Issue - meetings

Purpose.

To inform of the success of the Solent Future Transport Zone bid.

RECOMMENDED that the report be noted.

The report was noted.

Hayley Chivers introduced the report and in response to questions, clarified the following points:

All the projects across the Solent area are listed in the report. 

Detailed information was prepared in preparation for the bid stage and has been reviewed to consider the impact of the pandemic.   A beak down of the forecast project costs could be circulated if required but would not necessarily be on a geographical level.

A Mobility as a Service (MaaS) platform is planned to be introduced which would be available where the user could pay for different forms of transport with one app for example.

The Department for Transport rejected the council’s bids for the Higher Education Institute Consolidation Project, which involved deliveries to the university and for a combined Dynamic Demand Responsive Transport (DDRT) and Freight Multi-purpose vehicle project.  However, the DDRT standalone trial was accepted. 

Councillor Stagg explained that in Mansfield the bus company and big companies worked together to produce a DDRT app to enable staff to book transport from the end of their road at a requested time.   There is no set route. 

DECISION

The report was noted.