Mobility Matters Daily #114 - The first edition of transport strategy corner
With added data on COVID-19 compliance once restrictions are lifted
Good day friend.
So it is the day after “Freedom Day.” Already in the last 24 hours I seem to have been invited to more birthday parties than in the entire last 17 months. I just hope that the optimism of the vaccine rollout is not misplaced. If things do go wrong, we can celebrate in the park I guess.
A bit short on content today, but a minor thing like that won’t be stopping me!
James
Welcome to the first edition of Transport Strategy Corner
This is the first of an occasional series where I will bring to your attention some new and interesting transport strategies that have been published recently. I won’t start with the Decarbonisation Plan, you’ve seen that already, but here are a few others you may be interested in:
Leicester City Council published its Draft Transport Plan. A Workplace Parking Levy and more space for cycling features heavily, as does park and ride.
The UK Department for Transport published its Outcome Delivery Plan: 2021 to 2022. Its always interesting to read what is driving the decisions of civil servants.
Transport for the North launched its Decarbonisation Strategy for consultation a few weeks ago, which looks to get to near-zero emissions by 2045.
This has been out for a while now, but the EU’s new Urban Mobility Framework and the roadmap for creating it is interesting reading.
Now this is different. The Volkwagen Group has announced its new business strategy: NEW AUTO. Its nothing less than fundamentally changing the company.
The Asian Development Bank has published its Transport Strategy for the Pacific Region. I like this not just because of the range of issues to be tackled, but because it is a proper strategy. Here is the vision, here the is the current situation, here are our capabilities, and this is our roadmap for achieving the vision. Its great!
Hampshire County Council has published a Waterside Transport Strategy for consultation. Nope, its not about where you can moor boats (actually, it kind of is), but it covers improving transport on the waterside part of the New Forest, facing onto Southampton Water.
Not quite a transport strategy, but SESTRANS (that covers South East Scotland) published a Case for Change report as part of its transport strategy development. I particularly like the options appraisal.
Peninsula Transport, which covers the South West of England, published its vision for transport in the region. Electrification of the Cornish Mainline, maybe?
Stat of the Day
I have to say this, but the Office for National Statistics is so good at publishing data and making it accessible. Its informative and gets right to the nub of things in a clear manner. This data shows that the majority of UK residents will continue to wear face masks in shops, on public transport, and sanitise their hands regularly. But social distancing may soon become a thing of the past.
Source: ONS
If you do nothing else today, do this
Read this article from the Register about how a British Airways aircraft took a knee after an engineer botched a maintenance procedure.