ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MANCHESTER AUTHORITIES GREATER MANCHESTER TRANSPORTATION UNIT TRANSPORT STATISTICS GREATER MANCHESTER 2008 SUMMARY This report presents results of GMTU’s traffic and transport monitoring during 2008. These include: • trends in Local Transport Plan indicators • countywide traffic growth • daily, weekly and seasonal flow profiles on motorways and A roads • traffic growth by district • comparison of local and national traffic growth • traffic and pedestrian activity in key centres • trends in countywide rail and Metrolink patronage • trends in bus service supply • background information GMTU Report 1476 E Ellis D Atkin J Morewood A Castle November 2009 GMTU Report 1476 Foreword ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We acknowledge the assistance of The Highways Agency in providing automatic traffic counter data on motorways. Version Purpose/ Changes Author Date Date Issued To Whom No. Changed 1 First Release A Castle et al 27/11/2009 27/11/2009 www.gmtu.gov.uk All enquiries to: Greater Manchester Transportation Unit 1st Floor Salisbury House Granby Row Manchester M1 7AH Telephone: 0161 455 2062 Internal Tel; 815 2062 Fax: 0161 455 2071 e-mail: [email protected] website: http://www.gmtu.gov.uk/ The Greater Manchester Transportation Unit provides a strategic and local transportation service to and on behalf of the ten district councils of Greater Manchester. The unit is funded by the ten districts and attached to Manchester City Council as lead authority. GMTU Report 1476 Foreword FOREWORD The Greater Manchester Transportation Unit provides a comprehensive service in all aspects of transportation for the ten local authority districts in Greater Manchester. The work of the unit includes the core services of traffic monitoring, and maintenance and analysis of the unit's traffic accident database. This report forms part of the traffic monitoring service to districts and as such maintains the series of annual reports for Greater Manchester begun in 1983. It is available as an Adobe Acrobat file and on the GMTU website (www.gmtu.gov.uk) for those who would like an electronic version. This report does not include detailed traffic flow information for individual road links. Instead, separate reports have again been produced for each district, incorporating all the traffic flow information for that district. All of the road traffic data used in the production of the annual reports are available for district use. The results of manual counts can be obtained through interrogation of the map based data retrieval system GMCOUNTS. Also, road casualty data can be obtained from GMTU’s Geographic Information System – GMAPS and Microsoft Access Database - GMAXI. Information on Greater Manchester Local Transport Plan (GMLTP) targets and indicators is subject to approval by the Department for Transport (DfT) and may be revised as part of the LTP performance management process. Information in this report is correct as at 30 November 2009 and any future updates will be made available on the electronic version. GMTU Report 1476 Contents C O N T E N T S Page EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................1 1 LOCAL TRANSPORT PLAN HEADLINE INDICATORS...................................11 FORMER BEST VALUE INDICATORS .............................................................13 NI 168: Principal Road Condition........................................................................13 NI 169: Non-principal Classified Road Condition................................................14 Unclassified Road Condition...............................................................................15 Principal Footway Condition ...............................................................................15 NI 47: Road Safety – All KSI...............................................................................16 NI 48: Road Safety – Child KSI ..........................................................................17 Road Safety – Slight Casualties .........................................................................18 NI 177a: Bus Patronage .....................................................................................19 Rail Patronage....................................................................................................20 NI 177b: Metrolink Patronage .............................................................................21 Bus Satisfaction (residents)................................................................................22 OTHER PREVIOUSLY MANDATORY INDICATORS........................................23 LTP 1a: NI 175 Accessibility (Households).........................................................23 LTP 1b: NI 176 Accessibility to employment.......................................................24 LTP 2: Area Wide Road Traffic...........................................................................25 LTP 3: Cycling ....................................................................................................26 LTP 4: NI 198 Mode Share of Journeys to School..............................................27 LTP 5a: NI 178 Bus Punctuality of Timetabled Services ....................................28 LTP 5b: Bus Reliability of Timetabled Services ..................................................29 LTP 6a: Peak Traffic Flow to Regional Centre....................................................30 LTP 6b: Peak Traffic Flow to Other Key Centres................................................31 LTP 7: NI 167 Congestion ..................................................................................32 LTP 8a: Air Quality (Concentration of NO2 at Worst Case Receptor Sites in Each District’s AQMA) .................................................................................................33 LTP 8b: Local Traffic Emissions - Tonnes NOX Emitted from Road Transport on Major Roads in Each District ..............................................................................33 LOCAL INDICATORS........................................................................................35 LTP 9: Climate Change ......................................................................................35 LTP 10a: Accessible Infrastructure (Buses)........................................................37 LTP 10b: Accessible Infrastructure (Bus Stops) .................................................38 LTP 10c: Accessible Infrastructure (Rail Stations)..............................................38 LTP 10d: Accessible Infrastructure (Pedestrian Crossings)................................39 LTP 10e: Accessible Infrastructure (Public Rights of Way).................................40 LTP 11: Walking .................................................................................................41 LTP 12a: Modal Share to Regional Centre.........................................................42 LTP 12b: Modal Share to Other Key Centres .....................................................43 LTP 12c: Modal Share to Manchester Airport.....................................................44 2 ROAD TRAFFIC.................................................................................................45 MOTORWAY TRAFFIC......................................................................................47 Traffic Growth on Motorways 2007-2008............................................................47 Changes in Motorway Weekday Traffic Flow Profiles 2007-2008.......................48 Peak Hour to Peak Period Ratios on Motorways................................................50 Traffic Flows on Motorways in 2008 ...................................................................50 (i) GMTU Report 1476 Contents C O N T E N T S Page 24-Hour Traffic Flow Profiles on Motorways in 2008 ..........................................51 Daily Traffic Flow Indices on Motorways in 2008................................................53 Daily Variation on Motorways by Time Period ....................................................54 Monthly Traffic Flow Indices on Motorways in 2008 ...........................................55 A ROAD TRAFFIC .............................................................................................56 Traffic Growth on A Roads 2007-2008 ...............................................................56 Changes in A Road Weekday Traffic Flow Profiles 2007-2008 ..........................56 Peak Hour to Peak Period Ratios on A Roads ...................................................58 24-Hour Traffic Flow Profiles on A Roads in 2008..............................................59 Daily Traffic Flow Indices on A Roads in 2008 ...................................................61 Daily Variation on A Roads by Time Period........................................................62 Monthly Traffic Flow Indices on A Roads in 2008...............................................63 B ROAD TRAFFIC .............................................................................................64 Traffic Growth on B Roads 2007-2008 ...............................................................64 Changes in B Road Weekday Traffic Profiles 2007-2008...................................64 Peak Hour to Peak Period Ratios on B Roads ...................................................66 MINOR ROAD TRAFFIC....................................................................................67 Traffic Growth on Minor Roads 2007-2008.........................................................67