Abstract
In July 2000 the UK government published a Ten Year Plan for transport (DETR, 2000a) which was broadly welcomed as a commitment to long-term investment to tackle the country's acknowledged transport problems. Two years later, the government is being widely criticised both for what it left out of the Plan and for failing to deliver on what was included in it (CfIT, 2002a; TLGRC, 2002; CIC, 2002; TPS, 2002a). What has gone wrong, and what lessons can we learn for strategic planning in transport?.