Examination of Witness

Part of High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 10:57 am on 9 July 2013.

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Professor Tomaney: The really honest answer is that I have no idea—I do not think that there has been a serious study of that. It is very difficult to apply what has happened in France and Spain in this respect to the UK. They are very different sized countries, with different distributions of airports and relationships between travel by air and by train. It is a very good question, and one of many where we could do with more useful research and analysis.