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1 Transport for London Surface Transport Leon Daniels Managing Director 19 th September 2013

2 London – key statistics 8.2m residents 30m visitors each year 4.2m jobs 3.3m homes 21% of UK total output / 13% population 395,000 businesses

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4 Key Responsibilities Maintaining and enhancing a reliable, accessible and high quality Bus, Tube and Rail network Ensuring reliable operation of London's road network while reducing congestion Enabling more people to cycle & walk, more safely, more often Improving road safety and reducing casualties Maximising the potential for London's rivers Supporting more sustainable patterns of freight delivery & servicing Supporting provision of door-to-door transport services Delivering improvements in London's air quality and reducing CO 2 emissions

5 About 24 million trips are made each day to, from and within London Every weekday in Greater London: –11 million car / motorcycle trips –6 million on foot –6 million journeys are made on London’s buses –3.5 million on the Tube –2.1million by national rail –0.5 million by bicycle –0.2 million by taxi

6 London is growing...every five years, one million more trips / day By 2031, London’s population is forecast to grow by 1.25 million from 2010 Employment is forecast to increase by 750,000 jobs Increased trips (from 2008 base): - 15% total - 30% public transport

7 MTS mode share target 2000 Cycling 1% Walking24% Public transport28% Private motorised transport47% 2006 Cycling 2% Walking24% Public Transport31% Private motorised Transport43% 2031 Cycling 5% Walking25% Public Transport34% Private motorised Transport37% 22.6m Trips per day 24m Trips per day 27m Trips per day

8 Tube and Rail Network Used by over 1.2 billion people in 2012 - 64 million more passenger journeys than the previous year 270 Tube and 83 Overground stations served During the three-hour morning peak, London's busiest Tube station is Waterloo, with 57,000 people entering - 82 million passengers a year. Deepest lift shaft: Hampstead - 55.2m/181ft Length of tube network: 249 miles 114,500 miles travelled by each Tube train each year 4134 carriages make up 47 miles of trains

9 London Underground’s core performance Change 20122003 Journeys +26% Journeys 1.2bn948m Train km +12% Train kms 76m 68m CSS +7 Customer Satisfaction 8376 LCH -54% Reliability 24m LCH 52m LCH 2003 data refers to 2003/04 financial year 2012 data refers to either YTD or 2012 calendar year

10 Road Network and Management Responsibility for the maintenance, management and operation of; London Streets Traffic Control Centre (LSTCC) – a 24/7, 365 day a year operation 6000 sets of traffic signals, over half directly controllable from LSTCC Some of the most sophisticated traffic signals technology in the world Over 1400 CCTV Cameras 140 roadside variable message signs 9,200 miles of all roads 678 miles of Strategic roads 363 miles of Transport for London Road Network

11 Central London Congestion Charging Zone

12 Impacts of the Congestion Charge Reduction in traffic in the zone around 20% but other benefits include: Economy –Broadly neutral impact overall on business Environment –Congestion Charging directly responsible for reductions of traffic emissions inside Zone equating to 8% of NO x, 7% of PM 10 and 16% of CO 2 Road safety –Reduced numbers of cars have led to less personal injury road accidents in the central zone Net revenues –In 2011/12 Congestion Charging raised £132 million to be spent on other transport initiatives within London –£1bn revenue has been generated since Scheme Go Live

13 Creation of Olympic Route Network (ORN) : 109 miles long with 30 miles of Games Lanes Use of Active Traffic Management (ATM) to manage traffic in ‘Real Time’ Use of Travel Demand Management (TDM) measures to reduce peak time demand at key locations at certain times Traffic management solutions developed for the Olympics

14 ACTIVE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT & OLYMPIC ROUTE NETWORK ATM SCOOT intelligent traffic control technology to retimed and rephase traffic signals to balance needs of Games Family movements with general road users Dynamic management of the road network in the event of unplanned activities or emergencies Moratorium on roadworks on the ORN and strategic roads to ensure a smooth traffic flow ORN : Traffic Measures included Banned Turns Removal of some parking and loading bays and Pedestrian crossings Provision of Games Lanes on one third of the ORN or 0.3% or London’s Road Network 14

15 Success of TDM Approach Optimise the use of the transport networks Short term behaviour change Two audiences: regular travellers, including businesses and spectators Works alongside operational measures such as Central London Zone, the ORN and the last mile Result One third of Londoners reported a change to their weekday daily travel during the Games Helped to avert severe crowding and support a great London 2012 Morning peak traffic in central London down by 16 per cent during the Olympic Games and 10 per cent during the Paralympic Games

16 Bus Network One of the largest and most comprehensive urban bus systems in the world Over 7,600 London buses carry over 6.5m passengers on 675 different routes each weekday (over 2 billion passengers/year) More than 94 per cent of Londoners live within 400 metres of one of the 19,500 bus stops in the Capital. Contribution to improving air quality with the New Bus for London, hybrid buses and NOx-reducing technology. Over 520 hybrid buses are now in service, focused on routes running in air-quality priority areas. Network reliability is at best-ever levels, delivered through a system of route-level Quality Incentive Contracts. Each route’s contract is tendered every five years.

17 Cycling Cycle Hire Launched in Central London East and west expansions Cycle Hire numbers: –180,000 members –19.2 million hires since start –560 docking stations –c.8,000 bikes –Record for daily hires is 47,000 Cycle Superhighways 173% increase in cycling 2% mode share 570,000 cycle trips per day Aim to increase by 400% by 2026 Cycle safety programme

18 Freight 281,000 freight journeys a day: c.290,000 businesses and 8.2m residents 16% of London’s traffic (3% HGV, 13% vans) 24% of CO 2 from road transport 89% (by weight) moved by road 5% of London’s employment Regulations and enforcement Fleet Operators Recognition Scheme

19 Taxi and Private Hire 22,157 licensed taxis (black cabs) 25,424 licensed taxi drivers 60,000 licensed private hire drivers 50,000 licensed private hire vehicles in London. On an average day, London's taxis will: Make just under 200,000 journeys Carry just under 300,000 passengers (an average of 1.48 passengers per taxi) Travel 3.2 miles per trip per taxi Responsible for the licensing of taxi and private hire services in London

20 Crossrail Due to start operating in 2018 73 miles of new railway linking 3 counties via London 13 miles of twin-bore tunnels under central London Serving 37 stations 24 trains per hour will increase London's rail-based transport network capacity by 10 % An estimated 200 million people will travel on Crossrail each year Europe’s biggest construction project

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