Volterra’s senior partner Bridget Rosewell recently produced a report with Oxford University’s Tony Venables on the impact of new railway investments in the UK, in particular HS2. The paper looks at how to assess the potential benefits of higher speed and higher capacity connection between cities by rail. Much of the formal appraisal of HS2 to date focuses on saving time rather than examining the impact of ‘connecting places that are synergistic’; the report develops the arguments for the wider benefits of such ‘connections’. Read the full report here, or take a look at Bridget’s recent blog ‘The Political Economy of Risk Taking’ which considers how the often controversial topic of HS2 is misunderstood.
