Parking Review Issue 345: January 2021

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CODE WORDS The private parking sector must embrace reform, says the IPC’s Vicky Jarrett PA R K I N G • T R A F F I C • K E R B S I D E

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Your stories are important and deserve to be heard, shared and honoured

Parking show will go on...

The British Parking Awards 2021 will take place this summer

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ike many people in the parking sector, the last major event I attended was the British Parking Awards back in March 2020. Sadly, before the month, was out the rapid spread of the pernicious COVID-19 virus had seen the country enter a severe lockdown that introduced a cycle of restrictions on movement and social gatherings that has continued into the New Year. Now, as I put the finishing touches to the January 2021 edition, ‘Lockdown 3’ has come into effect. This is a necessary move, needed to safeguard an NHS once again under immense pressure as it strives to protect as many people as possible while processes are put in place for delivering the innovative vaccines that have been developed at record pace in recent months.

The new lockdown presents many challenges for each of us in our personal and professional lives, with the ‘stay at home’ rules meaning attending events and non-essential travel are now off limits. This means that Landor LINKS is rescheduling its planned programme of events. While we are able to translate many conferences and exhibitions into online formats, harnessing everything we learned from staging webinars and virtual events last year, the British Parking Awards 2021 ceremony is evolving in a different way.

When submitting entries or enquiring about the ‘real deadline’, many people have expressed their hope that the parking awards ceremony will be staged as an ‘in-person’ event. Recognising the desire of our community to celebrate in one another’s company, Landor LINKS’s ambition is that the winners of the British Parking Awards 2021 will be revealed in a live event staged during the summer in a safe but enjoyable manner. By the summer, we all hope that a successful vaccination campaign will have led to the worst impacts of the virus being mitigated.

Being the 20th anniversary awards, the 2021 ceremony was always going to be a special event, but a social gathering will have an added poignancy for everyone in parking if it marks the restoration of a semblance of normal life.

We will be making announcements about the event in the coming weeks at www.britishparkingawards.co.uk. In the meantime, please keep sending in your entries (yes, as per tradition, the deadline has been extended!). Your stories are important, your achievements amazing and all deserve to heard, shared and honoured. #StaySafe Mark Moran Editor

Parking Review online: www.parkingreview.co.uk COVER IMAGE: VICKY JARRETT, IPC SENIOR OPERATIONS MANAGER

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CONTENTS

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When the trucks stopped Worries about a new variant of COVID saw truck parking management plans for Kent put into action before Christmas

Making space for safer movement Traffic + Parking 2020 explored how the parking sector has responded to the challenges of the pandemic

Road traffic is a health emergency Government needs to defend Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, writes transport consultant Lucy Marstrand-Taussig

Ensuring justice for all London Tribunals provides an accessible way for the public to appeal against fines, says chief adjudicator Caroline Hamilton

Cracking the code All eyes will be on the private parking sector as the unified code of practice draws nearer, says the IPC’s Vicky Jarrett

MPs ask taxing questions The House of Commons’ Transport Committee is investigating the roll-out of zero emission vehicles and case for road pricing

Councils are leading the charge PATROL provided a forum for local authorities to discuss their roles in the creation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure

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Editorial Managing editor: Mark Moran Tel: 020 7091 7871 mark.moran@landor.co.uk Deputy editor: Deniz Huseyin Tel: 020 7091 7872 deniz.huseyin@landor.co.uk Editorial director: Peter Stonham

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The ABCDs of EVs UK cities need to work with commercial fleet operators to deliver electric vehicle infrastructure, says tech firm AppyWay

Leeds sunshine powered park & ride Leeds City Council’s new £38.5m solar-powered project at Stourton will encourage electric-powered motoring

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NEWS The DfT used social media to alert HGV drivers to the latest developments regarding travel and parking options in Kent

When the trucks stopped Worries about a new variant of COVID-19 saw Brexit truck parking management plans put into action before Christmas

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mergency truck management and parking protocols developed in anticipation of potential disruption caused by the completion of Brexit were implemented in order to deal with a cessation of crossChannel movement due to the emergence of a more contagious strain of COVID-19. The travel ban between the UK and France was imposed by the French government on Sunday 20 December after the British government warned of a new, fast-spreading variant of coronavirus and had introduced stricter Tier 4 restrictions across London, southern and eastern England. The ban affected air, rail and ferry traffic, including lorry drivers. The Channel is a vital trade route for the UK, with around 10,000 lorries travelling between Dover and Calais each day, largely delivering fresh produce.

The suspension of ferry and Eurotunnel services resulted in growing tailbacks of HGVs heading to Dover on the M20. Hauliers were advised to avoid travelling to Kent as disruption could last for several days. This led the UK government to trigger Operation Stack and Operation Brock, emergency traffic management procedures designed to keep motorways and roads in Kent operating.

Operation Brock opens up more of the road network in Kent because it means traffic can continue to move in both directions on the M20. Highways England deployed a moveable concrete barrier installed on the M20 that creates a new layout with a contraflow system. This allows traffic to continue travelling in both directions on the motorway at the same time as port-bound HGVs are queued, if necessary, on the coastbound carriageway until they can travel through to the Port of Dover or Eurotunnel.

On 20 December, Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed the cross-Channel travel ban in a 10 Downing Street press conference.

Johnson said he had chaired a meeting of the government’s emer-

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gency COBR committee in order to co-ordinate a UK-wide response. Johnson tried to sound a reassuring note, saying: “It is vital first to stress that these delays – which are only occurring at Dover – only affect human-handled freight, and that is only 20% of the total arriving from or departing to the European continent, which means the vast majority of food, medicines and other supplies are coming and going as normal.”

The Prime Minister said that ongoing preparations for the end of the Brexit transition period meant plans has been made for severe delays in cross-Channel road traffic. “You may also be aware – in fact, I’d be amazed if you weren’t – that the government has been preparing for a long time for exactly this kind of event.

So working with the Kent Resilience Forum, Kent County Council and Highways England, we’ve activated our long-prepared plans, with the result that we have already been able to reduce the number of lorries waiting on the M20 from 500 to 170. The site at Manston Airport is ready to cope with any overflow.”

The Kent Resilience Forum (KRF) worked with central government to manage traffic disruption in the county. The KRF partners used broadcast interviews and social media to encourage hauliers to avoid travelling to Kent’s ports while sailings were suspended.

However, many vehicles still arrived in the county. At one point, around 5,000 trucks were stranded in Kent. Many HGVs were redirected to a holding facility at Manston Airport. Lorry drivers directed to Manston were able to access food, welfare and toilet facilities. However, with many truck drivers parked up on the M20, Kent County Council provided them with snacks, drinking water and hot food. Portable toilets were also set up at 1 km intervals between junctions 10a-11. A number of charities also stepped up to provide HGV drivers with hot food at the roadside.

Discussions about how to free-up movement between the UK and Europe took place on several fronts in the run-up to Christmas.

The European Commission urged other EU member states to lift travel bans affecting the UK, but said non-essential travel should be discouraged. The Netherlands and Belgium relaxed bans on arrivals from the UK, as long as they had a recent negative result.

After several days of gridlock, on 23 December a new protocol

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NEWS A soldier conducts a COVID test at Manston

Lorries found Dover closed

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was agreed between France and the UK that determined that all lorry drivers, irrespective of nationality, would be required to take a lateral flow test that can detect the new strain of COVID-19 and provide results in around 30 minutes, rather than the 24 hours required after a PCR test, which takes around three days.

Testing sites created at Manston Airport and elsewhere were organised by NHS Test and Trace with support from the UK armed forces. Staff at Manston provided tests to hauliers to be self-administered in their cabs under supervision. The results are communicated to the driver via text message or email, identifying them via their number plate. Hauliers with negative tests were released in batches to manage traffic flows. If a test proved positive, the haulier was directed to leave the Manston site in their vehicle and provided with accommodation to enter self-isolation for 10 days.

The testing protocol between the UK and France ran until 6 January, when it was reviewed. The French government changed its requirement on 7 January, meaning that hauliers crossing the Channel must have had a negative coronavirus test within 72 hours of crossing. If they do not meet these requirements, drivers are stopped from travelling. To help hauliers get tested before travelling to Kent, the UK government has set up 34 information and advice sites across the country. The government also offered to help businesses to set up a testing centre at their own premises to ensure trucks heading for France depart ‘COVID ready’.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said: “After the decision by the French government back in December, we acted swiftly to find a solution to the border closures, so hauliers could continue to travel and people continued to get their deliveries. Following the French government’s decision to extend the current arrangements, I continue to urge all hauliers to get tested before getting to the border, and only travel if they test negative. To help make this possible we are offering support to businesses to set-up testing facilities at their own premises, assisting the smooth passage of trucks and good across the border, as well as setting up testing at information and advice sites around the country.”

While COVID-19 was disrupting cross-Channel traffic, the UK government and European Union managed to agree a trade deal on Christmas Eve, meaning there was no need to extend the Brexit transition period, which ended on 31 December. How the new trading arrangements impact on cross-Channel freight traffic will become clearer over the coming weeks and months.

Highways England’s movable barrier

Lorry parking thefts increase

A lorry whose load has been stolen Truck drivers are being targeted by criminal gangs, with around £48m of goods being stolen in the UK in the first three quarters of 2020. The National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (NaVCIS) said that between January to September there were 3,016 lorry thefts in the UK. NaVCIS is a national police unit that tackles vehicle finance crime and associated serious and organised crime.

Mike Dawber, a field intelligence officer with NaVCIS, said thieves tend to target lorries using arterial routes, such as the A1, M62 or M1 in West Yorkshire. “The haulage industry in general is working to tight margins, so any significant losses or thefts can have a devastating effect on them,” he told the BBC. “By working closely with industry and the police, we are improving awareness of secure parking standards to increase the number of lorry parks in the UK that have enhanced security measures. Only a small amount of parking locations in the UK are deemed ‘secure’ or ‘safe’.

It’s important to recognise this as more than 70% of offences take place at unsafe or unsecure locations.”

The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has called for more secure parking for HGVs. The RHA’s head of licensing and infrastructure policy, Tom Cotton, said: “Due to the shortage every night of 11,000 spaces, the problem is getting worse. In the pandemic the government very early on identified lorry drivers as key workers. Sadly that doesn’t seem to be reflected in the facilities that are provided.”

The Department for Transport (DfT) said: “We are aware of the concerns that many drivers and operators have expressed about the provision, quality and value of lorry parking in the UK.”

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The public’s positive perception of parking BPA survey reveals surprisingly nuanced opinions on parking The majority of people recognise why parking needs to be effectively managed and the strong community benefits this delivers for all, suggests consumer insight research commissioned by the British Parking Association.

Market research company ICM Unlimited conducted the research, published as Public Perceptions of Parking, to help the BPA build its knowledge of changing public attitudes and behaviour in relation to parking.

The research’s findings paint a broadly positive picture of the parking sector. The majority of participants agreed that parking tickets are effective in encouraging drivers to follow car park rules. Three-quarters of those surveyed had not received a ticket during the past three years.

Some of the strongest feelings were reserved for selfish parking behaviour, like parking on pavements and outside schools, where people believe that parking enforcement needs to be even stronger. The BPA said this contrasts with the conventional political and media narrative, which suggests parking management is overzealous Public attitudes towards the provision of parking spaces are generally mixed, with fewer than

People feel positive about parking linked to services

Key takeaways The Public Perceptions of Parking study indicates that drivers are: • Positive about supermarket/leisure destinations • Support measures to reduce congestion and pollution • Encouraged by active travel policies half of the population favourable towards off-street and on-street parking in their local area.

However, people are more positive towards specific types of parking, notably those in supermarkets, leisure/sports/recreation centres, retail parks, and the area where they live.

These high ratings contrast with the poor perceptions of parking in hospitals and local high streets, both partially driven by concerns around cost and time spent looking for spaces.

The BPA said it is logical that people are happy about parking where it tends to be readily

available, cheaply or free (i.e. supermarkets) versus where it is not (i.e. high streets and hospitals).

The research found there is good public support for measures that help reduce congestion and pollution. Over half of those surveyed said they would be prepared to walk five to ten minutes between a parking place and the high street, indicating there is already a good level of acceptance towards policies that encourage active travel and more walking and cycling as part of a journey’s ‘last mile’.

The BPA said this bodes well

for local authorities implementing schemes that support more active travel policies in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, by encouraging more people to park, walk and cycle and use peripheral parking sites that are cheaper and more accessible.

Among these schemes is Park Active, a new initiative which the BPA is leading with input from stakeholders and support from government to help reduce traffic and congestion, improve air quality in town and city centres and provide more space for social distancing and freedom of movement.

Conor Greely, chair of the BPA’s technology, innovation and research board said: “Overall, it is pleasantly surprising that people broadly recognise the positive impact of effective parking management and enforcement, which make it easier to find somewhere to park and make streets safer and less congested.

We continue to listen carefully to consumers and by charting public perceptions of how parking is managed, we gain key insights to improve standards and help avoid misconceptions.

“We understand that parking can be a frustrating issue for drivers and non-drivers alike but, crucially, there is recognition that parking plays an important part in people’s lives, with many holding strong views and caring deeply about the subject.”

Street naming and numbering advice

How an expanded Heathrow would look Name that street…

New guidance for naming and renaming streets and buildings have been published by GeoPlace. The guidance combines a range of considerations, observations, legal definitions and procedures, annexes, and references to useful sources. It also takes local authorities through all of the necessary processes.

