Guidance on Transport Assessment
Table of contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Purpose of this guidance
- Policy context
- Principles of the assessment
- Structure of the guidance
- Chapter 2: Identifying the need for an assessment
- Pre-application discussions
- When an assessment is needed
- Key issues
- Chapter 3: Preparing a transport statement
- Existing conditions
- Proposed development
- Chapter 4: Preparing a transport assessment
- Introduction
- Development proposal and planning policy framework
- Existing conditions
- Public transport assessment
- Walking/cycling assessment
- Road network assessment
- Traffic data and traffic forecast
- Safety considerations and accident analysis
- Proposed development
- Appraising the impact of the proposed development
- Assessment years
- Analysis period
- Development trip generation
- Calculating vehicular trip generation
- Adjustment of development vehicular trips
- Trip distribution and assignment
- Environmental impact issues
- Promoting smarter choices via travel plans
- Transport impacts and mitigation measures
- Chapter 5: The link with the development plan making process
- Regional and local planning framework
- Strategic road network
- List of abbreviations
- List of annexes
