High Speed 2 Railway Line

(asked on 6th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what seat occupancy assumptions have been used in theĀ economic case for HS2.


Answered by
Baroness Sugg Portrait
Baroness Sugg
This question was answered on 20th June 2018

The economic case does not assume a fixed occupancy rate for HS2 services. Predicted levels of occupancy and crowding are a product of demand, supply, and other transport modelling assumptions and vary by time of day, year and HS2 service.

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