GeoPlace is a joint venture between the Local Government

Heathrow’s third runway approved Association and Ordnance Survey.

The organisation said the guidance should ensure the complexities around changing a street or building name are fully understood and documented.

It has been compiled with professionals from the street naming and numbering community, as well as independent legal advice from Anthony Collins Solicitors.

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The UK’s Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the proposed creation of a third runway at Heathrow Airport.

The third runway scheme was blocked by the Court of Appeal in 2019, which ruled the government’s airports strategy did not comply with UK climate targets. However, on 16 December 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that the strategy was legitimately based on the less

stringent climate targets that applied at the time it was agreed.

The Supreme Court ruling means Heathrow Airport plc can now seek planning permission for the third runway, but the company still needs to convince a public enquiry of the case for expansion.

If planning inspectors approve the runway scheme, the UK government will still have the final decision.

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NORTH WALES POLICE

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It is not acceptable to pick and choose the laws you follow and the laws you don’t. We all know the law by now and know exactly what is the right thing to do. This is not a dress rehearsal, people will live and die on the actions we all choose Nigel Harrison, temporary North Wales Police Assistant

Snowdonia closes its car parks National park urges public to exercise near home to curb virus

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ith coronavirus infection rates reaching a new high point and a new variant of the virus spreading rapidly, national governments, local authorities and police forces across the country are emphasising the need to avoid any unnecessary travel. The message to the public is ‘Stay at home’ save for those working in essential roles, food shopping and accessing medical services, and taking daily exercise locally.

A national lockdown was imposed by the UK and Scottish governments on 4 January, and a lockdown was introduced in Northern Ireland on 8 January.

Following an increase in instances of people disregarding Welsh Government guidelines, all of Wales is also now back in lockdown (Alert Level 4).

The impact that the new rules present to destinations, facilities managers and police forces are evident in the Snowdonia National Park Authority in North Wales, which decided to close all of its car parks on 7 January.

Wyn Ellis Jones, chairman of the Snowdonia National Park Authority, said: “The decision has been made to protect our

communities and the health services in North Wales, especially as the new variant of the disease is spreading so quickly. We want to support the message that exercise must start and finish from home and to avoid any activities that could put extra pressure on the emergency services.

“Because of the high volume of people seen ignoring government regulations in Snowdonia since Christmas, we have decided to take urgent measures to support the Welsh Government’s message to avoid any unnecessary travel.”

The park’s busiest car park, at Pen-y-Pass near Snowdon, was staffed by wardens over the Christmas and New Year period.

The wardens offered visitors

advice on how to walk on the mountain safely. Most visitors behaved politely, but there were cases of wardens being verbally abused by some people.

The park authority had initially been cautious about closing car parks, being concerned that there would be an increase in people parking along roads. There was also a desire to ensure people with mobility issues could access the park. However, even with the car parks open, North Wales Police had to remove a number of cars parked in a hazardous manner on roads.

The police have made it clear that they will be enforcing restrictions strictly. Nigel Harrison, temporary North Wales Police Assistant Chief Constable said:

An illegally parked car being removed from a road on Snowdon

“We understand that people want to go outside to enjoy the mountains and snow, however this is a national emergency and we will continue to work with our National Park colleagues to ensure that Welsh Government restrictions around essential travel are adhered to.

“The restrictions to prevent the spread of coronavirus are there to protect us all. It is vital that everyone takes personal responsibility by staying home unless they have a valid reason not to be there. People should not think of ways of circumventing the law. The police should not be needed to reinforce common sense.”

A breach of COVID rules in Wales can incur a £60 fine, which rises to £120 for a second breach.

Gareth Jones, assistant head of Gwynedd Council’s environment department, said: “Although the recent figures for Gwynedd are much lower than other areas of the country, they continue to be a concern and we are very conscious that the number of cases could rise sharply.

“It is a real cause of concern that health experts are noting that the majority of cases in North Wales are of the new variant and we are encouraging residents to follow the simple guidelines to keep themselves, their loved ones and their communities safe.”

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Massive response to pavement consultation DfT is analysing over 15,000 submissions to pavement parking prohibition consultation

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he fact that pavement parking is a contentious issue has been underlined by the sheer scale of responses to a recent government consultation exploring ways to better regulate the footway. Over 15,000 responses have been submitted to the Department for Transport (DfT) consultation, which set out ideas for giving councils outside London more control over pavement parking to make conditions better for pedestrians.

The consultation ran from 31 August to 22 November. Speaking at the Landor LINKS’s Traffic + Parking conference on 2 December, DfT revealed that it has received 15-16,000 responses. The responses are being analysed and will be used to brief ministers and develop possible solutions, said the DfT. The pavement parking consultation presented three main options for reform: simplifying the traffic regulation order process; allowing councils to enforce against “unnecessary obstruction” of the pavement; and a London-style ban with local authorities able to exempt certain streets.

The ban approach could also feature a 20-minute exception for business vehicles, allowing them to pavement park in order to load or unload goods when necessary.

The DfT’s consultation suggested option 2 could present legal complexities because of the difficulty defining an “unnecessary obstruction”. The DfT said an “unnecessary obstruction” is “inherently vague” and it will be “almost impossible to anticipate all the possible real-world circumstances and to prescribe them in regulations”. The consultation included a description of a sequence of parking events that could “give the wrong impression of unnecessary pavement parking”. Meanwhile, the DfT said option 3 (the London-style ban) could present councils with a large workload to survey streets and decide where exemptions should apply.

The Local Government Association (LGA) looks set to back option 2. Eamon Lally, a principal policy advisor for the LGA, told its environment, economy, housing and transport board: “Our initial view is that the government undertakes all the options. We have consistently called for a default ban in legislation.” Lally said options 1 and 2 “could also be helpful but the long-term solution for this issue is a ban that will be consistent and easy to understand”.

A number of authorities have voiced opposition to being handed option 3 Londonstyle powers over pavement parking.

The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority said option 1, to improve the TRO process, has “some merit” and “is a wider priority that extends beyond the issue of pavement parking directly”. It regards

Options for managing pavement parking The consultation presented four options: Option 1: To rely on improvements to the existing Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) system Option 2: To enable local authorities to enforce against an offence of ‘causing an unnecessary obstruction of the pavement’, as deemed by a civil enforcement officer Option 3: To introduce a national prohibition on pavement parking, except at locations where local authorities choose to allow it Option 4: An alternative of your description? option 3’s London-style powers would be “unduly stringent and inflexible” and costly for councils to introduce, necessitating the erection of regulatory signs to inform drivers of the prohibition, restriction or exemption.

In contrast, Liverpool City Region said option 2 would be “wholly consistent with devolution principles, and provides enabling powers to local authorities”. The city region said option 2 would allow councils to “tailor their approaches and solutions in response to local need and circumstances”.

The DfT consultation asked if drivers should be issued with a warning notice for first time unnecessary obstruction offences in a particular location. However, Liverpool City Region disagrees, arguing that warnings would “undoubtedly lead to challenges from offenders issued with a penalty charge notice who would contend that a warning notice ought to have been issued”.

Liverpool City Region also opposed the DfT’s suggestion of national exemptions of up to 20 minutes for vehicles loading or unloading: “A grace period could lead to challenges by those issued with fines as to why they were not given a 20-minute free period. Enforcing time-limited legislation is also time-consuming and inefficient as civil enforcement officers need to return to the location at the end of the set period.”

In a report backing option 2, Derek Higton, Nottinghamshire County Council’s director of place and communities, said the power would give councils the flexibility to target specific problem locations for pavement parking rather than having to enforce against pavement parking across the whole road network. Recognising that an “unnecessary

obstruction” will be hard to define, Nottinghamshire said it hoped national guidance can help. “A scenario-based guidance document would be particularly helpful.”

Unlike Liverpool, Nottinghamshire supports a warning notice for first time offences.

Shropshire Council said option 2 is the “most cost-effective measure to implement in respect of cost, officer time and public messaging”. Unlike a London-style prohibition, option 2 “does not require significant assessment, engagement, or installation and maintenance of additional signs and lines”.

Leicester City Council wants the government to take forward all three options, though its top priority is a ban. The council says there will have to be a “lengthy transition period” and extra funding for councils to meet the additional costs. It supports powers to enforce against “unnecessary obstruction” of the pavement as an interim measure.

Hertfordshire County Council expresses a preference for a ban and option 1’s streamlining of TRO procedures. It wants the DfT to make available “appropriate additional funding” to meet the initial costs associated with a ban, including extra manpower, signage, lines and information for residents.

The national scene: Pavement parking in Wales and Scotland The Welsh Government has announced plans to give councils powers to enforce “unnecessary obstruction” of the pavement. The Scottish Government’s Transport (Scotland) Act 2019 has introduced a nationwide ban on pavement parking, with local authorities having powers to exempt certain streets.

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Air pollution caused death of Ella Kissi-Debra Coroner’s landmark ruling puts road traffic emissions in the dock Ella Kissi-Debrah, a 9-year-old girl who died in 2013, has become the first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as a cause of death.

Philip Barlow, the inner south London coroner, said Ella’s death in Lewisham, during February 2013 was caused by acute respiratory failure, severe asthma and air pollution exposure.

Delivering a narrative verdict, Barlow said that air pollution had both induced and exacerbated Ella’s particular form of severe asthma. “Ella died of asthma, contributed to by exposure to excessive air pollution,” the coroner ruled.

Barlow said that Ella had been exposed to nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter (PM) pollution in excess of World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines.

The principal source of these particles was traffic emissions.

The coroner said the health effects of air pollution had been known for many years, and children and those with asthma were particularly at risk.

A failure to reduce pollution levels to legal limits may have contributed to Ella’s death, said the coroner. Another possible factor was the failure to provide her mother, Rosamund AdooKissi-Debrah, with information about air pollution’s potential to exacerbate asthma.

The coroner said: “There was a recognised failure to reduce the levels of nitrogen dioxide, which possibly contributed to her death. There was also a lack

Ella Kissi-Debrah of information given to Ella’s mother that possibly contributed to her death.”

Barlow said that during Ella’s life, nitrogen dioxide emissions in Lewisham had exceeded legal limits, both EU and national levels. Particulate matter levels were above the WHO guidelines.

He said: “The whole of Ella’s life was lived in close proximity to highly polluting roads. I have no difficulty in concluding that her personal exposure to nitrogen dioxide and PM was very high.”

The inquest heard that during the three years before her death, Ella had multiple seizures and had been admitted to hospital 27 times.

Rosamund Kissi-Debrah’s lawyers submitted that air pollution was a public health emergency and that there was an

urgent need for it to be recorded as a cause of death in order to ensure public health programmes to tackle toxic air were prioritised.

Giving evidence to the inquest, Professor Stephen Holgate, an immunopharmacologist and consultant respiratory physician of the University of Southampton and Southampton general hospital, said that a biological cause of Ella’s disease getting worse in the winter months was the seasonal worsening of air pollution.

Professor Holgate said it was the cumulative effect of the toxic air Ella was breathing in, living within 30 metres of the South Circular road, that caused her final acute asthma attack.

Holgate compared Ella to a “canary in a coalmine”, signalling the risk to other Londoners from

Drivers back speeding enforcement near schools The vast majority of drivers would back a stricter approach to enforcing speed limits around schools, a study by road safety charity IAM RoadSmart reveals.

Some 82% of the British driving public support using speed cameras to automatically fine drivers travelling more than 10mph over the limit near schools.

The IAM RoadSmart annual Safety Culture Study involves speaking to 2,000 drivers across the country.

Regional support for the use of cameras to automatically fine drivers speeding near schools remained broadly consistent across the UK, with those in Wales and Scotland and Northern Ireland having the highest support at 86% and 85%, followed closely

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by West Midlands and Yorkshire and Humber on 84%. The North East had the least support, but still high at 79%.

While drivers support a crackdown on speeding near schools, the survey went on

the toxic mix of pollutants such as nitrogen oxides in the air.

Ella had experienced numerous seizures and been taken to hospital almost 30 times in the three years before her death.

Following the verdict, Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, said: “We’ve got the justice for her which she so deserved. But also it’s about other children, as we walk around our city of high levels of air pollution.”

An inquest ruling from 2014 found that Ella died of acute respiratory failure. This ruling was quashed by the high court following new evidence about the dangerous levels of air pollution close to her home.

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said the coroner’s conclusion was a landmark moment.

“This must be a turning point so that other families do not have to suffer the same heartbreak as Ella’s family,” said Khan.

“Toxic air pollution is a public health crisis, especially for our children, and the inquest underlined yet again the importance of pushing ahead with bold policies such as expanding the Ultra Low Emission zone to inner London.”

A UK government spokesperson said: “Our thoughts remain with Ella’s family and friends.

We are delivering a £3.8bn plan to clean up transport and tackle NO2 pollution, and going further in protecting communities from air pollution, particularly PM2.5 pollution, which we know is particularly harmful to people’s health. Through our landmark Environment Bill, we are also setting ambitious new air-quality targets, with a primary focus on reducing public health impacts.”

to highlight that attitudes towards speeding on motorways were significantly different, with only 63% of drivers supporting the use of cameras to detect those driving 10mph above the limit on motorways. The study also identified that just under half of all motorists (46%) think it is acceptable to drive at 80mph on the motorway, while as many as one in four believe it is acceptable to do so at speeds greater than 80mph.

While acceptance of motorway speeding remained broadly consistent among drivers aged 17 to 69, there was a noticeable increase among those who travel longer distances. Some 56% of those who cover more than 10,000 miles on the road each year believed it acceptable to reach speeds of 80mph or more on the motorway.

