Future of freight transport

This LCP White Paper focusses on the area of freight and logistics, delivering goods and services to the nation.  This acitivity makes an essential contribution to our economic success but also imposes a heavy burden on the environment.  It is a backbone of the economy and part of the Government's agenda for renewed growth.  Freight and logistics interacts with passenger transport, sharing and competing for capacity, also it is a heterogeneous industry, very fragmented and a largely private sector activity.  As such it is difficult to characterise and regulate with apparently many conflicting demands for policy attention.