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TRANSPORT ASSESSMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION: A GUIDE

• Graham Marchbank October 2005

Transport Assessment and Implementation

Fundamentals

• TIA - R.I.P.
• The person trip
• Plan led development allocations
• Transport choice and accessibility
• Good performance in transport terms

Transport Assessment and Implementation

What you told us during 18 months consultation………

• Welcomed the approach
• Felt TA form was not always required or a burden providing little additional value
• Guidance on travel plans, mode share targets and monitoring
• More on 'no net detriment' ( NND)

Transport Assessment and Implementation

We, in turn………

• Simplified the TA form based on thresholds
• Gave more emphasis to implementation
• Travel plans
• Provided sources of information to identify mode share/split
• Introduced monitoring as part of the approach
• Provided more on NND

Transport Assessment and Implementation

• Part 1 - First steps

• Part 2 - Scope and process

• Part 3 - Delivery

Transport Assessment Form

Transport Assessment Form

Transport Assessment and Implementation

• If thresholds are exceeded, a Transport Assessment will be required. Contact should be made with the relevant planning and roads authority
• If not, it is still important to understand what transport changes, if any, are likely to occur. Applicants should therefore complete the following table when the table remains unchecked

Morning Peak Period is:
Evening Peak Period is:

Transport Assessment and Implementation

• Part 2 - Scope and process

• Role of developers
• Role of LA
• Role of PT operators
• TA document assembles information in one place

Transport Assessment and Implementation

Part 3 - Delivery - Key Elements of a TA

Transport Assessment and Implementation

• Mode Share Targets - delivering non-car mode share for access to proposed developments
• Travel Plans
• Accessibility
• Changes of use
• Speculative or outline consents
• Monitoring

Transport Assessment and Implementation

Guide Appendices

• Assessing the site and its impacts
• Data
• Mechanisms for implementation

Transport Assessment and Implementation

Data

• Databases
• Modal split
• Models
• PT networks/timetables/journey planners
• Land use data
• Census/survey/statistics

Travel Plans

• Demonstrate how MSTs are to be met
• Mitigate transport impacts e.g. public transport interventions
• Require setting of clear targets e.g.
  • Vehicles entering site
  • Modal share
  • Maximum parking
  • SOVs or car sharing schemes
  • Provision of P.T. information

Travel Plans

• Validation to check assumptions
  • Rarely tackled so far
• Monitoring - agreed at the outset
  • Could result in modifications to travel plan
  • Might take place monthly or annually
• Probably best suited to the occupier to implement

Enforcement

• White Paper proposals
• Start notice
• Temporary stop notices
• Guide says…
• If travel plan commitments not met, developer should deploy additional resources. e.g. on NND or PT
• Look at phased consents
• Consider floor space limits

Less of this……

More of this……

Transport Assessment and Implementation

Summary

• TA not TIA
• TA Form benchmarks the impacts
• Assessment process follows on if required
• Implementation through travel plans, validation, monitoring and enforcement
• Equally true that there is still a lot to learn

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