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A NEW ERA for URBAN TRANSPORT Pteg Becomes the Urban Transport Group A NEW ERA FOR URBAN TRANSPORT pteg becomes the Urban Transport Group brought to you by 01_UTC_2015_5_4.indd 5 04/01/2016 17:03 Building a better tomorrow, today At Atkins, we work in partnership with our clients to shape the future of transportation. We create and deliver sustainable, innovative solutions to meet tomorrow’s urban transport challenges. www.atkinsglobal.com 03_UTG_2015.indd 2 04/01/2016 17:04 FOREWORD Building a better BUILDING ON SUCCESS tomorrow, today am delighted to provide the foreword able to share its experience on smart ticketing, delivering to this publication marking the investment and, in light of the government’s Buses Bill, newly-named Urban Transport Group. contracting for bus services. At Atkins, we work in partnership with our I Almost ! ve decades have passed since " e Buses Bill is a reminder of how in many ways clients to shape the future of transportation. Parliament voted for the 1968 Transport transport policy has come full circle. " e visionary Act which led to the creation of the Passenger Transport principles of the Transport Act - in which responsibility We create and deliver sustainable, innovative Executives. It is a mark of the Passenger Transport for local transport is handed to regional authorities - is solutions to meet tomorrow’s urban transport Executives’ success in that time that Transport for at the forefront of political thinking today. Devolution of challenges. London has now joined the Urban Transport Group as a power and accountability to local areas, bus franchising full member. " e group’s seven strategic transport bodies and better partnership working, smart ticketing, the will serve upwards of 20 million people - an astonishing drive for greater e$ ciency and a fresh recognition of the number that will no doubt grow still further. value of investing in infrastructure: I hold these ideas One of the most admirable goals of the Urban with greater conviction because of how the PTEs have Transport Group is the pooling of knowledge and already shaped local transport for the better. experience among members. " ere are great di# erences I have no doubt that under its new name and with between the group’s seven strategic transport bodies, an increased membership, the Urban Transport Group but there are even greater similarities, including shared will continue to help shape our transport. For everyone challenges and opportunities. " ey include how to meet who travels on networks managed by ever-growing demand for transport, respond to greater Urban Transport Group members, urban density, tackle pollution and deliver greater safety. that will come as very good news. " e six longest-standing members of the group have a vast wealth of experience that will be readily available to Andrew Jones MP, Transport for London and of great bene! t to London’s Parliamentary Under passengers. Likewise, Transport for London is a world- Secretary of State, leading pioneer in urban transport solutions, and will be Department for Transport CONTENTS 4 If you want to invest in cities, invest in transport, says Dr Jon Lamonte, chair of the Urban Transport Group 6 'The sky's the limit in what we can achieve,' says Jonathan Bray, Director of the Urban Transport Group 13 10 Towards Devolution 2.0: Richard de Cani, MD of planning at TfL, offers a perspective from London 13 50 years of Passenger Transport Executives: Looking back on a 6 half century of change 4 www.atkinsglobal.com A NEW ERA FOR URBAN TRANSPORT | URBAN TRANSPORT GROUP | 3 03_UTG_2015.indd 3 04/01/2016 17:05 INTERVIEW THE VOICE OF UK URBAN TRANSPORT If you want to invest in cities, invest At the same time, promotion and in transport, says Dr Jon Lamonte, funding of walking and cycling and chair of the Urban Transport Group its integration with public transport became an increasingly important his month’s launch priority for Combined Authorities of the Urban and PTEs, partly due to greater Transport Group recognition of the associated health T represents more bene!ts. Lamonte now views it as than a rebrand of part of the day job for city regions. pteg (the Passenger Transport Overall he says metropolitan Executive Group). It demonstrates transport authorities have changed the signi!cance of changes over beyond recognition compared the past !ve years in transport to the PTEs of !ve years ago. “It’s responsibilities and governance in shi#ed from public transport to the UK’s major city regions. mobility, focusing on all modes of During that time the core task of A Metrolink tram calls at Manchester city centre’s new Exchange Square tram stop the metropolitan transport authorities has expanded from Urban Transport Group re%ects Transport] and nationally for developing passenger transport this evolution in the nature and positions it’s taken - like the services to creating holistic urban role of the city region transport importance of buses