1. The Future of Local Transport Delivery Road Show 2011
Why Change
Dana Skelley – Director of Roads TfL

3. Why are we here? Vision: Mission:
Streets are vital to the economy and the quality of life of Londoners and visitors.
Vision:
Safe, reliable and cared for streets
Mission:
To deliver a quality service to all our customers through efficient use of public resources

4. London’s contribution to Transport Strategy Outcomes:
1. Make the 2012 Games a success
2. Improve user satisfaction
3. Bring and maintain all our assets to a state of good repair
4. Enhance the streetscape and create Better Streets
5. Enable journey time reliability
6. Improve routes for cyclists, pedestrians and vulnerable users
7. Protect and improve the environment
8. Reduce the number of road traffic casualties

6. Transforming London Highways Management
Across London around £450m pa spent on highways related activities, via c100 contracts
Range of different specifications
Range of rates for similar activities varies considerably across the 34 London Authorities
Scope for a better service at a lower cost .
5 – 15% from Business Case
10% TLHM target
Over 20% from ELS – Havering and Barking & Dagenham Pathfinder

7. How? Better utilisation of resources and skills – Contractor & Client
Clear links between service levels, cost and risk
Minimum disruption through joint forward planning and improved collaboration on area works
Better and more consistent customer experience
Reduction in interfaces and the use of common specifications
Ceasing the constant state of retendering

8. Project Partners LoTAG London Strategic Procurement Board
Sub Regional Procurement Groups
London Councils (Capital Ambition)
Efficiency and Reform Group (formally OGC)
HTMA
And we are feeding into the National scheme HMEP

9. Best value for money from
Structure
Contract Development Team:
TfL (3 FTE)
Enfield (1)
Haringey (1)
Lambeth (1)
Camden (1)
Project Sponsor
Martin Smith
Chief Executive LB Ealing
Joint TfL/Borough
Project Board
London Highways Alliance Contract
Joint funding by London Councils and TfL
Linked to National HEMP DfT
Newham
Lambeth
Enfield
H&F
Bromley
Hillingdon
TfL
Best value for money from
available funding

10. Where we want to be
Partnership thinking and working (“leadership” and “ownership”)
Understanding cost
Orientation towards performance
Promoting positive outcomes
Long term thinking and planning
Looking for wins at all levels – local, borough, sub-regional, pan-London

11. Common Specification

12. Common Specification Benefits
Reduce pallet of materials
Reduced stock holding
Reduced tender costs – both sides
Reduced depots and empty mile running
Reduced vehicles – currently London wide maintenance fleet is estimated at We could achieve a 10-20% reduction!

13. Programme
Development of a common specification contract - London Highway Alliance Contract LoHAC
OBCM
e-auctions for commonly used services and goods
Supplier Relationship Development – SRD on existing contracts
Highway Management Systems
Creating the Culture for Delivery

14. Why do this? Austerity measures Increasing unemployment
Lower tax receipts
Higher demands of health and safety
Justified demands from minority groups
The broken egg theory
Just the beginning of the problems with Europe

15. ?
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them” Einstein