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<p>The Department considers many factors when assessing the impact of a fares change,
notably the impacts on passengers and taxpayers. Whilst no specific assessment of
environmental impacts was made, as the Department chose to hold fares to the Retail
Prices Index (RPI) from last summer rather than the follow the previous year’s RPI
+ 1 per cent, it is likely that this decision would make rail travel more attractive
than it would otherwise have been, which would have a positive effect on the environment
by reducing carbon emissions from other transport modes.</p>
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