ANNEX A
REPRODUCED FROM "A NEW DEAL FOR TRANSPORT:
BETTER FOR EVERYONE"
LOCAL TRAFFIC
MANAGEMENT: THE
POTENTIAL
Bus priority
— significant scope for development
in larger towns, with traffic restraint measures;
— local transport plans to develop
and implement coherent and comprehensive policies;
— Quality Partnerships and Quality
Contracts to secure better bus services.
Traffic calming
— scope for development of new designs
of traffic calming in, for example, historic cores of some towns,
popular countryside destinations and rural lanes; low speed and
home zones in residential areas.
Priority routes
— pedestrian route enhancements;
— priority route networks as in London
and Edinburgh provide a framework for application of traffic management
policies, e.g., bus priority, parking restraint, urban traffic
control.
Urban traffic control
— early progress possible in local
authorities to make fuller use of the best facilities already
available;
— over time, Government/industry collaboration
on new range of modern urban traffic management systems.
Driver information
— good signing can help efficient use
of the network. It needs to be well-maintained and updated; signing
can be made less environmentally intrusive;
— new techniques such as automatic
incident detection offer the prospect of strategic traffic management
control of highway networks;
— use of in-vehicle information services
likely to grow; route guidance will help reduce unnecessary travel,
especially when live traffic information is incorporated.
Vehicle measures
— restriction of certain areas to "clean"
or "quiet" vehicles.
Parking
— control of on-street parking to prevent
vehicles obstructing traffic and pedestrians;
— new types of equipment for controlling
on-street parking; electronic meters, pay and display machines
operated by magnetic cards, and voucher systems;
— parking enforcement by local authorities,
penalties used to fund enforcement, scope for more authorities
to take up new powers;
— parking control, on and off-street,
as a component of plans to reduce the amount of travel in and
to congested town centres;
— parking restraint strategies that
include packages of measures to improve access to town centres
by public transport and deter through-traffic and a levy on parking
at the workplace can substantially reduce the amount of traffic
in central areas.
Car Sharing Lanes
— High Occupancy Vehicle Lane in Leeds
recently opened as part of EU research project, will be monitored
for progress and potential elsewhere.
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