Topic outline
1a. Cross-sector links for long term transition planning
Most travel is not undertaken for its own sake, but is a derived demand and involves people travelling to destinations to take part in various activities, from carrying out employment, to purchasing goods, obtaining a service (e.g. eating out), or for social interaction.
The nature of these interactions with other sectors – and whether they are physical or virtual events – depends on the business and service delivery models that those sectors employ. Therefore, the overall volume of travel (numbers and lengths of trips) is largely outside the control of the transport sector and, traditionally, is not fully considered by these other sectors when they plan their business strategies and make investment decisions.
The SUMP-PLUS approach to cross-sectoral links builds on the many good examples of cross-sector partnerships( where other sectors collaborate in delivering transport outcomes, such as increasing active travel or reducing air pollution), to consider how the needs of the transport sector might play a fuller role in decisions taken about the locations of goods and services, or the extent to which the internet can replace or reduce physical travel. A shared goal of achieving net zero carbon gives an added incentive for sectors to work collaboratively, to avoid them simply ‘exporting’ carbon, from one to another.- Lesson #3: Cross sector coordination - LINKS File PDF document
This lesson will examine how decisions taken in other sectors impact on passenger and freight travel demand. - RELATED TOOL: Service delivery options File PDF document
This tool highlights general ways in which public and private sector organisations can provide their goods and services to their customers, at fixed or mobile sites, or to or within homes.
D1.4 - Initial conceptual framework to map and establish crosssector Links between major trip-generating sectors of the economy. Transport is largely a derived demand and serves the needs of producers and consumers across the various sectors of the economy. Hence, business decisions taken by these non-transport sectors can have a major influence on passenger and freight travel patterns (particularly in terms of the numbers and location of trips); yet these transport consequences and the impacts on traffic congestion, accidents, air pollution and CO2 emissions, are rarely taken into account when these sectors develop their models for (public) service delivery and business models. This deliverable provides an initial conceptual framework to help address this problem.
POLICY BRIEF: The role of cross-sector collaboration in reducing the need to travel / Authors: Prof. Peter Jones1, University College London, and Stuart Blackadder, Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM)
