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Wednesday 28 July Public Consultation Event Presentations
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The Scottish Ferries Review
Consultation Document 2010
Mull – 28 July 2010
Judith Ainsley
Introduction• General presentation on Ferries review
• Q&A
• Workshop on routes and services methodology
• Opportunity for final questions
The Consultation
• Consultation Document, not a Plan• Runs to 30 September 2010• Questionnaires to complete and return• 33 key questions• [email protected]• 0131 244 1539• Documents available on our website
Commitment to Ferries
• Essential part of our transport network• Essential for access to vital services• Enable movement of freight• Encourage sustainable and growing
communities• Must provide a safe, sustainable system• Quality employment
Summary of the Review:
• Inform a long term Ferries Strategy – to 2022• Influence next round of tendering for services• Investment programme for vessels and ports
and harbours• All publicly funded ferries included – Scottish
Government and local authority funded• No potential routes excluded• Needs of passengers, cars, commercial vehicles
and freight all to be considered
Lack of consistency
• Funding services• Funding vessels• Funding harbour infrastructure• Responsibility for delivery• What routes and what level of service• Tendered services• Provision of vessels
What we’ve done so far
• Been helped in forming opinions by project groups
• Consultants and CMAL carried out specific pieces of work to inform us
• Public consultation events last year
• Extensive data collection
Challenges
• Less money available to invest in and support ferries
• Ageing fleet and need for investment
• Ageing harbour infrastructure and need for investment
• Escalating fuel and crew costs
• Subsidy levels increasing
Funding and Procurement• To 2022 need £604m for vessels• To 2022 need £180m for ports and
harbours replacement• To 2022 need £7.5m p.a. annually for
ports and harbours maintenance• The services also need to be funded -
2007/8 cost for all c. £103m, 2008/9 for DML c.£90m
• We are asking you to consider options
Funding Options
• The status quo
• CMAL to access funds through alternative structural or financing routes
• Ports and harbours could be self-funding
• Users of the service to pay more
• Open the market up to greater competition
Procurement Options for services
• Tender some routes singly with the option for operators to bring their own vessel(s) to the tendered routes?
• Specific routes are suggested• Allow single routes to be “bundled” or stagger the
tenders?• Leave remaining routes within the 2 large bundles?• Loosen the tender requirements, specifying only the
minimum level service to allow operators the flexibility to innovate?
• What should be specified?
Fares Options• Increase all fares• Increase visitor fares• Reduce fares for island/peninsula
residents• Reduce fares for commercial vehicles• RET or other distance based• To manage demand• Mixed approach
Fares Questions• Asking you to consider what the rationale
for/purpose of the fares policy should be.
• Should fares differentiate between islanders/residents of peninsular communities and other ferry users?
• One fares policy across Scotland or different policies dependant on needs of communities?
What services should be funded?
• We have developed a methodology – based on Summer timetables - for determining what routes and services are needed
• We will now do the same for Winter timetable
How should services be provided?
• Who should be responsible for providing ferry services that need public subsidy?
• Should there be central procurement expertise regardless of who is responsible for the provision of the service?
Options• Status quo – inconsistent approach
• Scottish Government becomes responsible for all
• Local Authorities/RTPs become responsible for all
• A more consistent split of responsibility for example….
How responsibility could be split?
• SG responsible for services between mainland and islands, LAs or RTPs responsible for all others
• Dependant on administration at either end of the route
• Dependant on whether the route is classed as a “sea” route or one with less onerous conditions
Accessibility• Disabled people, those travelling with
children or luggage, PRMs• Equalities Impact Assessment at Draft
Plan stage• Accessibility Assessments carried out • Recommendations from this work in the
consultation document and you are asked for your views
Accessibility• Should they be implemented now?
• Included in future tender requirements?
• Accessibility improvement fund?
• Information system indicating the degree of accessibility?
Environmental Issues• Some questions regarding reducing
emissions aimed at operators
• Question 33, would you support longer journey times as part of a CO2 emissions reduction programme?
• Do you have any other suggestions to reduce emissions?
Any questions so far?
Part 2 - Workshop session • Opportunity to explore and discuss our initial findings
for Mull, Iona, Ardnamurchan and Morvern. So far we have considered:
1. what you need your ferry for2. what a service would look like to meet these needs3. where the gaps are
• We have still to consider options to address the gapsand prioritise future spending
Checking we’ve got this right?• Aware that in defining the needs of the
community and defining a ferry service to meet those needs there might be things we haven’t got quite right.
• We need you to tell us what you think –have we described your community correctly?do we need to change anything?
Current Issues Mull• Complicated timetable with variations on sailings;
Integration with other public transport modes on mainland
Iona• Limited sailings, winter timetable and inconsistent
timetables/sailingsArdnamurchan and Morvern• Limited timetable• Winter timetable and inconsistent timetable
Household survey results
• An average of 67% of people on Mull who use the ferry most are either quite or highly satisfied with their current services.
• Iona – small sample size so combined with other communities, therefore no separate figures available.
• An average of 79% of people in Ardnamurchan and Morvern who use the ferry most are either quite or highly satisfied with their current services.
• Average satisfaction for the network is 73%.
What you need your ferry for -
1. Commuting - importance of ferry to enable regular commuting and business travel to and from community.
2. Personal – if people are dependent on basic services and facilities from the mainland
3. Supply chain - where communities have good access to public amenities and shopping – these amenities need supplying
4. Export/Import - where an island requires the ferry to cope with high levels of freight transit.
5. Tourism – how dependent is the island on tourism.
Initial findings • Mull - Export/Import and Tourism are equally important.
Followed by Supply chain, Personal and then Commuting
• Iona – Tourism is important. Followed by Commuting, Personal, Export/Import and then Supply Chain
• Ardnamurchan-Tourism and Commuting are equally important. Followed by Supply chain and then Personal and Export/import
• Morvern- Personal, Export/Import and Tourism are all equally important. Followed by Commuting and Supply chain.
• Does this feel right?
How did we assess this?• Commuting –We used household survey
data. We looked at the % of people who said their principle use was commuting or business travel;
• Personal - We considered the population density of the island and weighted this against factors such as whether the community has access to local healthcare/school facilities etc;
How did we assess this?• Supply chain - The measure for this
dependency was the population size of the island;
• Export/import -The measure for this dependency is commercial vehicle lane metres;
• Tourism - measured by the average number of people employed in tourism for the community and the ratio of summer and winter patronage.
Defining a service
• In defining a service to meet these needs we have considered:1.Crossing time;
2.number of sailings per day;
3.length of operating day; and,
4.the number of days per week the service runs
Initial analysis • Mull - A slightly longer crossing time together with a
longer operating day. And no change to sailings per day or days per week.
• Iona - A longer crossing time, a reduced number of sailings per day, a shorter operating day and a reduced number of days per week.
• Ardnamurchan - No change to the length of crossing time, a reduced number of sailings per day, a longer operating day and no change to the number of days per week.
• Morvern – A longer crossing time and a reduced number of sailings per day, a longer operating day and no change to the number of days per week.
• However, we will take account of consultation responses and where applicable Steps 5 and 6 yet to be applied
Steps 5 and 6• Identify options to address proposed
changes at Step 4
• STAG based appraisal
• Objectives to take account of current issues
• Prioritise future spend across the Scottish ferries network
What happens next?
• Public consultation to 30 September 2010• 43 events within this period• Draft Ferries Plan with more detailed Strategic
Environmental Assessment and an Equalities Impact Assessment
• Further minimum 6 week consultation period• Final Ferries Plan