Cost of Travel Choices Report

What is it?
The Cost of Travel Choices Summary Report brings together evidence on the costs and benefits of different ways of travelling across the North. It compares impacts such as user costs, health, environment and wider social outcomes to support informed decisions.

How is it useful?
It helps combined authorities and partners understand trade‑offs between travel modes. Use it to support transparent decision‑making, build business cases and test different scenarios using the accompanying comparison tool.

Key findings

• Car travel creates the highest overall costs, around £50bn in 2023
• Public transport shows moderate costs, with some wider benefits
• Walking and cycling deliver the greatest net benefits, around £3bn in 2023
• The tool provides consistent values by mode and geography to compare impacts