Traffic management for civilised streets and cleaner air

C-ITS (Co-operative Intelligent Transport Systems)

​Paul Darlow, Traffic & Network Manager, Portsmouth City Council

C-ITS is an area of technology involving communications between vehicles and infrastructure and between vehicles themselves. This allows road users and traffic managers to share information and use it to coordinate their actions. Portsmouth City Council has focussed in 2017/18 initially on one-way communication from vehicles to infrastructure via bluetooth, to determine travel-time between network nodes. This enables whole-route travel-times to be calculated, which has been enabled for the city's Eastern Corridor as a test-bed area for the technology. Origin and destination points of traffic movements across the network can be measured, including the routes taken.

 

Portsmouth's on-street and off-street EV network

Hayley Chivers, Portsmouth City Council

Portsmouth is one of only two local authorities to have been awarded the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) On-street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS). Portsmouth have been awarded £100k towards 75% of the capital costs of electric vehicle chargepoint infrastructure for residential areas which do not benefit from off-street parking. The bid was for 59 electric vehicle charge points across 21 locations. In July 2017, approval was given for a two-year trial of CityEV electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints in three off-street PCC owned car park locations with high visitor numbers and dwell time. The trial will include free EV charging for at least the first year. 

Improving air quality for near schools

Matt Croucher, Associate & Sustainable Transport Lead, WSP

As part of the London Mayor’s plans to tackle air quality, WSP has been commissioned to identify hard-hitting measures to lower emissions and exposure to pollution in and around 50 of the capital’s most polluted primary schools. Primary school children are amongst the most vulnerable groups, with 25% of primary schools in areas with dangerously high levels of air pollution. Road transport is a major contributor to ground-based emissions, and has a significant impact on air quality, accounting for around half of NOx emissions. These London’s School Air Quality Audits will provide a robust process and toolkit of measures to serve as best practice guidance to be rolled out more widely to schools.

Scooting – it’s been under our noses all this time

James Rodger, Scootfit

This presentation is designed to give the audience an introduction to scooting and how it can play a significant role in increasing active travel in any community or environment in the UK, alongside walking and cycling. Scooting is a serious and credible form of personal transportation available to everyone for short journeys from 2-60 mins. The presentation will be talk around the many physical benefits of scooting, its origins, fighting obesity in children and adults, the popularity of scooting, scooting vs cycling and walking, active travel at school and at the workplace, and how Scoot Fit plays a role in bringing all these things together in creating behavioural and social change.