Strategic Focus

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• Strategic Focus
• Implementing a Traffic Management and Parking
  Policy with Local Communities
• Roy Newton
• Head of the Greater Manchester Joint Transport
  Policy Team

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Implementing a Traffic Management and Parking
Policy within Local Communities

• Roy Newton
• Greater Manchester Joint Transport Policy Team
• 11 June 2008

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Structure of Presentation

• Policy Drivers
• Key Challenges
• Funding for Transport
• Local Transport Plans
• Transport Innovation Fund
• Achieving Value for Money
• Conclusions

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Policy Drivers

• National
• White Papers
• Delivering a Sustainable Railway (2007), The
  Future of Transport (2004), The Future of Rail
  (2004), The Future of Air Transport (2003)
• Planning Policy Guidance/Statement Notes
• Government Reviews (SNR, Eddington, Stern)
• Draft Local Transport Bill
• Inter-Regional
• Northern Way Growth Strategy
• Regional
• Integrated Regional Strategy
• Economic, Spatial, Housing, Transport

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Policy Drivers

• Sub-Regional
• City Region Development Programme
• Sub-Regional Spatial Strategy
• Sub-Regional Housing Strategy
• Local Transport Plan
• Integrated Transport Strategy
• Delivery Plan
• Local
• Sustainable Community Strategies
• Local Area Agreements
• Local Development Documents

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Key Challenges

• Sustainable Economic Growth
• Mix of high performing economic centres and
  deprived areas
• Market preference v planning preference
• Access to markets international, national,
  regional, local
• Access to labour (with appropriate skills)
• Traffic congestion increasing - not a constraint
  yet in GM but will be post tipping point
• Public transport capacity, reliability and
  quality are a deterrent to a lot of potential
  users
• Large number of organisations involved in
  transport Government, Regional Organisations,
  Local Government, Rail Industry, Bus Industry,
  Freight Industry, Taxis, Private Hire, Community
  Transport Operators, Ports, Airports

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Key Challenges

• Social Inclusion
• Access to education, jobs, basic amenities eg
  food, healthcare
• Disability Discrimination Act
• Environment
• Local environment air quality, noise, visual
  intrusion
• Global environment Climate Change
• Safety Security
• Road safety
• Public transport safety
• Personal security

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Funding for Transport

• Local Transport Plan
• Minor Works (lt5 million) around 40 million
  pa in GM
• Maintenance Schemes around 25 million pa in
  GM
• Major Schemes (gt5 million) around 115 m pa
  in NW
• Rail around 14.8 billion nationally over 3
  years
• Transport Innovation Fund
• Congestion TIF - Around 200 million pa until
  2018/19
• Productivity TIF - Around 8 billion over 7
  Years
• (though Cross Rail will take at least 5
  billion)
• Private Sector Funding/Supplementary Business
  Rates?

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Local Transport Plans

• Prepared by County Councils, Unitary Authorities
  and Groupings of Metropolitan Authorities
• 9 in the North West
• Blackburn-with-Darwen, Blackpool, Cheshire,
  Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Halton, Lancashire,
  Mersyside, Warrington
• Performance monitoring - targets and trajectories
• Focus on the Shared Priorities reducing
  congestion, improving safety, better
  accessibility, air quality and enhanced public
  transport
• Stakeholder engagement

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Local Transport Plans

• Co-ordination of plans with other strategies and
  across boundaries
• Fewer major (gt5 million) schemes (1-2 per year
  in NW)
• Emphasis on value for money solutions and making
  better use of existing networks
• LTP1 covered period 2001/2 to 2005/06
• LTP2 covers period 2006/7 to 2010/11
• Post 2010/11 to comprise
• 15 year Integrated Transport Strategy
• 3-5 year Delivery Plan

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Transport Innovation Fund

• DfT focus is on improving economic productivity
  and tackling congestion
• Productivity TIF focus is on national strategic
  networks with measures to
• improve capacity and resilience
• make the most of capacity at key pressure points
• Congestion TIF - DfT particularly interested in
  road user charging but will also consider work
  place parking charging
• Around 200 million per year to 2018/19
• Need to be satisfied benefits outweigh
  disbenefits
• Congestion charging is very contentious

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Achieving Value for Money

• Major Schemes (gt5 m)
• Stakeholder engagement - need regional support
  (for RFA or PFI)
• Statutory processes eg planning approval, TWA,
  CPOs, public inquiries
• Need to demonstrate value for money
• High - where benefits are at least double the
  costs
• Medium - where benefits are between 1.5 and 2
  times costs
• Low  - where benefits are between 1 and 1.5 times
  costs
• Poor - where benefits are less than costs
• DfT will contribute a maximum of
• 90 of the estimated total cost of the scheme
  (75 for tram schemes)
• 50 of any increase in the cost of the scheme to
  a maximum Approved Scheme Cost
• Gateway review process
• (strategic assessment, business justification,
  delivery strategy, investment decision, readiness
  for service, operations review and benefits
  realisation)

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Achieving Value for Money

• Major Scheme Business Case Components
• Strategic - to demonstrate that the scheme is
  consistent with and will contribute to local,
  regional, and possibly national, objectives in
  transport and other relevant areas
• Appraisal and value for money - to demonstrate
  the likely benefits and disbenefits of the scheme
  against its likely costs
• Delivery - to demonstrate how the promoter will
  be able to deliver the scheme to time and budget,
  including a clear project plan, governance
  arrangements, plans for stakeholder involvement
  and engagement and robust risk management plans.
• Financial - to demonstrate that the scheme is
  based on sound costings, that the promoting Local
  Authority is able to meet its own contribution,
  that any proposed third party funding is
  confirmed, and the Local Authority is willing and
  able to underwrite this element.
• Commercial - to demonstrate a sound procurement
  strategy and a rigorous approach to any private
  sector involvement

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Achieving Value for Money

• Minor Works (lt5m)
• Need to deliver LTP outcomes and targets
• Stakeholder engagement
• Need to deliver value for money as an overall
  plan
• Linkage with other spending eg maintenance
• Need appropriate types and scale of monitoring
• Monitoring needs to influence future investment
  decisions
• Level of future funding dependent upon
  achieving/exceeding targets

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Conclusions

• Alignment with relevant policies (spatial,
  social, economic, environmental)
• Understand desired outcomes not just outputs
• Limited funding available
• Making best use of existing infrastructure is key
• Partnership working essential
• Statutory processes can be lengthy and costly
• Stakeholder engagement takes time and can delay
  scheme delivery but can reduce objections if
  undertaken properly