint’ or ‘Opportunity’?
• Role of transport in relation to climate change
Don’t laugh, oil will
run out some day ….