Agenda item

Mr. Max Hunt CC asked the Chairman the following questions under Standing Order 7(3):-

 

“1.        Would the Chairman please provide the Commission with the following performance figures from the current LTP on tackling congestion by increasing the use of public transport, walking and cycling with less growth in car mileage and more effective vehicle use of congested road space, tabulated with the Baseline, Target, Outcome or Estimate at Target date and, where Estimated for 2010/11, the last statistic available:

 

Key Outcomes

·         Person journey time per mile on key routes in urban Central Leicestershire;

·         Time lost per vehicle km 07:00-10:00 in Loughborough;

 

Intermediate Outcomes

 

·         Bus passenger journeys (boardings) per year;

·         % of all residents satisfied with bus services;

·         % of all residents satisfied with public transport information;

·         % of buses between 1 minute early and 5 minutes late departing at the start of bus routes;

·         % of buses between 1 minute early and 5 minutes late departing at intermediate timing points;

·         % of buses between 1 minute early and 5 minutes late departing at bus stops between timing points;

·         % of journeys to school by car as only pupil;

·         Levels of cycling at representative counting points.

 

Contributory Outputs

 

·         % of schools with adopted school travel plans;

·         % of major employers (>250) with workplace travel plans.

 

2.         What progress have the City and County Authorities made on a joint project, referred to last January, for a smart card system for the effective management of concessionary fare usage within Leicester and Leicestershire; for use with individual bus companies; and an inter-operator smart card system, similar to the Oyster cards used in London?

 

3.         Would the Chairman give an update on the Leicester and Leicestershire Integrated Transport Model development and, in particular, what traffic systems it is currently capable of modeling, what it is proposed to model and how it can contribute to LTP3?”

 

 

The Chairman replied as follows:-

 

“1.        The answer to the question is enclosed in the table below and recorded per performance indicator (PI):

PI Ref	PI Description	2005/06 Baseline (unless stated)	2009/10 Actual	2010/11 Estimate (Q2)	2010/11 Target	Notes
LTP 1	Person journey time per mile on key routes in urban Central Leicestershire (minutes & seconds)	4m 21s (2004/05)	N/A	N/A	4m 37s	2009/10 result is expected December 2010
LTP 2	Time lost per vehicle km 07:00-10:00 in Loughborough (seconds)	34.3 secs (2005)	N/A	N/A	43.0 (2010)	Results are not yet available for 2008 onwards.  Work is ongoing to convert data to meet DfT guidelines following a change in the traffic data collection agent
LTP 3	Bus passenger journeys (boardings) per year (millions)	15.04m	16.09m	15.70m (Q1)	16.59m
LTP 4	% of all residents satisfied with local bus services (various surveys)	60% (MORI Survey)	57% (Joint survey)	N/A	55%	The PLACE survey has been postponed by the new Government. Please note results are from different surveys making direct comparison unreliable
LTP 5	% of all residents satisfied with public transport information (various surveys)	51% (MORI Survey)	51% (Joint survey)	N/A	45%	The PLACE survey has been postponed by the new Government. Please note results are from different surveys making direct comparison unreliable
LTP 6	% of buses between 1 min early and 5 mins late departing at the start of bus routes	72.4% (2006/07)	76.7%	N/A	85.0%	Reported annually - no estimate available
LTP 7	% of buses between 1 min early and 5 mins late departing at intermediate timing points	64.8% (2006/07)	68.2%	N/A	75.0%	Reported annually - no estimate available
LTP 8	% of buses between 1 min early and 5 mins late departing bus stops between timing points	-	-	-	-	Please note this PI was deleted from the PI set following the LTP Progress Report in 2008
LTP 9	% of journeys to school by car as only pupil	26.2% (2006/07)	23.5%	23.1%	23.0%
LTP 10	Levels of cycling at representative counting points (Index) (Calendar year)	102.6 (2005)	116.1 (2009)	N/A	118.0 (2010)	Reported annually - no estimate available
LTP 12	% of major employers (>250 people) with workplace travel plans (WTPs)	26%	47%	49%	50%
(LTP 11)	% of schools with adopted School Travel Plans (STPs) (School No's 2010/11 = 310)	38.5%	80.0%	87.0%	90.0%	Please note this PI was removed from the PI set following the LTP Progress Report in 2008 but is monitored as a local performance indicator

 

2.                  Leicester City Council is leading the Smart Ticketing project supported by a government grant of up to £2.2m spread over the 2009/10 and 2010/11 financial years.

Grants totalling £1.9m have been made to date and cover the provision of the following:

 

·        Upgraded ticket machines for all bus companies in central Leicestershire to allow reading of smart passes and tickets;

·        Delivery of a HOPS (Host Operator Processing System) to record smart pass and ticket use;

·        Purchase of smart ticket stocks;

·        Back office hardware and software for bus companies.

 

The project will be rolled out over the next 3 years with the capacity to read all smart concessionary fare passes in central Leicestershire scheduled for April 2011 and wider roll out of smart tickets for 2012/13.

 

3.                                                      The Leicester and Leicestershire Integrated Transport Model (LLITM) is a land-use and transport interaction model. It deals with forecasting not only transport policy effects but also those of land-use changes and how both transport and land-uses interact. It is capable of modelling:

·        Private transport impacts (car, lgv, hgv, walking and cycling) across seven purposes, three income bands for car divers, four time periods as demand for travel varies by purpose, income and time of day;

·        Public transport effects (bus and rail; new modes light rail, mixed modes – P&R);

·        Forecast of travel demand choices by destination, mode, frequency, time of day, purpose – commuting, education, shopping, employer’s business, non-home based, by income over a 24 hour day;

·        Parking module for Loughborough and Leicester (extendable to other towns) for testing demand management policies;

·        Land-use model forecasting - land-use changes on transport, changes in  economic growth by industry type, changes in demand for education, migration of households from area to area by socio-economic type, retired, children, employed/unemployed, changes in population,  best location for employment and housing location;

·        Environmental impacts of land-uses and transport, associated noise and population affected, accident analysis; air quality - co2, Co, PM10 etc;

·        Value for money appraisal – economic analysis.

 

LLITM is due for delivery this month and a framework for its operation effective from the 1 November. It is a one-stop modelling system that will take LTP3 strategies from option sifting, to detailed modelling of the preferred option right down to its full appraisal across all the key appraisal headings (Accessibility, Economic Growth, Quality of Life, Congestion, Environment, Acceptability, Integration including value for money and Wider Economic Benefits – agglomeration, productivity).

 

It is proposed to model:

·        District housing allocations and core strategies (eg. the Lubbesthorpe proposal);

·        Leicester City Centre Bus Management Scheme;

·        A range of schemes and strategies in the core scenarios for 2016/2026;

·        Developer proposals;

·        LTP3 implementation plan;

·        Network management duties;

·        A retest of the PUA wide study done in PTOLEMY (halfway house in the absence of a comprehensive tool);

·        MIRA –if promoters are willing to pay for it;

·        Monitoring of network conditions over time in terms of congestion and identifying bottlenecks in the system and test of affordable solutions;

·        Future policies as they come along.”