ALG TEC Executive Sub-Committee
Development of the London Freight Item
Strategy
No:
Report by:
Damian Price
Date:
16 June 2005
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Officer:
Damian Price
Telephone:
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Transport and Planning
Section Manager
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Summary:
This report sets out:
 The background to the development of the
TfL facilitated London-wide Freight
Strategy;
 Information on the proposed content of
the Freight Strategy;
 Information on how the freight strategy
is to be taken forward.
Recommendations:
The Committee is recommended to:
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Note TfL’s proposals to develop a freight
strategy and ALG involvement in the
development of the London-wide Strategy;
Comment on the proposed content of the
Freight Strategy.
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Development of London Freight Strategy
Introduction
1. Transport for London is facilitating and co-ordinating
the development of a London-wide strategy. The purpose
of the strategy is to identify what can be done to
ensure London has an economically and environmentally
efficient freight transportation system.
2. The purpose of this report is to:
 Update ALG TEC members of the development of the
strategy;
 Outline the proposed content of the strategy;
 Outline how TfL intend to take the strategy
forward.
ALG TEC Executive received a report on the 9 February
outlining initial development of the strategy.
Background
3. The London Sustainable Distribution Partnership (LSDP)
is a body of organisations concerned with freight
transport in London. The LSDP brings together
representatives from the ALG, TfL, freight industry,
business organisations and environmental groups to
identify how best to take freight transport forward in
London.
4. The group recognised that, whilst it had some ability
to resolve issues amongst stakeholders and take forward
certain projects and initiatives, it didn’t have an
over-arching framework within which to operate.
Therefore, TfL, as facilitators of the LSDP, began the
process of developing a London-wide freight strategy.
This strategy would provide the steer for freight
policy development in the capital.
5. An initial workshop was held in December 2004 to
consider the main freight issues that could be covered
within a London-wide freight strategy. A working group
was set up to build on those issues and formulate a
draft freight strategy for review by the LSDP prior to
wider consultation. The working group consists of
representatives from:
o ALG;
o TfL;
o GLA;
o London First;
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FTA;
Freight Operators;
LoTAG;
The London Forum.
Process for development of freight strategy to date
6. From the issues raised at the December workshop, a
number of hypotheses relating to potential improvements
for freight in London were established. The working
group investigated the hypotheses and collated relevant
data. This was then assessed by the group as to the
relevance or necessity for including each issue in the
draft strategy. (The hypotheses were not those
preferred by the group and have been chosen primarily
as starting points to obtain data and feedback from
stakeholders).
7. The working group drew together the main issues to form
an initial draft strategy which was reviewed by the
LSDP at a meeting on 23 May 2005.
Vision and objectives for freight in London
8. The Working Group identified London’s draft freight
vision as:
“The reliable and efficient movement of freight to,
from and within London in balance with the needs of
other transport users, London’s environment and
Londoners’ quality of life”.
9. The Working Group initially identified London’s
freight objectives as:
“Economy:
- Support London’s growth in population and economic
activity;
- Improve the efficiency of freight distribution and
servicing within London;
- Balance the needs of freight transport and servicing
with those of other transport users and other demands
for London’s resources.
Environment:
- Improve air quality in London by reducing emissions
of local air pollutants and CO2 caused by freight and
servicing;
- Improve quality of life in London by minimising the
impact of noise and vibration on the public
Society:
- Improve health and safety in London by reducing the
number of deaths and injuries associated with freight
movement and servicing;
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- Improve quality of life in London by reducing
negative impacts of freight and servicing on
communities.
10.
The working group identified TfL’s freight role
as:
“To influence the movement of freight within London in
order to meet the needs of London’s economy,
environment and society by providing leadership and coordination to the freight industry, freight users and
regulators”.
The ‘Strategic Choices’ of the London-wide Freight Strategy
11.
TfL has, in conjunction with the members of the
working group, produced a set of strategic choices
which form the basis of the Freight Strategy. These are
identified as:
 Base Case: Activity that is already happening or
scheduled to happen, and would take place without
the Freight Plan. This provides the basis from
which the Freight Plan must build on;
 ‘Do More’ choices: A range of activities that
either exist at the moment but could be
highlighted, increased or better managed; new
activity that is easy to implement; or research
into potential activity to understand how it could
be best implemented.
