West Yorkshire Local Transport Plan Briefing December 2006

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West Yorkshire Local Transport Plan Briefing
December 2006
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Content

• Introduction and Background Context
• 2) West Yorkshire Local Transport Plan 2006 to
  2011
• - Policy, Strategy and the Shared Priorities
• - Resources
• - Capital Programme
• - Performance Management
• 3) Going Forward and the Wider Picture

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Introduction

• Five year transport strategy and investment plan
• Principal mechanism for obtaining funding from
  the DfT for local transport improvements and
  maintenance
• Developed in partnership with Metro and the five
  West Yorkshire district authorities
• LTP2 adopted in March 2006 (2006-2011)
• Produced in accordance with Government guidance
  and built on successful achievements of LTP1

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Successful actions during LTP1 (2001-2006)

• Successful road safety programme
• Good progress in highway network maintenance
• Reductions in the backlog of bridges and
  structures maintenance and strengthening
• Significant improvements to the public realm,
  including enhanced pedestrian facilities
• Delivery of successful off-road cycle routes
• Good progress on school travel

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Successful actions continued

• Step change in bus facilities on core routes,
  including accessibility improvements and new bus
  lanes
• Investment in bus and rail stations
• Launch of the largest real time passenger
  information system in the country covering South
  and West Yorkshire
• Improvements to accessibility through new
  MetroConnect services

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Key transport impacts of LTP1

• Traffic growth constrained
• Road safety improved
• Better road conditions
• Profile of transport raised at sub-regional and
  regional levels
• Role of rail into urban centres increased for
  commuters and shoppers
• Role of bus increased on some urban routes
• Social inclusion improved

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LTP1 Resources

• 138.5million allocated to West Yorkshire for
  integrated transport improvements which included
  29.5million for Leeds
• 149million allocated to West Yorkshire for
  maintenance work which included 48million for
  Leeds
• Capital also spent on transport/highway
  infrastructure from capital receipts or
  prudential borrowing
• Further funding provided from the DfT for
  advanced works for Supertram, IRR Stage 7 and ELLR

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Differences between LTP1 and LTP2

• Centrally agreed shared priorities for LTP2s
• Resource assumptions
• Bonus funding
• Targets
• PSA target for congestion
• Local Area Agreements
• SEA

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LTP2 - Policy, strategy and the shared priorities

• Prepared in accordance with Government guidance
  and informed by wide ranging consultation
• Structured around the nationally agreed shared
  priorities for transport
• Accessibility
• Congestion
• Road Safety
• Air Quality
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• Asset Management
• Quality of Life

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Accessibility - Context

• Social Exclusion Unit Report (2003) Making the
  Connections
• Access to key services
• Health / Education / Work / Food
• Reasonable access
• Cost / Time / Distance / Safe

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Accessibility Planning - Strategy

• Local accessibility assessments
• Public transport accessibility mapping
• Discussions with partners
• Consultation with user/interest groups
• Issue identification
• Accessibility Strategy and Action Plan

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Congestion - Context

• A top priority from the public consultation
• GPS data used to identify congestion hotspots
• Causes and impacts of congestion have been
  analysed to inform strategy
• development

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Congestion - Strategy

• Strategies to address congestion consist of
  measures to
• Encourage smarter travel choices
• Manage the demand for travel
• Improve the highway network
• Make the best use of existing capacity
• Promote sustainable land use planning

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Safer Roads - Context

• West Yorkshire on track to meet national road
  safety targets for 2010
• Challenge to maintain this level of improvement
• Motorcycling casualties are cause for concern
• Analysis of the causes of casualties and
  casualties by area are carried out to inform
  strategy and scheme development

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Safer Roads - Strategy

• Strategies to address road safety consist of
• physical measures to improve local safety
• enforcement measures
• education, training and publicity initiatives

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Air Quality and Vehicle Emissions - Context

• Environmental impacts can include
• - poor air quality
• - noise pollution
• - climate change
• UK transport sector accounts for 24 of UK CO2
• - major consideration for future policy
• 7 traffic related AQMAs in Leeds plus 7 AOC
• Problems exacerbated by road congestion

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Air Quality and Vehicle Emissions - Strategy

• Strategies to improve air quality, reduce
  emissions and mitigate and adapt to climate
  change include
• measures which address congestion
• maintenance/asset management techniques

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Asset Management and Maintenance - Context

• Vital to delivering all of the shared priorities
• Management and maintenance of the road surface
  and transport infrastructure within the boundary
  of the highway
• Highway network no longer deteriorating
  principal roads showing an improvement in
  condition
• Transport Asset Management Plans being developed

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Asset Management and Maintenance - Strategy

• The asset management strategy has nine key
  elements which include
• General maintenance programmes e.g. roads,
  footways, lighting, winter maintenance, bus stops
  etc
• Highways structures strengthening/maintenance
• Operation/maintenance of UTMC and CCTV systems

