In this report, published in October 2007, the Department for Transport proposes, for the first time, to set explicit goals for delivering both CO2 reduction and economic growth from the transport sector.
In a document responding to the Stern Review and the Eddington Transport Study, the Department says that these twin objectives are "both essential and mutually consistent".
The document argues that forcing the pace of technological improvements and removing the obstacles to behavioural change will be key to making sure that transport makes a substantial contribution to the goal of at least a 60% reduction of CO2 by 2050.
The publication introduces the idea that a new approach to planning will be underpinned by long-term funding based on the guidelines to 2019 laid out in the recent Comprehensive Spending Review. The DfT notes that spending on transport will be double what it was twenty years previously.
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