Vision 21 / Gloucester City Council Climate Change Conference - Grid-locked Britain?

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Vision 21 / Gloucester City Council Climate
Change Conference -Grid-locked Britain?

• Graham Stanley - Vision 21
• 28th June 2007

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A few facts figures...

• Traffic congestion costs the UK economy more than
  20,000m each year. In Gloucestershire, thats
  200m p.a. ( 350 each 1 per day)!
• Transport-related problems (parking, traffic
  jams, accidents) adversely affect the
  profitability of 80 of our businesses.
• Traffic continues to grow by 2.5 annually.
• though its only 1.5 in Gloucestershire
• Were now driving further to work. The average
  daily commute is 14 miles, compared with 8 miles
  in 1997...

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A few facts figures...

• 3,200 people are killed on our roads each year.
• thats 9 per day (and proportionately more
  youngsters).
• RTAs kill more under-25 men than anything else.
• our share should be 32 - but (at 58) its
  nearly double.
• Financial cost of RTAs (KSI) is more than 100m.
• Transport produces over 30 of our CO2 emissions.
• Weve just had the hottest, driest April ever -
  followed by the wettest-ever June!
• Gloucestershires air quality is the UKs 9th
  worst.

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But its not all bad news...

• The transport industry employs around 6,500
  people within Gloucestershire
• 4,900 in road-transport.
• Nearly 1,000 in logistics and warehousing.
• 600 in public transport (rail, buses, taxis).
• 16 in water transport.
• plus another 20,000 indirectly.
• Transport-related activities generate more than
  195m annually for the local economy.

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How will I know if my transport is
sustainable
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• Is this mode of transport and/or method of
  accessing services something which
• we could continue to do for the next 30 years?
• we would want to do for the next 30 years?

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Enough about the problems -Give me solutions!

• Company Travel Plans.
• Dont drive 1 in 5 (GCC)
• 20 less traffic.
• The school run. 15 more traffic, 50
  journey-times.
• Gold Cup week 20 more traffic 100 longer
  journeys.
• 40 reduction in journey times.
• Reduced stress for employees.
• Fewer car-parking spaces required (6,000 plus
  600 p.a.).
• Ashchurch/Tewkesbury Business Parks. 138
  businesses, nearly 1,000 staff. MAIDeN
  data-mapping (GCC).

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Enough about the problems -Give me solutions!

• Cycling.
• Walking.
• Public-transport trains and buses ( priority).
• Park Ride schemes (Waterwells, Oxstalls).
• Car-sharing schemes.
• Community Car Clubs.
• Invest to save.

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Invest to Save(1)...

• If you need a tool and you dont buy it, you end
  up paying for the tool and you still dont have
  it. (Henry Ford)

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Invest to Save(2)...

• Low-Energy Light Bulbs v. Incandescent Light
  Bulbs.
• Cost (LELB) 3. Energy cost (8000 hrs) 15.
  Total 18
• Cost (ILB) 10 x 40p 4. Energy cost (8000 hrs)
  64. Total 68.
• TFT flat panel computer monitors v. CRTs.
• TFT cost 150. Energy cost (5 years, 2000hrs/yr)
  19. Total 169
• CRT cost 50. Energy cost (5 years, 2000hrs/yr)
  143. Total 193 air-con!
• Servicing your car...
• Saves 300 p.a. Costs reduced value when you
  sell it increased risk of breaking down
  reduced performance mpg a total of around 500
  p.a..
• Park Ride 400 cars, 2 miles from town/city
  centre.
• Cost 2m., Savings 200k p.a. Income
  (2.50/car) 250k p.a.
• Company Travel Plan
• Cost 10k. Savings (Organisation Staff) 5k
  3k p.a.

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New ideas?

• Road pricing.
• Carbon rationing.
• Workplace car-parking charges.
• New ways of working ( tax incentives).
• Increased fuel tax!!!
• Other suggestions?

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New ideas?

