INTEGRATED TRANSPORT

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INTEGRATED TRANSPORT

• RURAL AGENDA
• Peter Fryer

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Ten Year Plan for Transport

• Main features of the Plan
• Less car dependency
• Better public transport
• Improved environment
• Improved health
• Improved social inclusion

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What is Sustainable Transport

• Is there a common understanding of what we mean
  by sustainable?
• Does the Local Authority definition of
  sustainable accord with that of the local
  community?

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Less car dependency

• Improved environment
• Improved air quality
• Accident reduction
• Better quality of life
• Better health outcomes

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Better Public Transport

• Improved social inclusion
• Better access for communities to facilities
• Less need for school run
• Better access to jobs for low income groups and
  young people

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Public Transport

• Bus Priority.
• Greater investment in Park and ride sites.
• Better traffic management UTMC.
• Use of ITS to control congestion.
• Quality Routes/corridors.
• Better fare structures.

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Information

• Improving information given to the public.
• Real Time information on services.
• Timetable information.
• Journey planning.
• Linking different modes.

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Sustainable Transport

• An example of truly sustainable transport.
• Fails to meet the demands of modern society.
• What are the alternatives within our local
  communities.

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Sustainable Transport

• Do we need to look beyond the immediate problems
  of traffic on our roads. Taking a bigger role
  influencing some of the lifestyle choices we and
  the public make.

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Freight Quality Partnerships

• Better management of how fright is moved.
• Local distribution centres.
• Agreed access points to towns and cities.
• Agreed routes in rural areas.

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Sustainable Tourism

• Part of the work of the Target Programme
• Linking transport with entry into visitor
  attractions.
• Making intermodal journeys easier

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Sustainable Tourism

• Public Transport as an alternative to tourists
  using the car to access visitor attractions.
• Examples in the region. The Moors Bus in the
  North Yorkshire Moors.
• The Bike Bus in the Dales.

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Sustainable Tourism

• One of the main challenges to change the habits
  of people.
• Improvements to the environment of tourist hot
  spots.
• Accident reduction on rural roads.

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Tourist impacts
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Economic Development

• There is great pressure through a number of
  strategies in the region to capture inward
  investment. To create new jobs and raise the GDP.
• Greater care needs to be given to where those
  jobs are located. Do we consider regional
  centres, or do we concentrate on the areas of
  need?

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School Transport

• Influencing two different audiences.
• Parents and their reservations about safety.
• Children and how they perceive public transport.
• Are the decisions about delivery of school
  transport being given sufficient weight in the
  Transport Plan Process?

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Improved environment

• Better air quality
• Noise reduction
• More attractive towns and villages
• Better incentives to walk and cycle
• Long term improvements to health

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Health

• Issues for Local Authorities about air quality
  management areas. The wider issues about air
  pollution that have serious impacts upon
  children. Need to work closely with PCTs to
  promote alternatives to the car.

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Improved health

• Supporting the health agenda for Primary Care
  Trusts
• Combating obesity through better options for
  walking and cycling
• Less demand on Budgets

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Walking

• There needs to be greater emphasis on the need of
  pedestrians.
• A reallocation of highway space.
• Traffic calming to reduce speeds and vehicle
  numbers in areas of high pedestrian use.

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Cycling

• Better provision of facilities, dedicated road
  space. Better segregation from cars.
• Links to health action plans by PTCs.
• Better facilities on public transport and in the
  work place.

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Accessibility

• There needs to be better intervention in other
  policy areas about accessibility.
• Too often accessibility is not factored into
  decisions about location of facilities in
  relation to end users.

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Improved social inclusion

• Developing better living accommodation
• Developing better communities
• Long term benefits for the whole community
• Delivering Government objectives