11. Prep for report

See slides for example of week 11 template

Place making - Cogan as destination

Policy context

• Objectives need to make sense in terms of WelTAG criteria
• Strategic context - look at Planning Policy Wales
• WelTAG 5 criteria - use the criteria to assess your proposals
• Net Zero Wales - broad appraoch, not on detailed emissions
• Transport Sector Emission Pathway 2019

Key problems

• List of key problems based on secondary data & site visit
• Add to list using your access calculations: what new problems arise, how are identified problems illuminated?
• Primary data, secondary data & third data (access calculations)
• BUT WE’RE NOT ALLOWED TO CO-DEFINE PROBLEMS
• A problem is that we don’t know the problems without asking people. Methods for addressing this problem. How people actually travel
• Problem of feedback for interventions - iterative rather than waterfall
• The elephant in the room is climate crisis. This changes everything.

Accessibility levels for different groups

• Use 3 personas given
• Range of activities
• Choice of modes & routes
• Costs in time & money (& cognitive effort & cultural shift?)
• Experience

Problem mapping

• List of problems, evidence, cause and objectives
• Focussed on personas mobility, rather than geographical boundaries
• Do this collectively
• Use Healthy Streets

Deliberation for targets

• Look for commonalities (stacking)
• Use car as benchmark
• Straight outta Cogan - it’s not all about the speed

Minimum levels

• minimum acceptablel levels of accessibility
• consider destinations, modes, cost, experience as well as time
• Set Minimum Acceptable Level of Accessibility (MALA - another fine acronym)
• identify characteristics that most affect accessibilty

Objectives

• General national objectives eg FGA

Site specific objectives to general objectives

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Options!

• What do objectives mean? Options!
• Details on mechanisms through which objectives can be achieved
• Finalise lisit of WelTAG objectives in relation to all problems identified on the site - put them in a matrix (template in week 11)
• Options come from the targets/objectives. And problems.
• cross border collaboration - cardiff & vale of glamorgan

Questions

Are there any budgets? No! What are possibilities of cross-discplinary working? “transport only one part of placemaking” - make sure relevant to site, and risks from working Can we criticise policy making process as part of the problem? Yes, but need to take into account audience (ie local and/or Welsh govt). Add iterative, participatory process “You can suggest anything but make sure your case is backed up and makes sense”

Developing options

• Map them out – see example
• For each long list option include short desc, location, how option tackles problem, objective appraisal
• Jacobs report A483 Transport Study (week 8)
• Do 3 options

Impact assessment

• Broad, not usual level of detail.
• Make sure basing it on sustainability (livability and accessibility) (do use throughout, as this is the module theme!)
• Impacts: social & cultural, environmental & economic (make sure categorisation is justified eg Litman 2011)
• stage 1 - evidence impacts qualitatively
• stage 2 - impacts of short listed options
• stage 3 - quantify relevant impacts in more detail (watch out for repeition!)
• Impact scale! In the week 11 template folder ˋUSE > DECIDE > DEVELOPˋ
• The 7 point scale of impact big plus to minus.
• Bear in mind criteria for assessment

Recommendations for Stage 2

• discount options that fail to solve problem, fail to meet objectives, have significant negative impact, impossible to deliver, involve too much risk
• and the opposite for acceptable options
• module themes of accessbility, livability and er, I have forgotten
• entrails refining the thought behind
• Select 2 options. And go into detail of shortlisted options.
• Highlight the new words in stage 2, as will be repeating words
• Can add extra images

Stage 2 outline business case

1. strategic fit
2. Well-being
3. Affordability
4. Deliverability
5. Managment

Stage 3

• State option taking forward based on analysis
• May be shortlisted or agreed combination of them

Summary

• Submit peer review form
• Format - see week 11!
• Read uni AI policy, have discussion in group

Structure (see slides)

• Can choose whether Welsh govt or local govt as audience

1. Executive summary

• 200 words excluded from word count

2. Table of contents

• eg intro, methodology, policy alignment etc.
• not included in word count

3. Introduction

• max 300 words
• rationale (bigger picture why sustainable transport impt)
• aims (see slides)

3. Methodology

• max 400 words
• overview of process, plus shortcoming in WelTAG process
• primary data - site
• secondary data - datashine, digimap, air qualitly, traffic stats

4. Policy alignment

500 words??

• Asssesmsent relating to WG policy
• Key docs well being, active travel act, welsh transport strategy, net zero strategy
• illustrate awareness strategic context

5. Cogan site context

• use secondary data give overview - density, land use, traffic levels, population characteristics, topography
• ensure draw out implications for current and future sustainable transport trends

6. Problem statement

• problem table. I want a problem table
• problem summary - sustainability, accessibiltiy and livability
• What the fuck is sustainiability anyway? - acdaemic research
• summarise do nothing scenario - back up with data/evidence

7. Minimum Acceptable Levels of Access

• Demonstrate conducted delberative exercise based on principles of justice & using access calculations - Put co-production stuff in here tbh, I’d put it under problem statement

8. Objectives

• summary
• align WG policy by using table

9. Impacts

• Table main impacts
• Summary why impacts chosen future
• Long list of options 3
• use tamplate week 11 folder

10. Appraisal against objectives

• table 🥱

11. Appraisal of impacts

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12. Summary recommendations

• which ones to take to stage 2. And why.

13. Stage 2: shortlist options

• supporting evidence, from both academic and policy sources

14. Delivery, financial and commercial case

• Short description.
• In stage 1 or stage

15.Stage 3: conclusion

16. Appendices - excl word count

• Accessibility calcuations (excluded from word count). For 3 personas
• Group working - brief overview of task allocation in group, who contributed to which parts?

Most of word count on section 1

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