Transition Brighton – Transport Group
Discussion at 25 July 07 Meeting
Aim:
Mobility to be as cheap, quick and accessible as possible while minimising carbon (C) emissions and use of fossil fuels.
Car and vehicle useage: fossil-fuelled vehicles increasingly more expensive to run or use, and other types of vehicle, car sharing, public transport and other forms of mobility or distribution more attractive.
Urban design to reduce travel distances to meet basic needs.
Ideas
These were shared in a brainstorm but not discussed or evaluated.
Intelligent Travel Planning and Mobility Advice Centres
Mobility service centres advising on best combination of modes of transport within the city and between city and elsewhere. Available also on internet.
See John Whitely – reduction of car use by 16% in just over a year in York.
Car or Van Sharing (14 car clubs in Brighton)
Commercial Car Club (book by tel and online, parked in streets by stations etc, enter by smart card, access key by pin number, pay fuel by club card in car. Pay as you go, around £5 hr with deals for weekends and increased use. (e.g. Whizzgo). But needs to fit with various needs (e.g. some cars dogs allowed and with automatic gears).
Neighbourhood, School, Work car sharing schemes.
Businesses sharing Storage, Distribution and Delivery Methods
More Home Deliveries from Businesses, Shops and Supermarkets
Subsidised home deliveries and/or parking levy in supermarkets.
Bike Sharing
Bikes available and accessed by smart card. (c,f, Paris Velolib scheme)
Clean Fuels and Energy
Public transport and public services using Electric (EV) or Hybrid (HEV) (gas-electric, diesel-electric – gas being LPG or methane, diesel being biodiesel), with electricity being increasingly green.
Methane from biowaste.
Collection points for biofuels, vegetable oil etc. (Building on Magpie).
Incentives for Clean Fuels
EVs and HEVs exempt from parking and congestion charges
Taxi licences cheaper for EVs and HEVs and other low C vehicles.
Advice on Low C, Energy-efficient Cars and Vehicles
Info on City and Transition Town websites.
Including info on where alternative fuels can be bought locally.
Tricycles
With electric dynamo (?) assistance
Public Transport Cheap, Frequent, Accessible
Dedicated lanes
More services to and from home for elderly or disabled
Tram from Marina to King Alfred or Hove lawns?
Car Free Zones and Pedestrian and Bike/Trike Areas
Increased, with set times for deliveries to businesses
More car free days.
Parking Charges
More expensive for fossil-fuelled and high C emission vehicles.
Congestion Charges
Traffic Calming
20 mph areas
Bike or Tricycle Lanes (Infrastructure priorities)
Easier to use bikes and to walk.
Bike lanes safe and free from parked cars.
Bike racks with shelters, bike storage in flats and houses, fold up bike.
School Journeys
Safe bike routes to schools, travelling in small groups.
Road Pricing for Inter-Urban Transport
Spatial and Land Use Planning
Re-ntegrate work and living spaces.
Use urban design to minimise car journeys to meet basic needs (work, school, shops etc)
More Use of Teleworking
Business Development Planning
Visitors and Tourism
Encouraged to use train, bus and bike, and locally hired clean fuel cars. (integrated travel planning and advice centres)
Regional Planning
Use of Rail (and Canals and Sea)
To distribute food and other goods
Next Steps
Meet to plan action short and longer term:
How Transition Brighton can be an effective mechanism for change.
What we can do (with funds if necessary) and where we need to work with local government and local businesses.
Key steps may well include:
Awareness raising
Analysis of city situation – including involvement of other residents in the process, and their needs and attitudes and readiness to change - as well as local government and business. .
Setting short and long term goals in the context of a 20 year perspective
Collecting data and identifying key measures for targets
Identifying quick wins – such as “intelligent travel planning” (looking at York’s experience), setting up info and advice on line and in travel centres, school cycle runs etc. Have successes well published.
Transport group – notes from meeting on 25th July
