Bi-monthly Meeting21st November 2013
Get ahead. Travel smarter.
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Agenda1. Welcome, apologies and minutes from 19 Sept
2. Airbus Update
3. Brompton Dock
4. Director’s Report & Updates – Ann O’Driscoll
5. Key Project 1 – Bus to Work Scheme
6. Key Project 2 – Behaviour Change
7. Key Project 3 - DfT Case Study
8. Key Project 4 - Travel to Work Survey 2014/Jambusting
9. LSTF Update
10. Forward Planner
11. AOB
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4. Director’s Report & Updates
• Cribbs Patchway New Neighbourhood (CPNN)
• LSTF National Conference Manchester - Mainstreaming Smarter Travel – 3 & 4 December
• Transport for Greater Manchester Travel Forum – 10 December
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Four Key Projects – next 12 Months
• Key Project 1 - Bus to Work Scheme/Bus Bonus
• Key Project 2 - Behaviour Change
• Key Project 3 - DfT Case Study
• Key Project 4 - Travel to Work Survey/Jam Busting June
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5. Key Project 1 – Bus to Work Scheme/Bus Bonus
North Bristol SusCom document (produced September 2013) has two key asks of Government:
• Allow employers the ability to subsidise bus travel for
staff commuting to work
• Allow employers to operate a Salary Sacrifice
Scheme for bus tickets
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5. Key Project 1 – Bus to Work Scheme/Bus Bonus
• September 2013 Greener Journeys launches Bus
2020: A Manifesto for the next Parliament.
• Three Key Recommendations:– Recommendation 1 - Bus priority – expansion of support
available to local authorities and bus operators for installing
bus lanes and other priority measures– Recommendation 2 - Bus Bonus – tax incentive for
commuters to promote modal shift– Recommendation 3 - Concessions for Apprentices –
discounted travel schemes for young
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5. Key Project 1 – Bus to Work Scheme/Bus Bonus
Key Projects 2-4: timeline
January March June
SES Case Study
Initiation
Jambusting CampaignTravel to
Work Survey
Behaviour Change
Research
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6. Key Project 2 – Behaviour Change
• Aims of the project – RS• ICE Creates delivery update - Richard Forshaw & Ben
Buckby• Discussion, ideas and comments
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7. Key Project 3 – DfT Case Study
• National evaluation of Local Sustainable Transport Fund
• In-depth evaluation in four thematic areas where evidence is weakest
1. Strategic employment sites (SES)
2. Town centres & high streets
3. Carbon impacts and congestion relief
4. Rural economy and tourism
1. Strategic employment sites case study
Strategic Employment Sites and Business Parks
North Fringe and Emersons Green
PortsideMaylands Business Park Hertfordshire
Slough
West of England CouncilsUWE
Hertfordshire County CouncilUniversity of HertfordshireSlough Borough Council
Atkins
7. Key Project 3 – DfT Case Study
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7. Key Project 3 – DfT Case Study
• Looking for 15 businesses to get involved– range of sizes– good geographic spread– public and private sector split– range of sectors– varying levels of engagement in sustainable transport
activity
• Participants need to be able to commit to:– Senior Management Interview x 2– Participation in Travel to Work Surveys – 2014, 2015, 2016– 1 or 2 members of staff involvement in focus groups
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7. Key Project 3 – DfT Case Study
• Benefits to your organisation will include:– Each site will receive a cordon count to measure exactly
how employees are travelling to site on a particular day– Direct access to the research findings– Individual report from the travel survey results
• Benefits to us collectively as SusCom– help demonstrate benefits of LSTF/secure future funding– raise our national profile– measure our impact– influence future spending
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8. Key Project 4 – Travel to Work Survey/ Jambusting
Travel Survey • Broad participation• More robust
• Timescale:
- Before Christmas: make links with comms
- January: pre-promotion
- February: link circulated, promotion
• Ideas for successful promotion?
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8. Key Project 4 – Travel to Work Survey/ Jambusting
Jambusting• Summer 2014• Different scope and product
- More targeted at SOVs
- More appealing
- Prizes at several levels
- Link to current LSTF free offers and support
- Less broad, smaller scope?
What is possible in your business? Ideas?
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9. LSTF Update
Grant Round of 2013/14: January 31st
Sustainable Travel Awards: Bath Guildhall, Thursday 28th, 16.30 – 19.00
January: Reporting & Resources
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10. Forward Planner
16th January 2014 – Friends Life– Key Project Updates– UWE Masterplan including Transport Hub– Rail – updates on investment, infrastructure
20th March 2014 – Bristol & Bath Science Park
15th May 2014
Hosts for 2014 please!
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11. AOB
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