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Delivering the Vision 275 DELIVERING THE VISION 275 Chapter six – Delivering the vision Delivery in a changing world This strategy seeks to deliver the Mayor’s vision – to create a future London that is not only home to more people, but is a better place for all those people to live in. Fundamentally, this means reducing Londoners’ dependency on cars in favour of walking, cycling and public transport use. This chapter sets out how the vision will be delivered in the challenging context of a growing population, rapidly changing technology and falling Government grant to fund transport services in London. It will do this by: a) Ensuring changing technology contributes positively to the aims of the strategy. b) Working in collaboration with TfL, boroughs, Government, rail and others, and funding transport improvements through more efficient and fairer means. c) Monitoring and reporting to ensure delivery is on track. VERSION FOR PUBLICATION DELIVERING THE VISION 277 a) Changing technology Proposal 102 FIGURE 53: THE ROAD SPACE REQUIRED TO TRANSPORT 67 PEOPLE The Mayor, through TfL, will work Recent years have seen major to ensure its information systems technological developments, including and payment platforms take the rapid uptake of mobile technology. account of technological advances The increased ability to share and evolve to remain fit for purpose. information, new payment methods and the ease of accessing the internet on- the-go have already changed consumer Principles for new transport services expectations about interacting with the and technology transport system, and about how it is The evolution of technology has already operated. Technology will continue to generated new approaches to transport advance rapidly, and across the world services in London and this is only set billions of pounds will be invested in the to continue. How these develop has the development of ‘new mobility services’. potential to either help or hinder the achievement of the strategy’s aims. While some predicted technological The best examples of this issue relate Bus Bicycle Car (whether privately changes may be years or even decades to technologies that are developing owned or shared, diesel away, many are more immediate and can around how cars operate and how they Source: © Cycling Promotion Fund or electric) be used to improve people’s lives right can be accessed. now. This includes providing real-time information to people as they plan trips Car dependency and traffic dominance How efficiently road space is used for dominance – new car-based services and move around the city. It also means have many significant impacts on cities the movement of people provides a vivid and technologies may resolve some using available technologies to make and their residents. These range from example of this phenomenon. While problems, but others will remain. using active, efficient and sustainable health impacts – increasing inactivity and moving, a car takes up the same amount travel options easier, including by road danger, worsening air pollution and of physical space, regardless of who The only way to tackle all of the problems ensuring that payment platforms are noise, and creating severance between owns it, how safe it is or how clean its associated with car dependency and up to date and fit for purpose. By people and communities – to congestion. engine is. While there may be some ways traffic dominance is to reduce car use tracking and shaping new technological Many new technologies aim to resolve of improving how efficiently this space directly, through mode shift towards developments as they emerge, London some of these problems – electric is used in the future – such as increasing walking, cycling and public transport use. will continue to benefit from one of the vehicles will reduce some types of occupancy, or using technology to co- While technological changes to the way most comprehensive and integrated pollution and autonomous vehicles may ordinate vehicles – these will not make cars operate and how they are accessed transport networks in the world. reduce road danger – but no car-based cars as efficient as buses or cycles, have the potential to improve some approach to transport can solve them all. as illustrated in Figure 53. The same aspects of London life in some ways, type of issue can be seen across all the they are unlikely to be the best solution impacts of car dependency and traffic to London’s problems in the long term. VERSION FOR PUBLICATION DELIVERING THE VISION 279 In the worst cases, the adoption of It is not yet clear which precise measures new technologies could increase car will be needed to do this over the full dependency and traffic dominance, course of this strategy to 2041. The undermining efforts to increase walking, Mayor’s approach to developing these cycling and public transport levels. If measures will be based on a set of car-sharing services are promoted in the principles derived from the Healthy wrong areas, people could switch from Streets Approach, set out in Policy 23. cycling or getting the bus. If autonomous TfL will monitor changes to any transport vehicles make car use more appealing services or technology that could affect and easier to do, people may walk around how Londoners get around or experience their neighbourhoods less. This would London’s streets. This includes those present serious problems for the health detailed below and a range of other of Londoners and the functioning of potential developments, such as the the city. use of drones or delivery robots, as well as applications of technology that If well managed, however, new services cannot be predicted yet. The future could play an important role in catering development of policies and proposals for essential journeys in London, will be informed by this and guided by reducing car ownership and use, and Policy 23 to allow TfL to adapt as needed helping Londoners to transition away to ensure the aims of this strategy are from car dependency. achieved – potentially influencing how the organisation operates, engages with To put new services and technologies customers and businesses, and plans for to the best use for all Londoners, they the future. must, therefore, be carefully managed. VERSION FOR PUBLICATION DELIVERING THE VISION 281 appropriately managed, they could Policy 23 Policy 23 (continued) play a role in reducing car ownership The Mayor, through TfL, will explore, d) Cleaning London’s air and reducing f) Using space efficiently: new by providing connectivity where public influence and manage new transport carbon emissions: new services services must make efficient transport is harder to provide or for services in London so that they should achieve the very best use of road and kerb space, those who are not able to walk or cycle. support the Healthy Streets Approach, emissions standards to reduce be appropriate for the area of guided by the following principles: emissions of carbon dioxide, London in which they operate It will be important to provide walking nitrogen oxides and particulate and support opportunities to and cycling environments and public a) Supporting mode shift away from matter in London, and enable faster re-allocate space for walking, transport services that make active, car travel: new transport services switching to cleaner technologies. cycling and public transport. efficient and sustainable travel options should not encourage more car more appealing than ‘shared mobility’ journeys, especially where there e) Creating a safe, attractive g) Sharing data and knowledge: services. Managing the way people are good walking, cycling or public environment on our streets: new where possible, data and pay for road use could play a key role transport options. services and technology should knowledge should be shared in ensuring that these services do not help create a safer, quieter and with TfL and the GLA to cause major increases in congestion b) Complementing the public more pleasant environment on enable improved monitoring, or emissions. transport system: new services London’s streets, where it is operating and planning of the should help more people who would more attractive to walk or cycle, transport network. Limiting parking provision and charging otherwise complete their journey and should not lead to existing for its use is an effective means of by car to access the public active trips being made by non- managing private car usage, transport network, while not active modes. There must always Shared car and other but it could be less effective for reducing walking and cycling be an emphasis on the safety of low-occupancy services shared car services. How kerb space to and from stops and stations. passengers, people walking and New low-occupancy and car-based is used by shared vehicles will be an They should also provide a means cycling, and other road users. Where services, such as car sharing, ride important issue to consider if they of travel in areas where public this involves introducing technology pooling, and private hire vehicles that become more widespread. transport connectivity is currently directly into the street, it should can be easily booked via smartphone poor (especially in outer London). be done in a co-ordinated way that apps, are playing an increasingly large enhances the overall character role in how Londoners travel, and could Proposal 103 c) Opening travel to all: new of the street, reduces clutter, and continue to do so over the period The Mayor, through TfL, will explore services should be accessible does not prevent future potential covered by this strategy. If not managed and monitor the relationship to all Londoners and should not re-allocation of space for walking, well, the growth of these transport between access to kerb space, contribute to the creation of social, cycling and public transport. services could result in fewer people including for car parking, and the economic or digital divides in which travelling by public transport, foot and level of demand for all forms of car some Londoners would have better cycle, undermining the principles above.
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