HM Treasury’s updated Green Book (February 2026) marks an important shift in how public investment decisions are made. It places much greater emphasis on place-based analysis, distributional impacts and long-term economic transformation. Crucially, it moves away from over-reliance on a single headline benefit–cost ratio (BCR). Instead, value for money is framed as a balanced judgement, drawing on monetised and non-monetised impacts, risk and uncertainty, and how benefits and

The Department for Transport has published a long-awaited UK road safety strategy, the first in over a decade. While the strategy stops short of a zero-deaths vision, it does set out a target to reduce deaths and serious injuries by 65% by 2035. Much of what it proposes is sensible. Measures such as reviewing the drink-driving limit, introducing a six-month learning period for new young drivers, and placing renewed emphasis on enforcement are all long overdue and, if implemen

The problem that came to mind While much of the discourse around autonomous vehicles (AVs) has centred on when the vehicles themselves will be technologically ready for deployment, far less attention has been paid to the readiness of the road infrastructure they will operate on. At Nota Bene we decided to carry out our own research, seeking to address that gap by examining how existing roads, using Sheffield as a case study, might already meet, or fall short of, the requireme

In today's world, the way we think about transportation is rapidly evolving. As urban centres become more congested and environmental...

There is a much-discussed challenge in the UK’s transition to private electric vehicles: the 30% or so of the UK population who does not...