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1. Introduction and contents
1.3 Monitoring the implementation of the Mayor’s Transport
Strategy
At the top level, the long-term transport outcomes sought by the MTS are
monitored through a set of 24 quantitative strategic outcome indicators. These
provide a useful framework for assessing progress ‘at a glance’, and are updated as
appropriate throughout this report. However, these do not cover all aspects of
transport that will be of interest and do not, of themselves, provide a good insight
into topical transport issues or their underlying causes.
It is therefore necessary to take a broader and deeper analytical view of transport
trends and the factors affecting them. This leads to relevant policy insights and
evidence to support the formulation of future transport strategies and plans.
Providing these insights and evidence base is the core role for Travel in London
reports.
This role is given added impetus this year as TfL is likely to need to develop a new
Transport Strategy following the Mayoral elections in May 2016. It is therefore
opportune for this eighth edition of Travel in London to take a more retrospective
view in consolidating trends and developments over the nominal eight-year term of
the current transport strategy so far and setting them, in a broad and nonjudgmental
way, against the expectations set out when the MTS was drafted. In this
way, and taking newer or more recent developments into account, in particular
those relating to the rapid growth of London, a broad evidence base can be
provided to help those framing future strategies.
1.4 Structure and content of this report
This eighth Travel in London report is organised across two sections and 11
chapters. The first nine chapters focus on the Mayor’s six transport goals. The
remaining two are ‘Spotlight’ chapters, which provide an extended analytical focus
on topical issues.
• Travel demand and transport network performance (chapters 2 to 4). This
section assembles and summarises trends and developments in travel demand
and transport network operational performance, including the underlying factors
that influence these, such as population and economic growth. This section
focuses on the first of the Mayor’s six transport priorities – supporting
economic development and population growth – and also provides essential
contextual information.
• Progress with MTS transport goals (chapters 5 to 10). These chapters are
framed around assessing progress towards the wider canvass of MTS transport
goals relating to safety and security, quality of life and the customer experience,
local air quality and CO 2 , transport opportunities, the contribution of transport
to economic development, connectivity, accessibility and diversity and prudent
financial and asset management. This section also updates some key indicators
relating to the legacy of the 2012 Games.
• Chapter 11 is a ‘Spotlight’ chapter focusing on TfL’s London Travel Demand
Survey. LTDS has now completed 10 years of continuous surveys, and it is
therefore appropriate to ‘take stock’ of what has changed, in terms of
Londoners’ travel behaviour, over this decade. The format of the chapter is to
take a range of topical questions and see what LTDS tells us about how things
have actually changed over the decade.
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