London is facing an inactivity crisis and the shift to a more sedentary lifestyle is now one of the biggest threats to our health. With the need to design physical activity back into our everyday lives, join Henry and Joe to find out how TfL use GIS to support ‘The Healthy Streets Approach.’ You will see how the city planner tool is used to analyse a vast library of spatial data to help inform investment decisions in our walking, cycling and public transport infrastructure to transform London and improve the lives of everyone who lives in, works in and visits this great city.
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How do we extract best-value from our data to inform MTS aligned project
development and investment decision-making at TfL?
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Using City Planner Tool data to characterise MTS outcome deliverables in an area to inform
scheme development and investment decision-making. Tracking priorities and trade-offs
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ESRI CONFERENCE 2018 : CITY PLANNER TOOL
Joe S
Thank you Tim (Tim Welch, our General Manager) -------- and thanks to ESRI for inviting us here today
We trust you had a smooth and reliable journey here this morning -------
Its worth noting that the work Henry and I will talk to you about today has primarily been undertaken for the Surface side of TfL
--------As you may not be aware TfL organises itself, at a very high level, in LU and Surface
People of tend to think of the ‘Tube’ when they think of TfL...but its everything else that Henry and I are primarily interested in in this context
----although this obviously includes the interaction between stations and streets
Joe S
So the challenge we are really focussing on is TfL’s ambitions for the roads---or streets as articulated in the recently published MTS
And how we are using the data available to us to bestdeliver the mayors ambitions for London's streets
Joe S
The new MTS - which I’m sure you’re all very familiar with ---- was published in March this year.
------ it has three key themes 1. Transforming London into a healthier place to travel, 2. delivering quality, connected and accessible public transport , 3. and finally supporting sustainable growth in the city
These themes are brought together through one very simple, high level target
------ and that's to increase the levels of sustainable travel in the city ------ so that's travel and foot, cycle or public transport – from the current level of 63% ------ to 80% by 2041
For us this means more people choosing to walk, cycle and use the bus – and central to this is the idea of implementing healthy streets in London
Joe S
1. -----to accompany this strategy we have our business plan
Joe S
1. ...and as you can see -----there’s lots to do
2. This is just a subset of our business plan over the next 5 years
3. And you can see that figure in the middle there - £2.2bn planned spend on healthy streets and air quality portfolios
4. This includes projects like cycle superhighways, oxford street and Vauxhall gyratory transformation ------ projects that represent fundamental changes to the way London's streets operate
5. But with so much planned activity and investment how do we prioritise and define the deliverables for all these projects – in line with the MTS
Joe S
1. Spatial Data is playing a big role --------(bigger than ever before really) ------in helping TfL to understand and prioritise it’s investments during the life of this business plan
Joe S
I’ll be honest----I’m a data person----as no doubt a lot of you here are too
But no in all seriousness...we’re very lucky at TfL, and in London and the UK more broadly, to have substantial and ever increasing amounts of spatial data available to us to help inform these key investment decisions.
2. As you are all no doubt aware, part of the challenge with this data is that its comes in many different formats
3. This in itself presents its own challenge. How do we make sense of all this data in a consistent and legible way that the whole business can understand and apply to there day to day/ BAU work on project development and invetsment decision making?
Joe S
Joe S
So we have our strategy, our plan and our data (which we love)
But we also have business processes that guide delivery at TfL
3. Its critically important that strategy and delivery sides of business are aligned to successfully deliver the MTS
4. Bringing together what’s been said. How do we fully exploit our data to do this?
Key Questions for us
What’s the best way for us to use spatial data at TfL in delivering the MTS?
----or -------put another way------
How do we extract best value from our data to inform scheme and investment decision making?
HC 1 Minute – (maybe a background image for whole page?)
Segway to data aggregation/ simplification
Empathy – peoples experience travelling here today
Scale and complexity – yes we’re lucky to have all this data, but as Joe says, its tough, how do we utilise all this info – “you can imagine”
So simplification of our data, along with alignment to the MTS and business process, is key to the successful application of data to improve decision making at TfL (in scheme dev and investments etc)
HC- 1-2 mins
Key concepts
Describe why the hex was adopted, what it is, why useful – prioritise – trade off – characterise
Spatial language whole business can understand
Limitations - Strategic planning – long term trends
HC- <1mins (higher res map will be used) - 15041
Key concepts
This is what the grid looks like at the whole London (or GLA level) – there are 15041 elements , or neighbourhoods here
---------So pretty right
Henry
Data EG – safety - All Modes Total Casualties (2014 to 2016) People– you can see its local enough to pick out networks and defined hot spots in this example....
5.6 million bits of data overall across over 200 data sets
Includes modelled data, demographic, bus, rail, land use etc etc
Henry
Makes joke about image
But how do we make this information accessible to the business and embed it into business process? ?
HC – CPT Screenshots describe tool dev w/ esri – web app builder custom widgets – 1 min
Access to data
Analytical tools
Spatial prioritisation
Case-making
HC – CPT Screenshots describe tool dev w/ esri – 1 min
HC
1. Link to business process and MTS
HC refer back to pathway and lead into case study – 2 mins
Scoring or characterising these neighbourhoods in line with the MTS framework
For the healthy streets portfolio
Spatial language whole business can understand
HC – Spatial example – HC 1 min
Useful at the project level. But we can also see spatially where we should focus on particular outcomes or inform the prioritisation of a programme.
See here the safe outcome (casualties and crime levels) visualised for Westminster for example
HC – 1 min
Scores for 11491233 – used to develop a outcome definition plan
Joe S
Joe S close – flow diagram ref – our recipe
By applying a simple spatial language to our library of spatial data, and working with ESRI to develop an interface that gives employees access to this info, we have delivered a tool that is key to the successful delivery of the MTS