DARe’s Transport Performance & Risk Analysis Framework
Supporting the transition to a decarbonised transport system that is resilient and adaptive to a changing climate.
What is TPRAF?
DARe’s Transport Performance & Risk Analysis Framework (TPRAF) is a flexible, validated framework that helps transport decision-makers assess climate risks, resilience, adaptation, and decarbonisation while maintaining system-wide transport performance.
It can be used by a wide range of transport decision-makers, including:
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National infrastructure owners
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Local and combined authorities
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Transport operators
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Freight companies
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Consultancies
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Researchers
It complements existing processes by integrating assessments and decision-making, improving data sharing, reducing fragmentation, and supporting better alignment across strategic, operational, and investment decisions.
About the TPRAF Diagram
The resourceThis interactive TPRAF is one of several DARe Hub resources, alongside the full TPRAF report and DARe Handbook. Together, they explain the framework, its development, and how to apply it in practice.
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TPRAF reportThe purpose, structure, and development of the framework.
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DARe
HandbookGuidance on operationalizing the framework’s components in practice.
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This interactive
diagramExplore the framework at your own pace.
This interactive resource provides an accessible introduction to TPRAF, allowing users to explore its structure, components, and relationships before moving on to the detailed DARe guidance and tools.
The simple form
Level 1Further Information
The development of the DARe Transport Performance & Risk Analysis Framework (TPRAF) has been a collaborative effort involving colleagues from across the DARe Hub, particularly those contributing to Work Packages 2 and 3. The authors gratefully acknowledge the wider DARe team for their expertise, insights, and contributions to the framework’s development and refinement. We also thank DARe’s project partners and stakeholders, whose engagement, challenge, and practical experience have helped ensure that the TPRAF is grounded in real-world transport infrastructure decision-making and reflects the needs of its intended users.
This work was funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) through the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), and by the Department for Transport, under EPSRC Grant EP/Y024257/1, Research Hub for Decarbonised Adaptable and Resilient Transport Infrastructures (DARe).
Research Output Notice
This website contains original research outputs developed through the DARe programme. The concepts, frameworks, methodologies and supporting diagrams and texts presented here — including the Transport Performance & Risk Analysis Framework, Decision Support Process (DSP) and Integrated Modelling Platform (IMP) — represent ongoing research and development, and constitute intellectual output developed through the DARe research programme.
Academic publications describing the detailed scientific and methodological basis of these outputs are currently in preparation. All users are requested to acknowledge and appropriately cite DARe and relevant outputs and publications when using, referencing, adapting, or building upon material presented through this resource.
All website content is © National Hub for Decarbonised, Adaptable, Resilient Transport Infrastructures (DARe) – a consortium comprising Newcastle University, University of Cambridge, University of Glasgow, Heriot-Watt University, and Anglia Ruskin University, funded by UKRI EPSRC and the UK Government Department for Transport. All rights reserved.
Explore the framework
A guided, interactive walkthrough. Start with the simple form above, then move through the extended diagram and the Level 2 component maps.