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Protecting Westminster Bridge

Green transport alliance formed

London’s bridges

Nine walking, cycling, public transport and shared mobility groups have come together to call for rapid action to cut greenhouse gas emissions ahead of the UN COP26 climate change summit being held in Glasgow.

The Sustainable Transport Alliance has been established by: the Community Rail Network; the Campaign for Better Transport; Greener Journeys; Bus Users UK; the Community Transport Association; Living Streets; Sustrans; the London Cycling Campaign; and Collaborative Mobility UK (CoMoUK).

The nine non-governmental organisations see the Sustainable Transport Alliance as a UK-wide alliance for green and fair transport to tackle climate change, and to ensure inclusive transport for all.

The alliance said rapidly reducing private car use is crucial to safeguarding climate and tackling air pollution. Greenhouse gas emissions from road transport make up around a fifth of the UK’s total emissions, and transport is the largest emitting single economic sector, says the alliance.

TfL manages six road bridges across the Thames in London: • Westminster Bridge • London Bridge • Tower Bridge • Vauxhall Bridge • Lambeth Bridge • Blackfriars Bridge.

The other two bridges are: • Waterloo Bridge (Westminster City Council) • Southwark Bridge (City of London).

Heritage-style bollards would be used to block terrorist vehicles in any future attacks Transport for London (TfL) is planning permanent measures to protect London’s bridges from potential vehicle attacks by terrorists.

After a pair of fatal terrorist attacks on Westminster Bridge and London Bridge in 2017, the Metropolitan Police Service installed temporary physical security barriers on eight central London bridges.

The preferred plan for pro-

tecting Westminster Bridge in the long-term is to install heritage-style bollards that create a segregated space for cyclists across the bridge, while leaving enough space for all other bridge users, including buses and pedestrians.

TfL said it will work with boroughs and other groups to make sure that the plans for permanent measures: meet the Mayor’s Transport Strategy and

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work for the different bridge users; are proportionate to the level of risk; respect the heritage of the bridge; and are technically feasible.

TfL said: “We will meet with boroughs and groups, including cycling and community groups, and policing partners to develop our proposals. We are already working with City of Westminster and Lambeth Council on our plans for Westminster Bridge. As the design develops we will review emerging technology and may adapt the proposals.”

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Trials will decide future of e-scooters Electric scooters will remain illegal, DfT tells Commons committee Understanding the positive and negative impacts of electric scooters from the data and evidence of current on-road trials will be key to any decision about whether or not they will be legalised, the UK government has told the House of Commons Transport Committee.

The Transport Committee has published the government’s response to its report, E-scooters: pavement nuisance or transport innovation? In the report, published in October, the committee called for swift action to legalise the use of private e-scooters on roads and cycle lanes.

Around 30 trials of rental escooters are underway across the UK, running until Autumn 2021. The Department for Transport (DfT) said it would use this information, the committee’s report and further findings from wider public stakeholder engagement to inform a decision on whether and how e-scooters might be legalised.

The monitoring and evaluation contract has been awarded and conversations with several exter-

E-scooter use is being closely scrutinised nal stakeholders such as vulnerable road users are already taking place. The use of e-scooters on pavements was of prime concern for witnesses during the inquiry.

Agreeing with the committee’s call for robust enforcement measures, the government’s response makes it clear that pavement use will remain illegal.

The DfT said it is monitoring measures being used by operators in the trials including camera sensors, onboard sensor devices and geo-fencing technology. This can also reduce the hazard of street clutter.

Trial e-scooters are classified as ‘motor vehicles’ and users require some form of driving

Sight loss charities’ e-scooter trial advice A number of sight loss charities, including the Thomas Pocklington Trust (TPT), a UK charity for blind and partially sighted people, have produced guidance for both local authorities considering hosting e-scooter trials and e-scooter operators. TPT said: “We have produced this advice to help local authorities consider how they might act to make these schemes more accessible.

However, we remain concerned that even with these mitigations, these vehicles will still be likely to impact negatively on pedestrians.”

Data framework could accelerate car clubs A data-sharing framework for car clubs would shed new light on how they are used in the capital and elsewhere, according to a new report.

London’s boroughs are currently working with car club operators and Transport for London to integrate car clubs into London’s transport infrastructure to meet the needs of Londoners and to safeguard the city’s environmental future.

However due to inconsistencies and gaps in data collected, use of car clubs is not clearly understood.

London Councils, the RAC Foundation and Imperial College London have published a report on a data-sharing framework between boroughs and car club operators. The Car Club Local Authority Data Standard (CLADS) is a sharing framework that will provide rich data related to car club use.

CLADS aims to provide data sharing standards for all London boroughs to help build an understanding of how car clubs work in London. It will allow boroughs to develop better policies with partners with the aim of improving services and increasing use across the capital. It is hoped that by encouraging a reduction in private car ownership and a shift away from car travel, car clubs could also help London boroughs make better use of the existing road network, suggests the report. If more people opted to use a car club membership rather than owning a private vehicle, vehicles would only be used when essential. This would have positive

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CLADS could unlock car club data impacts on traffic congestion, improve air quality across the capital and also free up parking spaces for Londoners who need them most, such as people with mobility issues or businesses making deliveries, the CLADS partners suggest.

In London alone, there are around 250,000 registered users and 2,500 shared vehicles which are available for short-term rentals, according to CoMoUK, the car club accreditation body. Outside of London there are an additional 25,000 users and 800 vehicles in England and Wales, and a further 25,000 users and 500 vehicles in Scotland.

Car clubs in the UK broadly operate one of two types of service: where either the customer must return their vehicle to the place where it was picked

licence. The government said it will consider the evidence from the trials on the safety of users and non-users before reviewing this decision.

The committee’s report concluded that e-scooters have the potential to be a low-cost, accessible and environmentally friendly alternative to the private car.

The DfT says that encouraging people to make the switch for some short journeys will be a key measure of success.

Environmental sustainability will also be a key consideration.

Huw Merriman MP, chair of the Transport Select Committee, said: “When we launched our inquiry, we asked whether this new mode of transport was a pavement nuisance or transport innovation. The answer is that e-scooters are both. We are pleased that the department is putting a premium on collecting data and evidence from the trials and from other countries.

“We maintain our view that 18 months is a suitable timeframe to analyse the results of e-scooter trials and implement any decisions. This takes us to April 2022 and we urge the government does not lose momentum on this.”

up (a round trip or ‘RT’ service) or; drop it off at, or close to, their destination (a free-floating car sharing or ‘FFCS’ service).

Mayor Philip Glanville, chair of London Councils’ Transport and Environment Committee, said: “Cars driven in London lead to greater levels of congestion, more carbon emissions and an increase in air pollution. Boroughs are committed to protecting the health of all Londoners, and reducing private car use would have a huge positive impact on London’s communities. Car clubs could play a vital part in reducing the need to own a car, freeing up London’s congested roads and pavements. This new framework is an essential foundation for learning more about the successes of car clubs and how we can better use them to reduce the total number of vehicles on the road and encourage the use of greener vehicles across London.”

Steve Gooding, director of the RAC Foundation, said: “If those of us involved in planning and managing our transport systems are to give car clubs a fair shot at being part of our transport futures it will be because we have good, timely data on how well the cars are being used.

“The study recommends a standard reporting format that would minimise the burden on the car clubs whilst giving highway authorities the information they need to gauge the role those clubs could play as part of their wider strategies to reduce carbon emissions and improve air quality whilst providing the mobility we all need.”

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Drivers struggle to park plus-size cars Britain’s most popular cars are 55% larger than 1970s equivalents Cars have grown by as much as 55% since the 1970s, but parking space sizes have remained the same. This means that drivers are being left with almost no room to squeeze out of their cars, says CarGurus.co.uk.

The car website says parking bay sizes have not changed in 50 years, with the commonly used 2.4m x 4.8m measurements leaving drivers little room to get out their parked cars. This is contributing to the thousands of impact incidents in car parks every year.

CarGurus compared the 23 most popular cars currently on UK roads, which had an equivalent available in the 1970s, showing how their footprint on the typical parking bay has grown. As cars have grown, many of the most popular vehicles are leaving perilously little space for drivers to get out.

For example, the tenth generation Honda Civic, one of the biggest growers from its first generation, now takes up 71%

A tight fit of the parking space, ballooning from 49% in the first generation and leaving just 30cm of space for drivers to get out.

In the most extreme example, CarGurus’ research found that today’s Land Rover Range Rover takes up to 86% of the standard parking space, leaving just 21cm of room for drivers to get out.

In contrast, the 1970s model took up just 69%, the same footprint as today’s Ford Focus.

The MINI Hatch was the biggest grower on the list, being 55% larger and taking up 20%

more of the typical parking space than the original that was produced between 1959 and 2000.

This means it offers 16cm less room for drivers to get out.

Models such as the Audi A4, BMW 3 Series, BMW 5 Series, Ford Focus, Ford Mondeo, Mercedes E-class, Peugeot 308, Vauxhall Insignia and VW Passat have also all grown significantly, leaving drivers with less than 30cm space to exit the vehicle.

Despite many cars already proving to be a tight fit in standard parking spaces, the growth

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spurt appears to be unrelenting.

CarGurus’ research found cars are continuing to grow by an average of nearly 3% from generation to generation.

Chris Knapman, editor at CarGurus.co.uk, said: “It’s understandable why cars have grown so much over the years, and the dramatically improved safety standards of modern cars versus those of years gone by is an obvious benefit. However, as many motorists will no doubt confirm, it’s disappointing that parking space guidelines haven’t been updated accordingly.

“Many of the latest cars are at least available with technology to help with parking, including parking sensors, reversing cameras, 360-degree view cameras and automatic parallel and bay parking functions. Some even equip cars with features to help prevent car park damage, such as door edge protectors and Citroën’s Airbump Technology.

“However, it is, of course, worth noting that no matter how easy the technology makes it to park, if the space is too small for your car none of it will help you to physically squeeze out of the driver’s seat!”

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Trapeze acquires Taranto Systems Transport technology firm buys traffic and parking software house The Traffic Support software division of WSP has been purchased by transport technology company Trapeze.

Traffic Support developed the Taranto software suite, which is used by UK local authorities to support the enforcement of parking schemes.

It has also created road user charging software for projects such as the London Congestion Charge and Dart Charge for Dartford River Crossing.

Traffic Support has been acquired by Taranto Systems Ltd, which is owned by Trapeze Group (UK), which is in turn part of the Volaris Group.

Trapeze specialises in public transport technology solutions, most notably covering bus and demand responsive transport.

Trapeze is established within the UK as a supplier to all major bus operators and to many of the UK’s largest authorities, including Transport for London (TfL), Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT).

The acquired division, now known as Taranto Systems Ltd,

Lewis Wray will continue to operate independently.

Taranto Systems is led by Lewis Wray, WSP’s former director of tolling and enforcement systems, who moves as part of the acquisition, along with around 50 colleagues.

Wray explained what attracted Volaris to backing Trapeze’s acquisition of Traffic Support.

“Volaris acquires businesses and looks to grow them through investment in people, R&D and adoption of established best practices,” he said.

“Volaris sees opportunities for Taranto to deliver solutions that

meet the needs of an expanding people transportation sector, growing our domestic parking and road user charging business, and the emerging mobility as a service (MaaS) world.”

Trapeze and Taranto have different areas of focus, separate brands and operate independently within Volaris’ People Transportation vertical.

“We are extremely excited to work with Taranto, the team is engaged and enthusiastic about the future,” said Tim Porter, executive director at Volaris Group. “Over the coming months we are looking to complete the

integration process and refresh the Taranto brand. One of our priorities in early 2021 is to bring customers together through a virtual user group.

The purpose being to connect them with each other and the Taranto leadership to help drive the overall company’s vision.

“Volaris has always taken a very customer-centric approach, and Taranto is no exception.

After that we are looking to further explore new initiatives, for example, Clean Air Zones, and market opportunities in other regions.”

The Taranto deal comes a year after Volaris, which is based in Canada, acquired Imperial, another UK parking and enforcement software house. However, it seems unlikely that there will be any crossover between Trapeze/Taranto Systems operation and Imperial.

“Taranto and Imperial will operate as autonomous, separate businesses. The two companies operate in related markets but have very different strengths, and we therefore have different international ambitions for each, Porter explained.

“Our immediate focus for Taranto is for it to establish its brand on its own merits, and then to invest in new offers and expansion.”

Pryor joins Solutionlabs board

APCOA promotes Agrawal

Parking technology company Solutionlabs has appointed Tim Pryor as operations director. Pryor will coordinate sales and marketing activities, as well as coordinating client service, support and development.

In addition to joining the Solutionlabs’ board, Pryor will partner with Solutionlabs as co-founder and co-owner of its latest product ventures, notanotherapp and input360.

Tim Pryor said: “It’s not often one can say they are excited about parking, but I am truly excited for the future of Solutionlabs and our brands. I have found likeminded souls in Solutionlabs co-founders Malcolm Blake and Duane Hodges-Stubbs.

“Together with them and the Solutionlabs team, we have an aspiration to initiate effective change in the mobility sector.

Sajini Agrawal has been appointed as a statutory director of APCOA Parking in the UK & Ireland. She joined APCOA as finance director in March 2019, having held senior leadership positions in various industries and organisations, including the parking sector. She holds an MBA in finance and has more than 20 years’ experience.

