14 January 2026 | Common Sense Policy Group written evidence to the Transport Committee Inquiry
3.3 million people in the North of England suffer from transport-related social exclusion (Transport for the North, 2022). Securing affordable, effective and reliable integrated transport is essential to economic activity, particularly for those on low incomes (Sun and Thakuriah 2021; Zhang and Pryce 2020) and, with it, a number of health and environmental outcomes. There is real reason to believe, given that poverty is a recognised determinant of health, that reform to transport can produce improvements in health across the region.
