Developing Integrated Public Transport Systems to Compete with the Car

In partnership with Landor LINKS, SYSTRA hosted a webinar series on the theme of ‘Developing Integrated Public Transport Systems to Compete with the Car’. Below you watch the videos from the webinars in the series.

To truly compete with the private car, public transport systems need to be planned and delivered as connected and integrated networks rather than ‘mode by mode’ offers that too often compete instead of complement.

A successful multimodal strategy needs to focus not only on creating viable networks, but will include key mobility management strategies such as pricing reforms, positive parking policy, land use development impacts and community liveability.

This three-part series of webinars highlighted the key elements of the multi-modal strategy that the UK should work towards. How do we integrate a series of modal layers that provides a seamless, convenient and attractive overall system for all? Expert speakers considered the full system evolution including planning, funding, delivery and operation.

Public transport – what’s next in funding?

Thursday 28 November

With finite funds available, how do we provide a sustainable public transport network to compete with the car?

The single largest cost for millions of households across the UK is transport. Several recent studies have recommended that investment should target extensions of public transport networks outside London where they would be most effective at reducing transport poverty. But how would the funds be best spent?

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Building a Successful Public transport network

Tuesday 17 September 2024

Building a successful public transport networks
What are the key elements for a successful public transport network – and why are they seemingly so difficult to deliver in the UK?

Session led by: Marc Winsland, Senior Consultant, SYSTRA

Speakers

David Connolly, Director of Low Carbon Mobility, SYSTRA
Gideon Salutin, Senior Researcher, Social Market Foundation and author of Getting the Measure of Transport Poverty
Beate Kubitz, transport consultant and co-author of Mobility as a Service: Its development, deployment, and future
Melanie Watson, independent public transport consultant

Public Transport as an Enabler for Growth

Wednesday 23 October 2024

With finite funds available, how do we provide a the networks and services on which economies depend. Good public transport systems provide equal access to employment and services such as health and education and so promote economic activity, and have direct benefits to people, businesses, the environment, and the overall economy.

Transport systems — road, buses, trams, rail and cycling routes — must link various routes across local authority and regional boundaries. A review of spatial planning, currently underway, starts with a vision of what development is seeking to achieve and then tests scenarios to determine the optimum design and transport infrastructure to realise this vision.

Within the net zero agenda, public transport and other sustainable transport must be the solutions to optimise the potential of any new development, and should be a prime determinant of where development should be located and also intensified.

Investment in transport networks can influence the functioning of labour markets, business productivity and competitiveness. These impacts interact over time and can lead to improvements in economic output and the geographical distribution of economic activity. They can also impact on the environment, quality of life and the overall attractiveness of towns and cities.

Session led by: Cathryn Jones, Associate Director, SYSTRA

Speakers

Jenny Raggett, Director, Transport for New Homes
Dominic Wally, founder and director, Connect Economics
Thorsten Donn, Office for Urban Planning and Housing, Stuttgart and Katja Stille, Director, Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design
David Milner, Director, Create Streets

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