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Enhancing Accessibility and Sustainability in Transport: Challenges and Solutions

This document explores the pivotal role transport plays in promoting accessibility to jobs, training, and essential services, particularly in rural areas. It reflects on the connectivity challenges faced by communities and highlights the importance of strategic interventions to enhance economic development while addressing climate change. With a focus on the DfT’s sustainable transport agenda, it underscores the need for efficient use of existing networks and targeted improvements to support productivity, sustainability, and equality in all sectors.

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Enhancing Accessibility and Sustainability in Transport: Challenges and Solutions

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  1. “All Change” Andrew Morgan Skills and Communities Director

  2. Accessibility & Access to Jobs • All Change • The DfT’s Delivering a Sustainable Transport System (DaSTS) agenda challenging the way we all approach Transport • Understanding emda’s Transport role • Reflections

  3. Rural districts

  4. Rural Areas

  5. Population by age

  6. Long-term illness

  7. GVA growth

  8. Qualifications

  9. Earnings

  10. Accessibility & Access to Jobs

  11. Accessibility & Access to Jobs • Employment is the single most effective means of tackling poverty and economic exclusion. • Accessibility to key services & opportunities, including jobs and training, is vital to the functioning of sustainable communities of all sizes. • RES: • Productivity • Sustainability • Equality

  12. All Change • Shrinking budgets. • Climate Change. • Digital Britain.

  13. ‘Digital Britain’

  14. Impact of Climate Change on the policy agenda(DaSTS: challenging the way we approach Transport ) • Priority to 2014: • making better use of the existing transport network. • targeted programme of improvements to improve capacity, reliability and safety in the most congested areas. • Post 2014 represents a fundamental change: • Reviewing the evidence and understanding the challenge; • Identifying a wide range of interventions to mitigate the challenge; • Comparing options, and identifying possible packages; • Appraising the most promising options and packages to arrive at the preferred solution.

  15. Where DaSTS fits (the funding hierarchy)

  16. Understanding emda’s Transport role • Inputting into Regional Transport Strategy – mini review • Joint working with partners on Regional Funding Allocation & DaSTS • Commissioning Research, for example: • Three Cities Studies • Ecotec Transport Interchanges • Railfreight & Waterways Studies • CO2 Demonstrator Projects • New Rail Stations at Corby & East Midlands Parkway • High Speed Rail

  17. Spalding Water Taxi

  18. Rail Freight

  19. East Midlands Parkway

  20. Low carbon agenda

  21. Reflections… • Economic development and carbon reduction? • Digital Britain and travel?

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