Technical Notes and Guidance
TRICS® Consortium Limited regularly undertakes technical analyses and produces technical reports and guidance documents that we consider to be very useful for our member organisations. A selection of more recent and key documents can all be freely downloaded from here.
The report can be downloaded HERE.
The summary can be downloaded HERE.
TRICS Consortium Limited is pleased to announce the publication of a new Technical Note, “A Comparison of Vehicular Trip Rate Variation by TRICS Regions and Location Types”, which is now freely available to download by everyone. This report presents the findings of research recently undertaken by the TRICS team into vehicular trip rate variation by region, when compared to an identical exercise by TRICS location type. It examines vehicular trip rate variance by examining three of the largest and most often used land use categories in the TRICS database, these being 01/A (Food Superstores), 02/A (Offices), and 03/A (Houses Privately Owned). Our existing TRICS Good Practice guidance has always advised that our users should refrain from deselecting sites by geographical region as a default method, and instead should consider the TRICS location type along with a number of other local factors that may influence vehicular trip rates. We have now undertaken a set of technical analyses using the TRICS database to provide further clarity on this subject to our Good Practice Guide, which is being updated in 2020. A presentation on the report and its findings will be given at the 2019 TRICS Training & Development Forum in Oxford this November.
TRICS Consortium Limited (TRICS) is responding to the fact that the world is experiencing significant change in relation to social, technological, economic and environmental drivers which in turn is creating new dynamics in travel behaviour and challenges for transport planning. In the face of deep uncertainty, the “predict and provide” paradigm that has framed transport planning processes is to give way to “decide and provide” paradigm – decide on the preferred future and provide the means to work towards that which can accommodate uncertainty.
It is fundamental that TRICS, as a spatial planning tool, provides direction to support the “decide and provide” approach and managing uncertainty in forecasting and trip generation analysis.
TRICS is therefore seeking to gather together the evidence of change and consider in what ways the use of TRICS may be developed to consider the impact of changes in travel behaviour.
BasfordPowers (BP) in conjunction with ITS Leeds (Professor Greg Marsden) and UWE (Professor Glenn Lyons) has been commissioned to produce a TRICS Guidance Note concerning Change in Travel Behaviour.
It is proposed that this Guidance Note informs TRICS users of the changes in travel behaviour and discusses the implications of travel trends for TRICS users. Further research maybe required to understand the implications of the evidence concerning trip rate reductions which have been cited in the All Change Commission on Travel Demand report on the use of TRICS data and analysis. Future traffic forecasts included in the Department for Transport Road Traffic Forecasts 18 will also have implications for the use of TRICS which also needs to be understood.
The report is now available and can be downloaded from HERE
Section 5 of this report contains Ten Key Questions for TRICS Users. We have created an on-line survey for our users to participate in, where you can provide your views if you would like to assist in the further development of a “Decide and Provide” approach to transport planning. The survey asks users to answer these ten questions, and there is also the opportunity to provide your additional comments at the end.
The link to this survey is HERE
As always, TRICS Consortium Limited greatly appreciates the views of its user.
TRICS Consortium Limited are pleased to announce the publication and free availability of our technical report covering multi-modal and internalisation surveys undertaken at the Cambourne Village development in June 2018.
We believe this study is the first of its type. We surveyed the whole Cambourne Village site incorporating the usual multi-modal TRICS methodology, plus we also surveyed a number of separate internal non-residential developments within the overall site, looking at splits between internal and external trips, plus the types of journey that were being undertaken. Of course, the study only covers one particular large new settlement on one day (all surveys were undertaken simultaneously), and our results do not reflect any other similar new settlement, but the question of internalisation within such developments has been something that has been raised for a number of years, so we are pleased that we have been able to start looking into this in more detail. We see this as just the beginning, and we look forward to receiving feedback from anyone interested in this subject.
The report can be downloaded HERE.
We are also pleased to announce that an analysis portal that TRICS users can use to interrogate the survey results is also available within the Members Area of this website (just log in with user details and it is available there). At the end of the technical report there is some guidance on how to use this facility, which allows our users to look at the individual non-residential developments within Cambourne Village and undertake a variety of analyses based on survey time periods, the types of journeys being made, and splits between journeys to and from these developments made by people from within Cambourne Village and those external to it.
As always, the TRICS team are on hand to answer any queries you may have about this study.