Consultation Questions Interim Carbon Plan

5.5 Transport Questions

This section highlights these desired outcomes from Transport:

- Relocalisation of services and technology and to reduce the need to travel.
- Access to village, town and city centres is enhanced for pedestrians, cyclists and public transport.
- All benefit from the relocalisation of facilities and services, including the local economy, particularly small businesses.
- We are all feeling fitter and healthier from being more active outdoors.
- Wider environmental benefits, including reduced pollution and improved biodiversity.
- Ultra-low emission vehicles are used for travel in rural areas and between rural and urban areas where the distances are prohibitive for active travel and existing commercial models for public transport are not viable.
- A great proportion of people travelling by sustainable modes of transport.

The plan has identified a series of actions for achieving these outcomes.

Please rate the actions from very high importance to not at all important.

If you think an action is too controversial to implement and should instead be discussed at the Citizens’ Assembly by a representative sample of Devon’s residents, please indicate this.

Provide up-to-date digital information and advice on reducing the need to travel and the most sustainable travel choice

Promote development which will assist in relocalisation in all settings (rural through to urban), including mixed use development, development meeting local needs and creating opportunities to live, work and use services locally.

Continue to make use of funding opportunities to provide employment and community assets across Devon, particularly where the market is unlikely to provide this, in order to minimise the need to travel for access to services.

Ensure that the carbon implications are considered when making efficiency savings to community services

Review opportunities to reduce vehicle capacity, particularly where it can support other objectives (i.e. urban centre regeneration, street cafes, active travel routes.)

Develop Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans (LCWIPs) with communities for each city, town and their surrounding areas.

Improve strategic cycle routes within and between settlements.

Greater provision of cycle training, including bike maintenance and repair

Where possible, design pavements and junctions to prioritise pedestrians and cyclists over vehicular traffic.

Enable schemes that would allow residents to trial different types of cycles.

Introduce reduced speed limits for safer shared public space.

Provide support for bike rental schemes.

Local Plans to ensure new developments are designed with filtered permeability to promote sustainable travel

Implement car free days in Devon’s urban areas

Help develop innovative transport solutions in rural areas

Promote car sharing technology and platforms to make it easier to link drivers and passengers

Introduce Ultra-Low-Emission-Vehicle taxis by placing requirements on the licensing process.

Explore long term sustainable options for community and voluntary sector transport.

Extend the prevalence of true bus priority on the highway

Enhancement of bus priority measures, including bus lanes and bus-only streets, to make bus travel relatively more attractive than driving.

Protect and seek to enhance funding for financially supported local bus routes, to ensure people can continue to access services, employment and events without requiring access to a car.

Promote Total Transport, integrating various transport services (school transport, public bus services, patient transport etc.) to enable more efficient use of vehicles and reduce dead mileage.

Request that national government removes VAT from bicycles and e-bikes.

Through the Peninsula Sub-National Body work with government to pilot and implement a low carbon fuel solution for rail travel in the South West.

Through the Peninsula Sub-National Transport Body, work with government to improve strategic and branch line rail infrastructure and services, including reviewing the reopening of lines and increasing access to rail and integration with other modes of transport. Work with government for required funding.

Devon Climate Emergency to write to government, giving their support to increase the fixed penalties for idling under The Road Traffic (Vehicle Emissions) (Fixed Penalty) (England) Regulations 2002, from £20 to £50. Implement an awareness raising campaign for the public.

Work with government to incorporate the cost of carbon into highway funding decisions.

Take advantage of opportunities arising from the upcoming National Bus Strategy to deliver long-term, sustained improvements in bus services

Greater provision of cycle parking across Devon and at key interchange locations

Ensure provision of mobility hubs in new developments of appropriate size, where modal change can occur easily.

Ensure public transport enables easy transition to active travel for the first and last mile.

Introduce integrated ticketing

Create nodal car parks at strategic points to encourage onward car sharing

Develop an electric vehicle strategy to increase electric vehicle charging provision across Devon, including in key public spaces and workplaces, on street charging and plans to address the tourism sector.

