Our Plans and Strategy
What does the future look like?
Joined up travel in Greater Manchester, that’s easy to use, accessible and affordable, with enough seats and services for everyone, by 2040.
Our People Plan priorities
Our People Plan priorities link directly to our values.
This is so the decisions we make, and how we prioritise, have our values and behaviours at their heart.
Our Business Plan
As the Bee Network grows, we need to be able to adapt and make sure we’re set up to deliver for Greater Manchester. Our Business Plan provides a focus for the year ahead, with clear measures of success. It sets out our five strategic objectives:
- Ensure transport is an enabler to achieve city region outcomes.
- Operate and sustain a safe, green, customer-centric, integrated transport system.
- Grow and transform the transport network in Greater Manchester.
- Build an inclusive, high-performing organisation with a skilled and engaged workforce.
- Secure financial sustainability and efficient resource management.
We monitor our performance against the Business Plan closely throughout the year.
Delivering the strategy
The GMTS 2040 is due to be replaced in the near future, however the current plan has been kept up to date through a series of five-year delivery plans, the latest covering 2021-2026.
In turn, the 2040 Transport Strategy continues to set the framework for a range of sub-strategies, policies and delivery plans, all published at tfgm.com/strategy
That includes the Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure, Streets for All, Freight and Logistics, GM Rapid Transit, Shared Mobility and Greater Manchester Bus strategies.
People, from residents and businesses to visitors to our city region, are at the heart of the 2040 Transport Strategy.
Seven key customer-focused principles underpin our work and guide the development of the transport network.
Strategic context
Greater Manchester has a long tradition of working in partnership to achieve great things for the city region.
As part of the Greater Manchester family, TfGM has a key role to play in delivering the vision and ambitions set out in the Greater Manchester Strategy and delivery plan: “To make Greater Manchester a thriving city region where everyone can live a good life.“
A strategy for a world-class transport network
The Greater Manchester Strategy 2025-35 (GMS) was published in July 2025. Our collective vision for the next decade is to see a thriving city region where everyone can live a good life. But economic and social progress have always gone hand in hand here. Greater Manchester is only successful if every part of our city region and every person in our city region is successful.
To help deliver the new GMS, a new Local Transport Plan (LTP) is currently in development with a draft due to be published in the Autumn 2025. The new LTP will build on the current Greater Manchester Transport Strategy 2040 (GMTS 2040) sets which set out our long-term ambitions for transport to help shape and create a successful, resilient city region. Our vision is for Greater Manchester to have: “World-class connections that support long-term, sustainable economic growth and access to opportunity for all.”