• Road pricing
• Advantage point-of-sale tax. Direct taxes are
  more effective than indirect taxes (e.g. road
  tax).
• Disadvantages
• Has to be expensive to be effective 5 per mile!
  (GCC Saturn).
• Tends to force traffic from suitable to
  unsuitable roads (M4/A48).
• Tends to extend the rush-hour, creating all-day
  busy roads.
• Complicated! GPS, in-car units,
  softwareunreliable?
• Expensive. Estimated to cost more than 10bn to
  introduce, plus 1bn annually to maintain (
  400 per car 40 pa).
• Unpredictable. Cost of journeys will vary with
  traffic congestion.

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New ideas?

• Road pricing.
• Carbon rationing.
• Attractive as a concept tackles causes rather
  than symptoms distributes resources fairly...
• but a nightmare to administer! Needs to be part
  of a much wider (and properly-thought-out)
  approach to energy use.

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New ideas?

• Road pricing.
• Carbon rationing.
• Workplace car-parking charges.
• Encourages good travel-practice (car-sharing,
  public transport, cycling, walking) if part of a
  travel plan.
• Must be fairly applied, otherwise employers just
  relocate to out-of-town locations (with poor PT).
  
• Can discourage some businesses...

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New ideas?

• Road pricing.
• Carbon rationing.
• Workplace car-parking charges.
• New ways of working ( tax incentives).

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New ideas?

• Road pricing.
• Carbon rationing.
• Workplace car-parking charges.
• New ways of working ( tax incentives).
• Increased fuel tax!!!

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New ideas?

• Road pricing.
• Carbon rationing.
• Workplace car-parking charges.
• New ways of working ( tax incentives).
• Increased fuel tax!!!
• Other suggestions?

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Thats all, folks
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Any Questions?www.vision21.org.ukgraham_at_vision2
1.org.uk
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Linking Transport to the GSPThe LAA Big Five...

• CYP (Children Young People).
• EDE (Economic Dev. Enterprise).
• HCOP (Healthier Communities Older People).
• NBE (Natural Built Environment).
• SSC (Safer Stronger Communities).

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Linking Transport to the GSPCYP (Children
Young People)

• Walk/cycle-to-school initiatives and school
  travel plans.
• Parental choice for selection of secondary
  schools.
• Provision of hub-and-spoke Market Town
  facilities e.g. Nightbus for the night-time
  economy (cinema, clubs).

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Linking Transport to the GSPEDE (Economic Dev.
Enterprise)

• Promotion of local goods services food
  (local food, farmers markets) tourism
• Upgrading of road/rail links.
• New ways of working.
• Creation and stimulation of the low-carbon
  economy.
• A fuel-tax levy (2p?), with the 7.5m revenue
  ring-fenced to support local businesses and
  communities.

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Linking Transport to the GSPHCOP (Healthy
Communities Older People)

• Provision/retention of local facilites
• Post Offices Village shops.
• Libraries.
• Schools.
• Centralisation of medical facilities
• hospitals, maternity hospitals, AE
  departments.
• Doctors Dentists surgeries.
• Chemists shops / pharmacies
• Creation of self-contained retirement villages.
• Choose book hospital appointments system.

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Linking Transport to the GSPNBE (Natural
Built Environment)

• Restoration of derelict canals and surrounding
  areas (linked to use of canals for transporting
  freight).
• Fortnightly refuse collections, alternating with
  fortnightly recycling collections.
• Collection of green (garden) waste from
  households.
• Bio-crops (e.g. willow coppices, bio-diesel,
  bio-ethanol).
• Kerbside recycling (rather than recycling
  points).

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Linking Transport to the GSPSSC (Safer
Stronger Communities).

• Blocked-off footpaths alleyways ? increased car
  use.
• Provision of mixed-use buildings in residential
  areas e.g. for small workshops/start-up
  businesses/community shops.
• Use of school buildings/equipment to provide
  out-of-hours community meeting rooms/ sports
  facilities.
• Creation of neighbourhood offices, with shared
  IT (computers, printers, digital projectors,
  broadband).
• Creation of daytime neighbourhood
  training/learning centres, using broadband IT and
  local mentors.

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Thats all, folks