Kim Challis, regional managing director APCOA UK & Ireland, said: “Sajini’s appointment is further evidence of our progress in recent years in building a more diverse leadership group.

“I’m proud that my talented executive team across UK & Ireland now comprises of a more balanced mix of gender, background, beliefs and experiences with five of the top positions on the UK&I board now held by women.

Tim Pryor Our vision to change the way the public and private sectors understand and use data is going to drive our innovation in the coming years.”

Solutionlabs’ Malcolm Blake said: “Tim brings a wealth of business experience to the team. We welcome this opportunity to expand our horizons while continuing to deliver an exceptional service to our clients.”

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Sajini Agrawal “Diversity starts at the top of an organisation and by having an inclusive executive board we can bring different ideas, perspectives and unique experiences to the decision making. This inclusive culture drives improved performance, open dialogue and higher levels of creativity and innovation, all key attributes for a business to continue to succeed in today’s environment.”

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SWARCO Traffic lends a hand Help for local businesses and charities hit by COVID SWARCO Traffic has launched a fund designed to support local businesses and charitable organisations experiencing financial hardship caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Following an application period, the SWARCO Traffic Ltd Business Fund has selected three organisations, each of which receiving a donation of £5,000.

Jeremy Cowling, SWARCO’s vice president of ITS (Northern Europe & UK), said: “Although this year has been a particularly difficult one for everyone, we hope that these donations can make an impact in supporting those that need it most.

“From financial hardship, to ensuring children and future generations do not suffer any long-term affects to their education. Or making sure that we will continue to be able to do those ‘normal’ social activities, such as going for a coffee, that have such a big impact on our

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Food for Thought Darlington mental health and wellbeing.

This is a long-term plan for us, and we hope to continue to support small businesses and organisations in the years to come.”

The organisations are: • Food for Thought Darlington, located near SWARCO’s head office in Melsonby, is a registered Community Interest Company working to tackle the issues of food waste and food poverty in the Darlington area, working with supermarkets and other local business to re-distribute surplus food and supplies to those in need.

• Toddington Childcare and Forest School, situated near SWARCO’s operations hub in Milton Keynes, is a registered charity that provides early years education, as well as breakfast and after school clubs for children. The funding from SWARCO will help the charity survive.

• The White Hare Café in Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, has been open for over 20 years, supporting the local community and its culture. SWARCO’s donation is being used to improve the café’s accessibility, with a new wheelchair access.

Videalert has promoted Rob Kinch to the role of technical and innovations director.

As part of Videalert’s senior management team, he has also joined the Marston Holdings’ client development and innovation boards.

Kinch joined Videalert in 2006 as technical services manager. In this role he has been responsible for the technical direction and developing its softwarebased enforcement platforms.

He also supports the sales team as well as direct client engagement.

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People in Parking Awards winners revealed BPA recognises support given to community during pandemic The British Parking Association has recognised people who have made a contribution to their local communities during the coronavirus pandemic. The BPA created the competition after hearing inspirational stories about parking teams and individuals stepping up to take on new roles, learn new skills and support their communities.

“We thought that it would be amazing to recognise these efforts through a special endof-year virtual awards,” said Dave Smith, the BPA’s head of public affairs. “Nominees were those who have gone the extra mile, helped keep their team’s spirits level up, done an exceptional job and kept going when the going got tough.”

At the awards ceremony, which took place online on 17 December, the BPA also presented the Ernest Davies Award for advancing parking knowledge, which was open to film and audio for the first time. The trophy was presented to Ryan Jackson and Alasdair Finlayson of Gemini Parking Solutions for their Break the Mould podcast. www.britishparking.co.uk

Association award for BPA team The BPA won the Best Membership Engagement Award at the Association Awards 2020. The BPA said: “Our aim at the start of lockdown was to engage with and support our members as best we could and this has been achieved with a great team.”

The finalists and winners Team Leader Award • Greg Hughes, commercial director, JustPark • Jason Watson, team leader, APT Skidata – WINNER • Steven Winton, contract manager, APCOA Parking Colleague Award • Jennie Lewis, senior operations officer Ashford Borough Council • Christina Martinez, head of customer service and head of global operations, Parkopedia – WINNER • Avisha Martin-Patel, senior consultant and electric vehicle lead, Project Centre Long Service Award • Masum Miah, base enforcement manager, NSL Services Group • Roy Tunstall, head of parking services, Liverpool City Council • Maureen Williams, base enforcement manager, NSL Services Group • Hazel Game, senior traffic order specialist, Project Centre – WINNER

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Community Award • Alison Fitzgerald, civil enforcement officer supervisor, Worcester City Council • Penham Excel (Unlawful vehicle research) • Jeremy Landey, Kellie Newell and Paolo Orezzi, Marston Holdings (Jobs for the homeless) – WINNER Outstanding Contribution Award • School Streets team, Cardiff Council • Steve Clark, director of operations and business development, BPA • Civil enforcement officers, Isle of Wight Council • Product and engineering team, JustPark • Penham Excel (Unlawful vehicle response) – WINNER Staff Choice Award • Aberdeenshire Council parking enforcement team – WINNER Ernest Davies Award • Break the Mould – Ryan Jackson and Alasdair Finlayson, Gemini Parking Solutions – WINNER

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APH wins travel award... again Air travellers vote for their favourite airport parking operator Airport Parking and Hotels (APH), has been named the winner of the ‘Best Airport Parking Provider’ category at the British Travel Awards for an 11th consecutive year.

The British Travel Awards are the largest independent awards scheme in the UK and the only purely consumer-voted awards programme for the travel industry. This year the British Travel Awards took place on 14 December as a virtual presentation ceremony hosted by Alex Jones of the BBC’s The One Show from Boisdale Restaurant in Canary Wharf, London.

Nick Caunter, managing director of APH, said: “This year has been extremely challenging for everyone, however, it’s been particularly tough for the travel industry, which has unfortunately been one of the industries most affected by the pandemic.

To win the British Travel Award

Nick Caunter for Best Airport Parking Provider during such a difficult time is truly an honour and is testament to the hard work and high level of service the APH team continues to provide to our customers.

We would like to pass on our gratitude and appreciation to all our loyal customers who voted for us.”

Established in 1980, APH offers parking at all major UK airports as well as overnight stays at airport hotels and access to airport lounges. APH also

works with trusted partners to offer customers other extras such as car hire and travel insurance.

Lorraine Burton, chief executive of the British Travel Awards said: “APH is clearly a travel ancillary product that people use time and again as it’s useful and relevant regardless of what type of holiday people are taking, whether that’s a weekend away, a ski holiday, or even a safari.

The APH parking product is something they will regularly use, and the sheer number of votes APH receive each year just shows how satisfied their customers are.

“The BTAs give consumers a voice, and APH customers clearly want to vote for their favourite airport parking provider. This year, the BTAs as a whole received fewer votes than in usual years, however, we still managed to gather over 240,000 votes from consumers, which is still the largest number of consumer voters for any travel industry award – and specifically for APH, as they received well over 10,000 individual verified votes.”

Gooding named CILT(UK) president

Steve Gooding RAC Foundation director Steve Gooding has been selected as the president of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport for 2021.

Alongside the board of directors and vice-presidents, Gooding will promote CILT(UK) as the being home for those involved in the movement of goods and people.

During his one-year term, Gooding plans to build on the work of his predecessor, Paul Sainthouse, who helped steer the institute through the coronavirus pandemic, supported the work on merging CILT(UK) and CILT International, and led the Institute during its centenary year in 2019.

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TRAFFIC & PARKING 2020

‘Remaking the kerbside’ panel session

We make positive connections

Traffic + Parking 2020 created a virtual space in which we could discuss creating better real world places, writes Mark Moran

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ver 350 parking professionals gathered to discuss the latest policy, legislative and technological developments in the world of traffic and parking management last month, yet not one of them had to leave home. This was because Traffic + Parking 2020 was run as an online event featuring a lineup of speakers from local and national government, campaign groups, consultancies and organisations developing innovative solutions. Traffic + Parking’s mission is to explore how parking and traffic management has emerged as an essential public service at the forefront of reducing traffic congestion, as well as delivering safer and healthier streets.

These are all themes that have taken on an even greater importance now the coronavirus pandemic has had such a profound impact on almost every aspect of how we live, work and travel.

The COVID-19 pandemic has seen towns and cities across the UK implement an impressive range of emergency traffic and street-scene measures, including pop-up cycleways and wider pavements to make cycling and walking safer. The day explored how to improve future roadspace reallocation schemes in the face of what appears to be an increasing dependence on cars as people are discouraged from using public transport, and also to counter the “bikelash”, evidenced by efforts to remove measures such as Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs).

The day explored how the pandemic has had a profound effect on the management of parking, sometimes accelerating trends that were already happening, such as the digitisation of parking payment, the pre-booking of parking at specific destinations, and the growing levels of light goods traffic associated with the growth in online shopping.

The past year has seen the UK national and devolved governments willing to fund roadspace reallocation schemes and also contemplate longer term changes to the management and enforcement of roads in towns and cities. The Department for Transport gave delegates an update on both its pavement parking consultation and proposals to allow English local authorities outside London to enforce moving traffic regulations using Part 6 of the Traffic Management Act 2004.

The day also looked beyond the pandemic to consider how the traffic and parking sector will play a key role in improving air quality in the UK’s towns and cities via measures such as Clean Air Zones, Low Emission Neighbourhoods, Workplace Parking Levy schemes and the

roll-out of electric vehicle charging infrastructure. There were also expert-led workshops on themes such as the pricing of parking, Traffic Regulation Orders, public consultations and the design of LTNs. Traffic + Parking was programmed by Parking Review working with Project Centre, and with input from: the Department for Transport; British Parking Association; Living Streets; Parking Perspectives; Marston Holdings, Q-Park; Derby City Council; the North Essex Parking Partnership; RingGo; PayByPhone; Solutionlabs; and Nick Lester-Davis.

Key sessions from Traffic + Parking 2020 can be found on the Landor LINKS Live YouTube channel

Virtual is the new normal (for now) The extent of the transformation of how we move and interact was evident not just in the content of the annual Traffic + Parking conference, but in the fact that the conference and exhibition was staged online as a virtual event. Landor LINKS took the experience that it gained from running webinars throughout the periods of lockdown that shaped 2020 and used this to craft a day of presentations, debates, workshops and social networking.

The Hopin platform that Landor LINKS uses for conferences also enables companies and organisations to showcase their systems and services. Reaction from speakers, delegates and exhibitors has been very positive, and while we all look forward to the day when we can meet in person, virtual conferences will provide a welcome means of sharing knowledge in the months ahead.

Workplace Parking Levy webinar The next event in the Traffic + Parking series will be a webinar on the theme of Workplace Parking Levy schemes. It takes place at 10.30am on 19 January and is free to attend. To register visit: www.TransportXtra.com/events

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ROADSPACE

Road traffic is a COVID emergency Unless the government takes a hands-on approach to Low Traffic Neighbourhood schemes, motor traffic will continue its upward trajectory and cycling will diminish, warns Lucy Marstrand-Taussig

Shift: A Bold Vision for Walking and Cycling was announced in July 2020 alongside the new National Cycle Design Guidance LTN 1/20 and Active Travel funding. Schoolchildren and commuters were urged by Government to cycle or walk.

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OVID-19 has forced the government to intervene in most spheres of life: locking down the nation, a multi-billion-pound furlough scheme, cancelling exams and closing theatres. From employment to health, education, sport, culture, and public transport, our lives have been regulated in a way we would have found unbelievable a year ago.

But one area has remained largely untouched – road transport.

Since the early 1990s, despite increased emphasis on walking and cycling policy, governments have failed to comprehensively increase cycling levels; 2% of trips are cycled in the UK compared with 10% in Germany and 26% in The Netherlands. Meanwhile, motor traffic on side roads has increased by a staggering 44% in the last ten years. Surface transport, in contrast to other sectors, has induced rising CO2 levels1 (see graph). Most car trips are short; a quarter are less than one mile, 60% less than five miles2.

So there is vast potential for many of these trips to be done on foot or cycle.

With COVID it became clear that pressure on the road network would increase as people avoided public transport. More short trips needed to be done on foot or cycle to avoid gridlock and more COVID-linked pollution3. Government stepped in. Gear

Changes in sectoral emissions between 2013 and 2018; building emissions in this chart are temperature-adjusted. Source: BEIS (2019) 2017 UK Greenhouse Gas Emissions; final figures: CCC calculations

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ROADSPACE

We need new thinking to overturn the old ‘predict and provide’ orthodoxies, which have not worked Lucy Marstrand-Taussig

LTN postcode lottery Enabling active travel requires protected cycle routes on main roads with the areas between safeguarded against through traffic – what has become known as the ‘Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) approach’. A street closed to through traffic is one open to walking and cycling. Planters, bollards or, in London, ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) cameras can be used to filter streets.

Ten months into COVID, what has been achieved? While some authorities have embraced the chance to filter streets and create protected cycle routes, others have ended up with watered down plans; a couple of modal filters and some School Streets. Or worse, they have ripped out newly installed protected cycle lanes.

Many of us will see no change where we live.

Cycling and walking provision is blighted by levels of inequality unparalleled in other spheres. It would be rather like some hospitals having PPE (personal protective equipment), others not. Or some companies offering furlough, others not. The ability to walk or cycle safely – or breathe clean air – is a postcode lottery.

In the first lockdown we saw people of all ages cycle because the threat of motor traffic virtually vanished. In the second, suburbs were swamped with the noise and threat of motor traffic.

We are now entering a third – what will this bring?

