Transport for London

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Transport for London Surface Transport Leon
Daniels Managing Director 19th September 2013
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London key statistics

• 8.2m residents
• 30m visitors each year
• 4.2m jobs
• 3.3m homes
• 21 of UK total output / 13 population
• 395,000 businesses

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Key Responsibilities

• Maintaining and enhancing a reliable, accessible
  and high quality Bus, Tube and Rail network
• Ensuring reliable operation of London's road
  network while reducing congestion
• Enabling more people to cycle walk, more
  safely, more often
• Improving road safety and reducing casualties
• Maximising the potential for London's rivers
• Supporting more sustainable patterns of freight
  delivery servicing
• Supporting provision of door-to-door transport
  services
• Delivering improvements in London's air quality
  and reducing CO2 emissions

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About 24 million trips are made each day to, from
and within London

• Every weekday in Greater London
• 11 million car / motorcycle trips
• 6 million on foot
• 6 million journeys are made on Londons buses
• 3.5 million on the Tube
• 2.1million by national rail
• 0.5 million by bicycle
• 0.2 million by taxi

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London is growing...every five years, one
million more trips / day

• By 2031, Londons population is forecast to grow
  by 1.25 million from 2010
• Employment is forecast to increase by 750,000
  jobs
• Increased trips (from 2008 base)
• 15 total
• 30 public transport

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MTS mode share target
2000 Cycling 1 Walking 24 Public
transport 28 Private motorised
transport 47 2006 Cycling
2 Walking 24 Public Transport 31 Private
motorised Transport 43 2031 Cycling
5 Walking 25 Public Transport 34 Private
motorised Transport 37
22.6m Trips per day
24m Trips per day
27m Trips per day
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Tube and Rail Network

• Used by over 1.2 billion people in 2012 - 64
  million more passenger journeys than the previous
  year
• 270 Tube and 83 Overground stations served
• During the three-hour morning peak, London's
  busiest Tube station is Waterloo, with 57,000
  people entering - 82 million passengers a year.
• Deepest lift shaft Hampstead - 55.2m/181ft
• Length of tube network 249 miles
• 114,500 miles travelled by each Tube train each
  year
• 4134 carriages make up 47 miles of trains

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London Undergrounds core performance
2003 data refers to 2003/04 financial year 2012
data refers to either YTD or 2012 calendar year
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Road Network and Management

• 9,200 miles of all roads
• 678 miles of Strategic roads
• 363 miles of Transport for London Road Network

• Responsibility for the maintenance, management
  and operation of
• London Streets Traffic Control Centre (LSTCC) a
  24/7, 365 day a year operation
• 6000 sets of traffic signals, over half directly
  controllable from LSTCC
• Some of the most sophisticated traffic signals
  technology in the world
• Over 1400 CCTV Cameras
• 140 roadside variable message signs

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Central London Congestion Charging Zone
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Impacts of the Congestion Charge

• Reduction in traffic in the zone around 20 but
  other benefits include
• Economy
• Broadly neutral impact overall on business
• Environment
• Congestion Charging directly responsible for
  reductions of traffic emissions inside Zone
  equating to 8 of NOx, 7 of PM10 and 16 of CO2
• Road safety
• Reduced numbers of cars have led to less personal
  injury road accidents in the central zone
• Net revenues
• In 2011/12 Congestion Charging raised 132
  million to be spent on other transport
  initiatives within London
• 1bn revenue has been generated since Scheme Go
  Live

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Traffic management solutions developed for the
Olympics

• Creation of Olympic Route Network (ORN) 109
  miles long with 30 miles of Games Lanes
• Use of Active Traffic Management (ATM) to manage
  traffic in Real Time
• Use of Travel Demand Management (TDM) measures to
  reduce peak time demand at key locations at
  certain times

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ACTIVE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT OLYMPIC ROUTE NETWORK

• ATM
• SCOOT intelligent traffic control technology to
  retimed and rephase traffic signals to balance
  needs of Games Family movements with general road
  users
• Dynamic management of the road network in the
  event of unplanned activities or emergencies
• Moratorium on roadworks on the ORN and strategic
  roads to ensure a smooth traffic flow
• ORN Traffic Measures included
• Banned Turns
• Removal of some parking and loading bays and
  Pedestrian crossings
• Provision of Games Lanes on one third of the ORN
  or 0.3 or Londons Road Network

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Success of TDM

• Approach
• Optimise the use of the transport networks
• Short term behaviour change
• Two audiences regular travellers, including
  businesses and spectators
• Works alongside operational measures such as
  Central London Zone, the ORN and the last mile
• Result
• One third of Londoners reported a change to their
  weekday daily travel during the Games
• Helped to avert severe crowding and support a
  great London 2012
• Morning peak traffic in central London down by 16
  per cent during the Olympic Games and 10 per cent
  during the Paralympic Games

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Bus Network

• One of the largest and most comprehensive urban
  bus systems in the world
• Over 7,600 London buses carry over 6.5m
  passengers on 675 different routes each weekday
  (over 2 billion passengers/year)
• More than 94 per cent of Londoners live within
  400 metres of one of the 19,500 bus stops in the
  Capital.
• Contribution to improving air quality with the
  New Bus for London, hybrid buses and NOx-reducing
  technology. Over 520 hybrid buses are now in
  service, focused on routes running in air-quality
  priority areas.
• Network reliability is at best-ever levels,
  delivered through a system of route-level Quality
  Incentive Contracts. Each routes contract is
  tendered every five years.

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Cycling

• Cycle Hire
• Launched in Central London
• East and west expansions
• Cycle Hire numbers
• 180,000 members
• 19.2 million hires since start
• 560 docking stations
• c.8,000 bikes
• Record for daily hires is 47,000
• Cycle Superhighways
• 173 increase in cycling
• 2 mode share
• 570,000 cycle trips per day
• Aim to increase by 400 by 2026
• Cycle safety programme

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Freight

• 281,000 freight journeys a day c.290,000
  businesses and 8.2m residents
• 16 of Londons traffic (3 HGV, 13 vans)
• 24 of CO2 from road transport
• 89 (by weight) moved by road
• 5 of Londons employment
• Regulations and enforcement
• Fleet Operators Recognition Scheme

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Taxi and Private Hire
Responsible for the licensing of taxi and private
hire services in London

• 22,157 licensed taxis (black cabs)
• 25,424 licensed taxi drivers
• 60,000 licensed private hire drivers
• 50,000 licensed private hire vehicles in
  London.
• On an average day, London's taxis will
• Make just under 200,000 journeys
• Carry just under 300,000 passengers (an average
  of 1.48 passengers per taxi)
• Travel 3.2 miles per trip per taxi

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Crossrail

• Due to start operating in 2018
• 73 miles of new railway linking 3 counties via
  London
• 13 miles of twin-bore tunnels under central
  London
• Serving 37 stations
• 24 trains per hour will increase London's
  rail-based transport network capacity by 10
• An estimated 200 million people will travel on
  Crossrail each year
• Europes biggest construction project

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