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TRAVL Review. TRAVL User Group and Conference. Jane Hills | 28 February 2007. TRAVL User Group. Review of 2006 / 07 Forthcoming 2007 / 08 Your Input. Review of This Year 2006/07. Our Work Over the Last Year. Survey Programme Promotion of the Database User Helpdesk and Training
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TRAVL Review TRAVL User Group and Conference Jane Hills | 28 February 2007
TRAVL User Group • Review of 2006 / 07 • Forthcoming 2007 / 08 • Your Input
Our Work Over the Last Year • Survey Programme • Promotion of the Database • User Helpdesk and Training • TfL Workplace Travel Plan Guidance • TfL Benchmarking Study • Bureau Service • Improving the Database • Seeking Opportunities to Improve
Survey Programme 2006/07 • St George Wharf • Mixed housing, affordable, private • Kew Residential • Mixed housing, affordable, private • East Ham Leisure Centre • Holiday Inn, Stratford • Asda, Wembley • The Colonnades, Croydon, • Leisure Park, Health Club, Hotel, City Limits • Kew Retail Park • Retail Park, M&S, Boots, TK Maxx • MVA Office, Westminster • Pizza Express, Richmond • Backpackers Hostel, Camden • Wandsworth Southside • Shopping Centre, Cinema, Health Club
Promotion of the Database • Presentation to PTRC Annual Conference • Damian Price and Jane Hills, July 06 • Liaison with TfL for Workplace Travel Plan Guidance and iTRACE
Bureau Service • Increased Use of the Bureau Service by several smaller consultancies • Borough Officers and TfL Land Use Planning request use for Transport Assessments
Seeking Opportunities to Improve • Working with • TfL Travel Demand Unit • TfL Freight Unit • Operationally • Data Input and Analysis Upgrade
Software Data Input and Analysis Upgrade • Aims • Enable simpler data input and analysis • More versatile database for continued development • Results • Time Savings • Ability to Design new Reports in Future • Ready to be used on future surveys
Overview • Survey Programme • Travel Plans • Freight – Servicing and Deliveries • Software Delivery • User Questionnaire
Survey Programme 2007/08 1 of 2 • Residential • Osier Crescent, 1st survey in July 2001 revisit • Grand Union Village, Private and Affordable, before Travel Plan Project • Greenwich Millenium Village, Private and Affordable, with Travel Plan (monitoring) • The Chimes Shopping Centre, Uxbridge • Health Centre Thelma Golding, Hounslow • Backpackers Hostel • Construction Sites • Emphasis on Freight
Survey Programme 2007/08 2 of 2 • Land Use Suggestions – Site Suggestions Please! • Construction Sites • Walk In Clinics • Hospitals • Industrial • Nursery Schools • Mini-cab Offices • Faith Schools • Mosques (Fridays) • Other Focuses – Suggestions Needed • Thames Gateway Area • Impact of Olympics – long term – before, during, after
Travel Plan Development • Site and Staff Survey Information • Electronic Download from iTRACE + • Consideration of reporting techniques for TRICS and TRAVL to standardise where possible
Travel Plans – Travel Plan Only Info • Upgrade to Store Travel Plan Only Data • Site and Staff Survey only data • (No Count data) • Increasingly available via iTRACE + • TRAVL ideal facility to hold data for comparative use • Additional to normal TRAVL survey programme and opportunities for full data collection
Travel Plans – Information sharing • Electronic Download from iTRACE+ • Site Management Data – size, parking, travel plan elements • Staff Survey Results – Main, final modes, postcode = distance travelled by mode • Permission / Data Confidentiality to be assured
Travel Plans – Standardisation of Info • TfL commissioned ‘Whitelegg Report’ on TRICS – TRAVL Benchmarking • Positive towards the TRAVL survey methodology and database meeting the needs of London • Recommendations for standardisation • Freight classifications incorporate DfT Transport Statistics Great Britain classifications • Review trip rates • Review travel plan reports, raw data, % difference and/or % change
Freight in TRAVL • Aims: • To collect information to enable assessment of the impact of freight vehicles at particular land uses • Inform Loading Plans / Construction Logistics Plans • Definition of Freight • ‘the physical movement of goods, waste and utilities / servicing vehicles’ • Discussions with TfL Freight Unit (TfL FU) • To establish useful observations • To establish driver questionnaire • How to present the Data
Recording Freight Information • Historically – Arrival and departure observation, (sometimes) vehicle type • Recently added – Purpose – delivery, collection, waste collection
Freight Observation Record • Location Service Yard / On St Legal / On St Illegal / Other • Arrival Time Departure Time • Activity Start Time Activity Finish Time • Trip Purpose Delivery / Collection / Servicing / Waste collection / Other • Vehicle Type • Livery on Cab Livery on Trailer • Country of Registration UK No Plate • Chiller/frozen food storage Y/N • Loading Mechanism Crane/Tail lift/None/Other
Freight Driver Questionnaire • Where was your depot/other starting location today? • Where was your last stop? • Where is your next stop? • How many stops in total are being made today? • How many stops are in London? • Where will you finish today? • What type of goods are being transported? • How are the goods packed? Pallets / Boxes/Crates / Sacks / Loose / Other • Approximate Weight of goods? • Who is your Employer?
Freight Development Programme • Discussions on data collection with TfL FU • Pilot Survey • 16 February 2007 • Wandsworth Southside Shopping Centre • Presentation of Data • Initially coded into text description of Survey Site Additional Information • Freight will have own page and reports • Specification to be developed with TfL
Software Delivery • Appreciate some organisations have problems with internet downloads and even from CD’s • Study to investigate the possibility of TRAVL being Web Based
TRAVL User Questionnaire • Initially Undertaken in 2004 when MVA first took on management of TRAVL • Later in 2007 • Aims to explore: • Ease of use • Range of Surveys • Additional Reports • Use of Information already collected • User Suggestions
Thank You • Any Questions?
Contact us • Name: Jane Hills • Telephone number: 01483 742963 • Email: jhills@mvaconsultancy.com • Office address: • MVA House • Victoria Way • Woking • Surrey • GU21 6DD
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