Dunfermline Strategic Land Allocation Transport Assessment Fife Council Final Report 73799 July 2011 73799 DUNFERMLINE STRATEGIC LAND ALLOCATION TRANSPORT ASSESSMENT Description: Final Report Date: 06 July 2011 Project Manager: Keith McGillivray Project Director: Malcolm Neil SIAS Limited 37 Manor Place Edinburgh EH3 7EB UK tel: 0131-225 7900 fax: 0131-225 9229
[email protected] www.sias.com \\pomfret\tpftcda3$\report\73799 dunfermline sla transport assessment.doc 73799 DUNFERMLINE STRATEGIC LAND ALLOCATION TRANSPORT ASSESSMENT CONTENTS : Page EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 Introduction 1 Existing and Potential Transport Infrastructure 2 Development Travel Characteristics 4 Traffic Modelling 5 Development Assumptions 5 Transport Impact 6 Other Interventions 8 Conclusion 8 1 INTRODUCTION 11 1.1 Background 11 1.2 Context 11 1.3 Purpose of Report 12 1.4 Consultation 12 1.5 Previous Studies 13 2 PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT & TRANSPORT PROVISION PRINCIPLES 15 2.1 Introduction 15 2.2 Draft Dunfermline & West Fife Local Plan 17 2.3 Transport Provision Principles 18 3 EXISTING SITUATION 21 3.1 Introduction 21 3.2 Existing and Potential Transport Infrastructure 21 3.3 Core Paths 22 3.4 Bus Based Park & Ride 26 4 DEVELOPMENT TRAVEL CHARACTERISTICS 29 4.1 Trip Generation 29 4.2 Trip Purpose 36 4.3 Trip Length 37 4.4 Trip Distribution 38 4.5 Mode Splits 38 5 TRAFFIC MODELLING 43 5.1 Dunfermline 2009 Base S-Paramics Model 43 5.2 Development Traffic Modelling 46 5.3 Matrix Totals 50 06 July 2011 73799 6 TRANSPORT IMPACT AND TRANSPORT INTERVENTIONS 51 6.1 Introduction 51