Improved Indicators for Sustainable Transport & Land Use Planning Final workshop of the DISTILLATE programme Great Minster House, London Tuesday 22 nd.

Improved Indicators for Sustainable Transport & Land Use Planning

Final workshop of the DISTILLATE programme

Great Minster House, LondonTuesday 22nd January 2008

Dr Greg MarsdenITS, University of Leeds

• To develop approaches for– Designing a monitoring

strategy– Selecting suitable

indicators– Using them

consistently across sectors

Objectives/Indicators (7)

Assess problems (8)

Possible instruments (9)

Predict impacts (12)

Compare solutions (13)

Implement (15)

Evaluate performance (15)

Monitor (15)

Barriers (10)

Possible strategies (11)

Optimisation (14)

Appraisal (13)

Scenarios (11)

Objectives

Satisfaction

Imp

ort

an

ce

Benchmarking

Targets

Year on year improvement

Consistency (transport and planning)Consistency (transport and SD)

Consistency (LTP)

Consistency (RTS)

Cost

Understood by politiciansUnderstood by public

Forecasting/ modelling

Measure

Public's experience

Major scheme appraisal

VeryImportant

FairlyImportant

NotImportant

NotSatisfied

FairlySatisfied

VerySatisfied

Key Problems

3 Best Practice Guides

• Designing a monitoring strategy

• Advice on selecting indicators

• Monitoring across sectors & spatial levels

Designing a monitoring strategy

• How to establish/review/use a monitoring framework– The types of indicators you can measure– What you can use monitoring for– How to fit monitoring together– How to prioritise what to monitor– How the guide has been used

Application of monitoring

• Performance management

• Benchmarking

• Communication with public

• Communication with politicians– Other agencies/departments

Types of indicators

• Cost– the money spent to acquire the resources (e.g. transport plan

expenditure)• Input

– the resources employed to provide the service (e.g. amount of tarmac laid)

• Output– the service provided to the public (e.g. the number of bus miles

run) • Intermediate outcome

– the changes to the transport system that can be observed (e.g. the number of bus users, the number of kilometers travelled)

• Outcome– the actual impact and the value of the service delivery – i.e.

achievement of objectives (e.g. delay per person kilometre)

Designing a monitoring strategy

Advice on selecting indicators

Advice on selecting indicators

• New challenges are emerging• How do we identify and justify new indicators?• Audit

– Is it clearly defined?– Is the indicator largely controllable by management actions?– Is it measurable?– Will it respond to policy interventions in a reasonable time

frame? – Is it easy to understand and communicate?– Issues of disaggregating, time series and targets

Monitoring across sectors & spatial levels

Advice on:

• When to standardise measurement

• What to standardise

• Importance of data management

• How to integrate with broader ‘policy’

• Use of information in partnership working

Number Indicator Policy Area

NI 47 People killed or seriously injured in road traffic accidents Safer Communities

NI 48 Children killed or seriously injured in road traffic accidents Safer Communities

NI 167 Congestion – average journey time per mile during the morning peak

Local Economy

NI 168 Principal roads where maintenance should be considered Local Economy

NI 169 Non-principal roads where maintenance should be considered

Local Economy

NI 175 Access to services and facilities by public transport, walking and cycling

Local Economy

NI 176 Working age people with access to employment by public transport (and other specified modes)

Local Economy

NI 177 Local bus passenger journeys originating in the authority area

Local Economy

NI 178 Bus services running on time Local Economy

NI 198 Children traveling to school – mode of travel usually used Environmental Sustainability

Case Study: New Performance Framework

Examples

• Environment– NI 186 CO2/capita emissions in the LA area

• Education– NI 91 Participation of 17 year olds in

education or training

• Fear of crime– NI 17 Perceptions of anti-social behaviour

Questions?

ContactDr Greg Marsden

Institute for Transport Studies

[email protected]

Tel: 0113 343 5358

www.distillate.ac.uk