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Transport for London Surface Transport Leon Daniels Managing Director 19 th September 2013

Transport for London Surface Transport Leon Daniels Managing Director 19 th September 2013. London – key statistics. 8.2m residents 30m visitors each year 4.2m jobs 3.3m homes 21% of UK total output / 13% population 395,000 businesses. Key Responsibilities.

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Transport for London Surface Transport Leon Daniels Managing Director 19 th September 2013

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  1. Transport for London Surface Transport Leon Daniels Managing Director 19th September 2013

  2. London – key statistics • 8.2m residents • 30m visitors each year • 4.2m jobs • 3.3m homes • 21% of UK total output / 13% population • 395,000 businesses

  3. Key Responsibilities • Maintaining and enhancing a reliable, accessible and high quality Bus, Tube and Rail network • Ensuring reliable operation of London's road network while reducing congestion • Enabling more people to cycle & walk, more safely, more often • Improving road safety and reducing casualties • Maximising the potential for London's rivers • Supporting more sustainable patterns of freight delivery & servicing • Supporting provision of door-to-door transport services • Delivering improvements in London's air quality and reducing CO2 emissions

  4. About 24 million trips are made each day to, from and within London • Every weekday in Greater London: • 11 million car / motorcycle trips • 6 million on foot • 6 million journeys are made on London’s buses • 3.5 million on the Tube • 2.1million by national rail • 0.5 million by bicycle • 0.2 million by taxi

  5. London is growing...every five years, one million more trips / day • By 2031, London’s population is forecast to grow by 1.25 million from 2010 • Employment is forecast to increase by 750,000 jobs • Increased trips (from 2008 base): • 15% total • 30% public transport

  6. MTS mode share target 2000 Cycling 1% Walking 24% Public transport 28% Private motorised transport 47% 2006 Cycling 2% Walking 24% Public Transport 31% Private motorised Transport 43% 2031 Cycling 5% Walking 25% Public Transport 34% Private motorised Transport 37% 22.6m Trips per day 24m Trips per day 27m Trips per day

  7. Tube and Rail Network • Used by over 1.2 billion people in 2012 - 64 million more passenger journeys than the previous year • 270 Tube and 83 Overground stations served • During the three-hour morning peak, London's busiest Tube station is Waterloo, with 57,000 people entering - 82 million passengers a year. • Deepest lift shaft: Hampstead - 55.2m/181ft • Length of tube network: 249 miles • 114,500 miles travelled by each Tube train each year • 4134 carriages make up 47 miles of trains

  8. London Underground’s core performance 2003 2012 Change Journeys 948m 1.2bn Journeys +26% Train kms 76m Train km +12% 68m Customer Satisfaction 76 83 CSS +7 LCH -54% 24m LCH 52m LCH Reliability 2003 data refers to 2003/04 financial year 2012 data refers to either YTD or 2012 calendar year

  9. Road Network and Management • 9,200 miles of all roads • 678 miles of Strategic roads • 363 miles of Transport for London Road Network • Responsibility for the maintenance, management and operation of; • London Streets Traffic Control Centre (LSTCC) – a 24/7, 365 day a year operation • 6000 sets of traffic signals, over half directly controllable from LSTCC • Some of the most sophisticated traffic signals technology in the world • Over 1400 CCTV Cameras • 140 roadside variable message signs

  10. Central London Congestion Charging Zone

  11. Impacts of the Congestion Charge Reduction in traffic in the zone around 20% but other benefits include: • Economy • Broadly neutral impact overall on business • Environment • Congestion Charging directly responsible for reductions of traffic emissions inside Zone equating to 8% of NOx, 7% of PM10 and 16% of CO2 • Road safety • Reduced numbers of cars have led to less personal injury road accidents in the central zone • Net revenues • In 2011/12 Congestion Charging raised £132 million to be spent on other transport initiatives within London • £1bn revenue has been generated since Scheme Go Live

  12. Traffic management solutions developed for the Olympics • Creation of Olympic Route Network (ORN) : 109 miles long with 30 miles of Games Lanes • Use of Active Traffic Management (ATM) to manage traffic in ‘Real Time’ • Use of Travel Demand Management (TDM) measures to reduce peak time demand at key locations at certain times

  13. ACTIVE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT & OLYMPIC ROUTE NETWORK ATM SCOOT intelligent traffic control technology to retimed and rephase traffic signals to balance needs of Games Family movements with general road users Dynamic management of the road network in the event of unplanned activities or emergencies Moratorium on roadworks on the ORN and strategic roads to ensure a smooth traffic flow ORN : Traffic Measures included Banned Turns Removal of some parking and loading bays and Pedestrian crossings Provision of Games Lanes on one third of the ORN or 0.3% or London’s Road Network

  14. Success of TDM • Approach • Optimise the use of the transport networks • Short term behaviour change • Two audiences: regular travellers, including businesses and spectators • Works alongside operational measures such as Central London Zone, the ORN and the last mile • Result • One third of Londoners reported a change to their weekday daily travel during the Games • Helped to avert severe crowding and support a great London 2012 • Morning peak traffic in central London down by 16 per cent during the Olympic Games and 10 per cent during the Paralympic Games

  15. Bus Network • One of the largest and most comprehensive urban bus systems in the world • Over 7,600 London buses carry over 6.5m passengers on 675 different routes each weekday (over 2 billion passengers/year) • More than 94 per cent of Londoners live within 400 metres of one of the 19,500 bus stops in the Capital. • Contribution to improving air quality with the New Bus for London, hybrid buses and NOx-reducing technology. Over 520 hybrid buses are now in service, focused on routes running in air-quality priority areas. • Network reliability is at best-ever levels, delivered through a system of route-level Quality Incentive Contracts. Each route’s contract is tendered every five years.

  16. Cycling Cycle Hire • Launched in Central London • East and west expansions • Cycle Hire numbers: • 180,000 members • 19.2 million hires since start • 560 docking stations • c.8,000 bikes • Record for daily hires is 47,000 Cycle Superhighways • 173% increase in cycling • 2% mode share • 570,000 cycle trips per day • Aim to increase by 400% by 2026 • Cycle safety programme

  17. Freight • 281,000 freight journeys a day: c.290,000 businesses and 8.2m residents • 16% of London’s traffic (3% HGV, 13% vans) • 24% of CO2 from road transport • 89% (by weight) moved by road • 5% of London’s employment • Regulations and enforcement • Fleet Operators Recognition Scheme

  18. Taxi and Private Hire Responsible for the licensing of taxi and private hire services in London • 22,157 licensed taxis (black cabs) • 25,424 licensed taxi drivers • 60,000 licensed private hire drivers • 50,000 licensed private hire vehicles in London. On an average day, London's taxis will: • Make just under 200,000 journeys • Carry just under 300,000 passengers (an average of 1.48 passengers per taxi) • Travel 3.2 miles per trip per taxi

  19. Crossrail • Due to start operating in 2018 • 73 miles of new railway linking 3 counties via London • 13 miles of twin-bore tunnels under central London • Serving 37 stations • 24 trains per hour will increase London's rail-based transport network capacity by 10 % • An estimated 200 million people will travel on Crossrail each year • Europe’s biggest construction project

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