1. WESTTRANS ECOMM 2016 - Athens Anthony McNamara mcnamaraa@ealing.gov.uk
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Note: Mobility Plans are Travel Plans.

2. What can ten years of monitoring actual commuter journeys tell us about the effectiveness and therefore the benefits of workplace mobility plans?
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3. Mobility Plan Management Trip Data Results & Analysis Case Studies
What is WestTrans
Mobility Plan Management
Trip Data
Results & Analysis
Case Studies
Benefits of Mobility Plans
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4. Who are WESTTRANS?
Sub-regional partnership, delivering pioneering strategic transport projects to:
6 West London boroughs
Over an area of 33,733ha
Approx 1.7 million people
London has a complex governance structure.
HE, TfL, Boroughs
Funded by TfL and Borough contributions.
Small team of four: Manager, 2 Project Managers & Monitoring Officer.
Deliver projects – programmes where they cross Borough Boundaries/ shared cost savings

5. Road Hierarchy Highways England Transport for London Boroughs
Motorways – Highways England
Strategic Network – TfL
Local Road – Boroughs
TfL – manage public transport.

6. 400 Sites 90 reports a year Mobility Plan Management
Implementation and monitoring timetable
Agreed survey methodology
90 reports a year
WestTRANS monitors over 400 sites across 5 West London Boroughs.
Boroughs contribute to fund the Monitoring Officer post
In addition we comment on/approve submitted MPs and help sites implement their MPs.
Collect monitoring reports from the sites and provide feedback.
Work with TRICS and iTRACE to promote efficiencies and improvements
With more sites coming ‘online’ the number of survey responses/trip records is becoming significant.
Up to 120,000 responses a year

7. 10 years of Continuous Improvement....
Mobility Plan Coordinator
Baseline Data
Targets
Monitoring Methodology
Remedial Action
There is a delay between approving mobility plans and their implementation. For this reason, many mobility plans currently in operation are inadequate. That is, they lack targets, monitoring schedules etc.
We have learnt from this and improvements to mobility plans have been made. We require contact details, robust baseline data, targets set according to that data, a clear methodology, schedule and most importantly, what the site must do if after the five or ten years they haven’t met their targets.

8. Monitoring Data collection – methodology Qualitative and quantitative.
Prefer iTRACE
Journey legs
Origin map
Direct involvement
CO2 data
Customisation – health – attitude
We can monitor progress and don’t have to wait for sites to send us the reports.

9. Reporting
Gives MPC more understanding of their employee commuter habits
Reporting
Report via iTRACE have been prepared by the MPC so they have some understanding of the sites commuter habits.
The report must contain an action plan – in light of the results, what will the site do now?
MPCs can use the detailed information to prepare an ACTION PLAN

10. Results Doesn’t tell us enough.
Graph is based on the percentage change per mode per site. Displays the difference between the first and last surveys on a selection of sites over the las 10 years.
Positive results indicate mode shift in the preferred direction.
53% of sites have positive shift, 5% no change.
Each site is unique and doesn’t display actual numbers, just whether there has been a positive impact.

11. Results
2015: Walk & cycle 25.8%

12. Results 2011 census data per borough 2015: Walk & cycle 25.8% Borough
Active Mode
Car
Brent
10%
28%
Ealing
35%
H & F
21%
12%
Hillingdon 9%
55%
Hounslow
11%
41%
2015: Walk & cycle 25.8%

13. 7% cycle Case Study Outskirts of London Up to 8000 people on site.
Parking for car sharing
Cycle store on site
Changing facilities in most buildings
Shuttle bus to local stations
7% cycle
Example of a site that engages well and strives to deliver more improvements.

14. 25% cycle Case Study Industrial Estate - Manufacturer
Outskirts of London
Up to 120 people on site.
No car parking
Shift work 6am start
25% cycle
Low skills employer, local labour, little infrastructure.
Accommodates cycling and walking
No car parking on site

15. Mobility Plan Coordinator
How effective are mobility plans?
Mobility Plan Coordinator
Measures
Facilities
It depends…
Must have a good site coordinator – someone within the organisation to promote behaviour change.
Not as essential as a MPC
Measures must be appropriate and targeted – Push (no parking) and pull (pay cycle mileage)
Facilities such as cycle parking, drying rooms, parking spaces
If the top three work well, the local environment (cycle lanes, public transport, permeability etc) has a reduced effect.
Environment

16. Benefits Reduces congestion and associated impacts
Increases health and well being
Allows authorities to understand impacts
Proves behaviour change is achievable

17. Summary 10 years to deliver significant statistics
Database exceeding 400 monitored mobility plan sites
Continuous review and refinement
Mobility plans have excellent potential where…
Mobility Plan Coordinator is engaged
Sites are committed to targets
Measures are implemented and monitored
Infrastructure is complete and available

18. Questions?
@WestTransTP