ACUTE HOSPITALS, PARKING AND GREEN TRAVEL PLANS

The 1998 Transport White Paper, A new deal for Transport, mentions hospitals specifically among organisations which should make a strong effort to undertake 'green transport planning' and to curtail the number of cars coming to the site. It echoes recent PPG Notes from the DETR which identify hospitals as major attractors of local and sub-regional trips. In an effort to learn about the extent to which the NHS was engaging in Green Transport Planning, and the ways in which different hospitals managed journeys to the site by staff and patients, a national survey was undertaken of acute hospitals, and obtained responses from seventy-nine. Although a few NHS sites have been praised by Transport 2000 for their innovations in green transport planning, it was found that the majority of sites had undertaken very little work to manage the number of car journeys to the site; and that most of the work which had been undertaken was done in response to the conditional granting of planning permission by Local Authorities. This contrasted to the generally greater level of enthusiasm for green transport planning shown by the 40 universities which were also surveyed in a related project. Charging for parking at hospitals is an emotive issue, but it was found that hospitals are much more reluctant to charge staff than to charge patients for parking. The way in which parking fees were set did not recognise that patients do not usually have control over how long they spend at the hospital. In conclusion, changes are suggested in the way that travel to hospital is managed. For the covering abstract see IRRD E104586.

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  http://abstracts.aetransport.org/conference/index/id/5
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• Authors:
  • CUMMINS, P
  • Crampton, G R
• Conference:
  • TRANSPORT PLANNING, POLICY AND PRACTICE. PROCEEDINGS OF SEMINAR B, AET EUROPEAN TRANSPORT CONFERENCE, 27-29 SEPTEMBER 1999, CAMBRIDGE, UK.
• Publication Date: 1999-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 135-49
• Serial:
  • Volume: P430

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Environmental protection; Federal government; Hospitals; Interviewing; Parking; Planning; Policy; Tariffs; Transportation; Transportation corridors; Travel
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 1116: Corridor (transp); 2444: Environment protection; 183: Government (national); 2177: Hospital; 9147: Interview; 698: Journey; 955: Parking; 143: Planning; 173: Policy; 241: Tariff; 1155: Transport; 8119: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00790415
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0-86050-321-6
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Apr 11 2000 12:00AM