Transport for the North (TfN) says it will focus on delivering a revised Strategic Transport Plan by March next year and an updated Northern Powerhouse Independent Economic Review.
The sub-national body, which brings together the north’s local transport authorities and business leaders, has published its 2022/23 business plan in which it says it will also work with partners to make the case for funding to deliver electric vehicle charging and publish a Freight and Logistics Strategy, among other aims. TfN says that since its launch in 2018 it has become seen as a "regional centre of excellence for strategic transport planning".
In 2019 the body published its Strategic Transport Plan which set out investment it said could support up to £100bn growth in GVA and create 850,000 jobs by 2050. It is now underway with an updated plan having acknowledged the pandemic has brought about the need to re-think where investment is best placed.
