This PowerPoint presentation has been created to accompany GMTU Report 999

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GMATS Surveys 2002 Report 999P - Tameside Key
Centre

• This PowerPoint presentation has been created to
  accompany GMTU Report 999 GMATS Tameside Key
  Centre report
• Whereas report 999 presents detailed tabulations,
  this presentation has been designed to provide a
  summary of the main aspects of the data

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GMATS Surveys 2002 Report 999P - Tameside Key
Centre

• The presentation has been designed so that it can
  be used independently of GMTU Report 999 for
  those who want an overview of the traffic
  movements around Tameside but do not wish to see
  the detailed tabulations
• GMTU Reports 999 999P are part of a series of
  reports presenting the data from the 2002 GMATS
  surveys

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GMATS Surveys 2002 Tameside Key Centre

• Travellers leaving Tameside Key Centre
  (Ashton-under-Lyne centre) by car bus were
  asked about their journeys as they crossed a
  cordon around the centre
• Rail passengers boarding at Ashton station were
  also interviewed
• This presentation gives an overview of the
  findings from those surveys
• It considers first people who had visited the
  Centre, then those travelling through

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Tameside Key Centre Definition

• Note that the GMATS survey points lie outside the
  ring road. The reason for this was to maximise
  the usefulness of the data, particularly in
  developing traffic models
• The Key Centre monitoring points for the LTP lie
  inside the ring road except to the north where
  the railway line forms the boundary
• This latter cordon defines the Key Centre used in
  this analysis

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Visitors to the Key Centre How may visited the
key centre and how did they travel?

• Over 23,000 were in the Key Centre between 0700
  1900
• 77 used car
• 22 used bus
• Less than 1 used train

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Visitors to the Key Centre What were they doing
there?

• 48 were shopping
• 27 were at work

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Visitors to the Key Centre What were they doing
there?

• Car dominated all activities
• 75 education
• 83 work
• 70 shopping
• 70 leisure
• Over 60 of all other purposes

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Visitors to the Key Centre Where did they go
after their visit?

• 71 of car 70 of bus trips ended within
  Tameside borough
• Only 4 of car trips and 3 of bus trips ended
  outside Greater Manchester
• In contrast, 25 of rail trips ended outside GM
  and only 13 within Tameside borough

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Visitors to the Key Centre How did their
destination vary with their activity?

• For all activities more than 70 ended their trip
  in the borough
• Workers (7) were most likely to travel outside
  GM, followed those on business visits (5)

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Visitors to the Key Centre How far did they
travel? Car and bus users only

• For most activities, car trips were longer on
  average than bus trips
• Bus trips averaged 4km and car trips 5km
• Car trips were significantly longer than bus
  trips for workers (5.5km), business visits
  (7.8km) and education (6.3km)

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Visitors to the Key Centre How did bus users get
to their Key Centre bus stop?

• 95 walked
• 4 interchanged from another bus

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Visitors to the Key Centre What was the average
occupancy of visitors cars?

• On average each car carried 1.53 people
• Occupancy varied widely with activity in the
  Centre
• Work 1.22
• Shopping 1.79
• Education 1.83
• Social/leisure 1.59
• 82 of drivers leaving work, 65 of those on
  business visits and also leisure travelled alone

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Visitors to the Key Centre Where did they park?

• For all activities in the centre more people
  parked off-street than on-street
• Only 26 parked on-street
• 76 of shoppers and 77 of workers parked
  off-street

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Visitors to the Key Centre What percentage of car
drivers paid to park?

• 49 of those parking off-street paid to park
• 18 of workers and 57 of shoppers pay to park

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Commercial Vehicles leaving the Key Centre Where
are they going?

• 84 of commercial vehicles leaving the Key Centre
  were Light Goods vehicles (LGVs)
• 70 of all Goods Vehicles had journeys which
  finished within Tameside and 10 outside GM
• Only 3 of commercial vehicles leaving the Key
  Centre were HGVs

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Commercial Vehicles What were they doing in the
Key Centre?

