A66 & A689 Tees Valley Strategic Study Stage 0.1 Summary Report Employer: Supplier: Highways England Mouchel Lateral St Johns House 8 City Walk Queen St Leeds Manchester LS11 9AT M2 5JB Document Ref.: HE550313-MOU-GEN-SW-REP-Z-001 Date: July 2015 Revision: P1.1 Registered office Bridge House, 1 Walnut Tree Close, Guildford GU1 4LZ Highways England Company Limited registered in England and Wales number 09346363 A66 & A689 Tees Valley Strategic Study Stage 0.1 Summary Report Document Control Project A66/A689 Tees Valley Strategic Study Document Title Stage 0.1 Summary Report - A66/A689 Tees Valley Strategic Study Document Ref HE550313-MOU-GEN-SW-REP-Z-001 Revision P1.1 Name Company Suitability S2 Gerard Jennings / Joanne Author(s) Mouchel Date 29/07/15 Best Henrietta Achampong / Reviewer Mouchel Date 29/07/15 Dave Morrow Checker Rehan Mian / Greg Taylor Mouchel Date 30/07/15 Authoriser Claire Johnson Mouchel Date 30/07/15 Revision History Revision Date Description Author P1.0 30/07/2015 Draft for comment Gerard Jennings / Joanne Best P1.1 16/11/2015 Issue for sign off (Amended Gerard Jennings / Henrietta following client comment) Achampong Reviewer List Name Role Daniel Gaunt Project Sponsor, Highways England Fran Manancourt Strategic Transport Planning Officer, Tees Valley Unlimited Bill Trewick Infrastructure Projects Manager, Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council Approvals Name Signature Title Date of Revision Issue The original format of this document is copyright to Highways England. July 2015 A66 & A689 Tees Valley Strategic Study Stage 0.1 Summary Report July 2015 A66 & A689 Tees Valley Strategic Study Stage 0.1 Summary Report Contents 1 Executive Summary ............................................................................................................ 1 1.1 Context and Background .............................................................................................. 1 1.2 The Current Situation ................................................................................................... 2 1.3 Future Considerations (Challenges and Development Ambitions) ................................ 2 1.4 Prioritisation of Challenges ........................................................................................... 3 1.5 Next Steps and Programme ......................................................................................... 3 2 Introduction and Purpose .................................................................................................... 4 2.1 Purpose ........................................................................................................................ 4 2.2 Context to the Study ..................................................................................................... 4 2.3 Specific Considerations ................................................................................................ 6 2.4 Modal Scope ................................................................................................................ 7 2.5 Study Stages ................................................................................................................ 8 3 Background and Historical Work ......................................................................................... 9 3.1 Approach ...................................................................................................................... 9 3.2 Key Strategy and Policy ............................................................................................... 9 3.3 Stakeholder Engagement ........................................................................................... 11 3.4 Timeline of Previous Schemes ................................................................................... 13 3.5 Summary .................................................................................................................... 15 4 Availability and Robustness of Transport Modelling ........................................................... 16 4.1 Overview .................................................................................................................... 16 4.2 Background ................................................................................................................ 16 4.3 Reasoning for the use of the Strategic Level Model ................................................... 19 4.4 Model Descriptions ..................................................................................................... 21 4.5 Model Validation ......................................................................................................... 23 4.6 Journey Times ............................................................................................................ 24 4.7 Strategic Option Forecasts/Assessments ................................................................... 31 4.8 Improving the suitability of the model ......................................................................... 32 4.9 Appraisal .................................................................................................................... 32 5 Understanding the Existing Network Performance............................................................. 33 5.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................ 33 5.2 Routes Description and Key Constraints .................................................................... 33 5.3 Tees Valley Journeys ................................................................................................. 43 July 2015 A66 & A689 Tees Valley Strategic Study Stage 0.1 Summary Report 5.4 Traffic Flow Data ........................................................................................................ 46 5.5 Route Capacity ........................................................................................................... 55 5.6 Congestion and Speed ............................................................................................... 61 5.7 Journey-Time Reliability ............................................................................................. 64 5.8 Environment ............................................................................................................... 78 5.9 Society ....................................................................................................................... 92 5.10 Safety ..................................................................................................................... 98 5.11 Asset Condition .................................................................................................... 110 5.12 Summary .............................................................................................................. 114 6 Understanding Future Year Performance ........................................................................ 117 6.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 117 6.2 Inter-regional Connectivity ........................................................................................ 117 6.3 Strategic Economic Plans & Growth Proposals ........................................................ 121 6.4 Future Land Uses and Policies ................................................................................. 128 6.5 Future Changes to the Transport System ................................................................. 131 6.6 Future Travel Demands and Levels of Service ......................................................... 132 6.7 Summary .................................................................................................................. 137 7 Establish the Need for Intervention .................................................................................. 138 7.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 138 7.2 Connectivity Challenges and Opportunities .............................................................. 138 7.3 Operational and Asset Condition Challenges and Opportunities .............................. 140 7.4 Capacity Challenges and Opportunities.................................................................... 143 7.5 Environmental Challenges and Opportunities ........................................................... 146 7.6 Safety Challenges and Opportunities ....................................................................... 151 7.7 Social Challenges and Opportunities ........................................................................ 153 8 Prioritisation of Challenges and Proposed Way Forward ................................................. 154 8.1 Prioritisation of Challenges ....................................................................................... 154 8.2 Proposed Way Forward ............................................................................................ 156 9 Findings and Conclusions ............................................................................................... 159 July 2015 A66 & A689 Tees Valley Strategic Study Stage 0.1 Summary Report Tables Table 3.2-1 Existing Policy Documents .................................................................................... 10 Table 3.4-1 Tees Valley Road Schemes Timeline .................................................................... 13