Recent polls show mass support for change; 88% want government to increase road safety, 78% support cutting motor traffic and 65% want space given over to walking and cycling4. Given this extraordinary level of public consensus, what is hindering local authorities from acting to transform streets?

A UK study conducted during 2019 by Rachel Aldred, Professor in Transport at the University of Westminster5, found the top three barriers to cycling were: 1. funding 2. lack of political leadership 3. lack of support within the transport authority.

Central policy may have changed, the barriers have not. The £2bn announced in July to kick-start the cycling revolution equates to £9 per head falling well short of the £20-£25 needed to catch up with cycling nations. And when it comes to granular level politics, arguing for or against modal filters or space re-allocation often the status quo wins out. Some councillors fear even trialling modal filters. The noisy, well-publicised LTN backlash is drowning out the quieter supportive majority.

Lack of local authority support may also remain. Some officers are passionately committed to walking and cycling. Others less so. If an officer argued that re-allocating space to cycling creates congestion when the Aldred study was done in 2019, they are likely to be making the same flawed arguments in 2020.

How can making space for cycling cause gridlock when cycle traffic is seven times more space efficient than motor traffic? As a member of staff at the Copenhagen Municipality in Denmark remarked to me – “on roads with too much congestion, we create space for cycling”. Congestion results from too little, not too much, cycling space.

The last two barriers – political and officer support – are intertwined. Talk of congestion by officers can make councillors uneasy so they backtrack on schemes. Equally, politicians may not understand transport planning (why should they?) or fear

Southside, Merton during Lockdown 1 triggering opposition. And now there is a new barrier – people threatening those who support LTNs with road violence. None of this is conducive to getting a nation cycling.

The case for intervention The government has taken charge of other realms of life from education to employment by compulsion, not request. Government could do the same with highways.

To protect the public, it could requisition highways powers from recalcitrant authorities. Imagine if a safe cycle network were built by decree? Active Travel England, the proposed inspectorate, needs powers to intervene with local strategic transport planning, maintenance schemes, and implementation of LTNs as well as the more grandiose cycling schemes if we are to see the scale of change that is needed.

A public outcry would ensue if dirty water were pumped into our taps. Dirty air is no different. Following the Ella Kissi-Debrah ruling, the right to breathe clean air should be enshrined in law.

We make roads political; they do not have to be. The UK’s current defective highways design approach has lasted seven decades in its present form. It has induced tonnes of CO2 emissions, cost billions in ill-health, noise, pollution and killed thousands of our children. These are deaths by design, not accident.

We need new thinking to overturn the old ‘predict and provide’ orthodoxies, which have not worked. Now is the time to do things differently; trial radical change, create safe streets, replace traffic lanes with trees and cycle routes on main roads. Base space reallocation and LTNs on the brilliant evidence-based Department for Transport tools like the ‘Propensity to Cycle’ on a national scale. Build all the LTNs flagged by London’s Streetscape so that all Londoners can travel safely on their streets, not just a lucky few. Re-direct the £27bn ear-marked for national road building and the estimated £2bn for the Silvertown Tunnel in London6 – schemes designed to induce more motor traffic – to projects which make the existing road network fit for people and the planet.

Allow evidence, rather than local politics, to shape surface transport. For a green road recovery, the government will have to intervene more strongly and treat road transport and air pollution as the COVID emergency it is.

Lucy Marstrand-Taussig is a transport planner with a focus on inclusive planning and highways design. She delivered the keynote address at Landor LINKS’s Traffic + Parking 2020 conference.

References: 1. Geffen, R., Cycling UK, ‘De-carbonising transport: “being led by science,” September 2020 – https://www.cyclinguk.org/blog/decarbonising-transport-being-led-science.

2. Department for Transport, NTS0308: Average number of trips by trip length and main mode: England, July 2018.

3. Netherlands Institute for Transport Policy Analysis, (2018). ‘Cycling Facts’.

4. KANTAR polling for DfT, November 2020 – https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/ uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/934617/DfT-Public-Opinion-Survey-on-Traffic-and-Road-UsePhase-1-Report.pdf 5. Aldred, R., Watson, T., Lovelace, R. and Woodcock, J., 2019. Barriers to investing in cycling: Stakeholder views from England. Transportation research part A: policy and practice, 128, pp.149-159.

6. https://www.london.gov.uk//press-releases/assembly/caroline-russell/tunnel-set-to-cost-londoners-2bn

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PARKING APPEALS

London’s adjudicators recognise the importance of maintaining unparalleled access to justice

Ensuring justice for all London Tribunals provides an accessible and flexible way for the public to appeal against traffic penalties, reports chief adjudicator Caroline Hamilton

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ondon Tribunals supports the Environment and Traffic Adjudicators and the Road User Charging Adjudicators, which are the independent tribunals that consider appeals against penalty charge notices issued by the London local authorities and Transport for London. The adjudicators’ joint annual report to the London Councils’ transport and environment committee (TEC) provides an insight into the work of the environment and traffic adjudicators, the independent office holders appointed as the statutory tribunal, charged with determining parking, moving traffic, bus lane, London lorry control, litter and waste appeals.

The annual report is designed to highlight the work of the independent adjudicators and provides information to parties to an appeal, with a view to achieving a better understanding of the civil penalty scheme and the statutory grounds of appeal.

The end of the most recent reporting year, April 2020, saw the necessary and abrupt closure of our tribunal premises at Chancery Exchange, as a result of the COVID-19 health emergency. But during the course of the majority of the year, the tribunal remained open to the public, operating in its usual efficient manner, the adjudicators determining appeals against civil fixed penalties issued in respect of contraventions in London.

Until the closure of the tribunal, the adjudicators continued to provide the accessible and flexible hearings timetables, that allow parties to not only select the type of proceedings they prefer to participate in (personal or postal appeal), but also allowing for

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the selection of a suitable hearing day and time, for those who decide to attend a personal appeal hearing.

By offering personal hearings slots from 8am to 8pm, and by including Saturday morning and early afternoon hearings, the tribunal retains the features that saw its concern for users described as “unmatched elsewhere in the justice system” by the late Sir Andrew Leggatt (1930-2020) in his detailed study and review of tribunals. This review ultimately resulted in the Courts and Tribunals reform programmes and the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007, from which we take guidance.

Adjudicators continue to recognise the importance of maintaining the unparalleled access to justice, that the wide range of hearing times and the postal or personal hearing selections provide, with the aim of ensuring that no appellant will be obliged to take time off from work or other commitments, to fully participate in a hearing.

At the end of the reporting year, when personal attendance at appeals was unavoidably replaced by a telephone attendance, the necessary adaption did not hinder our flexible listing practices, or impede the adjudicators’ efficiency. Unlike many courts and tribunals throughout the justice system, the adjudicators were able to resume hearings with a telephone attendance for those who had selected a personal hearing, as soon as government restrictions allowed, without any additional operational delay.

Hearings remain informal with regard to the evidence submitted and are as before, entirely participative.

As ever, the adjudicators thank the Proper Officer team, provided by the joint committee, for its thoughtful and dedicated administrative support over the year.

Caroline Hamilton is the chief adjudicator of London Tribunals The Environment and Traffic Adjudicators’ Annual Report 2019-20 can be downloaded at: www.londontribunals.gov.uk

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Appeal outcomes London Tribunals listens to appeals relating to penalties issued for parking, moving traffic, bus lane, London lorry control, litter and waste. The total number of all motorists’ appeals heard by London Tribunals in 2019-20 (previous year in brackets) was as follows:

Total appeals • 36,288 (37,051) appeals received • 7,847 (6,099) statutory declaration/witness statement referrals Total: 44,135 (43,150) • 32,035 (36,473) appeals were determined • 16,426 (17,600) appeals were allowed, of which 9,624 (9,752) were not contested • 15,609 (18,873) appeals were refused

Parking appeals Parking appeals received • 20,692 (22,245) appeals were received • 5,275 (4,786) referrals were made • Total: 25,967 (27,031) Parking appeals decided: 18,981 (22,118) appeals were determined • Allowed: 10,044 (11,083) appeals were allowed of which 5,824 (6,264) were not contested • Refused: 8,937 (11,035) appeals were refused

Bus lane appeals Bus lane appeals received • 1,851 (1,765) appeals were received • 264 (206) referrals were made • Total: 2,115 (1,971) Bus lane appeals decided: 1,660 (1,674) appeals were determined • Allowed: 979 (902) appeals were allowed of which 630 (556) were not contested • Refused: 681 (772) appeals were refused This year the trend observed in 2018-19 continued, with London Tribunals records showing a small reduction of parking appeals, replaced by a similarly small increase in moving traffic appeals.

Moving traffic appeals Moving traffic appeals received • 13,621 (12,900) appeals were received • 2,308 (1,107) referrals were made • Total: 15,929 (14,007) Moving traffic appeals decided: 11,268 (12,552) appeals were determined • Allowed: 5,322 (5,536) appeals were allowed of which 3,114 (2,883) were not contested • Refused: 5,946 (7,016) appeals were refused

London Lorry Control Scheme appeals London Lorry Control appeals received • 120 (131) appeals were received • 0 (0) referrals were made London Lorry Control appeals decided: 121 (121) appeals were determined • Allowed: 76 (73) appeals were allowed of which 55 (49) were not contested • Refused: 45 (48) appeals were refused

Litter and waste appeals Litter and waste appeals received • 4 (10) appeals were received • 0 (0) referrals were made Litter and waste appeals decided: 5 (8) appeals were determined • Allowed: 5 (6) appeals were allowed of which 1 (0) was not contested • Refused: 0 (2) appeals were refused

Making recommendations London Tribunals adjudicators have no power to take mitigating circumstances into account and can only allow an appeal when a statutory ground of appeal has been established. The scheme is a fixed penalty scheme and the adjudicators do not and cannot assess degrees of culpability. The Traffic Management Act 2004 introduced the concept of “compelling reasons” allowing the adjudicator, who has no power to allow a parking appeal, but who is satisfied that compelling reasons have been established to make a formal recommendation to the authority that a notice to owner should be cancelled. The authority is then required to consider cancellation of the notice to owner, taking full account of all observations made by the adjudicator and, within a period of 35 days, must notify the appellant and the adjudicator, as to whether or not it accepts the adjudicator’s recommendation.

Recommendations that are not accepted must be accompanied by reasons, but no appeal to the adjudicator arises further to that decision. If the enforcement authority does not respond to the recommendation made by the adjudicator within the statutory time frame, the recommendation is deemed to have been accepted and the notice to owner must be cancelled.

Most appeal representations received at London Tribunals are accompanied by an element of mitigation. This must not, however, be confused with a “compelling reason” which connotes a high threshold and is usually a matter that has arisen after representations have been rejected and/or have not already been properly considered and addressed by the authority in the notice of rejection document. The limited use of the power by adjudicators reflects the high threshold the motorist must meet to demonstrate a compelling reason for cancelling a notice to owner, when a contravention has been proved by the enforcement authority’s evidence and no statutory ground of appeal has been established.

• Refused with a recommendation: 281 (471) • Recommendation accepted: 98 (142) • Deemed accepted: 97 (173) • Recommendation Rejected: 86 (156)

Personal and postal appeals Appellants are able to select the appeal type they prefer to participate in when they complete the notice of appeal form either online, via the tribunal’s appellant portal, or on the paper forms submitted by post.

The enforcement authority may also wish to elect to attend an appeal by sending a presenting officer, but generally the authority submits its case (which may include the CCTV images of the incident to be relied on) without a personal attendance. On occasion, the adjudicator may direct attendance by a party or witness, but this is rarely necessary or proportionate.

Applications for costs orders made by the enforcement authorities relating to witness statement declarations are also listed for personal hearings to allow the respondent to the Traffic Enforcement Court Order, who has failed to substantiate the declaration made, the opportunity of explaining why a declaration was indeed lawful.

• Postal hearings: 25,534 (30,986) • Personal hearings: 10,754 (6,055)

Hearing appeals under COVID-19 Due to the health emergency, personal attendance at the hearing centre was replaced by a telephone attendance. The adjudicators, using the automated case management system, telephone parties and witnesses and hear evidence and submissions in the usual way.

The telephone appeals have been largely successful, with adjudicators being able to consider and assess oral evidence and submissions using a conference call facility where necessary. Issues of pure credibility that favour a face-to-face attendance are unusual in the tribunal, where motorists relying on oral evidence of an activity, such as loading, are generally also able to provide delivery notes or invoices to support the claimed exemption, thus corroborating oral evidence.

The adjudicator will also have sight of the enforcement officer’s contemporaneous notes and photographs to assist in the assessment of evidence. Telephone attendances still allow the adjudicator to test evidence and explore representations that might establish a ground of appeal that was not recognised by the motorist.

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Cracking the code

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PRIVATE LAND Eyes will be on the private parking sector as the new unified code of practice draws nearer, says Vicky Jarrett

procedures. And no one should underestimate the complexity of the parking industry, so it will be a very steep learning curve for anyone who sits on the new Scrutiny Board that will be monitoring and ensuring compliance with the new code. Transparency at all levels and full accountability at all times will definitely be the he parking industry might bemoan the relentless order of the day… and in the coming years. stream of negative stories in the media, and there Our experience and commitment to undertake pre-audits of would certainly be justification for feeling aggrieved signage and documentation at every car park operated by an IPC that positive steps to drive up service standards member has always helped to ensure operational legality and have received very few column inches outside of compliance before an operator can undertake any enforcement the main industry titles. The fact remains, however, action. It has also overcome the reported high number of appeals that no motorist takes delight from receiving a parking charge. that have been upheld by POPLA as a direct result of unclear sigAnd, we have to accept that perceived malpractice of any form nage. We have also introduced detailed audits for all self-ticketing will provide a licence for a vociferous minority to secure media operations, with details logged and updated biennially, as well as endorsement for their views even where those views may be illa self-reporting tool to enable operators to report any perceived informed, misdirected or, in some breach of the IPC code. cases, malicious – and, in the process, Any motorist or MP who wishes to tarnish the industry as a whole. complain about the practices of any Parking service providers are, quite operator also have dedicated online simply, soft targets.

