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DfT’s high-speed rail modelling ‘unsuitable for decision-making’

High-Speed Rail

Andrew Forster
12 August 2011
Davidson: modelling too simplistic
Davidson: modelling too simplistic

 

The computer modelling underpinning the Government’s high-speed rail plan is inadequate and cannot provide a sound basis for proceeding with the project, some of the country’s leading transport modellers have told the DfT.

“Our view is that the transport modelling tools that were used are not sufficiently developed and robust enough to provide the scientific evidence to support the current proposals, business case, nor the cost-benefit analysis,” says the Transport...

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