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Key areas in the report:
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Review
of major sectors – roads & highways, rail, airports and ports
with key investment levels and construction activity.
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Detailed
assessment of transport construction output together with
forecasts for growth over the next few years to 2015.
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Review
of the transport project pipeline across the UK and key schemes
currently under construction and those expected to complete
before 2020 including Crossrail, East London Line, improvements to
the A11, M1 M4 and M5, the Thameslink project, High Speed 2 project
and Major Station Upgrades etc.
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Overview
of key schemes – clients, timings, budgets, etc
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The report provides an analysis of the infrastructure
sector, which is forecast to be one of the strongest drivers of new work
construction growth over the next 4-5 years, with over £60 billion of
private and public sector investment in transport scheduled up to 2015.
Areas of particular interest:-
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National Infrastructure Plan -
outlining infrastructure priorities and scale of investment needed.
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£60+billion
investment programme in transport up to 2015. Review of the
transport project pipeline across the UK - key schemes
currently under construction/expected to
complete before 2020.
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Reviews of
major road schemes –including projects scheduled to
go ahead, as well as those delayed beyond 2015 and
those which are under review or have been cancelled.
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Roads and Rail
are still expected to be the dominant sectors in transport
infrastructure although the
Highways Agency’s trunk roads budget will be heavily cut with
capital spending on England’s trunk roads almost halving in
next 3 years.
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Network Rail’s Control Period 4
from 2009-2014 –
investment
of £34bn - including nearly
£22bn to be spent on operations, maintenance and renewal, and £11.7bn
on adding capacity.
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Review
of major Airport projects - cancellation of Heathrow Airport’s
3rd runway and impact of coalition policy on airport
expansion in the Southeast etc.
Key
areas covered in the report include :
CONSTRUCTION MARKET FOR TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE
IN THE UK
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Construction
market overview –
value of
total construction output new work – and by sector.
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Forecasts for
construction activity in 2011 and beyond.
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Contractors output
in the Transport Infrastructure Sector.
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Analysis of
project activity in the transport sector - Outlook for
transport infrastructure work.
INVESTMENT IN TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE
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Analysis of overall
public sector spending and public sector capital spending -
up to £200 billion scheduled across energy, transport etc over next
4-5 years.
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Impact of 2010
CSR announcements for the Transport Sector, Analysis of the
2010 National Infrastructure Plan.
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Overview of
investment in the Transport Sector –£60+bn in
roads, rail etc up to 2015.
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Capital budgets for major programme areas, private financing of transport projects.
ROADS AND HIGHWAYS
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Analysis of key
national initiatives and projects –
capital budgets up to 2015.
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Major national road
projects – continuing schemes, cancelled schemes and
schemes under review.
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Major national road
projects – schemes starting beyond 2015.
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Analysis of progress
under the ‘Managed Motorways’ scheme.
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Analysis of local
authority road projects - £600m funding.
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Reviews of major
schemes – budgets, timings, key clients, project details.
RAIL
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Key national
initiatives in the rail sector.
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Analysis of the
Periodic Rail Review (CP4) 2009 – 2014 - £14 bn investment
programme.
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Major rail
enhancements programme – Kings Cross, Thameslink, Birmingham
‘Gateway’ project, Reading Station, Crossrail, Access for All
programme etc
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London
– Key rail projects including analysis of the TfL Transport Plan,
London Underground projects and over-ground projects.
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Analysis of major
schemes – budgets, timings, key clients, project details etc.
AIRPORTS AND PORTS
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Overview of the
Air Transport Sector in the UK.
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Development
activity
in the UK Airports sector – budgets, areas of investment.
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Analysis of
airport capacity in the Southeast of England.
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Key UK Port
development activity and expansion plans.
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