The new Code of Practice will have the portals to simplify the process, optiWe could cry foul – but why would mise response times and act as a catstamp of respectability, authority and anyone listen? We could dust off the alyst for continuous improvement. relative impartiality hard hat and armour plating and just And we regularly undertake physical take the criticism on the chin, but car park audits and ‘mystery shopper’ what would that achieve? We could exercises to assess compliance and take steps to deflect the fire back service standards. towards irresponsible motorists, Because our members are familiar though in my experience, a tit-for-tat attitude rarely benefits with, and agree with, the procedures and disciplines of this anyone. Or, we could mount a concerted campaign to restore proactive approach to compliance, the adoption of the new code public confidence in an industry that is an unsung but critical will not demand a major step change in the way they operate or resource for local economies and local communities all over the the way we ensure adherence to the agreed standards. country. But where would we start when there is so much The need for scrutiny by design entrenched scepticism and latent suspicion?

I believe the parking industry has to face up to the less than The increasing scrutiny must not be taken lightly, though. As evifavourable current perceptions of the motoring public and denced by our existing disciplines and approach to compliance, capitalise on any development that will serve to substantiate its it really should be a case of scrutiny and transparency by design. position as a responsive, responsible and progressive service In other words, practices and procedures should always be sector. I believe the new Code of Practice for Parking could designed from the outset to accommodate and deliver scrutiny provide just such an opportunity. and accountability in all circumstances – not designed for operIndirectly, the new code will have the stamp of respectability, ational convenience or expediency where assurance of compliance authority and relative impartiality that accompanies any legislation is then dependent upon an imposed (and avoidable) layer of and, hopefully, it will provide a clear reference point for motorists, bureaucratic checks and investigation. landowners and parking operators alike.

It really is a case of thinking about the objectives, taking We won’t change perceptions overnight but, from such a firm positive steps in advance and planning ahead to ensure actions and consistent foundation, we can take decisive steps to begin and processes are truly fit for purpose once the content of the eroding the prevailing negativity and, slowly but surely, start to new code has been finalised – and that applies to the accredited win over the hearts and minds that have eluded the parking parking associations as well as their respective members. It will industry for far too long. be a case of adjusting existing practices and fine-tuning processes The key, of course, will be compliance. to deliver the assurance that is required. Such an approach, however, must not be a one-off gesture.

Winning over hearts and minds The highly complex nature and composition of the parking The reason the new code can represent a new horizon for the industry and the multitude of diverse stakeholder groups will parking industry is that the scrutiny on the industry will be even invariably throw up new and unforeseen challenges along the more visible than ever before. That’s not a bad thing. In fact it’s a way. Consequently, it will always be important that any measures very positive development, as both the International Parking taken to ensure compliance also satisfy the need for agility, Community (IPC) and British Parking Association (BPA) have constant evolution and continuous improvement. This is certainly sought compliance with approved and accepted standards for the way forward as far as the IPC is concerned. many years.

By expanding our administration team, we are freeing up Indeed, the stringent audits and scrutiny from the likes of the management resources and preparing the ground for evermore DVLA (Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency) have been in place vigilant monitoring and assessment to ensure the spirit, as well for many years, although have remained largely unseen and as the content, of the new Parking Code of Practice delivers the unrecognised outside of the industry. But, now, every party has right outcomes where it matters the most – on the parking had a say in the development of the new code, and that reduces frontline. the risk of any unfounded disrespect or disdain. There is unlikely to be much wriggle room for any party and any would-be grey Vicky Jarrett is the IPC’s senior operations manager. areas should be that much more black-or-white – well, we hope so anyway!

The International Parking Community (IPC) is a DVLA Accredited Trade For IPC members, we’re expecting the transition to the new Association (ATA) representing parking operators from both the public code of practice to be relatively seamless. Of course, there will be and private sectors. The IPC is a trade association, and lobby group, some challenges, not least in sourcing and installing new signage for industry professionals. theipc.info in every car park and grappling with some new administrative

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ELECTRIC VEHICLES

MPs to ask taxing questions Transport Committee investigates the roll-out of zero emission vehicles and case for road pricing

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he UK government has made a commitment to end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2030 as part of work to meet its target to bring all greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2050. To support the transition to electric vehicles, ministers have committed up to £1bn to support the electrification of UK vehicles and their supply chains. A further £1.3bn has been committed to accelerate the roll-out of charging infrastructure and installing more on-street chargers near homes and workplaces. Meanwhile, the £40bn annual income from Fuel Duty and Vehicle Excise Duty is likely to decline sharply. The government has said the tax system will need to encourage the update of electric vehicles and that revenue from motoring taxes will need to keep pace with the changes. One potential solution is the introduction of road pricing or pay-as-you-drive schemes, which has previously been perceived to lack public support.

The House of Commons Transport Committee is to look at the implications of accelerating the shift to zero emission vehicles, including bus and freight vehicles, and the case for using innovative new technology to introduce some form of road pricing.

Chair of the Transport Committee, Huw Merriman MP, said: “The government decision to bring forward the ban on the sale of new petrol, hybrid and diesel cars, recently announced in the ‘Ten Point Plan’ for a green industrial revolution, is considered a vital step along the UK’s path to Net Zero. This inquiry will help us get into the details and practicalities of the policy and the financial implications.

“A consequence of the transition to electric vehicles is a potential £40bn annual fiscal black hole, due to the reduction in Fuel Duty and Vehicle Excise Duty. Something will have to change. We will be exploring whether radical road pricing or ‘pay-as-you-drive’ schemes can offer a revenue-raising solution to this problem. We will explore the practicalities of different schemes, the level of public support for them, and best practice from other countries. We will also assess whether new technologies and pricing can both be utilised to incentivise consumer behaviour change, reduce congestion and promote active travel.”

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The Transport Committee previously announced plans to look at road pricing before the 2019 General Election. The House of Commons committee was one of the six commissioning committees behind the first UK-wide Climate Assembly, which published its report in September 2020. The assembly put the emphasis on moving to electric vehicles and improving public transport rather than large reductions in car use. It also called for solutions which are accessible and affordable to all sections of society.

The Transport Committee has invited written evidence on the following terms of reference by 17 February 2021.

Zero emission vehicles Accelerating the shift to zero emission vehicles: • The feasibility, opportunities, and challenges presented by the acceleration of the ban of the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles to 2030 • The actions required by government and private operators to encourage greater uptake of electric vehicles and the infrastructure required to support them • The particular challenges around decarbonising buses and how these should be addressed • The government’s ambition to phase out the sale of new diesel heavy goods vehicles, including the scope to use hydrogen as an alternative fuel.

Road pricing • The case for introducing some form of road pricing and the economic, fiscal, environmental and social impacts of doing so • Which particular road pricing or pay-as-you-drive schemes would be most appropriate for the UK context and the practicalities of implementing such schemes • The level of public support for road pricing and how the views of the public need to be considered in the development of any road pricing scheme • The lessons to be learned from other countries who are seeking to decarbonise road transport and/or utilise forms of road pricing.

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Local authorities are leading the charge PATROL provides a forum to discuss electric vehicle charging

Brighton & Hove City Council

A Brighton & Hove on-street EV charger

Cllr Stuart Hughes

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he public sector is playing a key role in the provision of electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure. A number of local authorities shared their experiences of rolling out electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in their communities at a workshop organised by PATROL (Parking and Traffic Regulations Outside London).

The Leading the Charge event, held on 10 November, brought together four local authorities, as well as representatives from the government’s Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) and the Energy Saving Trust (see panel).

Prabhjeet Rai, policy advisor at OZEV, opened the workshop and took questions from the audience, emphasising the government’s firm commitment to supporting the uptake of electric vehicles, particularly to those without access to offstreet parking and the convenience of charging a plug-in car at home. This includes £500m in funding over the next five years to support the roll-out of a fastcharging network for EVs, ensuring drivers will never be further than 30 miles for a rapid charging station.

Cllr Stuart Hughes, cabinet member for highways management, Devon County Council and chair of the PATROL Joint Committee, said: “Local authorities have a key role to play increasing public confidence in the availability of charging infrastructure. PATROL is delighted that a number of them came together to share their experiences of different approaches and solutions.”

energy storage electric car charging points (StreetHUBZ units) are being installed on streets in Exeter.

The project follows a successful bid to Innovate UK, coordinated by Cllr Stuart Hughes, Devon County Council cabinet member for highways management and PATROL Joint Committee chair.

The presentation highlighted the importance of site design and location for charging infrastructure, whether this be on-street or in car parks, with a particular focus on the positioning of supply points, batteries and charging heads.

Brighton & Hove City Council, working to an ambition for the city to be carbon neutral by 2030, has already installed over 200 charging points across the community.

During its presentation, Brighton & Hove emphasised the importance of working with partners and getting the funding and procurement process right, citing its work with local campaign group, Electric Brighton.

Electric Brighton helped the council facilitate an online mapping tool – ‘Hug the Plug’ – to identify demand for EVs and chargers from the public. This identified key metrics, such as the percentage of registrants that already own and drive an electric vehicle, but who are unable to charge a vehicle at home or live more than a mile away from a current charging point.

During its procurement process, the council engaged with both the Energy Saving Trust and key stakeholders within the council and city (e.g. planning teams, contractors and street lighting contractors) to ensure any funding bid would accurately reflect the true costs and resources required, and be appropriate to meet the needs of the community and the 2030 objective.

Durham County Council

Devon County Council

Oxfordshire County Council

The Zapinamo StreetHUBZ alternative Devon has formed a partnership with two companies, Zapinamo and Gamma Solutions, to provide an alternative to lamppost charging across the community. Instead, 150 low-power, low-

Durham County Council has launched an 18-month community-led project to roll-out 100 EV charging points across County Durham in November 2020 in car parks, rather than on streets.

Preliminary research by the council showed that 40% of housing in the county is terraced, without a driveway or garage in which to install a charging point, and there would be costs and safety issues associated with using street lighting columns outside houses to install charging infrastructure.

Crucially, the council’s research also showed that over 70% of respondents in the community would be happy to walk at least five minutes from their home to secure a charging point.

The council has already identified a number of possible car park locations where the new community EV charging points could be located, including parish church car parks, leisure centres and libraries, as well as Masonic halls, which are used infrequently throughout the week.

Additionally, the council has access to a searchable database through its partners, indicating the potential power of the planned charging points.

Oxfordshire presented its Park and Charge Oxfordshire programme, which is – like Durham – aimed at installing EV charging points across up to 35 public car parks through the county.

Residents, businesses and visitors will be able to charge their cars in the car parks instead of at home, helping to serve the energy needs of the estimated 25,000 electric vehicles that will be active in the county by 2025.

Work has already started to convert bays at one of the main car parks in the town of Bicester through the scheme, which is being delivered with a consortium of partners, including Cherwell District Council and the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford.

Energy Saving Trust: Local Government Support Programme The Local Government Support Programme, funded by the Department for Transport (DfT), provides free, impartial advice and information to English local authorities to help deliver their decarbonising transport and clean air projects.

The programme includes support for the following areas: • Strategy review, site selection, planning and procurement support for charging point networks • Staff training and upskilling • Knowledge sharing between authorities • Business and community engagement.

Local authorities can apply for funding to cover up to 75% of the costs of installing EV charging points in their community through the on-street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS), managed by the trust on behalf of OZEV and the DfT. Further information on the programme and contact information can be found at: energysavingtrust.org.uk/service/local-government-supportprogramme/

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ELECTRIC VEHICLES tructure and recognition of the role that car sharing can play in reducing overall car use. Currently Zipcar takes care of all recharging, simply because asking members to do this with the current charging infrastructure would be unviable and would be a poor member experience. But critically this is not a long-term solution.”

The report recommends an “ABCD” approach, involving ‘Appropriate infrastructure’, ‘Better incentives’, ‘Concerted collaboration’ and ‘Deeper data sharing’.

Dan Hubert, chief executive of AppyWay, said: “The report reinforces just how close we are towards securing the huge societal and economic benefits widespread electric vehicle uptake would bring. Yet a failure to act to provide the extensive charging infrastructure, which is the key to unlocking an EV future, puts at risk a once in a generation opportunity to improve air quality significantly in our cities and substantially reduce overall carbon emissions. Our approach, put forward in the report, would help ensure that EV vehicles do play the transformative role of which they are capable and help to nurture a greener and more efficient economy at a time when it is urgently needed.”

The ABCD of EVs UK cities need to work with commercial fleet operators to deliver electric vehicle infrastructure, says AppyWay

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o ensure the uptake of electric vehicles becomes a widespread reality, UK cities need to focus more on commercial vehicle fleets and better locating on-street charging points, as well as enhanced data sharing between fleets and local authorities, rather than focus too much on private electric cars and home charging. These are the conclusions of a new report from AppyWay, a kerbside management and smart parking technology firm.

