Introduction to CATCH

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Introduction to CATCH

• Dr Karen Booth
• Environment Officer
• Merseytravel

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Project

• Three year demonstration project
• Funded through the EC Life-Environment Programme
• 1.48 million in grant-aid
• Co-financed through UK Energy Saving Trust

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Partnership

• Merseytravel
• Liverpool City Council
• Arriva NorthWest and Wales Ltd
• TTR Ltd
• CTP Napoli, Italy
• Suceava Municipality, Romania

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Project Objectives

• Promote sustainable mobility
• Significantly improve urban air quality
• Contribute to the ECs Kyoto commitments
• Develop an innovative partnership-based approach
  to transport related environmental policy in
  Liverpool
• Disseminate results and produce best practice
  guidelines
• Transfer knowledge and experience to other member
  states and Candidate Countries

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Liverpool

• Major port on NW coast of UK
• Population of 440,000
• City of Renaissance
• Capital of Culture in 2008
• Region is preparing for sustained growth and
  regeneration

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Liverpool

• Economic issues
• - Regeneration
• - Increased wealth
• Social issues
• - Accessibility
• - Social exclusion
• - Public health
• Environmental issues
• - Air quality

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Project Structure

• 5 Key Topic Areas
• Vehicle Technology
• Community Health
• Behavioural Change
• Urban Air Quality
• Urban Regeneration

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Vehicle Technology

• Retrofitting Arriva buses
• Liverpool City Council introduced clean vehicles
  in fleet
• New diesel-electric hybrid bus in Liverpool
• LPG vehicles in Romania

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Community Health

• CHD, Asthma and Obesity on increase
• 1 in 6 under 12 year olds are now obese
• Areas of deprivation in Merseyside people are
  more than twice as likely to die from a
  respiratory disease than the average for England
• Physical activity levels - low
• Health Impact Assessment undertaken

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Behavioural Change

• In UK low car ownership but using them more
• Using cars for shorter distances
• Aspirations and status
• Looked at ways to encourage change

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Urban Air Quality

• Liverpool has specific air quality problems
  associated with road traffic
• Measures being put in place to prevent it getting
  worse
• Innovative monitoring technology

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Urban Regeneration

• Increased wealth increased cars?
• Integrated transport solutions
• Improving quality of life

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Expected Results

• Greater awareness by the public of the impact
  personal travel decisions on the environment
• Improved air quality and quality of life
• Enhanced assessment of the environmental and
  health impacts of transport measures
• Improved collaboration between public and private
  organisations
• Policy recommendations and guidelines
• Introduction of environmental policies in EU and
  Candidate countries

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And finally..

• Enjoy the rest of the conference!!

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Coffee Exhibition
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