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Totton Railway Station Travel Plan Totton Railway Station Travel Plan A Better Connected South Hampshire Hampshire County Council March 2013 Totton Railway Station Travel Plan A Better Connected South Hampshire Hampshire County Council March 2013 This Station Travel Plan was developed by a partnership of Hampshire County Council, South West Trains, Network Rail and Stagecoach Bus. © Hampshire County Council 2013 Contents 1 Executive Summary 5 1.1 Introduction 5 1.2 The Travel Plan Process 5 1.3 Survey and Workshop Results 5 1.4 Aims, Objectives and Actions 7 1.5 Monitoring 7 2 Introduction 8 2.1 A Better Connected South Hampshire 8 2.2 This Document 8 3 Policy Background 9 3.1 Travel Planning 9 3.2 Station Travel Planning 9 3.3 Local Policy 10 4 The Travel Plan Process 13 5 Station Characteristics 14 5.1 Station Location 14 5.2 Use of the station 14 5.3 Station Access and Facilities 15 5.4 Planned Schemes 24 6 Survey and Workshop Results 25 6.1 Station Usage 25 6.2 Passenger Survey 25 6.3 Stakeholder Workshop 33 7 Key Issues 36 7.1 Link between Totton and the station 36 7.2 Cycling in Totton 36 7.3 Crossing of Commercial Road 37 7.4 Step-free access 37 7.5 Station facilities 37 8 Objectives and Aims 38 8.1 Objectives 38 8.2 Specific Aims 38 9 Action Plan 40 10 Monitoring and Reviewing the plan 49 10.1 Monitoring 49 10.2 Review 49 Appendices Appendix A Surrounding Area Appendix B Passenger Survey Appendix C Station User Origins by Mode 1 Executive Summary 1.1 Introduction As part of the “Better Connected South Hampshire” project, Halcrow is working with Hampshire County Council to produce Station Travel Plans for several railway stations in the project area. This document is the Station Travel Plan for Totton Station. A station travel plan is a strategy for managing access to a railway station, usually with a view to improving access to the station by sustainable modes of transport; particularly walking, cycling, bus and car share. The travel plan looks not only at the facilities at the station itself, but also the approaches to the station, and routes between the station and key local destinations such as shopping centres or civic buildings. 1.2 The Travel Plan Process The station travel plan aims to bring together all the necessary parties involved in the operation of the station to agree on the actions required. A steering group was established to lead the production of the document, and take forward the actions agreed. The steering group involved; o Hampshire County Council; o New Forest District Council; o South West Trains; o Blue Star Buses; o Three Rivers Community Rail Partnership; o Network Rail. In order to produce a travel plan that serves the needs of Totton station, consultation was undertaken with stakeholders via an evening workshop, held on 30th January 2013, and a survey of station users undertaken on 22nd January 2013. A site audit was also undertaken to understand the current provision of facilities at the station, and quality of local access and interchange. 1.3 Survey and Workshop Results Approximately 300 surveys were distributed to passengers entering Totton station between 6.30am and 1pm on the day of the survey. The survey was also hosted online. In total, 77 responses were received – 56 by post, and 21 online. 5 The survey found that 75% of respondents entering the station did so on their way to or from work, with 8% of users travelling to education, and 8% travelling for leisure or shopping. Figure 1.1 shows the main mode of transport by survey respondents used to access the station. The largest proportion, 44% of station users, walked to the station. 20% accessed the station by car, either shared or driven alone and parked, and 17% are dropped off by car. 12% of users cycle to the station. Interchange from bus is low, at 4% of the total, and taxi use makes up just 1% of trips. The survey results suggest that there is limited incentive to interchange from the bus to the train at Totton, given its proximity to the better served Southampton Central station. The proportion accessing the station on foot or by cycle is relatively high. Main Mode of Access 1% 1% 4% Walked 17% Cycled Car (drove alone) Car shared Car – Dropped off 44% Bus/Coach Taxi 3% Other 17% 12% Figure 1.1 - Main mode of access used to access Totton Station The workshop asked participants to identify the biggest issues in accessing the station by sustainable modes of transport, and to suggest potential improvements for pedestrians, cyclists and public transport users accessing the station. The greatest priorities identified by the workshop were; o New path from level crossing to station for pedestrians and cycles; o Safe crossing of Commercial Road; o Lower speed limit; o Improved step-free access across platforms; 6 1.4 Aims, Objectives