Targets for the Wider Vision

As outlined in Chapter 2, this second Greater Manchester Local Transport Plan is set within a wider vision of support for Greater Manchester’s broader economic competitiveness and social inclusion agenda.

We have now assessed realistic outcomes in jobs and housing that will result from the developing regional strategies, both based on the DfT's TEMPRO economic growth factors, and the City Region Development Plan case, which represents a more optimistic assessment of economic development we might expect. The effect of this on travel patterns has been tested with the Strategy Planning Model, and is reflected in the final targets.

Specific targets are also being prepared for each of the four priority corridor partnerships. These will be related to delivery of the overall targets throughout LTP2, and reflect outcomes and the additionality of the corridor approach. Similar targets for the remaining eleven corridors will be developed as work on these corridors progresses in the early LTP2 period.

New forecasts for Manchester Airport have been prepared in line with national DfT airport policy. We have a target for growth to 30million passengers per annum (ppa) by the end of the LTP2 period as part of long term growth to 54 million ppa by 2030.

We have also taken account of National PSA and other targets where these relate to our chosen set of LTP2 targets.

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