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A good practice guide for the development of local transport plans

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Table of contents

  • Foreword
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Background
  • What this guide is for
  • Coverage of the guide
  • Structure
  • Chapter 2: The Local Transport Planning Process
  • Chapter 3: Establishing Partnership
  • Joint working between authorities
  • Metropolitan Areas
  • Two Tier Authorities
  • Joint Working Between Different LTP Areas
  • Participation and consultation
  • Chapter 4: Vision
  • Integration with corporate vision
  • Chapter 5: Identifying and Analysing Problems
  • Establishing basic facts and putting issues into context
  • Identifying problems
  • Assessments related to the Authority's Objectives
  • Linking problem identification to the rest of the LTP
  • Chapter 6: Setting Objectives
  • Reviewing existing objectives
  • Developing new sets of objectives
  • Different types of objectives
  • Chapter 7: Strategy
  • Links to wider policies
  • Reviews of previous strategies
  • Alternative strategies
  • Developing the implementation programme
  • Rural issues
  • Sustainable distribution
  • Chapter 8: Measuring success
  • Establishing principles
  • Identifying targets and performance indicators
  • Linking indicators to objectives and measures
  • Setting targets
  • Area based strategy monitoring
  • Chapter 9: LTP presentation
  • Establishing the audience
  • Using summary documents
  • Layout
  • Using maps and illustrations
  • Appendix: Other sources of Good Practice
  • Disability Issues
  • Transport Statistics (TS) Divisions
  • Next

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