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Sustainable transport

Sustainable transport. Stephen Joseph, Chief Executive Campaign for Better Transport. Campaign for Better Transport. Charitable trust promoting sustainable transport Support from wide range of interests Co-ordinates environmental and other NGOs concerned with transport

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Sustainable transport

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  1. Sustainable transport Stephen Joseph, Chief Executive Campaign for Better Transport

  2. Campaign for Better Transport • Charitable trust promoting sustainable transport • Support from wide range of interests • Co-ordinates environmental and other NGOs concerned with transport • Commissions and publishes research • Conducts public campaigns • Promotes pilot projects and good practice

  3. Case for changing travel behaviour: climate change…

  4. …peak oil…

  5. ..transport is at risk.. Oil based transport is becoming: Dearer generally, with fluctuating prices Subject to supply shocks from weather or politics So the case for changing travel behaviour is based on environment, security and the economy.

  6. …and there are other impacts • Noise • Air quality: still poor • Landscape and biodiversity • Road casualties • Car dependence and lower physical activity • Community severance • Social exclusion

  7. Technology isn’t (all) the answer Technology will help but isn’t the whole answer: Biofuels can create more problems than they solve Electric vehicles are still expensive and face consumer resistance And technology can’t deal with congestion and car dependence

  8. Business has to play its part Mainly single car drivers

  9. Large scale road building won’t solve these problems • It’s not possible to build enough roads for everyone to drive where they like, when they like as fast as they like!

  10. So we need to change travel behaviour – “smarter choices” • Range of measures including: • Travel plans for schools, workplaces, housing developments, stations • Car clubs and lift-sharing • Personalised marketing • Applied in a wide range of places and travel • Shown that travel behaviour can be changed, sometimes radically • Good evidence base, with before and after studies

  11. Workplace travel plans • Combinations of measures to reduce single-occupancy car commuting including: • Car sharing (guaranteed taxi ride home, priority car parking) • Subsidised public transport • Cycle parking/showers/ changing area • Better pedestrian access • Car park management (charges/ priorities) • Paying people not to drive to work • Teleworking/remote working

  12. Car use can be reduced: Sustainable Travel Towns 2004-8 (trips)

  13. And travel behaviour appears to be changing anyway • -Car use has peaked, or at least lessened its increase, and young people are driving less than their parents did • - Rail use is growing, even through the recession

  14. Local Sustainable Transport Fund • Builds on previous work • £600m 2011-15, revenue and capital • Objectives of helping the economy and cutting carbon • 84 small projects (<£5m) • 12 large projects including West Midlands (>£5m)

  15. Wide range of measures funded • Travel plans • Access to employment • Cycling initiatives including bike hire • Bus improvements including area-wide partnerships • Rail upgrades (Stratford Parkway) • Community travel co-ordinators

  16. Where next? • Monitoring and evaluation of LSTF projects • More funding for cycling • Make the case for further LSTF tranches • Public transport oriented development • But danger that cuts in local transport will undermine benefits

  17. Public transport oriented development Link public transport and new development Joint rail/development projects Use developments to fund rail investment Develop rail stations as gateways/hubs Create town-wide transport partnerships “New stations” competition

  18. Economic growth with less traffic Economic growth doesn’t mean more and more roads and cars: Vienna: car use has fallen from 40% - 36%, 30% of journeys are now on foot or bike, 34% public transport Los Angeles: 90% car, 10% rest London: 1993- car 46% public transport 30%; 2010- car 34% public transport 42% Car dependence is bad for those with cars and those without, and for the wider economy

  19. Conclusion • It is possible to change travel behaviour and reduce car use • LSTF is funding a wide range of projects which are learning from each other • Opportunity for West Midlands to be in the forefront of change • Opportunities to integrate travel behaviour measures into other programmes and funding

  20. For more information • Campaign for Better Transport • www.bettertransport.org.uk • stephen.joseph@bettertransport.org.uk • 020 7566 6480

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