Steer supported West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) in developing a Future Mobility Strategy for the Leeds City Region. Future Mobility considers how innovation and technology can help to create a better, fairer, and greener transport system that meets the range of needs of people in the region.
Steer provided an overview of recent experience and current practice from other cities including problems and gaps in the future mobility field from across the UK and relevant international locations. We also reviewed extant WYCA’s work and identified key challenges.
Key relevant future mobility strategies and emerging practice were summarised by the following themes:
Steer organised and facilitated stakeholder workshops for each Future Mobility theme bringing together a range of stakeholders across the industry from the public and private sectors.
Using the DfT’s Future of Mobility Urban Strategy principles as a basis, we developed eight WYCA Future Mobility Principles that guided our approach to defining trials of new technology/services in West Yorkshire. The principles were tested with stakeholders and were refined following their feedback.
We developed thematic notes for each Future Mobility theme summarising key challenges and opportunities, examples of good practice and identified gaps.
We also developed a technology-based Action Plan to inform the priorities for the region over the short, medium and long term periods. The thematic notes and Action Plan include:
In August 2020 the Draft Future Mobility Strategy was published for consultation. Once approved, it will set the priorities for WYCA’s work on Future Mobility over the next 10 years and will allow WYCA to develop, test and assess new mobility services and inform their funding and investment decisions.
Steer provided a test and challenge to WYCA as they drafted the Future Mobility Strategy, identifying ‘weak links’ in written logic and structure.
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