 ‘Do Most’ choices: A range of activities for
consideration that would require TfL / Boroughs /
industry to do something different and at a higher
cost.
12.
The Base Case activities are attached in Appendix
One. The ‘Do more’ and ‘Do most’ initiatives are listed
below:
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The Strategic choices that impact on reliability:
Do More:
 Review of parking / loading regulations;
 Work with boroughs as appropriate to identify and
improve hot spots for delivery;
 Rollout of night time deliveries where
appropriate, in return for best practice;
 Investigate ways of giving freight and servicing
vehicles priority over cars;
 Exploit freight opportunities within TfL
Investment Programme;
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Investigate rollout of 'time dial' system to
ensure parking regulations enforced fairly.
Do Most:
 Investigate a reward system for best practice;
 Use CCTV monitoring in delivery hotspots;
 Rollout of Moovit subject to review;
 Implement ways to give freight and servicing
vehicles priority over cars, subject to review
14.
The Strategic choices that impact on matching
demand to capacity:
Do More:
 Take further steps to develop freight on water;
 Develop approach to consolidation centres and
continue to encourage consolidation;
 Review impacts of home delivery and use outputs to
plan freight demand better;
 Research into Port of London wharves in Kent &
Essex to understand road capacity requirements in
response to future expansion;
 Continue to market and develop freight travel
plans and workplace travel plans;
 Monitor possibilities of increased rail freight;
 Understand the impact of regulations on freight
operators;
 Create point of view around road pricing for
freight and use to influence development of road
pricing in London as appropriate.
Do Most:
 Development of consolidation centres to support
construction where appropriate;
 Investment in water infrastructure;
 Development and implementation of integrated black
box technology in freight vehicles.
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The strategic choices on safety:
Do More:
Monitor goods vehicle accidents and produce annual
report;
Encourage driver training;
Exploit freight opportunities within TfL
Investment Programme.
Do Most:
Development and implementation of integrated black
box technology in freight vehicles;
Reward system for best practice;
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Improve vehicle operator by purchasing an
additional driver training simulator.
The strategic choices on the environment:
Do More:
 Educate around environmentally friendly
technologies, fuels and vehicles, and its benefits
to operators, via FQP and FTP programmes;
 Encourage driver training;
 Exploit freight opportunities within TfL
Investment Programme.
Do Most:
 Reward system for best practice;
 Development and implementation of integrated black
box technology in freight vehicles.
17.
The strategic choices on communications and the
environment:
Do More:
 Review, set agenda and deliver via sub regional
Freight Quality Partnerships within London;
 Business survey to understand business needs and
satisfaction around delivery in London;
 Better communicate funding available to support
freight;
 Expand and promote a cross-modal TfL freight team
/ centre of excellence;
 Promote the use of TfL road journey planner and
supporting congestion information;
 Promote greater awareness of procedure for special
routing agreements for LLCS;
 Communications strategy to operators, business,
public and boroughs.
Do Most:
 Further develop communications strategy
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The strategic choices on the planning process:
Do More:
Ensure early freight input into all TfL / Borough
planning and decision making processes;
Identify, highlight, promote best practice with
boroughs on dealing with planning applications;
Close interaction between TfL freight, Boroughs
and land use planning to proactively identify and
safeguard all key sites (water and rail), as per
Land for Transport SPG;
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Use planning guidance to ensure freight is
adequately provided for in any review or
development of routes, town centres etc;
Further encouragement of LIPs / BSP focus on
freight best practice;
Ensure SRDFs make provision for freight,
especially in East and West London where rail
could be used to support new construction
opportunities;
Encourage the use of Section 106 agreements where
appropriate, by closer working between freight
team, boroughs and land use planning;
Review identified opportunities for rail terminal
heads which could accommodate more than one
customer, prioritise and actively support the most
important.
Do Most:
Long term review of town centres and how they can
be best served by freight;
Industry works with partners, e.g. TfL and GLA, to
develop new terminal sites.
19.
It is important to note that the ‘Do More’ and ‘Do
Most’ choices will need to undergo further detailed
examination to identify:
 What resources would be needed and where those
resources could be obtained;
 Who should lead on them and which stakeholders
would need to be involved;
 How choices could be taken forward and if they are
actually appropriate given reaction to them,
resources needed and likely impact;
 Specific detail of any proposed initiative for
further discussion and consultation with affected
stakeholders.
