Integrated Public Transport Strategy - Worcestershire County Council

ii) To ensure that 100% of new developments with
significant employment, progress a Employers
Travel Plan as part of any Planning Application,
with a requirement that car use is reduced to 10%
less than predicted. (BVPIJ 1)
ii) Planning Approvals records
ii) None
9) To encourage public transport use through
Employers Travel Plans and School Travel Plans
i) To encourage up to 5 major employers per year
to adopt some aspect of Employers’ Travel Plans.
With a requirement that car numbers are reduced
to 10% less than existing. (BVPIJ 1)
i) Sustainable Transport Unit
i) At present 3 employers in the County are
developing an Employers’ Travel Plan. There are
103 major employers in Worcestershire
8) To promote public transport through land use
planning.
i) To ensure that all new residential developments
provide a bus service within 400m of residents and
gradually increase the number of existing residents
that have access to a service within 400m.
i) Annual service review and user survey. i) No. of residents within 400m of a Bus service 50
- 70%
ii) To introduce a further 10 low floor buses
ii) As i) above
ii) Currently 7 low floor buses access
Worcestershire.
7) To maximise the accessibility of the public
transport network and in particular seek to provide
for vulnerable users such as the elderly and the
mobility impaired (including people with
pushchairs) can easily access services.
i) 100% of residents to have access to 1 bus/week
by 2002
x% of residents to have access to 1 bus/day
by 2005
y% of residents to have access to & from
work opportunities by 2010.
(targets to be established once base data has
been collected).
i) Passenger Transport Unit
i) Surveys of accessibility to bus to be carried out.
iii) To increase awareness of initiatives like
community transport and kickstart.
iii) Passenger Transport Unit, Kickstart database of
users.
iii) Community Transport has 5,000 regular users,
Kickstart has 171 users
ii) 100% of residents to have access to 1 bus/week
by 2002
x% of residents to have access to 1 bus/day
by 2005
y% of residents to have access to & from
work opportunities by 2010.
(targets to be established once base data has
been collected).
6) To ensure that the transport needs of those
without access to a car are identified and seek to
meet them where possible.
ii) Passenger Transport Unit
ii) Surveys of accessibility to bus to be carried out.
i) To be determined in proposed network review.
i) Annual Parish Review.
i) None
Objective
Target (Performance Indicator) Source of Data Base Information
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