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The rail Value for Money (VfM) study commissioned a number of consultants' reports to inform its thinking.
This page provides links to copies of these reports.
While these reports were commissioned by the Department for Transport (DfT) and the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR), the findings and recommendations are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the DfT and the ORR or the rail value for money study.
Area A - Industry objectives, strategy and outputs
- Reviewing the franchise map
Jacobs - March 2011 - Research project on unit costs and franchising
Colin Buchanan - 24 January 2011 - Cost of railway outputs
Booz&Co - 8 October 2010
Area B - Leadership, planning and decision-making
- International whole industry including train operating cost benchmarking
Civity - 9 May 2011 - Network Rail's governance
First Economics - 5 January 2011 - The future role of private capital in the GB railway
First Economics - 4 January 2011 - Rail Industry European foundation for quality management (EFQM) review
Investors in Excellence - December 2010 - Infrastructure asset ownership
First Economics - 21 December 2010 - Leadership, planning and decision making
Steer davies gleave - 29 November 2010
Area C - Structures, interfaces and incentives
- Alternative railway structure study - Chiltern case study
First class partnerships - 11 April 2011 - Alternative railway structures: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3
L.E.K. - 7 March 2011 - Network Rail's governance
First Economics - 5 January 2011 - The future role of private capital in the GB railway
First Economics - 4 January 2011 - Infrastructure asset ownership
First Economics - 21 December 2010 - Review of rail cross-industry interfaces, incentives, and structures - Options to reduce industry net cost
Arup/Oxera - 30 September 2010
Area D - Revenue
- Research project on fares - Final report: analysis, recommendations and conclusions
Steer davies gleave - 28 February 2011
Area E & F - Asset management and supply chain management
- Asset management and supply chain management assessment of GB rail
Atkins - 25 May 2011 - Whole system programme management
Atkins - 25 May 2011 - Rolling stock whole life costs
Arup - March 2011 - Transformational change in Network Rail
Adventis - March 2011
Area G - Safety, standards and innovation
- Achieving Value for Money from improving the management and delivery of innovation in the GB rail industry
Atkins - 25 May 2011 - Achieving Value for Money in safety, standards and innovation
Arthur D. Little - 20 May 2011 - Achieving VfM from a railway systems authority
Steer davies gleave - February 2011
Area H - People
- Achieving value for money from people in the GB rail industry
AECOM - March 2011 - Review of pensions
Peter Thompson, FIA - March 2011 - Achieving Value for Money from people in the GB rail industry - Further research
AECOM - February 2011 - British Transport Police review
AECOM - February 2011 - Technology and labour utilisation in UK railways
Adventis - February 2011
Other
- Research on VfM Assessment
Booz&Co - 10 March 2011