“All Change”

Andrew Morgan

Skills and Communities Director

“All Change”

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

Rural districts

Rural Areas

Population by age

Long-term illness

GVA growth

Qualifications

Earnings

Accessibility & Access to Jobs

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

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Shrinking budgets.

Climate Change.

Digital Britain.

‘Digital Britain’

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: 1. Reviewing the evidence and understanding the challenge;

2. Identifying a wide range of interventions to mitigate the challenge;

3. Comparing options, and identifying possible packages;

4. Appraising the most promising options and packages to arrive at the preferred solution.

Where DaSTS fits (the funding hierarchy)

DaSTS

Regional Transport StrategyRegional Funding Allocation

Local Transport Plans

Schemes

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

Spalding Water Taxi

Rail Freight

East Midlands Parkway

Low carbon agenda

Reflections…

Economic development and carbon reduction?

Digital Britain and travel?