Transport for South Hampshire and Isle of Wight
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13 December 2012
- Transport Delivery Plan - public consultation
4 October 2012
September 2012
June 2012
Transport for South Hampshire Local Sustainable Transport Fund Project Get’s Go Ahead
In December 2012 TfSH submitted a Business Case to the Department for Transport’s Local Sustainable Transport Fund for £18m of funding of an overall £31m package of interventions.
TfSH was one of just 13 areas nationally to be invited to submit a Business Case in the Large Project Package category.
The proposals can be categorised under three inter-locking themes:
- An interoperable smart ticket for bus and ferry travel
- ·Area-wide and corridor-specific Travel Choice interventions, aimed at encouraging uptake of public transport, walking and cycling
- ·Physical interventions along nine corridors and at interchanges (including Real Time Passenger Information, bus priority, and provision for cycling and walking).
These interventions will target nine corridors into Gosport, Portsmouth, and Southampton. The two cities are the economic centres for South Hampshire, yet access to both is congested – particularly in the peaks. As a peninsula, access to Gosport is constrained, and this needs to be relieved to help regenerate the area and support the Solent Enterprise Zone at Daedalus.
The project is a partnership of Local Authorities, Bus Operators, Businesses and other organisations who are all contributing time, expertise and funding to improve travel in South Hampshire.
The Business Case identified a healthy Benefit Cost Ratio of 8.5 to 1 and that proposals will be successful in supporting economic growth through:
- creating employment
- widening employment horizons
- widening the available labour pool
- supporting growth targets
- targeting support at our assets (for example our ports and airport)
- targeting support at our employment sectors that have potential for growth
- reducing congestion
- increasing public transport patronage use by 24%
- increasing use of active modes by 9%, and
- improving journey time reliability for all road users.
Proposals will also reduce carbon and other emissions from the transport sector, improve health, and improve access for all.
TfSH has calculated that a total of 1,141 jobs to 2019 and 1,529 to 2026 will be created as a direct consequence of LSTF investment.
This follows the recent successes of Hampshire County Council, Isle of Wight Council and Portsmouth and Southampton City Councils in securing government funding for smaller Local Sustainable Transport Fund packages and the Transport for South Hampshire bid to the Better Bus Area Fund. These bids are mutually supportive and demonstrate the success of TfSH as the strategic transport partnership for South Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
Transport for South Hampshire has been working hard since December to ensure preparedness for delivery and will now work with it’s partners to deliver this project by the end of March 2015 and support economic growth and carbon reduction in South Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
May 2012
TfSH has been awarded £4.5m of funding from the Department for Transport's Better Bus Area Fund. This project will see TfSH working with the South Hampshire Bus Operators Association (SHBOA) to deliver a package of measures, which together aim to
- raise the quality of bus travel
- change perceptions of the bus
- achieve outcome of an 8% increase in bus usage
- achieve a 5.6% increase in public transport mode share and 4,205 fewer tonnes of carbon emitted.
We will achieve this through addressing those features of bus travel that act as barriers to attracting new users and by providing facilities that will make bus travel a comparatively better option to the private car.
Bus operators operating bus services in South Hampshire may be eligible to bid for funds for some of the exciting projects to be funded through our Better Bus Area Fund proposals.
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