Winchester Movement and Access Plan - IAPSC

Winchester Movement and Access Plan
Nick Richardson
Principal Transport Planner
Hampshire County Council

Hampshire Local Transport Plan
2001-2006
• Includes ten integrated transport
strategy areas
• Five year investment programme
(indicative £65 million awarded for
integrated transport schemes)
• Centre of Excellence in Integrated
Transport Planning

LTP and Air Quality
• Co-ordination and partnership with other
local authorities, the Meteorological Office,
environmental agencies, health authorities
and scientific experts
• Builds on integrated transport strategies and
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Quality
Working Party pilot review and assessment

Road Traffic Reduction Act 1997
• Reviews existing and forecast
levels of traffic on local roads
and sets targets for reducing the
level of local traffic or the rate
of growth
• Targets are an integral part of
the local transport plan
• Targets agreed for each
integrated transport strategy
area

LTP overarching objectives
❧Integration
❧Environment
❧Safety
❧Accessibility
❧Economy

Winchester Movement and
Access Plan (WMAP)
• Covers urban area of
Winchester
• Historic city centre
• 35,000 population
• Commercial centre
• Transport strategy developed
over ten years
• Clear Zone ‘Trailblazer’

WMAP
• Deals with modern demands for
movement overlaid on a 9 th
Century street pattern
• Holistic approach
• Partnerships and involvement of a
wide range of stakeholders

‘A liveable, accessible and lively urban centre where
traffic congestion, pollution, noise, stress and
other negative impacts of mobility are eliminated
or limited, through the implementation of a
package of transport related measures using
innovative technologies.’

Aims
To make Winchester a pleasant place in which
to live and work and to visit, a place where
people matter and have priority and where
the local economy is strong and buoyant

WMAP aims to…
• Reduce the impact of traffic on the
environment
❧Reduce traffic accidents and the
severity of accidents
❧Reduce air pollution, noise and
vibration
❧Reduce the visual intrusion of traffic

Objectives
• To provide pleasant pedestrian
areas
• To reduce traffic in the central area
with Park and Ride
• To improve public transport
• To reduce traffic speeds, accidents
and manage demand
• To encourage cycling
• To provide information to travellers

Achievements
• Real time air quality display units
• Controlled parking and decriminalised regime
• Park and Ride to the south
• Green travel plans
• Reallocation of road space
• Improved public transport
• Real time information for bus users
• Cycle schemes
• Pedestrian improvements
• Freight Forum

Strategy Impact
• Overall traffic levels reduced 7% between
1993 and 2000
• Bus and rail use increased
• Air quality compliance with national
standards
• Encouraging level of trade activity

Transport Awareness
Headstart
Community
Involvement
Programme

Targets
• Hampshire target to halve the rate of traffic
growth by 2020
• To reduce traffic in Winchester by 20%
• To achieve the objectives in the National Air
Quality Strategy
• To increase public transport use by 50% by 2020
• To increase walking by 40%
• To reduce road accident casualty rates
• To quadruple cycle use

Key Proposals
• Additional Park and Ride capacity to achieve city
centre traffic reductions
• Public transport
promotion
• Improved pedestrian
access: Clear Zone
• Cycling measures

Air Quality Monitoring
• Real time public information
system
• Measures ‘hot spot’ and
background pollution levels
• Integrated with Hampshire and
Isle of Wight Air Quality
Network
• Results used in Air Quality
Review and Assessment
• Support for ‘green fleet’
initiatives

Winchester Air
Quality Issues
• M3 to the east of
Winchester
(Twyford Down
c.100,000 vehicles per day)
• A34(T) to the north of
Winchester
(c.45,000 vehicles per day)

Forecasting Air Quality
Three pollutants investigated following Stage One
Review and Assessment Pollutant Specific Advice
• carbon monoxide CO
• nitrogen dioxide NO 2
• fine particles PM10

Forecasting Air Quality
• Hampshire air quality model in partnership
with The Met Office
• Enabling informed travel choice
• Traffic emissions database with National
Emissions Inventory
• Dissemination strategy

Air Quality Position
• Predicted compliance with air quality
standards will be achieved throughout
Winchester District
• No air quality management areas to be
declared
• Formal assessment in 2003
• Further real time public information
displays and internet access planned

The Future
• Further measures to reduce the impact of
car traffic
• Investment in walking, cycling and public
transport schemes
• Continued participation of local people
• Environmental improvement

ltp@hants.gov.uk