The Transport Select Committee has launched (on 24 July) a new call for evidence Joined-up journeys: achieving and measuring transport integration.  The deadline for submissions to the Committee is 16 October 2025.

The Government has 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 Committee intends to scrutinise the Government’s new strategy, when it is published, with reference to the evidence gathered in this inquiry.

The Committee is seeking  evidence that addresses any of 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 in itself 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?

If you would like to help CIHT shape its response, please send your comments to the questions above via email to technical@ciht.org.uk by eob 15 August 2025.