Urban redevelopment and transport infrastructure

While the broad economic principles underlying the logic of land redevelopment are well established in urban theory, our understanding of the spatial parameters of this phenomenon remains quite murky. We have very little empirical evidence to answer basic questions...

Modelling UK rail demand and capacity to 2100

Anyone who has had any involvement in rail demand forecasting will know that it is far from easy to correctly predict patterns of rail use over the next five years, so why would you even try to predict these same patterns up to the end of the century? Well, that’s...

Assessing long term capacity and demand in the rail sector

This paper describes research which aims to model British rail network demand and capacity up to 2100, as part of the Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium (ITRC). ITRC is developing models and decision support tools to enable analysis and planning of a...