• Research Briefing

    Railways: stations

    This note gives information on who owns the country’s rail stations and is responsible for their maintenance; station accessibility and safety.

  • Research Briefing

    Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T)

    Trans-European Networks (TENs) are infrastructure networks in transport, energy and telecommunications. This note is only concerned with the transport networks (TEN-T). It gives information on the background to the scheme, its financial aspects; the priority projects it supports; and the European Commission’s plans for reform.

  • Research Briefing

    Railways: Thameslink infrastructure project

    This note describes the Thameslink infrastructure project, including information on how the scheme got off the ground, construction issues and the policy of successive government towards the project. It does not deal with the controversial Thameslink rolling project to purchase new trains to run on the route. This is covered in HC Library note SN3146. The re-let of the Thameslink passenger franchise is covered in SN1343.

  • Research Briefing

    Railways: level crossings

    This note sets out the responsibilities of relevant bodies for the safety management of level crossings. It also gives information on government policy and regulation and some of the more notable accidents that have occurred on level crossings in recent years.

  • Research Briefing

    Railways: light rail schemes

    This note looks at the policies of successive governments towards light rail and provides information about reports that have been published about the same over the past eight years.

  • Research Briefing

    Civil Aviation Bill

    This paper has been prepared for the Second Reading debate in the House of Commons on the Civil Aviation Bill, scheduled for 30 January 2012

  • Research Briefing

    London Underground after the PPP, 2007-

    This note looks at the management of London Underground since 2007, covering the collapse of the Public Private Partnership (PPP) and the transfer of control of the Underground to Transport for London (TfL).

  • Research Briefing

    High Speed Two (HS2): the debate

    HS2 is a £32 billion project to build a high speed rail line from London to Manchester and Leeds, via Birmingham to begin operation in 2026 and be completed in 2032.

  • Research Briefing

    London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Amendment) Bill: Committee stage report

    This is an account of the House of Commons Committee Stage of the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Amendment) Bill and has been prepared for the Report and Third Reading of the Bill, scheduled for 8 September 2011. It supplements Research Paper 11/34, prepared for the Second Reading of the Bill in the Commons on 28 April 2011.

  • Research Briefing

    Aviation: security

    This Note gives an overview of how the UK and other governments are working to secure air transport from terrorist attacks. It includes information on the responses to 9/11 and subsequent terror attacks or attempted attacks, including the restrictions on hand luggage introduced in 2006 and the introduction of body scanners at UK airports in 2010.

  • Research Briefing

    Ports: security

    This note gives details of port security programmes and policies initiated by both the IMO and the European Commission and includes information on the American programme to compel international ports to scan all goods heading to the US.

  • Research Briefing

    British Waterways

    This note gives the present and previous governments' policies towards British Waterways; information on Defra's 2004-05 policy review of BW in which concluded that it was largely doing a good job; and summarises the pressing issues of recent years - the funding of BW, the effect of cuts to its budget, and its future institutional status.

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