FOI001621 FOI Transport, Highways & Parking

1. Does your Council have (access to) a traffic or transport model used to inform the planning of your area? – If not you can skip to Q8
2. What Strategic Model platform is it (e.g. SATURN/VISSUM/SINTRAM)?
3. Does your model include multi-modal/public transport modelling? And can you give us exam-ples of how the multi-modal element of your model has contributed to planning/infrastructure in-vestment decisions (if it is easier to direct us to examples, please do so)?
4. Do you operate the model yourself (Yes/No)? And/or do you have a consultant who provides modelling services (if so which one)? And do you have any challenges with the approach taken (e.g. response timescales/ limitations of testing development/infrastructure planning)?
5. Does your model focus on traditional (AM/PM) peak hours or have you considered other peri-ods, if so which ones and why?
6. When you developed your forecast model, what scenarios did you consider? - Core, High/Low Growth, Behaviour Change (and have you considered other population change and/or develop-ment growth forecasts differing from TEMPro) – if so please expand and explain why?
7. Are there any model limitations that you would have liked to have done better/differently for any future modelling (e.g. limitations of link/node-based capacity)?
8. Do you have one or more micro-simulation models and why? And if so, what platform are these (e.g. VISSIM/Paramics)?
9. What was the cost of developing your model. Was this produced in house or by a consultant. If a consultant which consultant?
10. What was the cost of obtaining the survey information?
11. How long did it take to obtain the survey information?
12. How long did it take to develop and test the model before it was used?
13. Do you charge developers to use your model. If so how much do you charge?