Local transport plan
A local transport plan is a planning tool for the area of local public transport (ÖPNV) in Germany . He should for each PTA create a viable and financially realistic basis for the design of public transport and a coordinated approach ensure that matches the existing or yet to be developed on traffic links. The districts, independent cities and special-purpose associations are obliged to draw up these plans in most federal states. Only Hamburg does without this instrument.
General
The local transport plan serves, among other things, to represent the public transport interests and needs for the respective area of responsibility and must be integrated into the overall municipal planning. He is central to
- adequate traffic service
- economic traffic management
- the integrated local traffic control and
- coordinated tariffs and timetables
in the design of local public transport by the responsible authorities, the licensing authorities ( district governments ) and transport companies .
When approving routes according to the Passenger Transport Act (PBefG), the approval authorities must observe the content of the respective local transport plans.
content
The regional public transport laws of the individual federal states determine the basic contents of the local transport plan. There are differences between the individual countries. Most laws agree that the following information and content are required:
- Existence and desired development of public transport networks
- Existence and development of the passenger volume
- Existence and development of the appropriate range of services (forms of service and service standards)
- Quality of vehicles and structures (also taking into account accessibility)
- Investment planning
- Financing the infrastructure and the range of services
- Tariff structuring and development of community tariffs.
Statements on line bundles, environmental standards and the organizational structure are also usually recommended . However, it is disputed whether a strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is necessary for the local transport plan. Only in Lower Saxony does the State EIA Act (in Annex 3, Point 2.1) prescribe an SUP for the NVP in the agglomeration areas, thus creating clarity about the SUP obligation.
With the amendment of the PBefG in 2013, the requirement was introduced to take into account the needs of people with disabilities in the local transport plan with the aim of making the respective public transport offer completely barrier-free by 2022 .
Planning horizon
Most local transport laws specify a period of five years as the planning horizon for public transport improvement measures. If long-term measures in the investment area are included in the local transport plan, a period of five to 15 years is usually included.
Special purpose associations
Special purpose associations can take over the preparation of the local transport plan from the cities and districts. Local rail transport associations that act as the responsible bodies for local rail passenger transport, for example in Saxony or North Rhine-Westphalia, are also obliged to draw up local transport plans. Local transport plans for the SPNV, however, have no legal effect according to PBefG, since this is not valid in the rail sector.
- The Zweckverband decides on the planning, organization and design of the local rail transport (partly also of the other public transport, insofar as it is offered across communal borders).
- The Zweckverband has to work towards the formation of a community tariff for local public transport in the cooperation area. In creating the transitional tariff, he works towards a convergence of the tariff structure of the local transport cooperation areas.
- The Zweckverband has to work towards the coordination of the public transport offers.
- Coordination between the special-purpose associations must be brought about on lines of the regional rail transport that cross the boundaries of the special-purpose associations.
Moreover, it is a need for coordination between local transport plans resulting counties and independent cities and the syndicates.
See also
literature
- Sibylle Barth: Local transport is the municipal responsibility: local public transport after regionalization . Bielefeld 2000 (series for traffic and technology; vol. 90), ISBN 978-3-503-05731-3
- Daniel Bongardt, Florian Krummheuer: Innovative Strategic Environmental Assessment for Local Transport Planning . In: International Transport. Trade journal for science and practice. Hamburg 6/2008, pp. 235-240
- Anka Derichs: Local transport plans under the sign of liberalization. Public transport planning and its implementation on the test bench . Dortmund 2002 (Dortmund contributions to spatial planning, traffic 1)
- Volker Eichmann, Felix Berschin, Tilman Bracher, Matthias Winter: Environmentally friendly, attractive and efficient public transport - a manual . Difu work aids , Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-88118-395-7
- Burkhard Horn: Local transport plans and public transport authorities, new requirements for municipalities . In: PlanerIn, H. 4 (2002), pp. 29–31.