§ Mr. Matthew TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the pilot schemes being evaluated by his Department to monitor the effect of increased journey times in reducing the volume of private road traffic. [35638]
§ Dr. StrangThe Department is not at present conducting a programme of pilot schemes examining this topic. With London Transport, it has studied the reductions in the volume of road traffic when roads happened to be closed or their capacity restricted for a variety of purposes. The results were published on 11 March 1998 in a summary report entitled "Traffic Impact of Highway Capacity Reductions", a copy of which has been placed in the Library of the House. The study did not analyse the relationship between increased journey times and the volume of traffic.