1. Generating Strategic Options and Exploring Distributional Impacts Final workshop of the DISTILLATE programme Great Minster House, London Tuesday 22 nd January 2008 Peter Jones UCL 1

2. Objectives To develop option generation methods To enhance the range, innovation and quality of options For strategies and schemes

3. Four Option Generation Products StrategiesSchemes ‘Inside’ the box Packages of urban measures [KonSULT] Streetspace main road redesign (Bloxwich) ‘Outside’ the box Accessibility Planning options (Barnsley Dearne) Community space design (Blackpool)

4. Four Option Generation Products StrategiesSchemes ‘Inside’ the box Packages of urban measures [KonSULT] Streetspace main road redesign (Bloxwich) ‘Outside’ the box Accessibility Planning options (Barnsley Dearne) Community space design (Blackpool)

5. KonSULT: Generating Packages of Measures KonSULT is a web based knowledgebase developed at the University of Leeds http://www.konsult.leeds.ac.uk Assesses potential contribution of over 40 transport and land use policy instruments, to achieving a range of objectives/ addressing problems Uses both a first principles assessment and review of case studies Provides information about previous applications of selected instruments

6. KonSULT Developing Option Generation Component The option generation tool has been developed to allow users to interrogate the information within the KonSULT database and develop packages of policy instruments Users define their local circumstances and requirements, and the software then scores instruments in terms of their suitability – in two steps:

7. Step 1 Uses information within KonSULT to assess each policy instrument, based on the criteria supplied by the user. Scores and then ranks each one. Accessible at: http://www.konsult.leeds.ac.uk/new/private/level2/filter.php Step 2 Takes data from Step 1 and adds information on synergy or barriers to create potential packages of pairs of instruments. Add on available from c.e.kelly@its.leeds.ac.ukc.e.kelly@its.leeds.ac.uk

8. Input Criteria for Step 1

9. Example Output Step 1

10. Step 2 (Packages).xls spreadsheet model Uses output from step 1 Individual can select / unselect the indicators to be included in packages It creates a ranking of pairs of indicators using the combined score of the two policy instruments from step 1 and then modifies this score using either the synergy or barrier matrices

11. Example Output Step 2

12. Accessibility Planning Options Development of several techniques: To assist with problem diagnosis as well as option identification Some designed for use with local residents Others designed for application by sector professionals Includes consideration of distributional impacts

13. Resident Discussion Groups: Existing Access Patterns

14. Resident Discussion Groups: Exploring Options

15. Professional Workshops: Investigating Spatial Strategies

16. Professional Workshops: Developing solutions to access problems

17. Defining Type of Service Provision

18. General Problems Relating to Residential Location

19. Solutions: Known Options

20. Solutions: More Open Options  Re-DEFINE types of services provided? –Align more closely to customer needs  Re-LOCATE points of service delivery? –Become closer to customers/users  Re-TIME patterns of service delivery? –Align with customer timing needs  Re-FRESH services? –To improve quality  CO-OPERATE with other agencies? –‘Joined-up’, seamless service delivery, for better efficiency and effectiveness

21. Distributional Impacts For different groups of people For different residential locations/public transport service patterns For different sector agencies

22. Constraints: Older People

23. Constraints: Young Families

24. Problems Relating to Location: Public Transport Timings

25. Distributional Impacts: Agencies Sectors work to tightly drawn targets, or profit seeking criteria Efficiency savings are sometimes based on externalising internal costs So, changes in service delivery patterns in one sector can have (negative) impacts on others

26. Cross-sector Impacts

27. Questions? Contact Professor Peter Jones Centre for Transport Studies, UCL peter.jones@ucl.ac.uk Tel: 020 7679 0478 www.distillate.ac.uk