The Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) has been invited to present oral evidence to the Transport Committee to aid their inquiry into ‘Joined-up journeys’.

The Transport Committee will hear evidence on behalf of CIHT on 28 of January 2026, delivered by Kate Carpenter FCIHT (CIHT’s Vice President and  Learned Society and Technical Strategy Board) Director of Operational Road Safety – Buildings & Infrastructure Europe, Jacobs.

The Transport Select Committee previously launched (24 July 2025) a call for evidence for their inquiry into ‘Joined-up journeys: achieving and measuring transport integration’. 

The Department for Transport announced its intention to produce an “integrated national transport strategy” which will “set the high-level direction for how transport should be designed, built and operated in England over the next 10 years”.

The Transport Committee intends to scrutinise the UK Government’s forthcoming strategy with reference to the evidence gathered in this inquiry.

The Committee has sought evidence that addressed the following questions:

a) What are the key features that make a transport system feel joined up to the user? How would ‘integrated’ transport look different to current services and networks?

b) What stops effective integration happening now, and how can these barriers be overcome?

c) What kinds of interventions and policy decisions are needed to provide joined-up transport, including in areas beyond transport such as planning?

d) How should transport integration and its benefits be measured and evaluated—including the impact on economic growth, decarbonisation and the Government’s other ‘missions’?

e) How should the cost of interventions needed to deliver transport integration be assessed and appraised? Will proposed changes to methodology in the Treasury’s ‘Green Book’, including the introduction of ‘place-based business cases’, change this?

f) Will integration deliver other benefits such as wider transport options in more places, and behaviour changes such as mode shift? What other impacts could it have?

g) What is needed to ensure that integration is inclusive and meets the diverse needs of transport users? Will integration necessarily lead to better outcomes for accessibility?

h) Will the meaning of integration vary across different kinds of areas and for different kinds of journeys? (such as rural and suburban areas, and inter-city journeys)

i) What lessons can be drawn from attempts to integrate transport elsewhere in the UK and around the world? What examples should the Government seek to emulate?

CIHT looks forward to continuing to work with the Transport Committee and assisting them with a variety of their inquiries. 

Note for editors –  

Kate Carpenter is CIHT Vice President, a member of the Board of Trustees, chair of the CIHT Learning Society and Technical Board and a CIHT Technical Champion.

Kate Carpenter is discipline lead for operational safety and traffic engineering, supporting many strategic and local authority clients, delivering an evidence-based approach to intervention design and network management.  

Kate has led safety governance work on smart motorway projects, Queensferry Crossing, and other major projects for Transport Scotland, Welsh Government and TfL, as well as local authority clients.  She also undertakes pro bono work on behalf of CIHT, PACTS and Transport Safety Commission.