and making and regional transport systems bodies. "e intention is to provide the case for active travel and I which are at the heart of a wider a platform to promote and like to think it has been quite agenda to drive economic growth advocate investment in urban in%uential in retention of Bus and higher quality of life. transport services, operation and Service Operators Grant.” "is shi# could be seen in infrastructure, in%uence decisions Under the broader Urban the formation of the country’s on the structure of the transport Transport Group umbrella, he !rst Combined Authority in Jon Lamonte, chair of the Urban Transport industry and provide domestic sees opportunities to go further in Greater Manchester in 2011 and Group and chief executive of TfGM and international networking and advocating city regions’ position its City Deal the following year, knowledge sharing opportunities. through broadening membership marking an initial step towards the transport and how we contribute “I think there is consensus now and creating stronger connections government’s current ‘devolution to the success of our city regions, about the power of investing in with other organisations. revolution’. "e changes included whether that be She$eld, cities,” says Lamonte. “Around 60% Domestically, he anticipates the creation of a new regional Newcastle or anywhere else.” of people live in cities, it’s where that the Urban Transport transport body. Greater Manchester Increasingly, Lamonte says the jobs are, it’s where most of Group will provide a collective PTE became Transport for Greater freight, logistics and air quality the economic growth is going to means of engaging and working Manchester with a remit beyond its are also becoming part of the be created. So there's a powerful with campaign groups such as traditional focus on bus and rail. city region transport authorities’ argument that if you want a Greener Journeys, Campaign for “We took on highways powers, core activities and links with new successful UK PLC, invest in cities Better Transport and Sustrans. urban tra$c control, and highways bodies such as Transport for the and if you want to invest in cities, Internationally, he sees opportunities forecasting analysis,” recalls North have given the shi# a trans- invest in transport. So having one to draw on global experience, Dr Jon Lamonte, chief executive regional perspective - for example, body that represents the single for example through the Urban of TfGM and chairman of the Merseytravel is taking the lead on voice of the UK in urban transport Transport Group’s membership of Urban Transport Group. Similar freight policy across the north. makes a lot of sense.” UITP, the international association developments followed in other "is aspect will gain momentum Lamonte views pteg’s work over of public transport. Lamonte is city regions. “A feature of every next year when Rail North receives the past decade as a strong basis to currently leading UITP’s position on devolution City Deal since then joint contract management powers build on. “pteg had a very strong the links between public transport has been some form of strategic over the new Northern and reputation, especially for research and health, and is enthusiastic highways function,” Lamonte TransPennine franchises. and advocacy,” he says. “It’s well about the di&erent perspectives that points out. "e transition pteg to the known in the [Department for experience provides (see panel). 4 | URBAN TRANSPORT GROUP | A NEW ERA FOR URBAN TRANSPORT 04-05_UTC_2015.indd 4 04/01/2016 17:06 says ... “we have made the point URBAN TRANSPORT 9 1 6 5 8 that a di"erent funding mechanism GROUP EXPANSION may be required but that’s not quite The launch of the Urban Transport where we have got to.” Group was marked by Transport for Further lobbying positions will London becoming a full member include making the case, during alongside the five metropolitan areas the current Shaw review, for the in the north of England and Centro boundaries of Network Rail’s routes in the West Midlands. TfL was an associate member of pteg. to be aligned with the boundaries Urban Transport Group chair of emerging regional bodies such Dr Jon Lamonte anticipates that as Transport for the North and the broader remit and branding of Midlands Connect. “I think there the group compared to pteg will is a strong role for the Urban enable membership to be expanded. “We have already had interest from Transport Group to contribute others that may want to consider 3 2 4 10 7 around this whole devolution full membership and we would be agenda, where it makes sense, delighted to see that,” he says. Urban Transport Group full members: where it doesn’t and supporting Lamonte’s expectation is that 1 West Yorkshire Combined Authority metropolitan authorities in what a broader membership would not 2 Transport for Greater Manchester only provide benefits for individual 3 Merseytravel they want to do,” Lamonte says.
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