The report, Leading the Charge: Are cities ready for a fleet led EV revolution? features contributions from Uber, Zipcar, Enterprise, SSE, Connected Kerb, London First, Transport for West Midlands, Coventry City Council, DG:Cities and Foot Anstey LLP. The report notes that commercial fleets account for close to 60% of new vehicles registered in the UK, with 88% looking to buy electric. However, the report flags up concerns that the lack of availability of charging points is deterring wider largescale adoption.

Christopher Hook, Uber’s driver operations clean air and driver earnings lead UK and Ireland, said: “We’ve committed to become a fully electric mobility platform, with 100% of rides in zero-emission vehicles, by 2040

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A failure to act to provide EV infrastructure puts at risk an opportunity to improve air quality in our cities Dan Hubert

across every single one of the 700 cities where we operate. In the UK we believe that we can get there faster. In London we are aiming to be 100% electric rides by 2025. For all other major European cities, including the cities we operate in across the UK, we aim to be at that point by 2030.

We won’t be able to deliver this commitment alone. Governments, cities, NGOs, car makers, charging operators and power companies all need to work together to create the right conditions.”

James Taylor, general manager, ZipCar UK, said: “If the UK wants to get the benefits of a rapid switch to electric vehicles through utilisation of car sharing we will need significant investment in the charging infras-

Four steps to an electric future The AppyWay Leading the Charge report recommends an “ABCD” approach: Appropriate infrastructure: Research by the Energy Saving Trust that found 60% of Uber drivers do not have access to offstreet parking, rendering them unable to home charge. Similarly, 44% of Black Cab drivers in London do not have the ability to install a charger at home. The AppyWay report calls for a greater focus on providing more public on-street charging, including rapid and ultra-fast charge points.

Better incentives: Fleets are a common source of second-hand cars for individual drivers. The report suggests that encouraging fleets to go electric, therefore, has a trickle-down effect which could provide more affordable access to electric vehicles for private ownership.

This could be incentivised as much as possible through national and local tax and congestion policies.

Concerted collaboration: Knowledge sharing between cities, infrastructure, solution integrators and consultants is seen as the only way to ensure that the path to electrification is sustainable, given the complexities involved.

Deeper data sharing: Telematics, GPS and other job fulfilment information systems mean that fleets hold a wealth of data that can be immensely useful in understanding where to locate charging points. The report cites the example of The London Data Commission, which found that over 2,000 publicly-owned parcels of land in London match the suggested land size and likely power capacity requirements for charging hubs.

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Concerns over accessibility of chargers Infrastructure needs to meet needs of the disabled, says survey Electric vehicle drivers with disabilities are experiencing problems when using chargepoints, a survey suggests.

Chargepoint mapping service Zap-Map has worked with the disability charity Motability to examine the barriers that disabled drivers face when charging their electric vehicles.

With the projected growth in EV sales, Zap-Map and Motability wanted to understand the challenges that disabled people, a key segment of the market, may face when purchasing and using an EV. They worked together to design a survey, with the results being provided as input into the government’s consultation into consumer requirements for EV charging.

Zap-Map has been polling EV drivers on their experiences of using Britain’s charging network for four years. For the first time, the survey of 2,200 EV drivers asked respondents if they considered themselves to have a disability, and about the challenges they face while charging their electric vehicles.

The results indicate that onethird of disabled people surveyed had difficulties locating a suitable charger that could meet their needs, with one-in-seven noting their specific challenges with the weight of charging cables.

The survey also revealed that some users experienced difficulties with the force required to attach the connector, the lack of dropped kerbs around charge-

The weight of EV charging cables can be a challenge for disabled drivers points, and unsuitable parking arrangements.

Some 8% of the respondents identified as disabled, which is below the expected 20% rate of disability within the UK population. The smaller proportion of disabled people using Zap-Map possibly indicates a more limited uptake of EVs among this group, with accessibility issues being a potential concern.

Dr Ben Lane, Zap-Map’s chief technical officer and joint managing director, said: “The UK is witnessing the start of an electric vehicle revolution with millions of zero-emission cars set to appear on our roads in the near future. The new charging infrastructure to serve those EVs is being built now and we can’t afford to leave anyone behind.

Businesses and chargepoint operators need to focus more effort

on improving accessibility and designing chargepoints which will benefit everyone.

“The results of the ZapMap/Motability survey should serve as a warning to the industry to sit up and take notice.

Many disabled people will be thinking about investing in an electric vehicle but could be put off by a lack of accessibility at public chargepoint locations.”

Motability’s vision is that no disabled person shall be disadvantaged due to poor access to transportation. Catherine Marris, innovation lead at Motability, adds: “We know that one-in-five people in the UK are disabled and Motability’s recent research estimates that there will be 2.7 million disabled drivers or passengers by 2035, with 1.35 million expected to be partially or wholly reliant on public charging infrastructure.

“As we approach what will be a transformative energy transition in the UK, there is a robust social and commercial case for ensuring that EV charging infrastructure is accessible for disabled people. If we want to work towards a society and economy that is inclusive for all, then accessibility must be a priority.

“We are delighted to have had the opportunity to partner with Zap-Map for its annual survey this year, and hope to begin working with industry and government to innovate solutions to chargepoint accessibility challenges.”

Launched in June 2014, ZapMap’s EV mapping service is available on desktop and iOS/Android apps, it helps EV drivers to locate available charge points, plan longer journeys, share updates and pay for charging on participating networks.

Q-Park rolls out latest phase of EV charging network Car park operator Q-Park has completed of a further phase of the roll-out of electric vehicle (EV) chargers across the United Kingdom, including its first charging points in Northern Ireland.

Q-Park has partnered with charging point operator Franklin Energy to undertake the works. Franklin Energy has installed 22kW fast chargers at: • Q-Park Victoria Square, Belfast • Q-Park The Spire, Dublin • Q-Park John Lewis, Liverpool • Q-Park Hanover Street, Liverpool

• Q-Park The Light, Leeds • Q-Park Piccadilly Place, Manchester • Q-Park Sheffield Station, Sheffield.

This phase of the roll-out was made complex due to the disruption caused by COVID-19.

Robert Byrne, managing director of Franklin Energy, said: “Phase one of the EV charging point roll-out allowed Q-Park to access and monitor the EV charge demand, identify geographical hotspots and react accordingly. From this, they have been able to collect

necessary data to find the best locations for the new charging points that we installed.

“They are the first car park operator to roll-out a national network of EV charging points in the UK and include discounted season tickets for fully electric vehicle owners.”

The next phase of installations is due to begin before the end of this year and will include the first Q-Park car parks in Scotland.

John Denton, Q-Park’s head of sales and marketing, said: “At Q-Park we are always eager to be at the very forefront of

technological advances in our market. We were delighted to work with Franklin Energy to bring the very latest electric vehicle charging technology to new car parks across the country. We have already identified our next phase of installations with Franklin Energy which will include our first car parks in Scotland.”

Drivers who sign up to use the charging point are required to download Franklin Energy’s LiFe EV smartphone app, which is available for free download in the Apple and Google Play store.

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Electric car drivers can pre-book charging YourParkingSpace and Atlas Hotels enable EV owners to reserve re-charging sessions Electric vehicle owners can pre-book express charging sessions following an agreement being reached between online parking portal YourParkingSpace.co.uk and Atlas Hotels.

The chargepoints will be available for hotel guests and other EV owners to prebook. Initially bookable via the GeniePoint app, the chargepoints will be offered alongside parking booked on either the YourParkingSpace website or their app. The chargepoint booking service was launched at the newly opened Holiday Inn Express Bicester, which has five EV chargepoints.

YourParkingSpace.co.uk said it plans to install a further 250 charge points over the next 12 months at properties operated by Atlas Hotels, which is the largest franchisee of Holiday Inn Express hotels in the UK. Harrison Woods, managing director at YourParkingSpace, said: “This is a great leap forward for the ever-increasing number of EV owners. Over the next 12 months we plan to open up a multitude of UK locations, with Atlas Hotels at the forefront of the roll-out, where EV drivers will be able to pre-book charging for their vehicle, removing the stress of otherwise finding and waiting for a chargepoint that is being used by another motorist to become available.

YourParkingSpace.co.uk plans to become a leader in the electric vehicle charging market,

ENGIE supports Welsh public EV Electric vehicle chargepoint operator ENGIE is working with Silverstone Green Energy to roll-out a public charging network across Wales.

The Dragon Charging Network will be a white label partner for ENGIE with the GeniePoint Platform chosen to provide full operational and management facilities, including around-the-clock customer support for any driver using the network.

The Dragon Charging Network now has over 124 chargers at locations stretching across the country.

The chargepoints on the Dragon Charging Network are owned by local authorities, community groups and commercial organisations that want to make their chargers available for public use. Many of the local authorities provide free parking whilst charging to further encourage changing to electric transport.

EV chargers at the Holiday Inn Express, Bicester becoming a go-to destination for customers to find a charging point.”

Woods said the initiative could provide a valuable boost for hotels currently struggling with COVID-19, helping them attract paying customers to their car park, as well as incentivising drivers to use the hotel facilities, increasing food and beverage sales. “For hotel guests it makes it easier to charge their vehicle at the hotel they are staying at, potentially meaning avoiding having to stop and charge while on the go,” he said.

Martin Coombes, operations and product director at Atlas Hotels, said: “We’re very excited about this initiative. The experience for our customers begins at the start of

their journey. The roll-out of electric chargepoints will help to eliminate both range anxiety for our EV drivers and the inconvenience of having to stop to charge either before or after their hotel stay. We look forward to welcoming EV drivers who would traditionally not have stopped at one of our hotels, with Park, Charge & Meal deals a real opportunity to increase food and beverage sales alongside core room revenue.”

Atlas Hotels, owned by London and Regional hotels, is the largest franchisee of Holiday Inn Express hotels in the UK and Europe. Atlas currently owns and operates 49 Holiday Inn Express hotels and one Hampton by Hilton hotel.

Chargemaster and Polar rebranded as BP Pulse

Finger on the BP Pulse app The BP Chargemaster and Polar electric vehicle charging networks have been rebranded as BP Pulse. Since acquiring both brands in 2018, petrochemical company BP has invested in expanding its UK public charging network.

The BP Chargemaster and Polar websites have now been replaced by bppulse.co.uk.

The previous Polar Plus and Polar Instant smartphone apps have been consolidated into a single BP Chargemaster app, which has also been

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rebranded to BP Pulse. The company has also created a live network map that features an option to start and stop charges via a smartphone browser without registering or using the apps.

The existing subscription scheme will continue to operate, enabling access to BP Pulse public chargepoints for £7.85 a month. Members can access chargepoints using their RFID card or key fob.

Throughout November, the company upgraded its 50kW

Ultracharge units with a new contactless payment terminal and updated software.

BP aims to more than double its current number of publicly available charging points on the BP Pulse network from around 7,000 today to 16,000 by 2030.

BP Pulse is planning to continue installing 50kW and 150kW rapid chargers across the country on the public charging network, all with contactless access via Apple, Google and Samsung Pay. “After 11 years as Chargemaster, then BP Chargemaster, BP Pulse gives us an opportunity to refresh our look and feel,” said Matteo de Renzi, UK chief executive of BP Pulse. “Our goal is to ensure that EV charging is as seamless, convenient and quick as possible. We want our customers to spend less time worrying about charging and more time enjoying their journey.”

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VW unveils robot EV charger prototype Autonomous mobile unit will reach hard to connect parking bays Volkswagen Group Components has unveiled the prototype of its mobile charging robot for autonomous charging of vehicles in restricted parking areas such as underground car parks.

The charging robot is started via an app or using ‘Car-to-X’ communication and operates totally autonomously. It independently steers the vehicle to be charged and communicates with it: from opening the charging socket flap to connecting the plug and decoupling it. The entire charging process will take place without any human involvement whatsoever.

To charge several vehicles at the same time, the mobile robot moves a trailer, essentially a mobile energy storage unit, to the vehicle, connects it up and then uses this energy storage unit to charge the battery of the electric vehicle. The energy storage unit stays with the vehicle during the charging process.

I robot charger In the meantime, the robot charges other electric vehicles.

Once the charging service has ended, the robot independently collects the mobile energy storage unit and takes it back to the central charging station.

Thomas Schmall, Volkswagen Group Components’ chief executive said: “A ubiquitous charging infrastructure is, and remains, a key factor in the suc-

cess of electric mobility. Our charging robot is just one of several approaches, but is undoubtedly one of the most visionary.”

Volkswagen has been developing other charging concepts such as the DC wallbox, which charges up to 22 kW. The direct current charger is being piloted at five sites in order to gather practical experience in order to

Underused Irish phone kiosks replaced by EV chargers

Carolan Lennon, eir’s chief executive, and EasyGo director Gerry Cash Underused telephones kiosks in the Republic of Ireland are set to be replaced by electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. Telecoms company eir has joined forces with charging network provider EasyGo to roll-out 180 rapid electric vehicle chargers across Ireland.

Carolan Lennon, chief executive of eir, said: “Radical transformation is required to meet the challenge of climate change. Eir is committed to playing our part in the creation of a greener, more sustainable

Ireland. Replacing our littleused legacy infrastructure with state-of-the-art rapid chargers will make the transition to EVs a viable alternative for thousands of people across the country, further driving forward the decarbonisation of Ireland and helping to meet our climate targets.”

