Can we ‘level up’ transport infrastructure across the UK?

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Professor Diane Coyle and Dr Marianne Sensier have recently conducted research comparing transport infrastructure projects that have used HM Treasury’s Green Book. In this blog they argue that this methodology, alongside political prioritisation of projects in and around London, has reinforced existing success in wealthy, already highly productive parts of the UK. Future infrastructure investment needs to be based on a strategic view about economic development for the whole of the UK, which the UK Government now accepts in its pledge to ‘level up’ other regions.