Local Plans to ensure provision of Electric Vehicle charging points where parking spaces are provided in new developments

Electric charging and shared mobility on Devon Climate Emergency member owned assets

Devon Climate Emergency partner organisations and larger businesses in the county to transition their fleets to Ultra Low Emission Vehicles, including shared cycles and ecargo bikes.

Support operators to decarbonise bus fleet, e.g. through supporting applications for central government funding

Seek opportunities for funding for moving public transport fleets across to zero or low carbon

Work with government to ensure financial incentives are set at the required level to encourage the purchase of ultra-low emissions vehicles

 Work with government to ensure electricity supplies in new buildings provide capacity for electric vehicle charging, including shared charging facilities in high-density development. 

Seize opportunities to trial low carbon propulsion for aviation.

Local Plans and Neighbourhood Plans to demonstrate how they will shape places in ways that contribute to radical reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to facilitate the achievement of Net-Zero in Devon, as a primary planning objective. This must include the requirement for new development to provide credible plans for it to contribute to Devon’s net-zero carbon future. 

Support the provision of electric cargo bikes to enable low-carbon deliveries in urban areas 

Work with hauliers to identify opportunities to reduce emissions from freight movement, for example by planning consolidation centres

Trial, demonstrate and share learnings of synthetic fuels, biogas and hydrogen powered HGVs and other large vehicles.

Local Plans to safeguard existing rail freight infrastructure.

Support the development of on-farm bio-methane collection from agricultural wastes to supply bio-methane for farm machinery. Seize opportunities to trial on County farms together with electrification. (Discussed in more detail in Food, Land and Sea section).

Work with government to restore and promote rail freight grants to incentivise modal shift and provide funding for new terminals and infrastructure.

Are there any actions that you think are important to reduce carbon emissions in this sector that the plan has not covered?

No
Yes

If you answered ‘yes’ please add any additional information in the text box below. Please explain why you believe each additional action is important.

Should any of these additional actions be discussed at the Citizens’ Assembly?

No
Yes

If you answered ‘yes’ please detail which actions in the text box below.

Do you have any additional comments you would like to be considered on this section’s actions?

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Yes

If you answered ‘yes’ please detail which actions in the text box below.

You do not have to fill out all sections of this questionnaire. Sections 4, 5 and 6 are optional. Feel free to respond to all of the themes addressed in these sections or just those you are most interested in.

Please allow up to 45 minutes to fill out this form.

Section 1 This section asks some questions about you and will help us to understand the needs of different people

About You

Section 2: Your Views on Climate Change

In this section, we’d like to find out more about your views on climate change.

Section 3: Feelings About the Plan

4. Key Outcomes and Priority Actions

Key Outcomes

The priority actions to achieve these outcomes are outlined below. Please indicate whether you agree with these actions:

The Built Environment section of the Interim Carbon Plan highlighted 5 key anticipated outcomes. Please indicate whether you support these outcomes.

Outcome

The priority actions to achieve these outcomes are outlined below. Please indicate whether you agree with these actions:

Action

The Transport section of the Interim Carbon Plan highlighted 4 key anticipated outcomes. Please indicate whether your support these outcomes.

Outcome

The priority actions to achieve these outcomes are outlined below. Please indicate whether you agree with these actions:

Action:

The Food, Land and Sea section of the Interim Carbon Plan highlighted 5 key anticipated outcomes. Please indicate whether you support these outcomes.

Outcome:

The priority actions to achieve these outcomes are outlined below. Please indicate whether you agree with these actions:

Action

The Economy and Resources section of the Interim Carbon Plan highlighted 8 key anticipated outcomes. Please indicate whether you support these outcomes.

Outcome:

The priority actions to achieve these outcomes are outlined below. Please indicate whether you agree with these actions:

Action:

This completes Section 4. If you do not wish to give your view on each of the actions in the Plan, please proceed to Section 6.

5. Themed Questions

5.1 Cross Cutting Themes

This section highlights these desired outcomes from Cross Cutting themes:

The plan has identified a series of actions for achieving these outcomes.

Please rate the actions from very high importance to not at all important.

Actions:

5.2 Economy and Resources Questions

This section highlights these desired outcomes from Economy and Resources:

The plan has identified a series of actions for achieving these outcomes.

Please rate the actions from very high importance to not at all important.

Actions:

Outcome: 