Initial Major Roads Report Strategic Transport Plan Evidence Base Report by Jacobs Commissioned by Transport for the North
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Initial Major Roads Report Strategic Transport Plan Evidence Base Report by Jacobs commissioned by Transport for the North £ Initial Major Roads Report Transport for the North - Initial Major Roads Report Document Title: Initial Major Roads Report Revision: 5.5 Date: June 2017 Client Name: Transport for the North Project Manager: Alec Curley Author: Jonathan Whittaker © Copyright 2017 Jacobs U.K. Limited. The concepts and information contained in this document are the property of Jacobs. Use or copying of this document in whole or in part without the written permission of Jacobs constitutes an infringement of copyright. Limitation: This report has been prepared on behalf of, and for the exclusive use of Jacobs’ Client, and is subject to, and issued in accordance with, the provisions of the contract between Jacobs and the Client. Jacobs accepts no liability or responsibility whatsoever for, or in respect of, any use of, or reliance upon, this report by any third party. 1 i Initial Major Roads Report Contents Foreword ............................................................................................................................................................... iv 1. Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ 1 1.2.1 The Why ...................................................................................................................................................... 3 1.2.2 The What ..................................................................................................................................................... 4 1.2.3 The How ...................................................................................................................................................... 4 1.3 Scope of the Report ..................................................................................................................................... 4 1.4 Structure of the Report ................................................................................................................................ 4 2. Building the Northern Powerhouse ......................................................................................................... 6 2.2 Transforming the North................................................................................................................................ 6 2.3 Transport and the Economy ........................................................................................................................ 7 3. Roads and the North’s Economy ........................................................................................................... 10 3.1 What Roads Do ......................................................................................................................................... 10 4. The Major Road Network for the North ................................................................................................. 15 4.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ 15 5. The Vision for the MRN for the North .................................................................................................... 19 5.1 The Evidence Base ................................................................................................................................... 19 5.2 Conditional Outputs ................................................................................................................................... 19 5.3 Linking Metrics and Data Needs to Conditional Outputs........................................................................... 20 5.4 Data Needs and TfN Requirements .......................................................................................................... 21 6. Baseline Assessment of the MRN ......................................................................................................... 22 6.1 Thematic Trends ........................................................................................................................................ 22 6.1.1 North-South Connectivity........................................................................................................................... 22 6.1.2 East-West Connectivity ............................................................................................................................. 23 6.1.3 Future Access to the MRN ........................................................................................................................ 24 6.2 Further Commentary ................................................................................................................................. 25 6.2.1 Resilience .................................................................................................................................................. 25 6.2.2 Efficiency ................................................................................................................................................... 26 6.2.3 Journey Quality .......................................................................................................................................... 27 6.2.4 Multi-Modal Opportunity ............................................................................................................................ 27 6.3 Environmental performance ...................................................................................................................... 28 6.4 Safety......................................................................................................................................................... 28 7. Future Network Requirements ............................................................................................................... 29 7.2 Freight Network Requirements .................................................................................................................. 29 7.5 Multi-Modal Opportunity ............................................................................................................................ 37 8. Schemes Committed and in Development ........................................................................................... 39 8.1 Existing Investment ................................................................................................................................... 39 8.2 Schemes in Development ......................................................................................................................... 39 9. Strategic Gaps ......................................................................................................................................... 41 9.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ 41 9.2 Technological and Environmental Improvements for the MRN ................................................................. 41 1 ii Initial Major Roads Report 9.3 Resilience of the MRN ............................................................................................................................... 42 9.3.1 East-West Connectivity ............................................................................................................................. 42 9.3.2 Coastal and Mountainous Roads .............................................................................................................. 42 9.3.3 SRN Related Incidents .............................................................................................................................. 42 9.4 Multi-Modal Connectivity ........................................................................................................................... 42 9.5 International Connectivity .......................................................................................................................... 42 9.6 Freight........................................................................................................................................................ 43 9.7 Connectivity to the North’s Economic Hinterland ...................................................................................... 43 9.8 Links between Similar and Complementary NPIER Capability Clusters ................................................... 43 9.9 Connectivity between Important Economic Centres ................................................................................. 44 9.10 Delivery of NSIP and Major Employment Sites ......................................................................................... 44 9.11 Major Local Housing Development Plans ................................................................................................. 44 10. Portfolio of Connectivity Priorities ........................................................................................................ 45 10.1 Defining Pan-Northern Priorities ................................................................................................................ 45 10.2 Connectivity Priorities ................................................................................................................................ 47 10.3 Sequencing ...............................................................................................................................................