The ALG is keen to play a role in this to ensure that
boroughs’ views are incorporated into the consultation
Action Plan.
The next steps for the London Freight Strategy
20.
TfL is proposing to set up a new freight unit in
order to take the freight strategy forward and to
assist in the implementation of freight initiatives. It
is understood that the freight unit will bring together
a number of staff already within TfL into one cohesive
section. There will also be specific individuals who
will liaise directly with boroughs on freight. An
outline of the structure is provided in Appendix Two.
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21.
The next steps for developing the London Freight
Plan are as follows:
 23 May 2005 – 24 June 2005: Opportunity for input
and comment on outline draft Strategy;
 16 June 2005: Discussion by ALG TEC Executive Sub
Committee;
 Mid July: ALG facilitate borough event for input
and comment;
 July 2005 – Feb 2006: TfL Freight Unit collates
work on base case initiatives, pulls together
action plan fort taking forward all elements of
the Freight Strategy and produces draft borough
bidding guidance. ALG officers will ensure that
ALG TEC Members have further opportunity to review
and comment on the Freight Action Plan as it
develops;
 Feb 2006: Wider stakeholder consultation on
Freight Action Plan.
Equalities Considerations
22.
There are no equalities considerations for this
report.
Financial Considerations
23.
There are no financial considerations for this
report.
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Appendix One
London Freight Plan
Base Case Freight Initiatives:
Demand Management Initiatives:
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Central London congestion charging, modifications to
fleet scheme
Develop Freight Travel Plans
Further invest in Port of London docks, BW develop
freight on water by BW
Upgrade of rail network to support Haven ports and
Shellhaven traffic
Rail corridor plans
Identify freight requirements as part of rail upgrades
and timetable changes
Reliability Initiatives:
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Night time delivery and Moovit trials
Improved parking / loading compliance via LIPs
TfL’s & Boroughs’ Network management duty
Selected road building, removal of congestion
bottlenecks
DfT Freight Research Programme
Security initiative
Safety Initiatives:
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London Road Safety Plan
HGV / cyclist campaign
Driver training needs assessment
Environment Initiatives
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Low Emission Zone
Noise mapping and low noise road surfaces
London Lorry Control Scheme (with exemption for
battery/hybrid)
Implementing conclusions of 2004 LLCS review
DfT Freight Research Programme
Communication Initiatives
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Pythia journey planner
DfT Sustainable Distribution Fund
TfL freight website and one stop shops
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Freight Quality Plans
Planning Process Initiatives
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Safeguarding of identified wharves and rail sites, Land
for Transport SPG
Lorry Road User Charging
Review proposals for freight in LIPs and LDFs
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Working in conjunction
with Borough
Partnerships
Forum coordinator
Senior
Forum coordinator
Sub Regional Partnership
Co-ordination
Manage the Industry
Coordinators, Development
Manager and Forum
Coordinators to deliver
against the priorities and
plans identified
Monitor and report progress
against business plans
Develop coherent and
integrated objectives/
business plans for London
Freight Plan
Main Activities:
Utilities & Servicing
Waste
Analyst
Development
Coordinator
Manager
Develop and co-ordinate methods of
communications / marketing within and across
regional groups
Support Borough Partnerships by providing
input on LIP and BSP processes for all freight
initiatives
Develop the relationship with SRFQPs to create
support for initiatives and trials
Integrate and review the impact of initiatives and
solutions developed by the Industry Action
Groups onto existing Sub Regional initiatives
Provide the interface between TfL and boroughs
for all Freight issues through the SRFQPs
Main Activities:
Retail
Freight Support
Construction
Industry Action Group
Head
Freight
of Freight
Unit Unit
Manager
Business Planning Group
TfL Freight Unit of 10 staff
Support the BPG and SRFQPs
to source and secure funding
for trials and solutions
Drive the development of
industry action plans (including
proposals for revisions to
business plans) to support the
objectives identified by the
Freight Plan
Develop economic and
environmental models and tools
to understand the impact of
options and demonstrate
benefits to support the delivery
of solutions specific to the
industry group
Working with TfL London Rail
Freight Strategy manager bring together appropriate
representation from operators,
modes, special interest groups
to form action groups to deliver
on issues
Main Activities:
Organisational structure for the Freight Unit