Integrated land use and transport planning: tools for understanding and predicting

This is the second session in the Planning Transport Futures Today webinar series.

The way land use changes over time, not just physically but in terms of character (how it is used and inhabited by different communities), is hugely complex. To understand and predict how those changes will interact with, and feed back into, any development proposal or planning policy, we need new approaches and toolkits.

Planning is full of tough choices and compromises, but there are ways to encourage more effective integration of land use and transport planning. This webinar will showcase the options:

Create an evidence base: what critical mass is needed to make a bus service self-sustaining? How can planners be aware of all different accessibility requirements of different housing types? Has consideration been given as to how existing transport services could be integrated within new sites to encourage active travel and walkable neighbourhoods?

Bring together local authorities, developers and stakeholders such as National Highways, bus operators and future mobility providers to ensure they have the information they need to create the right sustainable transport strategy

Develop new, and improve existing, tools and technologies to better integrate land use and transport

Undertake place-based study to identify the optimal locations for effective, low-carbon strategies

Chair: Emma Anforth, Associate Director, SYSTRA

Ed Parham, Director of Innovation and Design, Space Syntax
Amy Beasley, Senior Economic Development Manager, National Highways
Katie Adnams, Urban Innovation Team Lead, Connected Places Catapult
Tom Simpson, Land-Use Transport Interaction Modeller, SYSTRA

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The first two bullet point in the e-mail invitation to attend this Webinar read:-

'Create an evidence base: what critical mass is needed to make a bus service self-sustaining? How can planners be aware of all different accessibility requirements of different housing types? Has consideration been given as to how existing transport services could be integrated within new sites to encourage active travel and walkable neighbourhoods?'

'Bring together local authorities, developers and stakeholders such as National Highways, bus operators and future mobility providers to ensure they have the information they need to create the right sustainable transport strategy.'

I was expecting therefore a lengthy discussion of how we can ensure that a new development is adequately served by bus services right from the time the first homes are put up for sale.
Instead buses were only mentioned at the end of the panel discussion, and then only in response to a very pertinent question 'from the floor'.

To integrate buses into urban planning we must NATIONWIDE ABOLISH bus deregulation. We must set up Regional Transport Authorities which plan all local bus, tram and train services. The RTAs will ensure that where there is a new development, there is public transport already there before properties are put up for sale.