Benefits of Transport Investments

1. Cost savings: Transport – Logistic strategies
2. Time value of goods: Storage – Transportation – Client service
3. Overview: Logistic strategies – Time value – Transportation – Location

Policy on road capacity improvement

Current policy, as enunciated in the National Development Plan, is to:

• Develop five National Primary routes to at least high quality dual carriageway standard by the year 2006; these routes are Dublin-Border (M1), Dublin-Galway (N4/N6); Dublin-Cork (N8), Dublin-Limerick (N7) and Dublin-Waterford.

And

• Ensure a minimum level of service “D” on the remainder of the National Primary network.