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Low Emission Strategies for Local Transport - Building the Case for Action Appendix 1: Low Emission Practice Examples List of practice examples with summary quantified impacts where identified Contents Integration - table of examples of integrating frameworks/mechanisms adopted by councils to support low emission interventions Area Snapshot - overview table of area based interventions, structured to highlight links to the Area wide scenario Sites Snapshot - overview table of area based interventions, structured to highlight links to the planning scenario Fleet Snapshot - overview table of area based interventions, structured to highlight links to the council fleets scenario Area - List of examples of area wide interventions, with summary information (15) Site - List of examples of site based interventions, with summary information (43) Fleet - List of examples of fleet interventions, with summary information (23) (total examples in workbook = 81) 6th April 2011 ` 1 / 15 Integration I-code Authority Intervention Function Notes Ref 1 Liverpool City Region Local Transport Plan Strategic Planning and Delivery High level goal - Reducing emissions from transport to mitigate against climate change and improve local air quality (which will be delivered through our Low Emissions R4 Oversight Strategy): (a) Provide a range of viable low emission travel options, (b) Educate about what travel options are available and when they are most appropriate, (c) Incentivise low emission travel choices, (d) Remove financial barriers to low-emission technologies, (e) Build, maintain and manage the transport network in a way that minimizes emissions. Evidence base includes modelling of impacts on C emissions. 2 Cambridgeshire Air Quality Action Plan Strategic Planning and Delivery Air Quality Action Plan integrated into the Local Transport Plan (LTP2). Proposes a low emission zone for buses and taxis, expansion of road closure programme and 20 mph R13 Oversight speed limits within the central city. Other measures proposed include: proactive stance on land use planning in relation to air quality, continued limitation of parking, full implementation of walking and cycling strategy. 3 York Authority wide Low Emission Strategic Planning and Delivery Aims: (a) Awareness raising, (b) Encouraging uptake of LES at new developments, (c) Reduce emissions from existing building and vehicles through incentives, (d) encourage R14 Strategy Oversight inward investment by providers of low emission technology, fuels and support services. (Note: The Low Emission Strategy for York is currently under development. The aims listed above are not yet Council Policy) 4 Oxfordshire Area Wide Low Emission Strategic Planning and Delivery Oxfordshire County Council is currently producing a Low Emission Strategy for inclusion in the Third Oxfordshire Local Transport Plan 2011-2030. The focus of the strategy is R1.3 Strategy Oversight promoting lower emission vehicles, particularly via proposing a Low Emission Zone for buses in Oxford City, requiring registered local services in the city centre to meet Euro V standards from 1 January 2014. Oxfordshire County Council proposes to ask the Traffic Commissioner to introduce a Traffic Regulation Condition to enforce this; the details will be developed in discussion with stakeholders. 6 South Yorkshire Local Transport Strategic Development and deployment of During 2007 as part of a major change management programme, South Yorkshire LTP Partners established a new management structure based around a Central Strategic Fund R3 Investment Fund Strategic Investment Fund into which the four South Yorkshire Districts and Passenger Transport Executive pooled their capital funding. Partners bid into this fund, with assessment based on fit with LTP transport objectives. This partnership across district boundaries created clearer lines between strategy and delivery. Operational and strategic groups, drawn from across the districts develop business plans, stating aims and objectives for the following year. The approach encourages cooperative working across South Yorkshire, greater transparency and more effective engagement with non transport professionals and stakeholders. The approach has also enabled transport projects to draw on other funding streams to supplement LTP2 allocations. This approach is being continued and developed for LTP3. 7 Liverpool Emission Inventory Provision of strategic information, Information not collated within study - data and assessment 8 Ashton Hayes Low Emission Place Coordinated Action by local people, Ashton Hayes is attempting to become the UK’s first carbon neutral village and since 2006 has successfully reduced its collective carbon emissions by 23%. With over 70% of the R6 groups and organisations village's adults involved in the initial project launch, much of the success of the scheme is attributed to a collective sense of pride and ownership, as well as a growing skills and knowledge base within the community. 