Transport Committee continues to investigate joined-up journeys
The Transport Committee will explore the relationship between transport integration and wider land-use planning as it continues its inquiry into joined-up journeys.
Meeting details
The inquiry is looking at how Government can mould transport services, networks and options around the journeys that people need and want to make in their daily lives.
In the third session of the inquiry, MPs will hear from seven experts from across industry, academia and local and devolved authorities.
The first panel will focus on the benefits of aligning transport integration and spatial planning, with the Committee probing how local and devolved authorities think about this and the barriers they face.
MPs will ask about how different actors need to work together to plan and manage integrated transport services, and whether local and devolved governments should be given stronger powers.
The second panel will explore whether the current approach to land use planning goes far enough to ensure alignment between spatial planning and transport integration.
MPs will ask what local authorities, transport providers and developers need to do on a practical level to achieve this alignment, and how it can be effectively measured.
The session comes as the Government is preparing to publish its Integrated National Transport Strategy and the Committee will also explore whether this could help deliver good integration, and the role that wider legislation and policy changes could play.