• Access to Hastings
• Cambridge to Huntingdon
• West Midlands Area
• West Midlands Area to North West Conurbation
• North South Movements in East Midlands
• A1 newcastle Scottish Border (A1MMS)
• London to South West and South Wales (SWARMS)
• Hull East/West Corridor
• A453 (M1 - Nottingham)
• South Coast Corridor: Southampton - Thanet
• South and West Yorkshire
• Tyneside Area
• ORBIT - M25
• London - Ipswich
• Thames Valley (TVMMS)
• London to South Midlands
• M60 JETTS
• Norwich to Peterborough
• South East Manchester

Not yet reported:

• West Midlands to Nottingham
• A52 Clifton Bridge to Bingham
• A34 North from Southampton

In 1998 the Government proposed the development of Multi-Modal Studies (MMS) in 'A New Deal for Trunk Roads in England', aimed at addressing the most serious problems on the strategic network. The studies are currently being taken forward by the Government offices in the English regions.

An MMS can make a wide range recommendations across all modes in addition to infrastructure provision and management, including land use planning and legislative change.

The studies are conducted by consultants overseen by a steering group comprised of; Government office (Chair), regional planning bodies, regional development agencies, Highways Agency, Strategic Rail Authority, local authorities, environmental groups and those with business interests locally. Representatives of the Freight Transport Association sit on every steering group.

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The twenty-two MMSs have cost the Government £31.5m. The Access to Hastings Study is the cheapest at £570,000 and Orbit the most expensive at £3.56m.

Time between studies reporting and regional planning bodies submitting advice to ministers is being used by the Highways Agency to carry out further development and appraisal work on schemes so that they are ready to go more quickly into their delivery programmes once ministerial decisions have been reached.

Only nine studies have had freight specialist consultants, which led FTA to express concern to the Transport Select Committee that freight issues have not been thoroughly examined, leading to a variety of, sometimes contradictory or unachievable, freight interventions.

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Last updated: Wed Jul 18 15:56:25 2007