Western Peripheral Route - Objectives

Objectives

The Modern Transport System Objectives and the Western Peripheral Route Specific Objectives

• Acceptability and Participation
• Deliverability
• Environment
• Safety, Accidents
• Safety, Security
• Economic Activity
• Economic Benefits
• Transportation Integration
• Land Use Integration
• Policy Integration
• Base Accessibility
• Change in Severance

Acceptability and Participation

MTS Objectives

• AP1 The strategy will be developed through public participation and be endorsed by the Community.

Deliverability

• D1 The strategy will be achievable, both practically and financially, and demonstrate best value.

Environment

MTS Objectives

• EV1 To develop a transport system which protects, enhances and promotes the natural, built and cultural heritage of the North East.
• EV2 To develop a transport system which protects non-renewable resources, and minimises the impact of transport on air quality, both locally and globally.

WPR Specific Objectives

• EV3 To reduce the impact of traffic, including in particular HGV traffic, on Aberdeen and the surrounding area whilst incurring minimal damage to the natural environment.
• EV4 To contribute towards reducing air pollution problems, particularly in the city centre where the problems are greatest.

Safety, Accidents

MTS Objectives

• SA1 To reduce the number and severity of casualties involved in transport related accidents.

WPR Specific Objectives

• SA2 To provide a consistent, high quality, efficient and effective route with a minimal number of high quality, high capacity junctions to maximise user safety.
• SA3 To reduce the traffic levels on the existing road network thereby reducing the risk of accidents.

Safety, Security

MTS Objectives

• SS1 To provide a practical, healthy, safe and attractive transport system
• SS2 To provide a secure travel environment which is safe from (and perceived to be safe from) intimidation and danger for all transport users and the wider community.

Economic Activity

MTS Objectives

• EA1 To deliver a transport system for the North East of Scotland which enhances the competitiveness of the area, its business sectors and constituent communities, and thereby supports the Scottish and UK economy.
  EA2 To reduce the impact of peripherality by improving external links to the North East by rail, road, sea and air.

WPR Specific Objectives

• EA3 To provide access between proposed rail freight transfer depots, industrial estates and businesses, Park and Ride car parks, road and air links, to ensure journey times and costs are minimised.
• EA4 To reduce congestion and remove the bottleneck in the Trans European Network thereby increasing the reliability of journey times through and around the City, helping to limit the effects of peripherality nationally and internationally.

Economic Benefits

MTS Objectives

• EE1 To enhance the efficiency of the transport networks.
• EE2 To ensure whole-life, long-term value of transport networks, in capital and running costs.

Transportation Integration

MTS Objectives

• IT1 To enable efficient movements of people or goods, even when more than one mode is used, by integrating different modes of transport to provide seamless interchange and cross-modal synergies.
• IT2 To ensure integration of the North East into international transport systems.

WPR Specific Objectives

• IT3 To produce a consistent standard of route that will bypass the city from A90 (North) to A90 (South) and attract nonessential traffic away from Aberdeen and inappropriate minor routes.
• IT4 To allow the reallocation of road space to more appropriate priority forms of transport.
• IT5 To provide access between proposed Park and Ride car parks.

Land Use Integration

MTS Objectives

• IL1 To integrate land use and transportation to ensure that transport networks serve development as efficiently as possible.
• IL2 To create a long-term sustainable framework of settlements in a hierarchy, by locating new homes, jobs and services in scale with each other and with the role and function of each settlement.

WPR Specific Objectives

• IL3 To provide good accessibility to the land required for the sustainable development of Aberdeen
• IL4 To provide an attractive link from residential areas on the periphery of Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire to the industrial estates and main employment areas on the periphery of Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, reducing the need to travel through the city centre.

Policy Integration

MTS Objectives

• IP1 To consider transport when developing other policy initiatives, such as social inclusion, health, education and social care objectives.

WPR Specific Objectives

• IP2 To produce a route which will improve access to employment and generate job opportunities thereby contributing to the social inclusion policies of both Councils.

Base Accessibility

MTS Objectives

• AB1 To reduce the impact of peripherality and improve the perception of accessibility of the North East of Scotland nationally and internationally.
• AB2 To provide communities with a choice of means of travel.
• AB3 To improve people's access to jobs and employment.

WPR Specific Objectives

• AB4 To significantly reduce the level of traffic in Aberdeen without reducing accessibility to or within the city.

Change in Severance

MTS Objectives

• AC1 To minimise traffic induced severance on communities