• 43 of all commercial vehicles were collecting or
  delivering goods in the Key Centre and 45 were
  on other business

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Commercial Vehicles How far did they travel?

• The average distance for all goods vehicles was
  7km
• HGVs travelled an average of 47 km compared to
  7km for LGVs and 3km for MGVs

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Visitors to the Key Centre What did they do at
their destination?

• 69 of all trips leaving the Key Centre were
  going home
• The next main activities were going shopping (7)
  and business visits (6) and to drop off/pick up
  passengers (6)

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Visitors to the Key Centre Where did they go/for
what purpose?

• 72 of trips finished in Tameside. This did not
  vary much for different destination activities
• 27 of people going home finished in the rest of
  Greater Manchester and only 1 outside the county

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All trips passing through the survey cordon

• All the previous slides have referred to trips
  starting in the Key centre. These next slides
  look at all trips crossing the survey cordon
• In the case of bus trips, all trips crossing the
  survey cordon are included
• In the case of rail, only those trips which start
  at Ashton-under-Lyne Station are included i.e.
  passengers on trains travelling through the
  station were not surveyed

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All trips passing through the survey cordon How
and where were they travelling?

• 88 of all trips crossing the cordon were made by
  car, 11 by bus and less than 1 by rail
• 70 of car and 65 of bus trips finished within
  Tameside
• Only 5 of rail trips finished inside Tameside,
  72 were travelling to Manchester and 10
  finished outside Greater Manchester

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All trips passing through the survey cordon What
was their purpose?

• 30 of all trips were either Home to Work or
  Work to Home trips
• Home to Shopping and Shopping to Home
  accounted for another 17 of trips
• 17 of Home to Employers Business and
  Employers Business to Home ended outside
  Greater Manchester

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All trips passing through the survey cordon How
far were they travelling?

• The average distance travelled by cars was 10km,
  buses 6km and rail 14km
• The longest distances for all modes were Home to
  employers business (26km) and Employers
  business to home (25km)
• Home to work trips were 13km by car, 8km by bus
  and 13km by rail. The return directions were
  11km, 6km and 18Km respectively

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Bus trips passing through the survey cordon How
did people get to their destination from the bus?

• 93 of people walked from the alighting bus stop
• 6 caught another bus

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Bus trips passing through the survey cordon What
was their average occupancy?

• On average there were 10 people per bus crossing
  the cordon between 0700 and 1900
• This varied from an average occupancy of 8 during
  the morning peak (0700 to 0930) and 10 during
  the inter-peak (0930 to 1530) to 14 in the
  evening peak (1530 to 1830)

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Rail trips passing through the survey cordon How
did people get to their destination from the
train?

• 60 walked from their alighting station
• 22 caught a Metrolink tram
• 11 caught another train

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Car trips passing through the survey cordon What
was their average occupancy?

• On average each car had 1.48 occupants
• Occupancy was lowest in the morning peak with an
  average occupancy of only 1.35
• 76 of cars had no passengers in the morning peak
  

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Commercial Vehicles passing through the survey
cordon Where are they going?

• 63 of all goods vehicle journeys through the
  cordon finish in Tameside
• For LGVs 66 and MGVs 57 finished their journey
  in Tameside
• 46 of lorries with 4 or more axles finish their
  journeys outside Greater Manchester as compared
  to 8 of LGVs and 10 of MGVs

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Commercial Vehicles passing through the survey
cordon What were they doing in the Key Centre?

• 34 of all goods vehicle crossing the cordon were
  being used to move goods
• In the case of lorries this rises to over 75
• 46 of LGVs were being used for business use and
  11 for personal use

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GMATS Surveys 2002

• For further information on the Tameside Key
  Centre surveys or any other GMATS surveys please
  contact
• John Wharf 0161 455 2052
• Peter Bearon 0161 455 2062