Issue - meetings

Intelligent Mobility phase on work packages

Meeting: 13/07/2016 - Greater Cambridge Partnership Executive Board (Item 9)

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To consider the attached report.

Decision:

The Executive Board:

 

(a)        APPROVED the following three work packages:

 

(i)            Researching and data-gathering about why people make specific transport choices in the Greater Cambridge area.

(ii)           Investigating the current legislative, commercial and other barriers and opportunities with regards to integrated ticketing and on-line ticket purchase in Greater Cambridge.

(iii)          Conducting an initial feasibility study on the potential of running autonomous vehicle trials, using the unique aspects of the guided busway.

 

(b)        NOTED that in early 2017 the Board will be recommended to approve a fourth work-package, to support better digital way-finding in the City and to improve the experience of the travelling public for leisure, business and tourism purposes.

 

Minutes:

Consideration was given to a report which sought approval to pursue three research and investigative work packages at a cost of £90,000 to inform future thinking and highlighted a fourth work package for which a separate proposal would follow in early 2017.

 

Noelle Godfrey, Programme Director at Connecting Cambridgeshire, presented the report and highlighted that intelligent mobility had been defined as ‘the convergence of digital industries, transport infrastructure, vehicles and users to provide innovative services relating to different modes of transport and traffic management’ and that this work was separate to but complemented the Smart City programme.

 

It was proposed that the following three work packages were undertaken in the first instance, which spanned the key aspects of intelligent mobility noted as being access, automation, demand and supply and integration:

 

·         researching and data-gathering about why people made specific transport choices in the Greater Cambridge area;

·         investigating the current legislative, commercial and other barriers and opportunities with regards to integrated ticketing and online ticket purchase in Greater Cambridge;

·         conducting an initial feasibility study on the potential of running autonomous vehicle trials, using the unique aspects of the guided busway.

 

Councillor Roger Hickford, Chairman of the Joint Assembly, reported that the Joint Assembly had considered this report at its meeting on 7 July 2016 where it received overwhelming support. 

 

The Executive Board:

 

(a)        APPROVED the following three work packages:

 

(i)            Researching and data-gathering about why people make specific transport choices in the Greater Cambridge area.

(ii)           Investigating the current legislative, commercial and other barriers and opportunities with regards to integrated ticketing and on-line ticket purchase in Greater Cambridge.

(iii)          Conducting an initial feasibility study on the potential of running autonomous vehicle trials, using the unique aspects of the guided busway.

 

(b)        NOTED that in early 2017 the Board will be recommended to approve a fourth work-package, to support better digital way-finding in the City and to improve the experience of the travelling public for leisure, business and tourism purposes.

 


Meeting: 07/07/2016 - Greater Cambridge Partnership Joint Assembly (Item 7)

7 Smart Cambridge: First Steps towards Intelligent Mobility pdf icon PDF 240 KB

To consider the attached report.

Decision:

The Joint Assembly:

 

(a)        RECOMMENDED that the Executive Board approves the following three work packages:

 

(i)    research and data-gathering about why people make specific transport choices in the Greater Cambridge area;

(ii)   investigating the current legislative, commercial and other barriers and opportunities with regards to integrated ticketing and on-line ticket purchase in Greater Cambridge;

(iii)   conducting an initial feasibility study on the potential of running autonomous vehicle trials, using the unique aspects of the guided busway.

 

(b)       NOTED that in early 2017 the Board will be recommended to approve a fourth work-package, to support better digital way-finding in the City and to improve the experience of the travelling public for leisure, business and tourism purposes.

 

Minutes:

The Joint Assembly considered a report to seek endorsement and subsequent approval by the Executive Board to pursue three research and investigative work packages at a cost of £90,000 in respect of intelligent mobility.

 

Noelle Godfrey, Programme Director for Connecting Cambridgeshire, presented the report and reminded Members that intelligent mobility had been defined as ‘the convergence of digital industries, transport infrastructure, vehicles and users to provide innovative services relating to different modes of transport and traffic management’.  The three packages proposed for further research or investigation included:

 

·         research and data gathering about why people made specific transport choices in the Greater Cambridge area;

·         investigate the current legislative, commercial and other barriers and opportunities with regards to integrated ticketing and online ticket purchase in Greater Cambridge;

·         conduct an initial feasibility study on the potential of running autonomous vehicle trials, using the unique aspects of the guided busway.

 

Councillor Bridget Smith, in respect of the first bullet point, had assumed that this kind of research had already been undertaken as part of the early work in respect of transport infrastructure schemes and the recommended use of bus lanes.  She made the point that officers had consistently said that people would use buses if the infrastructure was improved, so questioned how they could make such a claim if they did not yet have the evidence.  In terms of modal shift, Councillor Smith made the point that engagement with people who had already made the change needed to take place, rather than with those people who indicated that they would make the change in the future. 

 

Noelle Godfrey reported that the proposal in the report came from extensive research undertaken by the Department for Transport and other key stakeholders about pinch-points for travellers, particularly in respect of multi-modal journeys.  She was therefore keen to correlate that for the Greater Cambridge area, particularly in view of the fact that a significant number of people cycled in Cambridge and its surrounding areas. 

 

With 12 votes in favour and 2 against, the Joint Assembly:

 

(a)        RECOMMENDED that the Executive Board approves the following three work packages:

 

(i)    research and data-gathering about why people make specific transport choices in the Greater Cambridge area;

(ii)   investigating the current legislative, commercial and other barriers and opportunities with regards to integrated ticketing and on-line ticket purchase in Greater Cambridge;

(iii)   conducting an initial feasibility study on the potential of running autonomous vehicle trials, using the unique aspects of the guided busway.

 

(b)       NOTED that in early 2017 the Board will be recommended to approve a fourth work-package, to support better digital way-finding in the City and to improve the experience of the travelling public for leisure, business and tourism purposes.

 

NOTE – Helen Valentine left the meeting at this stage of proceedings.