1. Sarah Fish, Senior Consultant, Atkins
Smart moves: What should be considered when designing safe, useable urban townscapes?
Sarah Fish, Senior Consultant, Atkins
20 September 2018

2. Learning from our experiences - snapshots
Birmingham Connected Freight Strategy
Manchester City Centre Freight Strategy
Gloucestershire County Council Local Transport Plan
The common thread? – Placemaking and freight in a sustainable urban mobility context
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3. The vision of the SUMP approach – placemaking not transport on its own
town or neighbourhood

4. Logistics and Servicing needs – v- places for people
Use a sustainable urban mobility planning framework to help sort out priorities about how space should be used
Look at a balance of physical, operational and behavioural solutions
Ensure that consultation and engagement on solutions maintains its balance
Use audits and other helpful ‘place’ tools to establish ‘places for people’ rather than ‘places for transport’
Ensure that the full spectrum of ‘freight’ is understood by all parties
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5. The Birmingham BMAP story
Review of existing key data – road safety statistics, journey time, freight ‘mix’, freight trends etc
Split up the network into 5 main types
City centre environment within Ring Road
Key arterials to BCC boundary
Strategic arterials to Birmingham motorway box – M6/M5/M42
Linear communities (primary shopping centres) straddling the key radials
Local / district centres and residential areas
Menu of interventions developed split into Physical, Operational and Behavioural groups

6. Looking at community impact of freight

7. Fixed space with flexible solutions

8. The Manchester Approach
Developed families of interventions/ focus for the strategy
Highlights required actions and potential benefits with known dependencies
Workshop 1: Develop menu of measures (long list of interventions)
Workshop 2: Score long list of interventions
Focused ‘short-list’ of interventions
Assessment of short-list interventions
Validation of interventions against benchmarking/ best-practise
Recommendations
Scoring:
Timescales
Four Rs: reduce, re-mode, re-time, re-route
Industry Coverage
Review against Draft Outcomes
Business Impact
Deliverability
Assessment:
Interactions with other workstreams
Delivery timescales
Risk to delivery
Status with TfGM
Aligning with the GM Freight Strategy
Further alignment with the Northern Powerhouse Freight Strategy and messages from CILT/Atkins Highways England research
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9. Developing the Families of Interventions
Manchester City Centre Freight Strategy
1. Public realm and better space management
2. Scheduling and retiming
3. Communications and behaviour
4. Sustainable procurement and distribution practice
5. Consolidation and interception
6. Green cargo and reducing emissions
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10. Menu of Measures (Long list of interventions)
The diagram provides an appreciation of the scoring. 44 interventions were discussed and reviewed at the workshop.
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11. Public Realm and Better Space Management
Intervention
Category
Type
Delivery
Risk to Deliver
Status with TfGM
Synergies (+) or Conflicts
(-) with other workstreams
Online bookable systems for on-street loading facilities
Loading facilities O
5-10yrs (by 2025)
4+ 6+
Provide loading areas to reduce pavement parking P
0-5yrs (by 2020) 3+
Use of loading bays during day time/ pay and display bays at other times 6+
Provision of more off-street loading/servicing facilities within the city centre (standard for new development) 5+
Context and Vision
Public Transport Connectivity (bus, metrolink, rail, rapid transit capacity and coverage)
Permeability, walking and cycling
Highways (access to premises and management of city centre highways)
Future Development planning principles
Intelligent mobility interventions

12. ‘Connecting Places’ - the Gloucestershire corridors approach

13. Understanding the Gloucestershire toolbox
Don’t mind
Not workable, unrealistic proposition
Will work, really keen to see happen
Defined as initiatives rather than schemes – physical, operational, behavioural

14. Key freight and place corridor – Tewkesbury/A46 route

15. Bringing it all together

16. The people challenge
Different ‘feel’ of towns and cities in terms of attitudes and placemaking
Cultural and political attitudes
How far will people understand and believe in the ‘physical-operational-behavioural’ balance for their city
Thinking of transport plans as plans for people with transport as a means to an end

17. Thank You Sarah Fish sarah.fish@atkinsglobal.com 07812 237 461
20 September 2018