Transport Strategy
2025 TfSE Transport Strategy
Transport for the South East’s (TfSE) new Transport Strategy was formally adopted as the region’s strategic advice to Government in autumn 2025, marking a major milestone for the organisation and setting a clear vision for the future of transport across the South East.
The strategy is underpinned by five priority missions:
- Strategic Connectivity
- Resilience
- Inclusion and Integration
- Decarbonisation
- Sustainable Growth
The publication of the strategy follows almost two years of development, with input from local authorities, key transport operators, stakeholders, and a twelve-week public consultation receiving over 865 responses.
It captures the South East’s defining features, charts how the transport landscape has evolved since 2020, and identifies the region’s key challenges. Built around five new missions with clear goals and priorities, the strategy connects with schemes in the Strategic Investment Plan and highlights the vital role of our local transport authorities and key partners, offering a practical framework for action that makes the best use of available resources..
Read the 2025 Transport Strategy Summary
Video from 2024 supporting the public consultation of the draft strategy that was published in 2025
Supporting Documents
The documents below have informed the 2025 Transport Strategy.
Please email tfse@eastsussex.gov.uk for an accessible version of these documents.
A bold vision for a brighter future
We think that to achieve a flourishing economy you need a bold, future-focused Transport Strategy built around people and the places they live, work and do business.
It supported the development of our Strategic Investment Plan which sets out the transport interventions the region needs to help deliver the strategy.
Where it started
The inaugural Transport Strategy was published in summer 2020, focusing on key environmental, social and economic priorities. It set out our partnership’s shared vision for a better connected, more prosperous and more sustainable South East.
A full suite of supporting technical documents can be found here.
Our Economic Connectivity Review was the first major component of our Transport Strategy for the region. To turn our Transport Strategy from vision to reality, we developed five Area Studies:
– Outer Orbital Study
– Inner Orbital Study
– South Central Radial Study
– South East Radial Study
– South West Radial Study.
The most recent component towards achieving our vision is our Strategic Investment Plan (SIP). The SIP was developed in collaboration with our 16 Local Transport Authorities and builds upon our Transport Strategy.
As part of our commitment to the Transport Strategy, we are refreshing it every five years, ensuring it remains committed to the priorities of the 16 Local Transport Authorities.
