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“All Change”. Andrew Morgan Skills and Communities Director. Accessibility & Access to Jobs All Change The DfT’s Delivering a Sustainable Transport System (DaSTS) agenda challenging the way we all approach Transport Understanding emda’s Transport role Reflections. Rural districts.
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“All Change” Andrew Morgan Skills and Communities Director
Accessibility & Access to Jobs • All Change • The DfT’s Delivering a Sustainable Transport System (DaSTS) agenda challenging the way we all approach Transport • Understanding emda’s Transport role • Reflections
Accessibility & Access to Jobs • Employment is the single most effective means of tackling poverty and economic exclusion. • Accessibility to key services & opportunities, including jobs and training, is vital to the functioning of sustainable communities of all sizes. • RES: • Productivity • Sustainability • Equality
All Change • Shrinking budgets. • Climate Change. • Digital Britain.
Impact of Climate Change on the policy agenda(DaSTS: challenging the way we approach Transport ) • Priority to 2014: • making better use of the existing transport network. • targeted programme of improvements to improve capacity, reliability and safety in the most congested areas. • Post 2014 represents a fundamental change: • Reviewing the evidence and understanding the challenge; • Identifying a wide range of interventions to mitigate the challenge; • Comparing options, and identifying possible packages; • Appraising the most promising options and packages to arrive at the preferred solution.
Understanding emda’s Transport role • Inputting into Regional Transport Strategy – mini review • Joint working with partners on Regional Funding Allocation & DaSTS • Commissioning Research, for example: • Three Cities Studies • Ecotec Transport Interchanges • Railfreight & Waterways Studies • CO2 Demonstrator Projects • New Rail Stations at Corby & East Midlands Parkway • High Speed Rail
Reflections… • Economic development and carbon reduction? • Digital Britain and travel?