Transport for Greater Manchester is a transport authority for one of the largest cities in the UK

and its surrounding travel to work area. It is a polycentric area but with Manchester City Centre,
in the geographic heart of the area being the dominant economic centre and focus of
employment and housing growth in recent years. They have published a vision-led strategy for
2040, based around a series of key policy objectives. It is, in reality a bit of a mix of vision and
objective-led planning.

Read
https://assets.ctfassets.net/nv7y93idf4jq/5NBNSoWRZS8AkcGkAU4CEg/f2dfea7defcc0699b2a11
c7219b5254d/17-0663_GM_2040_Exec_summary.pdf

1) Evaluate the vision statement - what do you think is good about it? what is missing?

2) Identify the policy objectives which underpin the vision? what do you like about how they are
described? what is missing as a high-level goal?

3) On Page 13 the plan refers to different spatial scales - why might this be important?

Transport for Greater Manchester: https://tfgm.com/2040

Reading list:

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/b12865-4/transport-policy-may?
context=ubx&refId=15b3e975-ee7e-47cd-9f28-e9b233090eaf

https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/view/action/uresolver.do?
operation=resolveService&package_service_id=16004260900005181&institutionId=5181&custo
merId=5180&VE=true

Chapter 2: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44LEE_INST/13rlbcs/
alma991005171839705181

Journals:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2020.102503

https://doi.org/10.1177/1473095207075161

pg104-116: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965856416302555