Locations, where the first chargers can go live, will be announced after consultation with local authorities. It is anticipated that the network will increase the appeal of electric vehicles for drivers as it

will reduce range anxiety, which is one of the main barriers to Ireland’s goal of having 936,000 EVs on Irish roads, under its Climate Action Plan 2030.

“Transport accounts for onethird of Ireland’s energyrelated CO2 emissions,” said Lennon. “This initiative will help accelerate the replacement of internal combustion engine vehicles with EVs, the most practical solution for reducing transport carbon emissions.”

Founded in 2018, EasyGo operates a network of 1,200 chargepoints used by more than 7,000 Irish EV drivers.

Gerry Cash, EasyGo director, said: “EasyGo is delighted to partner with eir and we look forward to working with local councils, the SEAI and the government as we support the growing EV community, the environment, and rural regeneration through this exciting roll-out of chargers nationally.”

EasyGo and eir will be using Tritium DC Rapid Chargers, which can add up to 100km range in less than 20 minutes.

develop the wallbox in the direction of series production.

Mark Möller, head of VW’s technical development and electric mobility division, said: “An extensive and needs-based charging structure is the key to the success of electric vehicles. That is why we are working on various approaches that enable customer-oriented, intelligent and flexible charging.”

EVC to roll out 100k chargepoints Electric vehicle chargepoints will be installed across the UK by EVC. The company said it wants to improve the country’s EV charging infrastructure by installing over 100,000 chargers over the next five years.

The charging points will be supplied to the residential and commercial sectors.

EVC is supported by renewable energy investment group Oasthouse Ventures. It will work in partnership with Swedish chargepoint provider CTEK. The five-year deal with CTEK involves the supply of EV charging equipment, load balancing solutions and EV management software to help EVC deliver scalable charging infrastructure.

CTEK produces the Chargestorm Connected wallbox, which is supported by the Nanogrid loadbalancing solution.

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Inside the Sicore II ANPR camera

Portsmouth prepares CAZ Clean Air Zone will be designed using Siemens Mobility know-how Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology will be deployed in Portsmouth to help improve air quality.

Portsmouth City Council has awarded Siemens Mobility a contract to design a Clean Air Zone (CAZ) to the south-west side of the city. The implementation of a CAZ is needed to ensure the city achieves compliance with legal limits of nitrogen dioxide levels in the shortest possible time.

The CAZ scheme will discourage drivers of the most polluting buses, coaches, lorries, taxis and private hire vehicles from enter-

ing the zone and encourage them to upgrade to cleaner, low-emission or no-emission vehicles.

Siemens Mobility is working

A Sicore II ANPR camera

with the council, central government’s Joint Air Quality Unit (JAQU) and other programme partners to design a CAZ solution that will use ANPR technology for monitoring and enforcement.

Portsmouth’s cabinet member for environment and climate change, Cllr Dave Ashmore, said: “It is important we do all we can do to improve air quality in Portsmouth, as polluted air impacts everyone’s health.

Improving cleaner travel options is essential to the future of our city, so I’m pleased that Siemens Mobility will bring its experience of CAZ solutions and ANPR tech-

Hectronic launches compact CiteaPico terminal Hectronic has launched the CiteaPico, a compact parking terminal designed to provide a completely cashless and ticketless operation.

The German machine manufacturer says dispensing with cash and paper tickets can help parking operators achieve a more cost-efficient operation as personnel are no longer required for emptying cashboxes or replenishing ticket dispensers.

The absence of coin-counter and printer mechanisms means there are fewer moving parts, so the service requirements of units are reduced.

To use the new terminal, drivers enter their vehicle’s number plate and desired parking duration via a 9-inch touch screen.

In cashless operation the machine is equipped with an integrated contactless payment module. Transaction transmission is transferred by radio waves without the need to insert a debit or credit card by means of NFC (near field communication)

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technology. As soon as the display shows the due amount, the card can be held a few centimetres from the reading device and an audio or optical signal confirms the payment has been made.

Contactless payment can also be made using smartphones or smartwatches via Apple Pay or Google Pay. Proof of purchase of a parking ticket can be sent to the driver in digital form via SMS text or as an e-mail on request.

Hectronic’s CityLine back office system can be used to monitor and manage the CiteaPico in real-time. The terminal is equipped with 4G-Modem communication technology to enable data links with the management system.

The terminal can be powered using batteries charged by lateral solar panels positioned on its sides.

The CiteaPico’s side panels are available in a range of colours and can be replaced when a change of look is desired.

nology to the design of the Portsmouth CAZ. “We must all take action to improve air quality and the CAZ is a significant part of the work we’re doing to tackle air pollution in the city. This is supported by a number of other activities, including providing more electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints and retrofitting over 100 local buses so they meet cleaner Euro 6 standards.”

The council carried out a public consultation regarding their plans in July and August 2020.

With detailed site surveys now underway, the Portsmouth Clean Air Zone is expected to be ready for live testing in August 2021 The scheme will involve the installation of Siemens Mobility’s Sicore II ANPR cameras at 42 locations across the zone.

The cameras will identify and register every vehicle that enters the zone, with the information captured then being interfaced with the UK government’s national CAZ database for vehicle checking and payment.

Wilke Reints, managing director of intelligent traffic systems for Siemens Mobility in the UK, said: “As traffic levels nationally return to pre-lockdown levels, air quality remains a major concern for local authorities, and is the most significant environmental risk to people’s health.

With our UK manufacturing base in Poole, we have the capability to meet the demand for clean air solutions that are playing a vital role in not only improving air quality, but also changing drivers’ behaviour.”

The CiteaPico

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Teesside Park offers real-time information SWARCO Traffic designs and installs variable message system Teesside Park, a retail location in the North East of England, has commissioned a new parking and traffic management information system to improve the driver experience and reduce congestion on its road network.

With an annual footfall of more than 12 million customers, Teesside Park is currently undergoing a major redevelopment project to improve access and public spaces with new landscaped areas and walkways.

The project also included the complete redesign of the park’s parking facilities and parking management after identifying inefficiencies in the existing processes and strategy.

The retail park is owned by British Land, which appointed Bowmer + Kirkland (B+K) as the main contractor for the project. B+K commissioned SWARCO Traffic to design and specify the parking solutions.

SWARCO delivered a solution that encompasses both hardware and management software.

SWARCO identified that a lack of parking spaces was not necessarily the problem. In fact, the main challenge drivers faced was in identifying where parking

VMS sign at Teesside Park was available and specifically signposting spaces that were vacant to provide clearer communication to drivers and ultimately improve their experience.

Brian McFarlane, senior project manager at SWARCO Traffic, said that one of the main issues was co-ordinating traffic flow management.

“Drivers were struggling to find available parking spaces, causing unwanted congestion and a somewhat chaotic parking

experience, especially during peak times,” he said. “Ultimately a solution was needed that not only reduced congestion, but also improved the user experience and maximised the parking spaces available.”

As part of its solution, SWARCO recommended a combination of different sign types.

“Full-colour RGB traffic information signs have been installed to guide drivers entering and exiting the park,” said

APT Skidata launches smart remote assistance tool APT Skidata has launched a mobile-based digital solution for owners and operators of individual or multiple car parks.

The remote assistance solution, called digital.services, allows APT Skidata’s clients to use their own smartphone to visually share any technical difficulties with APT Skidata’s support team in real-time via a dedicated app. APT engineers can then diagnose faults and instigate repairs remotely, maximising equipment uptime.

Steve Murphy, APT Skidata’s managing director, said: “The digital.services platform means we can ‘virtually’ be with the operator when they first report an issue. It enables our technical team to see what the problem is without having to be physically present or obliging anyone to describe the problem over the phone. We believe that this will increase the likelihood of a ‘first-time fix’

digital.services by 30%.

“Our digital.services solution will give owners and operators of stadia, airports, shopping centres, hospitals or town centre car parks a fast and effective way of preventing a minor disruption from becoming a costly crisis.”

The solution is powered by

SightCall, an augmented reality (AR) enabled visual assistance platform. It gives APT Skidata’s technical teams access to technologies including: optical character recognition for touchless data entry; an active AR interface allowing remote experts to draw, point and highlight directly onto the

McFarlane. “These signs are complemented by a series of parking guidance variable messaging signs (VMS) installed across the retail park to display clear space availability arrows, featuring the number of free spaces in green or displaying ‘Full’ in red. This enables drivers to clearly see whether spaces are available or not in a particular car park from a distance and take the appropriate, safe course of action.”

The VMS can also be used to provide parking and traffic flow information, safety announcements, and to inform drivers and visitors about events, maintenance works or road closures.

Data is sent to the signs via a series of integrated car park counters installed in the VMS, control cabinets and inductive loops that record all vehicles entering and leaving car parks.

This means the data and status of the car parks are presented in real-time, enabling British Land to better manage parking availability.

Gary Higgins, B+K’s contracts manager for the scheme, said: “The level of service provided

by SWARCO during the project has been very impressive. We’re pleased with the immediate impact the system has had on making parking a whole lot easier across the park.” service engineer’s smartphone; and high-definition picture and video quality, even in lowbandwidth environments.

Full GDPR compliance provides additional portability, enabling secure usage everywhere the company operates.

Thomas Cottereau, founder and chief executive of SightCall, said: “We are honoured to facilitate the company’s acceleration of its smart mobility strategy, as well as its moves toward greater remote management of vehicle access control at service sites across the UK. The stakes for digital tools are even higher now, with a need to protect customers and employees from COVID-19 exposure, while preserving normal operations as much as possible.

“SightCall will help augment APT Skidata’s existing data and resources for the continued development of its intelligent transportation solutions.”

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Leeds’ P&R will have space for 1,200 cars £38.5m project will encourage electric-powered motoring Leeds City Council’s new park & ride site will be completed in the autumn. The £38.5m Stourton project is part of Connecting Leeds’ plan to improve the bus network, provide better connectivity and reduce carbon emissions in the city.

The Stourton park & ride site will have capacity for 1,200 vehicles and will complement the Elland Road and Temple Green sites, catering for trips south-east of the city with access via Junction 7 of M621, A61 and A639.

It is anticipated that the Stourton park & ride site will take over 1.6 million car kilometres off the network into Leeds City centre each year.

Stourton will be a solar-powered park & ride site and will be served by an electric bus fleet, that will run every day. The solarpowered operation will result in the reduction of 471 tonnes of carbon each year, which is the equivalent of removing 203 cars from our roads. The solar panels will also power 26 electric vehicle (EV) charging points and one bus capacity point.

In addition, the bus priority measures along the new corridor linking the park & ride to the city should help to provide quicker and more reliable journey times on existing services. Modelling indicates that at peak times, the measures along Hunslet Road and Low Road will provide a 10% journey time improvement for buses.

Leeds City Council’s executive board member for climate change, transport and

Computer representation of the Stourton P&R sustainable development, Cllr Lisa Mulherin, said: “The development of Stourton park & ride builds on the obvious benefits of people switching to public transport use to reduce their impact on the environment. Solar panels and an innovative battery storage system, paid for with European Regional Development Funding, will provide energy for the whole park & ride site, which will be served by electric buses.”

Cllr Kim Groves, transport lead for the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, said: “With the potential to take up to 1,200 cars off the road and offer improved journey times into Leeds city centre in a fleet of new all-electric buses, projects like this are an important milestone in our ambition to becoming a Net Zero carbon region by 2038.”

Porsche drives York project forward

CGI image of the Porsche Centre, York Porsche is building a new showroom and service facility for Yorkshire. The Porsche Centre York at Nether Poppleton will be a satellite site complementing the Porsche Centre Leeds. Run by dealership JCT600, it will provide space to display the German company’s range of sports cars, as well as a full workshop to support service and customer care.

The workshop will include a customer Direct Dialogue Service bay, wheel alignment bay and

specialist EV diagnostic bay, as well as on site car preparation facilities.

John Tordoff, chief executive of JCT600, said: “Having represented this iconic marque since 1967, we are proud to be one of its longest standing dealer partners in the UK and also to have developed our relationship to offer five Porsche Centres, bringing one of the world’s most sought-after sports car brands to even more customers across Yorkshire and the North East.”

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Martin Hirst, commercial director of First West Yorkshire, said: “We are delighted to have been selected by West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Leeds City Council to operate the service. This builds on our successful partnership with the existing park & ride network in the city and we’re looking forward to bringing the benefits of this bus connectivity to more people working in and visiting Leeds.

“The new buses will expand our all-electric vehicle fleet in Leeds and are a continued demonstration of our strategy to move to a fully zero-emission fleet across the region in the years ahead. They also enable us to capitalise on the bus priority measures now rolling out across the city, helping to create cleaner air, reduce congestion and give customer reliable journey times in superior comfort.”

Yorkshire car auction house plan A purpose-built vehicle auction facility is set to open in Yorkshire. G3 Vehicle Auctions is investing in a facility on a 14-acre site off Junction 32 of the M62 after outgrowing its existing 4-acre auction site.

Construction on the facility began in March 2020, with completion scheduled for January 2021.

G3 plans to relocate all staff to office workspace within the auction facility as well as create up to 30 new jobs.

The facility will have the capacity to annually re-market 50,000 vehicles, more than Visualisation of the G3 Vehicle Auctions site

doubling the company’s current capacity.

Joint managing director Matt Dale said: “It’s exciting to be able to announce this ‘good news story’ to the industry.

Whilst there has been a seismic shift to online-only auctions in reaction to the events of this year, we truly believe that a mix of digital and physical solutions will be essential to supporting the automotive trade long into the future.

“We’re investing to create a true omni-channel experience to seamlessly merge both in our ever-changing industry.”

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