The FTA is meeting with the Department for Transport (DfT) on Monday to push for an independent review of the DfT's Freight Data Feasibility Study as the Association believes the figures in the report are "woefully inadequate".
Published last week, the DfT study rejects using a database of foreign vehicles to improve road safety on UK roads. It also rejects the case for a vignette. Over a ten-year period, the study assumes that just one life would be saved a meagre £560,000 of property
costs would be saved and highways damage would be reduced by only £3.3m. The net result is the database would yield just £1.7m of benefits per year.
Simon Chapman, FTA's chief economist, tells MT: "The industry deserves better than a half-baked report with such weak benefit cases. The research needs to be independently reviewed by a neutral third party. This is the goal of our meeting with the DfT on Monday."
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