Graham James, Technical Director, will be presenting at the Annual Transport Practitioners’ Meeting in Manchester this month. He will be there to advise how to get the most out of the Active Mode Travel Appraisal Kit and how we might best appraise Carbon & Net Zero

Andrew Potter will be reprising and adding to his presentation on the business case decisions regarding ageing car parks.

The ‘Just the Ticket’ article is now available as a hard copy. This document provides 18 recommendations for changes in government parking policy and acts as the TPS guidelines for parking policy. The policy recommendations aim to help decarbonise transport through parking regulation. These hard copies will be distributed to members of the BPA.

Andrew Potter, Director at Parking Perspectives, is presenting at Intertraffic Amsterdam this April. The presentation will cover the UK’s Transport Planning Society document “Just the Ticket!”.

The UK’s Transport Planning Society document “Just the Ticket!” contains 18 recommendations for parking policy to help decarbonise transport. The recommendations are set out under 3 main themes, covering planning laws, making the use of public space more Equitable and environmental taxes and charges.

While explaining these, the presentation will also draw out a selection of more innovative policy ideas, including: a way to lock in lower parking standards now that enable people to transition from car dependent land use planning; Licensing of third-party car park operators to establish consistency and control on pricing in city centres, and moving away from using the duration of stay to set the parking charge, but instead using the time of entry and exit to identify and charge for a range of wider societal costs caused by the parking event.

The presentation includes animation and reference to a summary illustration of the recommendations made.

Andrew Potter, Director at Parking Perspectives, presented at Car Parks 2024 in London. His session examined the options available to those with an ageing multi-storey car park.

The day had looked at the issues arising with heavier and wider cars in car parks. These were presenting new issues for car park operators. The fire risk, for both traditional diesel and petrol cars, as well as EVs, were also considered.

Andrew set out a financial comparison between (a) retaining and repairing an existing structure, that might present structural limitations with heavier vehicles and be limited to 2.4m wide parking bays and tight ramps (b) rebuilding a modern car park designed to better accommodate larger and heavier contemporary cars, or (c) retaining an existing structure but operating it at lower parking densities.

A key point of his presentation was to introduce some work to establish users’ willingness to pay for wider bays and easier ramps, and demonstrate a payback cost model between these options.

Andrew Potter was a guest speaker for a Reinventing Parking pod cast. The interview, hosted by Paul Barter, examines the UK’s experience with parking maximums and discusses some of the successes and difficulties that have arisen since implementation. In particular the session looked at key lessons learnt and presented ideas to ensure that maximums could be as effective as intended in future applications.

Hear the podcast here:

https://www.reinventingparking.org/2024/03/lessons-from-UK.html

Graham James MA(Cantab) MSc MPhil FCILT has joined us from AtkinsRéalis where he was a technical director in their transport planning team, working on transport strategies, schemes and business cases across the UK and beyond.

He has over 25 years’ transport planning experience in the public sector and consultancy and has worked on parking and transport strategies for cities, major universities and medical centres. He also brings particular expertise in transport economics, appraisal and business cases across all modes of transport.

He is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), and an accredited Better Business Cases Practitioner.

We hope that he will add to his already extensive publication and speaking record and provide further dimension to our capability.

Andrew Potter led the last session at this conference at Lambeth Town Hall. He guided both the audience and panel to share experience and advice relating to driver compliance, options of enforcement and control that didn’t rely on cameras and how the implementation of school streets might work in villages and other rural settings where there were no alternative routes and a higher car dependency.

Several of the key ideas in the “Just the Ticket” policy recommendations document were shared with the audience by Andrew Potter at this meeting at the Transport Research Board’s Annual Meeting in Washington DC.

Attendance at the conference provides a wealth of new ideas and approaches being adopted across the world, and forms a mainstay in our annual calendar.