Contents Executive Summary ............................................................................................................ 1 Introduction......................................................................................................................... 9 Why a Local Transport Plan? ............................................................................................ 9 Supporting wider growth ambitions .................................................................................... 9 Big Ideas for 2040 ........................................................................................................... 10 Where are We Now? Travel in Southampton Today ...................................................... 12 A Well-Connected City and a Gateway for Trade ............................................................ 13 Investing in Transport ...................................................................................................... 16 What’s Ahead? Southampton’s Challenges to 2040 ..................................................... 19 Delivering strong and sustainable economic growth ........................................................ 19 Improving people’s health and quality of life .................................................................... 21 Improving the quality of the environment within Southampton ......................................... 23 Maintaining and Improving Transport Connections .......................................................... 24 How Do We Get There? .................................................................................................... 27 Developing Connected Southampton .............................................................................. 27 Influences on Connected Southampton ........................................................................... 29 What Connected Southampton can Influence .................................................................. 31 Where Do We Want to Be? The Vision for Transport in 2040 ...................................... 32 Strategic Goals and Themes of Connected Southampton – Transport Strategy 2040 ..... 32 How Will We Get There? Applying the Strategy spatially across Southampton ......... 38 The Spatial Areas ............................................................................................................ 38 Travel in the Spatial Areas in 2040 .................................................................................. 40 City Centre ................................................................................................................... 40 Economic Drivers ......................................................................................................... 43 Neighbourhoods........................................................................................................... 44 Travel to Work Area ..................................................................................................... 45 How Will We Get There? The Transport Strategy .......................................................... 47 Successful Southampton ................................................................................................. 48 Successful Southampton: A Connected City ................................................................ 48 Successful Southampton: An Innovative City ............................................................... 56 Successful Southampton: A Resilient City .................................................................... 63 A System for Everyone .................................................................................................... 66 A System for Everyone: An Attractive City ................................................................... 66 A System for Everyone: A Safe City ............................................................................ 71 A System for Everyone: An Equitable City ................................................................... 73 Changing the Way People Travel .................................................................................... 78 Changing the Way People Travel: A Healthy and Active City ....................................... 78 Changing the Way People Travel: A Zero Emission City .............................................. 88 How Will We Get There? Delivering Connected Southampton ..................................... 93 Funding and Investment .................................................................................................. 93 Delivery ........................................................................................................................... 94 Monitoring How We Are Doing ...................................................................................... 100 Implementation Plan for 2019-2022 ............................................................................... 101 Keeping Connected Southampton – Transport Strategy 2040 updated ......................... 102 What Happens Next? ...................................................................................................... 103 Consultation .................................................................................................................. 103 Statutory Impact Assessments ...................................................................................... 103 Appendix A: Summary of Stakeholder Engagement .......................................................... 104 Appendix B: The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) .......................................... 106 Appendix C: Glossary ....................................................................................................... 107 Executive Summary Connected Southampton - Transport Strategy 2040 is the name for Southampton City Council’s draft Local Transport Plan (LTP), which sets out a long-term approach to improving travel and transport in Southampton. As the Local Transport Authority (LTA) for Southampton, the Council has a statutory duty to prepare a LTP to outline its strategic approach to managing and delivering transport now and into the future. This sets out where we would intend to invest resources in transport schemes. The LTP must consist of a long-term Strategy and a short-term Implementation Plan. The Council is taking this opportunity to produce a new LTP for Southampton in order to take account of and support the delivery of the bold and ambitious plans for sustainable growth over the next twenty years. The current LTP – Local Transport Plan 3 Strategy for Southampton (LTP3) was published in April 2011 jointly with Hampshire County Council and Portsmouth City Council and covered the period to 2031. Contained within in it is a Joint South Hampshire Strategy consisting of fourteen policies shared across all three authorities at the time. These 14 policies remain relevant now and are proposed to be retained as part of this new LTP. Connected Southampton will become the umbrella transport planning document for Southampton and consists of a number of parts: Connected Southampton Transport Strategy- Joint South Southampton Implementation & Three Strategic Hampshire Evidence Base and Supporting Plans - Goals and Eight Strategy (LTP3) Issues & Options Delivery & Monitoring Themes The LTP3 Joint South Hampshire Policies– the 14 cross boundary policies; A Southampton evidence base and Issues & Options report that discusses what has been achieved since 2011, assesses evidence from modelling, data and long- term plans (such as planning, economic development, health & well-being and air quality) then identifies future challenges and a range of options that could be delivered in response to these; A long-term Transport Strategy to 2040 that that sets out how transport in the city will be transformed through three strategic goals so that transport improvements contribute towards an economically successful city, which offers people system that works for everyone and where we change the way people travel. Supporting the three goals, the strategy seeks to deliver improvement projects across eight themes, tailoring investment projects to reflect the different needs of different parts of the city. Implementation Plans which will be published every three years, detailing how the Strategy will be delivered showing projects that will be delivered and the sources of funding (reviewed annually), and a monitoring and evaluation regime; and A series of Supporting Transport Plans for modes or areas that provide more detail to support the implementation of the Connected Southampton Transport Strategy 2040. The new LTP strategy, entitled Connected Southampton – Transport Strategy 2040, will cover the next twenty years up to 2040. It will provide Southampton with a relevant and specific long term transport vision to support the growth of the city and sets out a clear long- 1 term strategy to address challenges around people’s quality of life and health, air quality, and maintaining and improving Southampton’s transport connections locally, nationally and internationally. It provides an overview of costs of projects and how it will be delivered, and sets out how we will monitor progress with delivery of the strategy. Big Ideas for 2040 We have some big ideas for improving how people travel in and around Southampton: Develop Mass Rapid Transit for Southampton and the wider area that transforms the public transport experience, allowing people to travel easily around and