Transport Recommendations
Transport - Recommendations
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Summary
• Walk more.
• Re-localisation of much economic, social and cultural activity, reducing travel needs.
• Spatial planning that locates homes, workplaces and retail outlets within reach of each other, either by proximity, or along well-served routes.
• Provision of rail/light rail/tram/bus/coach networks wherever large numbers of people move along similar routes;
• Integration of rail, tram, and bus networks (locations and times), making it easy for users to make a journey using combinations of all modes.
• Provision of high quality cycle routes, that have precedence over private motor cars;
• Educational and promotional campaigns to encourage behavioural and attitudinal changes, supporting use of all low-carbon alternatives to private motor cars as the mode of first choice. Disincentivise use of cars where suitable alternatives are available.
There are many specific recommendations that have been suggested in our discussions to date. We hope to consider each of them and organise according to the following factors:
Suggested Factors
1. Level of impact the measure would have on Oxford’s sustainability and resilience.
2. Ease of introduction - how many stakeholders involved, how much support already exists for this measure, what resources would be required.
3. Timescales for winning acceptance and for implementation
4. Key actors and agents – who has the power to introduce ameasure, and whose support is crucial. (eg individuals, campaigning groups, community/neighbourhood groups, City Council, County Council, Specific employers and property owners, Specialised agencies, National Government, EU)
5. Compatibility with other measures that score high on other factors. There are specifically issues of integrating measures that achieve small gains soon and easily, with longer-term aims of major gains, at greater expense.
The ‘raw’ list includes:
School Travel Plans
Educate young in healthy choices
Review school allocation practices, to make travel a bigger factor in school allocations
Work based travel plans including pool vehicles and bicycles
Educate all in choices
Personalised travel planning
Teleworking at home and at local centres
Encourage video-conferencing
Car-free days
Car free zones, eg Queen St
Carfree developments
Encourage car free development at West End and other inner areas,
– possibly through a car-free living association (community group)
Reduction in single occupancy car use through high car parking charges road user charging or workplace parking levy charges
Structured training and testing programmes for cyclists and drivers
Improve information available about walking in oxford
Improve information available about cycling in oxford
Improve information available about public transport in oxford
Increase local ‘ownership’ of residential streets
Web-based lift-sharing schemes
Review and coordinate delivery needs, private and business
Joint ticketing and smart cards for all bus companies within Oxford
Joint ticketing and smart cards for all other bus services
Joint ticketing and smart cards for all train and bus services
Additional orbital bus routes and greater integration between operators
Reconsider location of bus hubs
Light rail/tram network along main City routes
Extend rail network to Abingdon
Extend rail network to Witney
Extend rail network to Wheatley
Extend rail network to Outer Cowley
Improve rail service to Bicester
Consider Kidlington
Improve cycle-carrying capacity of trains and coaches
Give every household a smart card and information on public transport
Free bus travel for under 21s
Improve provision for pedestrians in all areas
Alter controlled crossings to remove unnecessary delay for pedestrians
- Symbolic shift of priority and status.
Improve conditions for cyclists in all areas
Increase and improve routes for cyclists moving from area to area of Oxford
Cycle storage with showers and maintenance facilities
More cycle parking, especially at longer-distance bus stops
Special disabled cycle parking
Cheap and quick cycle roadside repair service (like the AA)
Workplace provision for cyclists (secure dry storage, showers etc)
Cheap and easy power-assisted cycle hire across city (like Paris, but more so)
Ease of ‘piloting’ schemes that may/may not be feasible (eg cycle/personal car hybrids, eg ‘travelators’ in retail centres)
Extend Controlled Parking Zones
Rising charges for all on-street parking
Remote Park and Ride at Wheatley, Milton Interchange, Cowley, Bicester – linked to upgraded regional coach network
Improve facilities at park-and-rides and include other facilities, eg cycle-hire
Improved cycle links to Water Eaton Park and Ride in anticipation of railway station
Greater Support for Car Clubs
Reduce levels of car ownership
Increase density of all urban areas
Encourage appropriate river and canal traffic
Re-locate bus station to train station
Luggage depots
Measure Aim/effects
Carbon rationing
Increase petrol prices
Charges for single occupancy car-use
Increase petrol taxes
road user charging
workplace parking levy
Education relating to transport’s impact as part of National Curriculum
Support technologies that offer zero carbon solutions
Encourage localisation of workplaces, food supplies and goods
Job-swapping to work nearer home
Increase density of edge of town shopping areas and business parks and make mixed use with residential
Explore any remaining opportunities to change planning proposals so can re-consider growth at Water Eaton and further urban intensification
Close Beaumont St, Worcester St and Hythe Bridge St to general traffic
Close Magdalen Bridge to general traffic
Extension of controlled parking zones, with car club spaces incorporated
More stringent control of work place parking linked with travel plans
VIBAT – vision and backcasting model to see which policies are likely to have the most effect
Inform and educate public and players about transport role in climate change
Encourage local authorities, central govt. and universities to do further research into ‘whole life’ CO2 emissions calculations and provide statistics to the public on the true carbon costs of alternatives.
Home Zones / DIY streets
Expansion of Car Clubs, with local authority support to provide an example of good practice, enable socially excluded membership and easier delivery of parking spaces
Pilot community building measures to build capacity for active local democracy
Electrically powered rickshaws
Rickshaws as a taxi service
Rickshaws making local deliveries
Tricycles and rickshaws for mail delivery
Cycle lifts on hills
VIBAT – vision and backcasting model to see which policies are likely to have the most effect, taking into account whole life CO2 emissions
Centre Parcs in Oxfordshire
Air ships
Horses as transport
Ferries on canals and rivers
Have a viral ad competition of anti-car ads by young people eg ‘Drink don’t drive’ and ‘Free the child’
Take annual leave on sunny days
Active democracy with proportional representation and neighbourhood liaison
De-coupling of car parking provision from home ownership
Push local government to train people up to get more involved in local democracy
Create policies which enable easier migration of people and families between communities
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