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This issue is very much a follow up on the substantial tranche of Government transport policy material which was issued just ahead of the Easter break. We look further in depth at both the long awaited Integrated Transport Strategy policy document, Better Connected, and the even longer-awaited Local Transport Plan Guidance.
The LTT team has strived to examine both documents in detail and to bring you two pieces of expert analysis of the LTP Guidance on the practitioner expectations for it, and its wider implications for local transport. As well as a number of organisations’ views of the Better Connected strategy paper, and a look at the set of projects/initiatives that have been highlighted by the DfT as delivering some of its specific objectives.
Meanwhile, there has been a continued flow of transport policy, planning, and operational activity at the moment, including more moves towards the introduction of driverless passenger vehicles, local bus policy developments, plans and aspirations for mass transit, measures on road safety, plus party political positioning ahead of the coming elections for the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales and English local authorities.
We also have a review of the first presentation event for the LTT/Landor LINKS Decarbonising Transport Awards with a focus on some of the main winners.
As mentioned, our expert commentator contribution in this issue addresses the new framework for local transport, including the role of LTPs, the new annual Local Transport Delivery Plans (LTDPs), and the Local Transport Outcomes Framework (LTOF), which will be the basis of reporting on spending, monitoring performance, and guiding future Government funding support. This is authored by Ian Baker, who has an unrivalled grasp of the complexities of that matrix and what it means for those working in local authority transport.
In his Editorial Opinion, Peter Stonham gives his own view on the Local Transport Plan Guidance and how it reflects the Government’s wider mission agenda for transport and other policy perspectives.
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