MK 2050: Innovative Mobility Roadmap Final Report October 2017 MK 2050: Innovative Mobility Roadmap Final Report October 2017 Produced by: For: Milton Keynes Council Contact: Neil Taylor Integrated Transport Planning Ltd. 50 North Thirteenth Street Milton Keynes Mk9 3BP 07780 710152 [email protected] www.itpworld.net MK Futures 2050: Innovative Mobility Roadmap Project Information Sheet Client Milton Keynes Council Project Code 2382 Project Name MK 2050: Innovative Mobility Roadmap Project Director Jamie Wheway Project Manager Neil Taylor Quality Manager Jamie Wheway Additional Team Mark Dimond, Matt Cottam Members Start Date 28th April 2017 File Location F:\2300-2399\2382 MK 2050 Innovative Mobility Roadmap Document Control Sheet Ver. Project Folder Description Prep. Rev. App. Date V2-0 F:\2383\FinalReport Final Report NT JW JW 31/10/17 V1-0 F:\2383\FinalReport Draft Final NT - - 20/09/17 Report Notice This report has been prepared for Milton Keynes Council in accordance with the terms and conditions of appointment. Integrated Transport Planning Ltd cannot accept any responsibility for any use of or reliance on the contents of this report by any third party. ii MK Futures 2050: Innovative Mobility Roadmap Table of Contents 1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 1 Purpose and structure of this paper.............................................................................................................. 1 2. Smart, Shared, Sustainable Mobility - the vision for MK ........................................ 2 The vision ................................................................................................................................................................ 2 Existing future mobility initiatives ................................................................................................................. 2 Developing a plan for achieving the vision ................................................................................................. 3 3. Where is the market taking us? ........................................................................................ 4 Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) ......................................................................................... 5 Cleaner and more efficient propulsion systems ................................................................................... 6 Demand responsive travel and mobility as a service .......................................................................... 7 How will people react to change? .............................................................................................................. 8 4. What are the implications for MK? ................................................................................. 9 Potential impact on MK 2050 objectives .................................................................................................... 9 Strategic and spatial implications ............................................................................................................... 12 5. Assumptions, enablers and pitfalls ............................................................................... 14 Innovative mobility assumptions ................................................................................................................ 14 Factors that MKC can influence .................................................................................................................. 15 Potential pitfalls ................................................................................................................................................ 16 6. MK innovative mobility roadmap ................................................................................. 18 7. Next steps .............................................................................................................................. 22 iii MK Futures 2050: Innovative Mobility Roadmap List of Tables Table 4-1: Summary of potential impacts for MK 2050 research themes ........................................ 11 Table 4-2: MK spatial options related to innovative mobility outcomes ........................................... 13 Table 5-1: Factors MKC can influence to deliver future spatial options ........................................... 15 Table 6-1: MK 2050 innovative mobility roadmap .................................................................................... 19 List of Figures Figure 3-1: Summary of smart mobility industry commentator projections ....................................... 4 Figure 4-1: Possible future mobility outcomes for MK ............................................................................... 9 iv MK Futures 2050: Innovative Mobility Roadmap Executive Summary The Milton Keynes Futures 2050 Commission report Making a Great City Greater placed emphasis on early investment in ‘Smart, Shared, Sustainable Mobility’ for all as one of Six Big Projects for supporting Milton Keynes’ (MK) population growth to 400,000 people without gridlocking the city’s road network. While some aspects of this are within touching distance, others are expected to take longer to realise. Future predictions suggest that Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV), cleaner and more efficient propulsion systems, demand responsive travel and Mobility as a Service (MaaS) are poised to disrupt and transform the way people and goods move around. This paper reviewed the readiness of these smart mobility technologies to consider the extent to which MK might need to change in future to benefit from them. We concluded that the city’s unique nature and the flexibility of its grid system, presents specific opportunities, and some challenges, for successful adoption and implementation of new ways of moving people and goods. Taking into account the other MK 2050 Big Projects - notably those relating to spatial and economic growth - we have set out a roadmap for accelerating the delivery of innovative mobility services in the city over the next 30 years. Identified near-term actions include: • Planning MK grid expansion and regeneration for mixed-uses in parallel with the growth of MK’s urban area along a select set of more densely developed, high frequency transit priority and direct cycle corridors. These should link key trip generators, national transport nodes, Renaissance:CMK areas, Centre:MK and new/existing residential areas. • Supporting Renaissance:MKC, and the delivery of MK:U through co-location of student accommodation and night-time economy facilities, while linking the university’s delivery to innovative R&D on autonomous mobility, smart & connected cities, and sharing economies. • Installing and maintaining smart data gathering mechanisms that cover MKC roads and parking assets to build a real-time open dataset of traffic flows and parking demand. By collaborating with local transit and bikeshare operators this will form the basis of a shared, open transport data network for richer understanding of local patterns of human movement and deeper, more seamless, integration across all travel modes. • Investing in ultra-low emission modes (e.g. EVs) and associated charging infrastructure, while collaborating with private sector specialists and government innovation bodies to position MK as the go-to UK location for ‘here-first’ CAV testing and implementation. • Working to attract/develop an integrated journey planning tool as the foundation for local mobility service aggregation (e.g. Citymapper / Whim). in parallel with setting up a smart integrated ticketing and car park payment system with local transit/bikeshare operators, so as to establish a platform for MK’s future Mobility-as-a-Service offer. v MK Futures 2050: Innovative Mobility Roadmap 1. Introduction 1.1 The Milton Keynes (MK) Futures 2050 Commission report1 emphasised the importance of early investment in ‘Smart, Shared, Sustainable Mobility’ as one of Six Big Projects for supporting population growth to 400,000 people without gridlocking the city’s road network. Its overarching vision suggested a dedicated MK mobility service could offer a flexible range of transport options – combining EV car clubs, bike share and driverless shared taxi services – to facilitate local door-to-door journeys. These would seamlessly integrate with local electric bus and national rail services, through smart ticketing and booking systems that would underpin the city’s on-demand integrated transport offer. 1.2 The extent to which Smart, Shared, Sustainable Mobility is achieved in MK by 2050 is expected to critically enable, or inhibit, the success of the five other ‘Big Projects’ in ‘Making a Great City Greater’: • Anchoring MK as a key hub of the Cambridge–MK–Oxford growth corridor • Establishing a university in Central Milton Keynes: MK:U • Learning 2050 to ensure learners have the skills needed for the future of work • Attracting private and public sector investment to support Renaissance: CMK • Promoting Milton Keynes – The Creative and Cultured City Purpose and structure of this paper 1.3 While some aspects of this future vision are within touching distance, others will take longer to realise. This paper follows-up the MK Futures 2050 Commission’s initial work to review smart mobility technologies and their state of readiness. It explores potential impacts on other Big Projects, notably those relating to spatial and economic growth. 1.4 The following