and Actions The steering group considered the outcomes of the survey and the workshop, and agreed the overall objectives for the travel plan to be to; 1. Improve ambience of the station for all users; 2. Improve approaches to the station for all users; 3. Improve facilities for cyclists at the station; 4. Improve accessibility within the station; 5. Improve links between the station and the town centre; To enable the success of the travel plan to be measured, a series of SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound) aims were also agreed; 1. Increase the number of people using the station; 2. Increase the proportion of AM users walking to the station from 44% to 50% (+23 passengers per day); 3. Increase the proportion of AM users cycling to the station from 12% to 16% (+15); 4. Increase proportion of AM users taking the bus to the station from 4% to 6% (+8); 5. Increase proportion of AM users car sharing to the station from 3% to 5% (+8); 6. Improve the satisfaction of people using sustainable modes to travel to the station. Achievement of the above aims would deliver a reduction in car travel to the station (i.e. station users driving alone or being dropped off) from 34% to 22%. A series of actions has been proposed and inserted into an action plan, contained in section 9 of this report. These actions, a mixture of more ambitious long-term, and simpler short term proposals will be driven forward by the travel plan steering group to improve access to Totton station for local users. 1.5 Monitoring Success against the travel plan aims will be measured by a repeat survey, to be undertaken in January 2015 on a weekday between 6:30am and 1pm. The travel plan will be a ‘living’ document, which will be regularly updated and refreshed as actions are completed and new actions required. An annual meeting of the steering group to review progress is recommended, to be led by HCC. 7 2 Introduction 2.1 A Better Connected South Hampshire In December 2011, Hampshire County Council (HCC) and Transport for South Hampshire (TfSH) successfully bid to the Department for Transport Local Sustainable Transport Fund (LSTF) to deliver the “Better Connected South Hampshire” project. The project aims are to; o Support sustainable economic growth within the urban South Hampshire area (including Portsmouth and Southampton); o Reduce carbon emissions; and o Improve local air quality. The project will achieve these aims by delivering three main components; o Delivering physical improvements along the main travel to work corridors into Southampton, Portsmouth and Gosport/Fareham, to include cycle access improvements in Totton town centre and pedestrian/public realm improvements to the north and south of the railway station; o Integrating public transport through a Smartcard Ticketing system; and o A targeted marketing campaign to achieve more sustainable travel behaviour. This station travel plan forms part of the third component, and looks at ways of improving access to Totton Station by sustainable modes of transport. The travel plan is designed to complement other schemes introduced by the “Better Connected South Hampshire” project. 2.2 This Document This document is the travel plan for Totton railway station. It aims to build on the actions proposed in the New Forest Transport Statement (NFTS), and other documents discussed in section 3.3. 8 3 Policy Background 3.1 Travel Planning Travel plans are documents that are intended to manage travel to and from key facilities and destinations, and aim to encourage the use of sustainable transport modes. Travel plans are now commonplace in many workplaces, schools, hospitals and residential developments. The Department for Transport (DfT) defines a travel plan generally, as: “A strategy for managing the travel generated by your organisation, with the aim of reducing its environmental impact, typically involving support for walking, cycling, public transport and car sharing.” The definition – while broad – encompasses the aim of all travel plans, including station travel plans. 3.2 Station Travel Planning In recent years, the rail industry has started to adopt travel planning for stations as a means of improving access to them, and particularly managing travel to stations where car parking is a problem. Station travel plans have a slightly different focus to most site-based plans, as the station itself is not the trip end. The fact that travel by rail itself should be encouraged, rather than discouraged means that the objectives and measures in station travel plans should look at more efficient station access as a priority. The Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) is running a pilot programme of station travel plans covering 26 stations of varying sizes around England.
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