Accessibility Planning Guidance: Full Guidance
Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword by Charlotte Atkins MP, Minister for Local Transport
- This guidance provides:
- Chapter 1: Introduction - Background and purpose of the guidance
- Local Transport Plans (LTPs) and accessibility
- Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA)
- What is accessibility planning and why is it needed?
- What this guidance is for
- Coverage and structure of the guidance
- Main stages of the recommended accessibility planning process
- Chapter 2: Accessibility in local transport plans
- Summary
- Accessibility strategies
- Prioritisation and phasing of accessibility action plans
- Presentation of accessibility components
- Partners' contributions
- Requirements for excellent CPA authorities
- Support from the Department for Transport
- Accessibility planning software - "Accession"(see Technical Annex)
- Central data and indicators relevant to accessibility planning (see the Technical Annex)
- Training and advice
- Chapter 3: Policy context for accessibility
- Summary
- Underlying principles
- Links to wider policy areas
- National and local objectives and targets
- Role of local authorities
- How accessibility helps to meet the health agenda
- How accessibility helps to meet the education agenda
- How accessibility helps to meet the welfare to work agenda
- How accessibility helps to promote sustainable development, regeneration and neighbourhood renewal
- How accessibility helps to improve opportunities in rural areas
- The role of spatial planning in improving accessibility
- Community safety, personal security and crime
- Chapter 4: Accessibility Assessments - Identifying and Analysing Accessibility Problems
- Summary
- Undertaking and using accessibility assessments
- Introduction to the components of accessibility assessments
- Step by step guide to the accessibility assessment process
- Drawing on, and inputting to, other audits and assessments
- Transport appraisal
- Health
- Education
- Employment
- Rural areas
- Chapter 5: Option Appraisal and Identifying Resources
- Summary
- Option Appraisal
- Impacts of Options
- Identifying barriers
- Stakeholder engagement
- Resources
- Time and Skills
- Data
- Local authority transport resources
- Chapter 6 : measures to tackle accessibility barriers
- Incorporating accessibility in wider transport policy development and delivery
- Incorporating accessibility in policy development and delivery in non-transport focussed services
- Improving transport availability
- Reducing the cost of travel
- Reducing the need to travel
- Improving physical accessibility
- Improving provision for walking and cycling
- Improving travel information and awareness
- Co-ordinating the timing of services
- Improving accessibility through demand management measures
- Addressing crime and the fear of crime in and around transport
- 'Further work' / issue-based actions
- Chapter 7: Measuring success - performance monitoring framework
- General principles
- Core accessibility indicators
- Other indicators to be provided by DfT
- Local accessibility performance indicators
- Accessibility targets
- Reporting on indicators and targets
- Project level monitoring indicators
- Monitoring delivery through other mechanisms
- Use of the indicators in option appraisal and performance monitoring in other sectors
- Appendix A: Establishing partnerships
- Summary
- Why is a partnership approach needed?
- Engaging with partners
- Potential roles of different partners
- Examples of partners' contributions during the pilots
- Cross-boundary and inter-authority working
- The role of communities
- The role of Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs)
- The role of Rural Transport Partnerships
- Appendix B: Case studies and examples
- Partners' contributions
- Delivering health benefits
- Delivering education benefits
- Delivering employment benefits
- Delivering wider accessibility benefits
- Reducing crime and the fear of crime
- Example of a 'strategic' partnership
- Option Appraisal
- Identifying barriers
- Local authority transport resources
- Land-use planning resources
- Health sector resources
- Geographically specific resources
- Incorporating accessibility in policy development and delivery in non-transport focussed services
- Improving transport availability
- Reducing the cost of travel
- Reducing the need to travel
- Improving physical accessibility
- Improving travel information and awareness
- Co-ordinating the timing of services
- Addressing crime and the fear of crime in and around transport
- Partnership working in Lincolnshire
- Appendix C: Glossary
- Appendix D: Endnotes
- Case Study Contact Details
