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Getting moving
By
Simon Jeffrey
,
Kathrin Enenkel
| 6 March 2020
Getting moving
By
Simon Jeffrey
,
Kathrin Enenkel
| 6 March 2020
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Where can transport investment level up growth?
Introduction
Figure Box 1: The wider benefits of better transport
The importance of city centres to the national economy
Figure Box 2: Definition of city centres
Figure Box 3: The role of exporting businesses in city economies
Figure Figure 2: Growth rates of city centre’s jobs density over time
Figure Box 4: The role transport cannot play
What role does transport play in densifying city centres?
Figure Box 5: What is meant by investment in new transport infrastructure?
Figure Box 6: City definition and NIC intra-urban employment accessibility index methodology
Figure Box 7: Understanding the data
Figure Why focus on peak-time journeys?
Figure Figure 3: NIC’s employment accessibility score by fastest mode (car) and fastest public transport, 2016
Figure Figure 4: NIC’s employment accessibility score by fastest mode (car) against city centre jobs density
Figure Figure 5: NIC’s employment accessibility score by public transport against city centre jobs density
Figure Box 8: How Brighton has supported city-centre growth by better use of the road network
Figure Box 9: Repairing links to city-centre opportunities through bus priority measures
Figure Figure 6: Combined authority primary-city centre jobs density and transport-capacity utilisation
Figure Figure 10: NIC urban transport capacity data
Figure Box 11: Build it and they still might not come
What needs to change
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1: The size and composition of a city centre’s exporting base and the density of the city centre
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