7 Mid-Devon Zero/Low Emission Detailed policies/plans See LES Partnership Phase I report Case Study 3 for detailed information (www.lowemissionstrategies.org) - Development 8 York Zero/Low Emission Detailed policies/plans See LES Partnership Phase II, regional group reports for detailed information (www.lowemissionstrategies.org) - Development 9 Sussex Zero/Low Emission Detailed policies/plans See LES Partnership Phase II, regional group reports for detailed information (www.lowemissionstrategies.org) - Development 10 Greenwich Zero/Low Emission Detailed policies/plans See case study in Annexe 3 of LES Partnership guidance: Low Emission Strategies: Using the planning system to reduce transport emissions (www.lowemissionstrategies.org) - Development 11 Thames Gateway Low Emission Regeneration Detailed policies/plans Ebbsfleet Valley is a flagship project in the Thames Gateway regeneration programme. Across the area, 50,000 new jobs and 25,000 new homes are planned over the next 20 R3 Plan years – a large number of which will be in Ebbsfleet Valley. A package of transport interventions were developed combining smaller targeted interventions and wide ranging demand management supported by a high quality public transport network. This included the award-winning Fastrack Rapid Bus Transit – a dedicated bus service across Kent Thameside comprising route A and B. The planning agreement for route A of Fastrack required that the service was fully up and running before any homes were occupied to provide a credible and attractive alternative to the private care for local journeys. Recent surveys indicated that passenger levels have been 50% above expectations and 19% of passengers previously used a car for their trip. 12 Sheffield / South EcoStars Fleet recognition Certification Scheme ECO Stars Fleet Recognition Scheme (Efficient and Cleaner Operations) is a free, voluntary scheme designed to provide recognition, guidance and advice to operators of goods R17 Yorkshire vehicles, buses and coaches across South Yorkshire. The scheme rates individual vehicles and your fleet’s overall road transport operation using star rating criteria, to recognise levels of operational and environmental performance. Each member signing up to the scheme will receive tailormade support to ensure that their fleet is running as efficiently and economically as possible, to help them progress to higher ratings. It is open to operators of all types of commercial vehicles (light goods vehicles, heavy goods vehicles, buses and coaches), across all sectors of activity (own account, hire and reward, private and public sectors, retail, haulage, industrial, parcels, community transport, local registered bus services, longer distance coach services etc) and all sizes. Area Snapshot Type [1], [4] Intervention Case Examples [2] A Personalised Support A1 Travel Smart Campaign Lancashire (A1) A2 Behaviour Change Campaign Sutton (A3) Support for Vehicle B B1 Strategic Car Club development [3] Islington (A8), Edinburgh (A9), Westminster (A10) [3] Share/Rental Schemes B2 Low Emission Car clubs [3] Westminster (A10) [3] C Fleet Transformation C1 Low Emission Zone London (A2), Oxford (A5) C2 Taxi Emissions Strategy London (A4) C3 Quality Bus Partnership Barnsley (A11) D Vehicle Replacement - Subsidy scheme for electric cars Regional - Midlands (A12), also National (A13) Low Emission E E1 Low Emission Infrastructure Investment Midlands Region (A12), London (A14) Infrastructure F User-based charging F1 Congestion Charge London (A15), Manchester proposal (A6) G Mass and Public Transport G1 Major Public Transport Investment No examples collated within this study Notes [1] Classification scheme is (type/intervention) is adapted and developed from: (i) LES Planning Guidance table of measure, (ii) LET (v1.0) typology of planning measures , (iii) LES Partnership planning guidance supplement [2] Case examples are drawn from the draft LES Partnership case studies data base (v1.0) [3] note LES Partnership has sponsored a rapid review of progress and opportunities for car clubs and low emission car clubs (work is ongoing) [4] Additional categories could be incorporated to expand this scheme, for example network optimisation and traffic enforcement (e.g. anti-idling, speed enforcement). Sites Snapshot Type [1] Intervention Case Examples [2] Count [3] Construction phase Beyond scope of this report (refer to 'The London Code' for further information) - - (Dealt with elsewhere) Interventions Ref: The control of dust and emissions from construction and demolition