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Friends of the Earth

 

The Big Enquiry Question:
How can UK traffic be managed?

The purpose of the enquiry is to: 

  • develop an awareness and understanding of the nature of and reasons for traffic growth in cities.

  • develop and understanding of the issues arising from continued traffic growth in cities.

  • develop an awareness of different views and opinions on the solutions to the issues raised by continued traffic growth

  • develop ICT and/or data handling and analysis skills.

 

The task: is to create a report for a newspaper on transport growth in the UK .  You should be sure to represent all interest groups. You need to carefully consider the words and the statistics that you publish.

Use these little questions as a guide to the weblinks

  1. Using the web site below, the graphs and the notes answer the following questions  

http://www.transtat.dft.gov.uk/tables/1998/froad/froad.htm http://www.transtat.dft.gov.uk/tables/2002/tt/index.htm 

  1. Identify, describe and explain the changes that have taken place in road transport in the UK since the 1950s and compare it to the changes seen in other forms of transport. Include relevant graphical representation of this change in your work.

  2. Study the graph on car ownerships. Describe and explain the trends shown on this graph.

  3. What will be the impact of the growth in the number of households in the UK on car ownership in the near future?

  4. How does the UK compare with other countries of the European Union?

  5. What changes have been seen in the movement in Freight over this period? What problems do you think this will bring to the road network other than more congestion?

  6. To what extent has private car transport replaced bus transport in the UK?

  7. What are the reasons for the decline in Bus travel considering the increasing accessibility of bus stops?

  8. What are the reasons for travel in the UK? Use the following web site and give details on the common types of transport, distances travelled and reasons for travel.

http://www.transtat.dft.gov.uk/focus/index.htm http://www.transtat.dft.gov.uk/index.htm 

  1. What are the issues raised as a result of the increase in car ownership and journeys? See the following web sites for details:

http://www.foe.org.uk/campaigns/transport/

11. Recently road building has been seen as the answer to the growing problems of congestion etc. What other issues are raised by these demands for new roads? Access the following sites and provide a short report outlining an alternative view to increased road building. The second site is a list of protests to see where there is conflict over roads.

http://ds.dial.pipex.com/beep/bnrr/index.htm
 http://alt.venus.co.uk/weed/roads/welcome.htm

12. What other strategies could be used to provide the British public with a more efficient transport system? Using only the following sites and knowledge you already have produce a written report on

"Sustainable Transport" - it's nature and consequences"

http://www.dft.gov.uk/trans2010/index.htm 

http://www.local-transport.dft.gov.uk/index.htm