Independent report

Factors which affect road traffic

Investigated estimates made in literature on how road traffic changes in response to changes of population growth, income growth and fuel cost.

• From: Department for Transport
• Published: 15 January 2015

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Road traffic demand elasticities

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Details

The report concludes that:

• there is no evidence to move from the elasticities implied in the department’s National Transport Model
• in view of the period since most of the work was done, an updated study of elasticities should be carried out

The report covered 23 sources, for wide evidence coverage, including:

• academic journals
• conference papers
• grey literature

RAND Europe was commissioned by the Department for Transport to complete the review.

Published 15 January 2015