Colin Brader

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Colin Brader Integrated Transport Planning
Ltd Cambridge Futures 23rd November 2001
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CRTS Ltd.
Stagecoach RTI Cambridge Rapid Transit
Limited AIM To upgrade the public transport
network Providing a viable alternative to the
private car
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The Public Transport Challenge
If you travel much by public transport in
Britain these days you soon come to feel like a
member of some unwanted sub class, like the
handicapped or unemployed, and that everyone
wishes you would just go away Bill Bryson,
Notes From a Small Island 1995.
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How Is Modal Choice Made?

• One mode of public transport cannot satisfy
• all market segments, all trip types and all trip
  patterns

Target Market - The Marginal Car User

• Is modal choice made at all?
• Cost minimisation criteria?
• TAS (UK) low cost sensitivity
• Increasing affluence altered decision making

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Defining Rapid Transit
Intermediate Transit - Between the Bus and the
Tram

• High Quality Vehicle - Intermediate Transit
• Maximising segregation and/or priority
• Information at stops, in home and remote
  locations
• Ticketing options - smartcard
• An integral part of urban design/land use planning

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CRTS Line One South

• 70 Segregated
• Protected in Cambridge Local Plan
• Serving the new park and ride
• Linking Addenbrookes, Railway station and City
  Centre
• Establishing the principles

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CRTS - Key Facts
CRTS Supercam Length 7.5 Km 25
Km Cost 15-20m 55-60m Patronage (per
day) 2500 16,000 Planning Dec 2000 Part of
TWA Consultation Summer 2001 Early
2002 Transport Works Early 2002 Spring
2002 Open for passengers 2004 2006
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Funding Options

• Part funded through fares and franchises
• Equity partnership from contractors and
  manufacturers
• Additional funding from proposed developments
  along route
• Minimise any reliance on public funding

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CRTS - A network wide system

• Reacting to Structure Plan Allocations
• Supporting Local Transport Plan Objectives
• Pursuit through partnership
• Working alongside an enhanced bus network

Project Manager Graham Rayner www.rtiplc.co.uk