Mr. Edward M. Taylorasked the Minister of Transport if she will list the pilot studies into the transport problems of regions which are at present being carried out by the regional economic planning councils.
§ Mrs. CastleAt my request the regional economic planning councils are undertaking pilot studies as follows
Integration of passenger transport services:
- in the Tyneside area;
- in the Sheffield area;
- in the Leicester area;
- in the area between Liverpool and Manchester.
Co-ordination of goods transport:
- to and from Immingham;
- to and from Harwich, Felixstowe and Ipswich;
- between the West Midlands conurbation and Liverpool;
- to and from a major manufacturing plant in the South East.
Co-ordination of goods and passenger transport:
- in the Furness area;
- in the area west of a line drawn from Aberystwyth to Carmarthen.
Future of transport between Redditch New Town and Birmingham.Transport in relation to tourism in the South West.The distribution of coal from a group of pits in the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire coalfield.Organisation of freight sundries traffic in the area west of Dumfries.