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The Channel Tunnel is the biggest engineering projects within the UK that took many years to complete where its connects the UK to France and the rest of Europe undersea. Notably refereed as one of the seven wonders of the world. The idea was proposed in 1802 but didn't start construction until 1988. Services are operated by Getlink and run Le Shuttles, and Eurostar. This allows passenger travel, cargo and many more.
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Over the years fuel taxes has increase on petrol and diesel, raising money and manage road use, this money may be put to road maintances and future road projects. Places such as Bristol have congestion charges in place to reduce congestion and pollution. Overall, taxes are in place to fund the governments transportation improvements and by aiming for a greener and better earth.
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After the war many commuting services improved with rail networks being led by the government, aiming to improve service, efficiency, and investments in infrastructure. 1944 was the stepping stone when modern commuting practices began, due to demand for transportation to places like work, social and cultural demands.
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National minimum wage is increasing every year to to the current market and allowing employees more money and creating disposable income with more income it allows them to travel further on things such as holidays and the ability to purchase new cars.
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Widening of motorways are a major development for the transportation industry as demands and car ownership are on the rise needing more infrastructure and investment to cope with demand. Expanding consists of adding more lanes to improve traffic and reduce congestion. Motorways can be expand from just 3 lanes up to 5 and hard shoulders can be changed during peak times that are smart motorways.
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This is where state owned industries turned into private companies. This leads to significant impacts to the local economy, society and businesses. Shifting from public service to a profitable private business. Privatisation of companies such as railways allow improved efficiency and cheaper tickets. The government reduced control on transportation, allowing bus services to be deregulated by the Transport Act 1985. Companies fighting for competitive stance.
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Protest camps have transformed the UK transportation industry, protesting against developments that are seen as negative to things such as environment and the local communities. Protest camps are temporary camps set up to either delay or prevent construction and developments. Notably, examples such as airport expansions and railway expansion are seen as negative. The aim is to prevent projects and force changes to projects.
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This is tax on passenger flights that are from the UK, introduced in 1994. Allowing more economic benefits for the country. The tax depends on the distance of the flight and class of the flight. London Air Passenger Duty raised £3.7Bn from just the tax allowing it to be spent on various projects.
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1995 seen the introduction of smart motorways using variable speed limits, using real time data to measure and change speed ensuring safety and usage of the hard shoulder to reduce congestion and improve flow of traffic. For example, the M25 has sections that utilise smart technology systems. -
For many years car ownership is on the rise, leading to a decrease in public transportation. However, without the usage of public transport causes more noise pollution, congestion and pollution. With further need of car ownership needs more development on roads.
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1997 allowed low cost airlines to flourish with the deregulation of Europe's domestic travel market. Deregulation is " the removal of government rules and regulations that may prevent an industry from expanding". Low cost airlines expanded quickly taking over regional airports and connecting passengers to more destinations around the world at a budget price. Low cost airlines such as Ryanair, EasyJet, and Jet2 are the most popular budget carriers.
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Airports are utilising self check in to modernise and streamline services within the airport, consisting of checking there own baggage in and printing there flight ticket. Online check in can be done from anywhere. Passengers can get BCBP tickets on there phone allowing more organised and efficient access when checking in, also saving on paper waste and enabling the industry to save millions every year. IATA airlines only offer BCBP passes making older boarding passes a history. -
Passengers are having more leisurely time spent due to holiday entitlement and bank holidays, allowing more time away. For example parents take their children on holiday during school holidays. Overall, working hours have decreased enabling more short trips. Also, remote working is allowing flexible trips. Holiday pay is mandatory for employees. Furthermore, older people are living longer and want to travel abroad more.
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Expanding airports allows more regional and major hubs to offer more flights and widen their routes to connect the world. however, many set backs are in place due to opposers such as the projects can cause environmental damage as they increase pollution, affect local communities, and damage natural habiats and degradation of them.
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Planning regulations are to control construction of new transportation projects such as railways, airports and motorways. This is where construction teams must require official planning approval beforehand.
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London was one of the first to introduce congestion charge, where it requires motorist to pay a certain fixed fee between certain times. The aim of congestion charges within cities is to reduce congestion and put money towards road upgrades and environmental projects.
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As more passengers are wanting to fly and airports want the ability to increase yearly visitor numbers and expansion of flights. Main airports like Heathrow, Bristol, and Stansted are at many stages of expansion. However, with expanding airports leads to campaigners against and environmental issues such as increasing noise pollution and emissions from flights.
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This plays a major part in the CO2 emissions which contributes to climate change. Increase of car ownership, congestion, flights and constructional development all have various noise outputs and face many threats like some cities and towns aren't meeting air quality standards.
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