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"Reducing car-dependence, casualties and climate emissions in a rural county"��Oxfordshire County Council - Local Transport and Connectivity Plan (LTCP)��Patrick Lingwood�Active Travel Hub Team Leader

'Greening local transport in your area

The Birmingham & Midland Institute on Saturday 18th November

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LTCP background

The LTCP represents an opportunity to adopt and implement a new way of thinking, essential to help deal with the climate emergency.
We developed and consulted upon the LTCP in 3 stages.
The first stage of development was an engagement activity where respondents were invited to comment on 28 topic papers.
We then developed and consulted on a vision document that set out the draft vision, key themes and policy focus areas.
Following consultation and refinement of the vision, we developed the full LTCP.
including the policy focus areas and policies required to deliver the vision through quantitative and qualitative work.

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LTCP vision

“Our Local Transport and Connectivity Plan vision is for an inclusive and safe net-zero Oxfordshire transport system that enables all parts of the county to thrive.

It will tackle inequality, be better for health, wellbeing and social inclusivity and have zero road fatalities or serious injuries. It will also enhance our natural and historic environment and enable the county to be one of the world’s leading innovation economies.

Our plan sets out to achieve this by reducing the need to travel and private car use through making walking, cycling, public and shared transport the natural first choice.”

Benefits

How?

Vision

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LTCP targets

By 2030 our target is to:

Replace or remove 1 out of every 4 current car trips in Oxfordshire
Increase the number of cycle trips in Oxfordshire from 600,000 to 1 million cycle trips per week
Reduce road fatalities or serious injuries by 50%

By 2040 our targets are to:

Deliver a net-zero transport network
Replace or remove an additional 1 out of 3 car trips in Oxfordshire

By 2050 our target is to:

Deliver a transport network that contributes to a climate positive future
Have zero, or as close as possible, road fatalities or serious injuries

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LTCP policies

Our transport policies will be used to influence and inform how we manage transport and the types of schemes we implement.
The policies explain the new approaches and measures that we will be taking to make the vision and targets achievable.
The policy areas are summarised below:

54 policies
Key policies to mention:

Transport user hierarchy – clear hierarchy with walking and cycling at top
SATN – Thinking about more strategic active travel network and links between towns
Community activation – Recognise need for supporting measures not just infrastructure
Healthy streets approach – Need to think about how we design streets
Vision zero – New approach to road safety
Mobility hubs – Plan to develop a network, help to reduce journey distance and encourage modal shift
Embodied carbon – Think about carbon impacts when delivering new infrastructure
Demand management – Highlights it will be needed sometimes and we will consider it

Following its adoption work has been ongoing to progress and implement the policies in the LTCP. This has included:

Work to develop the strategic active travel network.
Work to progress vision zero, including hosting a vision zero summit in November and development of strategy.
Ongoing work to develop and deliver school streets and 20mph zones.
Decide & Provide and Parking Standards for new developments agreed at Cabinet.
A new Bus Service Improvement Plan and Enhanced Partnership
Work to progress key measures identified through the Central Oxfordshire Travel Plan including: workplace parking levy, traffic filters and zero emission zone expansion.
Development of net-zero carbon pathway – awaiting government guidance and development of tools to assist.

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LTCP supporting strategies

Alongside the main LTCP document we have published supporting strategies
These build on the LTCP principles and provide more detail about complex topics:

Active Travel
Freight and Logistics
Innovation
Mobility hubs

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Delivering LTCP Active Travel Policies

Cabinet Member Decisions

& SATN

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Population 650,000

25% Oxford (165,000)

25% in 5 county towns (25,000<50,000)

Banbury, Abingdon, Bicester, Witney and Didcot

13% in 11 small towns

(5000 <20,000)

33% live in rural areas

Cherwell

West

South

Vale

SATN (Oxfordshire Strategic Active Travel Network)

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CAT scale - Commitment to Active Travel

Level	E	D	C	B	A
Mnemonic	Exclude�Erode	Do minimum	Committed�Comprehensive	Brave�Bold	Ambitious�Aspirational
Summary	Exclude needs of cyclists as marginal and unimportant	Provide basic and often inadequate cycle paths	Committed to making cycling convenient and comprehensive	Brave decisions in managing cars to promote cycling	Ambition and aspiration to put cycling at centre of travel

Modal Share of town

2%

5%

10%

20%

40%

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Active Travel Strategy

Council commitment

Traffic management

Cycle network

Public Realm

Cycling Cultural norm

5 factors essential to increase cycling

In a cycling culture, �political support increases for bold traffic management necessary to create an attractive cycle network and the space for a welcoming public realm which encourages more cyclists, which bit by bit creates a cycling cultural norm … and so on in a virtuous circle

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Priority: keeping local roads open so car trips are easy and convenient

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“in a free country, you ought to be able to get in a car and drive wherever you like. But that freedom is already starting to feel like a distant memory”.

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Dutch cycling levels by age

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xXZaLMlXvs

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Any questions?

Patrick Lingwood

patrick.lingwood@oxfordshire.gov.uk