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LTP2 resources

• Revised funding arrangements
• - Minor schemes, indicative 5 year figures
• - Major schemes, regional prioritisation
• West Yorkshire capital expenditure settlement for
  2006/07
• Integrated Transport block, 28.491m
• - 5.871 for Leeds
• - includes 5 bonus for 2004/05 LTP delivery
• - indicative figures rising to 34m by 2010/11
• Maintenance, 33.310m for cways and bridges
• - 10.346 for Leeds (inc 1.7 for PRN structs)
• - indicative figure for 2010/11 10.2m ( PRN)

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LTP2 Integrated Transport plan
Expenditure estimates for Key areas,
2006-11- Bus infrastructure (stops etc) 4.1
m Bus priority measures 12.1m Cycling 2
m Public transport interchange 1.3m Local
safety schemes 2.9m Road crossings (inc
refurbs) 2.6m Local road schemes 1.7m Traf
fic mgmnt. (UTC area safety) 3.6m Walking
(and access) schemes 2.3m
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LTP2 Major schemes

• Inner Ring Road Stage 7 - 50million scheme
  commenced May 2006
• East Leeds Link Road - 32.5million scheme
  commenced November 2006
• A65 Kirkstall Road Quality Bus Corridor
  20.7million scheme - programme entry granted
  July 2006

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Performance Management

• Four elements
• Financial Management
• Scheme Monitoring
• Progress towards targets
• Policy Review

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Targets

• 27 targets
• 14 mandatory and 13 local
• Address the shared priorities
• Most are West Yorkshire wide targets
• Have to set a target for 2010/11 and
  trajectories/milestones for intervening periods
  

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Mandatory targets

• Common to all LTPs - DfT set minimum standard
• Main areas
• Accessibility
• Bus patronage, punctuality and satisfaction
• Safety (overall and child KSIs)
• Congestion journey times also PSA target -
  traffic flows to main urban areas
• Mode share for journeys to school
• Air Quality NO2 in AQMAs
• Overall cycling levels
• Highway footway maintenance

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Local targets

• Set to address our priorities
• Satisfaction with new LTP funded PT facilities
• Peak period cycle trips to Leeds, Wakefield
  Halifax
• AM peak period modal split
• Peak period rail patronage to Leeds
• Additional safety targets (pedestrian KSIs)
• Additional Air quality targets (network wide NOx
  and CO2)
• Asset management targets carriageways,
  structures and bus shelters

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Monitoring

• 46 Key and Background Indicators
• Use specific data collection exercises (mode
  split), data from other sources (BVPI) and
  national statistics
• Annual Monitoring Report produced
• Also scheme monitoring to evaluate effectiveness
  of measures

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Example Congestion Monitoring

• Indicator Journey time per person mile on key
  routes
• Traffic flow data from ATCs
• Car speeds from iTIS
• Bus speeds from surveys (AVL data?)
• Bus and car occupancy surveys

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Reporting

• Required to report on mandatory targets annually
  showing progress against milestones
• Targets to be stretched if trends suggest it will
  be achieved before 2010/11
• Progress will be considered by DfT when assigning
  resources

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Environmental Management

• WY Transport Emissions Group established
• Need to liaise with partners i.e. Highways
  Agency, bus operators etc
• Looking to include environmental considerations
  on design briefs and in-house EIA screening tool
  being developed
• More consideration needed to
• - noise impacts
• local air quality
• CO2 emissions?

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Going Forward

• Post Supertram solutions
• Short term strategy needs to deliver quick wins
  and build public and business confidence
• - Strategic bus park and ride sites
• - Targeted bus priority measures and whole
  route improvements
• - Links into regeneration areas, e.g. AVL
• - Improving the rail network
• - Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)
• City centre strategy
• - Parking strategy
• - Road network developments
• - Public transport gateways

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Key workstreams

• City centre transport strategy to address
• Access and development issues
• South Leeds roads strategy
• Holbeck urban village
• Beeston and Holbeck
• Strategy support for regeneration areas for
• Renaissance Leeds
• Aire Valley Leeds
• EASEL
• West Leeds Gateway
• A6120 route strategy development
• Airport access

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Leeds City Region Transport Vision

• As part of City Region Development Plan sets out
  longer term vision for the transport network
• Connecting the core centres in West Yorkshire and
  the wider Leeds City Region
• Wider connectivity to
• - Neighbouring City Regions
• - London
• - International gateways (i.e. airports
  ports)
• Provides an investment plan and bid

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Summing up

• New LTP provides 5 year strategic programme
• Vision for transport to serve the whole city
• Remaining key issues relate to major projects
• Post Supertram strategy
• Rail and bus investment
• Major highway priorities
• Funding and resources
• - LTP
• - Regional Transport Allocation
• - Transport Innovation Fund

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