Regional transport bodies, or sub-national transport bodies (STBs) as they are officially known, were set up to coordinate regional transport policy and spending under the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016 outside of London. Only one, Transport for the North was given statutory status, while government support is cooling for them.

• • Transport for the North - received statutory status in 2018

• • Midlands Connect

• • Transport for the South East

• • England's Economic Heartland

• • Transport East

• • Peninsula Transport

• • Western Gateway

To some extent STBs are being overtaken by the Labour Government's devolution agenda which aims to create Combined Authorities / Strategic Authorities across all of England with unitary authorities underneath them, effectively sweeping away most county, district and borough councils in the process.