Integrated Public Transport Strategy - Worcestershire County Council

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iii) Community Transport has 5,000 regular users,
Kickstart has 171 users.
10) To improve access for people with mobility
difficulties and seek to provide social inclusion.
i) To introduce 4 low floor buses by the end of the
Plan Period.
ii) To ensure that all new signal crossing points
within the City have both tactile paving and rotating
tactile cones where appropriate.
iii) To increase the awareness of initiatives such as
community transport and Kickstart.
iii) Passenger Transport Unit, Kickstart database of
Users
ii) All signal crossing points within the City have
tactile paving and rotating tactile cones/audible
signals.
ii) Traffic Signal Team
i) Bus Quality Partnership - annual review
i) Currently no low floor buses access the City
Centre.
ii) See school travel plan monitoring
9) To ensure that people and goods can gain
access to existing and potential employment,
education, shopping and leisure facilities by
appropriate means.
i) To encourage up to 5 major employers in the
County per year, to adopt some aspect of an
Employers’ Travel Plan, with a requirement that car
numbers are reduced to 10% less than existing.
(BVPIJ 1)
i) Sustainable Transport Unit/School Travel Plans i) At present 3 employers in the County are
developing an Employers Travel Plan, all 3 of these
are located within the City boundary. There are
103 major employers in Worcestershire.
8) To improve the attractiveness and convenience
of public transport, cycling and walking.
i) To increase the mode share of bus and rail
patronage into the City in the AM peak to 26% &
8.6% respectively by 2005. (BVPIP 1, BVPIP 4)
ii) To increase cycling to 2.8% of mode split by
2005 and 5.1% by 2011. (BVPIC 4)
iii) To increase walking to 12% by 2005
iv) To introduce 2 further park and ride schemes by
the end of the Plan Period.
iii) As i) above
iv) Sustainable Transport Unit
iii) Walking 10% in 1999
iv) Worcestershire’s first Park and Ride site is due
to open in 2001.
ii) As i) above
ii) Cycling 1.7% in 1999
i) Worcester City Annual Monitoring Dataπ
i) Bus - 20% (1,975), Rail - 8% (786) in 1999
7) To reduce the need to travel in the longer term,
by the co-ordination of land use planning with
transport.
i) To ensure that all new major developments are
situated in a location that encourages sustainable
travel by bus, cycle and walk.
ii) To ensure that all new major developments
progress a Green Transport Plan as part of any
Planning Application. (BVPIJ 1)
iii) To encourage the use of ‘tele-working’.
iii) Chamber of Commerce statistics/2001 National
Census Information.
iii) Awaiting the 2001 Census results
ii) Planning Approvals Records
ii) None
i) Sustainable Transport Unit
i) None
iii) To maintain the proportion of car journeys into
the City in 2005 at 1997 levels.
iii) Worcester City Annual Monitoring Dataπ
iii) 1997 - 4175 (42%)
1999 - 4151 (42%)
6) (continued)
ii) To retain or increase the high number of visitors
to the City.
ii) Heart of England Tourist Board 3 yearly
Economic Impact Assessment.
ii) Tourist attraction figures for the City are 2.5M in
1998 an increase of 78% over 1995.
Objective
Target (Performance Indicator) Source of Data Base Information
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