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Car Clubs and Station Travel Plans An Operators
Perspective Dr Karen Booth Environmental
Manager 9th April 2008
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Who are we?

• Operation of local passenger train services
  (2500 pd)
• 471 stations, 1675 route miles, 283 Trains, 4600
  staff
• Over 76m passenger journeys up 20 over 2 years
• Franchise ends in 2013
• 6 clients DfT Rail and 5 PTEs

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Our Customers

• Population approximately 14.5 million
• Employment rate 72.7
• Unemployment 5.3
• National Parks cover 21 of land mass
• 357,005 businesses
• 220.1 billion economy
• Tourists spend over 6.5 million across the
  region
• Largest concentration of universities in the UK
• and Northern employ 4600 local people!

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Our Customers

• Average journey price 1.80
• Average journey length 14.5 miles (15 mins)
• Profile
• Commuters 60
• Leisure 40

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Vision and Mission

• Vision
• Realising the true potential of local rail as the
  most sustainable means of connecting people to
  opportunities
• Mission
• Delivering local railway services that really
  work for everyone

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Environmental Sustainability Strategy

• Customer strategic goals
• To ensure that customers receive information
  about Northerns efforts to minimise its
  environmental impact
• To develop interactive environmental projects to
  engage with our customers.
• To work in partnership with key agencies to
  develop travel plans to encourage modal shift
  using a variety of methods including travel
  plans

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Environmental Sustainability Strategy

• Positive affirmation for existing customers
• Attract new customers by offering a competitive
  alternative to the private car
• Demonstrate a whole package of measures to appeal
  to travelling public
• Ensure whole journey is facilitated in most
  sustainable way
• - Information
• - Interchange facilities
• - Vehicles
• - Facilities
• Travel behaviour programmes

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Cycle Strategy

• Promote cycle use and rail travel
• Seamless transport chain
• Connect people to opportunities by most
  sustainable means
• Car parking limited at stations
• Cycle storage at stations/signage/Safe routes to
  Stations
• Cycle carriage on trains for free
• Cycle-rail tourism opportunities

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Car Clubs

• Keen to look at developing car clubs at key
  stations
• We would need to see increased patronage
• Location will be key.
• Is the demand there?
• See more use as final part of journey. Marketing
  vital
• Feasibility to establish demand and location

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Station Travel Plans

• DfT Delivering a Sustainable Railway - means of
  managing access to stations
• Campaign for Better Transport suggested
• Secure cycle storage and cycle hire
• Better pedestrian and cycle access to stations
• Better signing, information and waiting areas for
  buses and taxis
• New or improved bus services
• Car sharing and car clubs, with reserved and
  priority parking
• Shared taxis
• Better managed station car parking to give
  priority to car sharing and where appropriate
  short-term
• Drop-off parking
• ATOC managing bid process

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Ecostations

• Incorporate sustainable building techniques into
  design and operation of a station
• Reduce energy consumption/low carbon/Local
  sourced and recycled materials
• Work with local community to share use of
  buildings
• Reduce pressure on highways
• Link with other transport modes
• (pedestrian/cycle/bus/local roads/car)
• Eg Accrington and Sowerby Bridge

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Summary

• Northern Rail wishes to increase its passenger
  numbers by ensuring it connects people to
  opportunities by most sustainable means
• Ecostations are seen as the way forward to
  deliver a facility that is both integral to the
  community and fully integrated with all modes of
  transport
• In the meantime Station Travel Plans should be
  developed hopefully with DfT funding and car
  clubs are seen to be a part of the offer

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Thankyou! Karen.booth_at_northernrail.org