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We produced a transport assessment and environmental impact assessment for two of the three Park and Ride sites to be proposed as part of the Leicester West Major Transport Scheme. The Environmental Assessment was undertaken by Enviros as subcontractors to us. The documents were submitted as supporting documents in the Local Transport Plan Annex E submission for the scheme. Our technical work included assessment of the sites, including internal circulation of both vehicles and pedestrians, and the access arrangements for both cars and buses. The work also included using forecast patronage figures and existing traffic counts to ascertain the scale of the impact on the surrounding road network, in particular at new access junctions and a number of key junctions around the proposed sites where detailed junction analyses were carried out using LINSIG, TRANSYT and ARCADY.

In addition to our work on the Leicester West Transport (LWT) major public transport scheme, we were again commissioned by Leicester City Council and Leicestershire County Council to conduct a study to investigate optimal sites for park and ride car parks. We were responsible for project management and transport planning, and was supported by GVA Grimley on land use planning, ERM on environmental impact and Stuart Michael Associates on site engineering. The study recommended sites to serve three route corridors into the City Centre. The sites formed part of the LWT scheme which is proposing a total of five sites, extensive bus priority, variable message signing and bus stop improvements, including real time passenger information. It was intended that the recommended sites be taken forward to public consultation.