Distillate Workshop 21.05.07

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Distillate Workshop21.05.07

• DfT Thoughts

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• Theres a lot going on (even more than usual)
• Theres a lot Im not directly involved in
• Ill try to take quick questions
• But may need to follow up after

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Issues covered today

• Modelling / Appraisal developments in DfT
• Recent, current, upcoming
• Current concerns / interests
• Any specific role for Distillate?

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Things happening

• NATA refresh announced 21st May, will include
• Much revised format
• Review shape of guidance, easier to use
• Review cross modal consistency
• Include something for maintenance schemes
• Proportionality (size / cost of scheme)
• Review vfm guidance, eg in light of Eddington
  wider economic benefits, social inclusion /
  distribution, environment)
• Update 2002 base year

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Can we also incorporate?

• Streamlining? What we require at Programme Entry
  versus CA, and how we ask for it.
• Role for lite models? (Going beyond Major
  Scheme Appraisal) Circumstances where clear
  conclusions can be reached much easier? Option
  development etc?

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Recent Webtag revisions

• External costs of Rail use (April)
• Walking and Cycling Schemes (March)
• Speed / flow relationships (March)
• Values of time and operating costs (minor
  changes) (February)
• Option values and non-use values (Feb)
• Modelling and appraisal of road pricing schemes
  (still under consultation) (Feb)
• Oct 2006 Greenhouse gases, vot and op cost,
  estimation and treatment of scheme costs

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Forthcoming developments(In part in response to
Eddington more later)

• Reliability
• Freight values
• New Major Project Guidance (building on
  consultation on DfT site, including delivery,
  cost sharing and incentives)
• Developments dependent on transport schemes
  (clarify current guidance, later produce improved
  methodology)
• Review consistency of appraisal approaches across
  Departments, transport related and wider

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Other current interests (1)

• Eftec work on landscape valuation
• New landscape valuation 3 phases
• Typologies for landscape and schemes
• Develop and test valuation methods
• Elicit and test values
• Aim to bring landscape impacts into the
  monetised vfm assessment. In time add more
  monetised impacts?

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Other current interests (2)

• Wider Eddington / Stern repercussions
• Is a major shaping factor behind current and
  longer term NATA revisions
• Requires new look at incorporating wider economic
  benefits (competition, agglomeration, globally
  mobile resources), social inclusion /
  distribution, environment.
• Review compatibility of vfm methodology across
  modes

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Other current interests (3)

• Eddington implications / context
• We anticipate a second regional prioritisation
  exercise next year
• Eddington recommendations have consequences re
  how regional priorities are determined (their
  objectives, overall consequences, how regions
  consider vfm) among transport schemes and against
  other expenditures.
• Need for good strategic analysis tools option
  generation, testing / sifting, appropriate vfm
  methods, combined / strategic impact

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TIF

• Actual scheme bids expected mid year
• Strategic modelling clearly relevant again
• Modelling and appraisal guidance directly
  relevant to TIF in response to requests from
  promoters (Forecasting, and uncertainty, using
  transport models, fares assumptions, road pricing
  modelling)
• TIF and Eddington might there be an opportunity
  for further Eddington schemes alongside TIF,
  and if so how to sift, prioritise, assess?

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• Strategic modelling and analysis has featured a
  lot
• What might Distillate do to aid developments
  here?