DfT: Departmental strategic objectives
As part of the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review a new performance management framework has been announced. Thirty new cross-government Public Service Agreements (PSAs) set out the Government’s priority outcomes over the period 2008-2011.
Under this framework the Department for Transport will lead on one PSA ‘Deliver reliable and efficient transport networks that support economic growth’. The delivery agreement that underpins our PSA can be found at http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/1/F/pbr_csr07_psa5.pdf. This PSA specifically focuses on the contribution that transport makes to economic growth. Other priorities for the Government’s transport policy are covered in other PSA outcomes to which transport is a significant contributor.
The Department for Transport’s wider transport aims for the CSR period are also reflected in our four Departmental Strategic Objectives (DSOs). Each of these DSOs is underpinned by key performance indicators that are used to measure progress and success. DfT’s DSOs and the key indicators are set out below [1]:
DSO1: To sustain economic growth and improved productivity through reliable and efficient transport networks.
- Journey time on main roads in urban areas.
- Journey time reliability on the strategic road network, as measured by the average delay experienced in the worst 10 per cent of journeys for each monitored route.
- Level of capacity and crowding on the rail network
- Reliability on the rail network as measured by the ‘public performance measure’ (PPM)
- Average benefit cost ratio of investments approved over the CSR07 period
DSO2: To improve the environmental performance of transport and tackle climate change.
- Develop a carbon reduction strategy for transport
- Agree an improved EU Emissions Trading Scheme for the post-2012 period that includes aviation.
- Introduce the Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation - requiring 5 per cent of all UK fuel sold on UK forecourts to come from a renewable source by 2010.
- Introduce successor arrangements to the Voluntary Agreements with car manufacturers on new car CO2.
- Progress towards meeting the Air Quality Strategy objectives for eight air pollutants as illustrated by trends in measurements of two of the more important pollutants which affect public health: particles and nitrogen dioxide (led by Defra).
DSO3: To strengthen the safety and security of transport
- Reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured in Great Britain in road accidents by 40% and the number of children killed or seriously injured by 50%, by 2010 compared with the average for 1994-98, tackling the significantly higher incidence in disadvantaged communities.
- Deliver Transport’s contribution to the Home Office led PSA: target to ‘reduce the risk to the UK and its interests overseas from international terrorism’.
DSO4: To enhance access to jobs, services and social networks, including for the most disadvantaged.
- Increase the number of buses and trains accessible to disabled people.
- Increase the number of stations re/accredited under the Secure Stations Scheme by 15%
- Access to services and facilities by public transport, walking and cycling
[1] The indicators cover 2008-09. Additional, alternative and updated indicators will be added to this page particularly as work on 'Towards a Sustainable Transport System' develops in the future.
