Road traffic forecasts 2018
Report, workbooks and a visualisation tool presenting forecasts of road traffic, congestion and emissions in England and Wales up to 2050.
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Report presenting the Department for Transports’s updated strategic view of future road travel demand.
Forecasts are produced using the National Transport Model (NTM), incorporating economic and demographic data and evidence on travel behaviour and the factors influencing it.
A number of plausible scenarios are used to reflect the uncertainty in the factors affecting road traffic demand. These scenarios have been updated since the Road Traffic Forecasts 2015 publication.
National traffic and congestion is forecast to increase in all scenarios, but the size of that growth varies depending on the assumptions made about factors influencing future road demand.
This publication follows a substantial update to our modelling suite, the report details this and an overview of the approach to forecasting and the modelling suite.
Supporting excel documents for 7 scenarios
The published workbooks contain outputs from the Road Traffic Forecasts 2018 for the 7 scenarios used to capture the uncertainty in forecasting. Outputs that can be viewed are traffic, emissions, average speed, average delay and congested conditions.
Road traffic forecasts were previously produced in 2015 and replaced transport forecasts in 2013 and 2011.