Future Events:
Dates to follow soon.
Past Events:
NWORG Meeting: Transport for the North
Thursday 30th May: 14:30-16:30pm
HMRC Salford, Three New Bailey, New Bailey Street, Salford, M3 5AX
For NWORG's latest meeting they welcomed Dr Ben Taylor, Principal Developer: Transport for the North who spoke about transport infrastructure in the northern region.
TFN’s Transport Appraisal Modelling & Evaluation team (TAME) work on gathering and building evidence to support the strategic transport objectives of the North of England. This development has resulted in a collection of tools, guidance, and ways of working known as the Analytical Framework.
The Common Analytical Framework (CAF) is an evolution of the Analytical Framework for the purpose of sharing and collaborating with England’s other Strategic Transport Bodies (STBs) to:
- Roll-out TfN’s experience and innovation to strengthen the analytical offer across the whole of the country.
- Find areas of common interest and collaborate around them.
- Continue to innovate and, together, add value to the Analytical Framework.
The CAF has been designed not only to enable collaboration across STBs in the UK, but to support Local Transport Authorities (LTAs) too; this is achieved through sharing of data and models. Where possible, CAF models are released under an open-source license for all to use.
By enabling collaboration, the CAF allows commonly required transport tools and models to be developed and utilised by almost anyone. This reduces overall costs, and resource required to deploy new models, saving taxpayer money. Furthermore, innovations in transport analysis and appraisal can easily be shared across UK authorities.