Full guidance on Local Transport Plans: Second edition
Table of contents
- Aims of this Guidance
- Changes from the first edition
- Part 2: Developing a High Quality LTP
- It will set transport in its wider context
- It will contain locally relevant targets
- It will demonstrate value for money
- It will contain indicators and trajectories for performance reporting
- Part 3: Priorities for Local Transport Planning
- Congestion
- Accessibility
- Safer roads
- Air quality
- Other Quality of Life Issues
- Part 4: Value for Money
- The Government's Transport Strategy
- Performance management and direct engagement
- Setting Transport in its Wider Context
- The longer term strategy, and its relationship to the 5 year LTP
- The local government context
- Involving local partners in strategy development
- The regional planning context
- Cross-boundary and sub-regional transport planning
- Meeting the needs of longer-distance travellers
- The need for realistic expectations about investment levels
- Locally relevant targets
- Linking LTP targets to wider vision and objectives
- Targets for outcome indicators
- Setting challenging but realistic targets
- Sustainable Communities
- Identifying the best value for money solutions
- Making full use of the growing evidence base
- Making the best and most sustainable use of infrastructure
- Analysing local problems and opportunities
- Identifying problems and opportunities in rural areas
- Indicators and Trajectories
- Selection of targets and indicators for inclusion in LTPs
- Trajectories
- Key outcome indicators subject to mandatory LTP targets
- Best Value Performance Indicators
- Other Mandatory Indicators
- Optional Indicators
- Monitoring Robustness
- Annual Progress Reporting
- Reviewing and maintaining the LTP
- The Shared Priority for Transport
- Other local priorities
- Shared Priority - Tackling Congestion
- Introduction
- National targets
- Targets & analysis
- Strategies to tackle the problem
- The Network Management Duty
- Innovation in tackling congestion - the Transport Innovation Fund
- Congestion targets and monitoring arrangements
- Accessibility planning
- Social Inclusion through local transport planning
- National targets
- The role of local authorities and the need for accessibility strategies
- Assessment and analysis of accessibility issues
- Tackling accessibility issues
- Performance measurement
- Shared Priority - Safer Roads
- The national road safety target
- Road safety as a local issue
- Road safety as part of overall transport strategies and the need for a road safety strategy
- Targets, target setting and the best use of information
- Significant road safety policy issues
- Links to other areas of work
- Revenue as well as capital programmes
- Making the most of investment
- Highways Agency
- Shared Priority - Better Air Quality
- Other Quality of Life Issues
- Quality of Public Spaces and Better Streetscapes
- Landscape and Biodiversity
- Community Safety, Personal Security and crime
- Healthy Communities
- Sustainable and Prosperous Communities
- Noise
- Climate Change and Greenhouse Gases
- LTPs to show the value to be delivered for a known amount of money
- Value for money and DfT decision making
- Forecasting, Modelling and Analytical Tools for LTPs
- Block allocations for integrated transport - and 'planning guidelines'
- Achieving Value for Money through Major Schemes
- Affordability and prioritisation of major schemes
- Major scheme proposals in the LTP
- Major scheme submission and appraisal process
- Post Approval
- Multi Modal Studies
- Cost Increases, design changes and scheme delays
- Preparatory costs
- Exceptional schemes
- Achieving value for money through buses
- Delivering value for money LTP solutions through railways
- Value for money and light rail
- Achieving value for money by managing car use
- Achieving value for money through asset management
- Efficiency in Highway Maintenance
- Transport Asset Management Plans
- Block allocations for maintenance
- Achieving value for money from revenue-funded programmes
- Preparing and presenting the new LTP
- Principles of LTP Assessment
- Quality of planning
- Impact of LTP targets
- Deliverability
- Advice and help available from Government and other sources
- Technical guidance for transport professionals
- Setting out the scheme and policy implementation programme
- Environmental Implications - Strategic Environmental Assessment
- Consultation on new LTPs
- Arrangements for authorities rated 'excellent' by the Audit Commission
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