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Bi-monthly Meeting. 21 st November 2013. Get ahead. Travel smarter. Agenda. Welcome, apologies and minutes from 19 Sept Airbus Update Brompton Dock Director’s Report & Updates – Ann O’Driscoll Key Project 1 – Bus to Work Scheme Key Project 2 – B ehaviour Change - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Bi-monthly Meeting21st November 2013

Get ahead. Travel smarter.

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Agenda1. Welcome, apologies and minutes from 19 Sept

2. Airbus Update

3. Brompton Dock

4. Director’s Report & Updates – Ann O’Driscoll

5. Key Project 1 – Bus to Work Scheme

6. Key Project 2 – Behaviour Change

7. Key Project 3 - DfT Case Study

8. Key Project 4 - Travel to Work Survey 2014/Jambusting

9. LSTF Update

10. Forward Planner

11. AOB

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4. Director’s Report & Updates

• Cribbs Patchway New Neighbourhood (CPNN)

• LSTF National Conference Manchester - Mainstreaming Smarter Travel – 3 & 4 December

• Transport for Greater Manchester Travel Forum – 10 December

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Four Key Projects – next 12 Months

• Key Project 1 - Bus to Work Scheme/Bus Bonus

• Key Project 2 - Behaviour Change

• Key Project 3 - DfT Case Study

• Key Project 4 - Travel to Work Survey/Jam Busting June

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5. Key Project 1 – Bus to Work Scheme/Bus Bonus

North Bristol SusCom document (produced September 2013) has two key asks of Government:

• Allow employers the ability to subsidise bus travel for

staff commuting to work

• Allow employers to operate a Salary Sacrifice

Scheme for bus tickets

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5. Key Project 1 – Bus to Work Scheme/Bus Bonus

• September 2013 Greener Journeys launches Bus

2020: A Manifesto for the next Parliament.

• Three Key Recommendations:– Recommendation 1 - Bus priority – expansion of support

available to local authorities and bus operators for installing

bus lanes and other priority measures– Recommendation 2 - Bus Bonus – tax incentive for

commuters to promote modal shift– Recommendation 3 - Concessions for Apprentices –

discounted travel schemes for young

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5. Key Project 1 – Bus to Work Scheme/Bus Bonus

Key Projects 2-4: timeline

January March June

SES Case Study

Initiation

Jambusting CampaignTravel to

Work Survey

Behaviour Change

Research

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6. Key Project 2 – Behaviour Change

• Aims of the project – RS• ICE Creates delivery update - Richard Forshaw & Ben

Buckby• Discussion, ideas and comments

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7. Key Project 3 – DfT Case Study

• National evaluation of Local Sustainable Transport Fund

• In-depth evaluation in four thematic areas where evidence is weakest

1. Strategic employment sites (SES)

2. Town centres & high streets

3. Carbon impacts and congestion relief

4. Rural economy and tourism

1. Strategic employment sites case study

Strategic Employment Sites and Business Parks

North Fringe and Emersons Green

PortsideMaylands Business Park Hertfordshire

Slough

West of England CouncilsUWE

Hertfordshire County CouncilUniversity of HertfordshireSlough Borough Council

Atkins

7. Key Project 3 – DfT Case Study

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7. Key Project 3 – DfT Case Study

• Looking for 15 businesses to get involved– range of sizes– good geographic spread– public and private sector split– range of sectors– varying levels of engagement in sustainable transport

activity

• Participants need to be able to commit to:– Senior Management Interview x 2– Participation in Travel to Work Surveys – 2014, 2015, 2016– 1 or 2 members of staff involvement in focus groups

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7. Key Project 3 – DfT Case Study

• Benefits to your organisation will include:– Each site will receive a cordon count to measure exactly

how employees are travelling to site on a particular day– Direct access to the research findings– Individual report from the travel survey results

• Benefits to us collectively as SusCom– help demonstrate benefits of LSTF/secure future funding– raise our national profile– measure our impact– influence future spending

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8. Key Project 4 – Travel to Work Survey/ Jambusting

Travel Survey • Broad participation• More robust

• Timescale:

- Before Christmas: make links with comms

- January: pre-promotion

- February: link circulated, promotion

• Ideas for successful promotion?

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8. Key Project 4 – Travel to Work Survey/ Jambusting

Jambusting• Summer 2014• Different scope and product

- More targeted at SOVs

- More appealing

- Prizes at several levels

- Link to current LSTF free offers and support

- Less broad, smaller scope?

What is possible in your business? Ideas?

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9. LSTF Update

Grant Round of 2013/14: January 31st

Sustainable Travel Awards: Bath Guildhall, Thursday 28th, 16.30 – 19.00

January: Reporting & Resources

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10. Forward Planner

16th January 2014 – Friends Life– Key Project Updates– UWE Masterplan including Transport Hub– Rail – updates on investment, infrastructure

20th March 2014 – Bristol & Bath Science Park

15th May 2014

Hosts for 2014 please!

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11. AOB

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