Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
The local authorities, Oxfordshire County Council and Oxford City Council, are developing
planning strategies and transport investment strategies with a fairly extensive forward look
(often to 2021 and 2026), and they are both viewed as progressive authorities in transport and
urban planning within the UK. The Oxford Local Development Framework (LDF), for example,
has been prepared by Oxford City Council (2008, Core Strategy), and there are four other
LDFs across the county (Cherwell, South Oxfordshire, Vale of White Horse and West
Oxfordshire). Each was prepared within the context of the regional South East Plan (Government
Office for the South East, 2009) and national planning policy guidance. Recent develop-
ments at the national level in land-use planning, with the current Conservative-Liberal coalition
government less supportive of regional planning efforts, and the land-use planning system as
a whole, means little strategic direction is being offered, and there is much confusion as to
the most effective process for policy-making. The regional tier of planning has been abolished
and the national level is also very weak, leading to an absence of strategic planning. The
Oxfordshire Local Transport Plan (LTP3) (Oxfordshire County Council, 2011) involves a time
horizon 2011-2030, with a 3- and 5-year investment programme. The longer term strategy is
Table 4.1
Oxfordshire - some statistics
Issue
Comment
Demonym
Oxonian (an inhabitant of Oxford or member of the University of Oxford)
Population
Oxfordshire (2011)
653,800
Oxfordshire (1801)
111,977
Oxford (2011)
151,900
Oxford (1801)
12,690
Area (2007)
2,605 km
2
Population density
County
246/km
2
City
3,331/km
2
University students (2012)
University of Oxford, 21,000 students
Oxford Brookes University, 20,000 students
Commuters
75% of Oxford's population works within Oxford; only 9% travel
outside of the county to work; yet around 50% of Oxford's workforce
lives beyond its boundary
Mode share (2001)
Oxfordshire
:
Oxford
:
West Oxfordshire
:
Main mode for the
Journey to work:
Journey to work:
journey to work: 62%
42% car, 15% walk,
67% car, 9% walk,
car, 10% walk, 7% bus, 16% bus, 15% bicycle,
5% bus, 5% bicycle,
7% bicycle, 10% work
8% work at home,
10% work at home,
at home, 2% rail.
2% rail.
2% rail
Travel cost, single bus
£1.80 (Two bus companies - Oxford Bus Company and Stagecoach)
ticket in Oxford (2012)
CO2 reduction target
None
Total CO2 emissions (2008)
9.0 tCO2 per capita
Transport CO2 emissions
3.0 tCO2 per capita
(2008)
Transport % of total
33%
Source
: Oxfordshire County Council, 2006; Oxfordshire County Council, 2007; Oxford City Council, 2011.
