Nottingham Express Transit

Key Principles

  • Changing travel patterns

Details

Nottingham Express Transit (NET) is the eighth light rail system in Britain. Direct routes leading to the city centre, shared movement corridors, through ticketing and simple connections to local buses and trains at several locations has made the system highly successful. The system carried 8.4 million passengers in its first year of operation, also increasing park and ride use by 20%.

Mark Fowles from Nottingham City Transport and David Carter from MVA believe that the success of the system’s development and operation can be attributed to the need for a good scheme in the right place, clear specification, long-term political support and a skilled promoter team. Involvement of the private sector, strong presence of operators, early work on utilities and a dual approach to procurement through a grant and PFI have also been key.

Linking main origins and destinations (including park and ride interchanges, which provide a total of 3,140 spaces) and collaborative working with a dominant bus operator, the Nottingham City Transport (NCT), to provide feeder services, through ticketing and integrated travel cards has also helped restructure the bus services. Core route frequencies have been reduced on routes parallel to NET, while maintaining and expanding frequencies along other routes.

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The Nottingham Express Transit has reduced car dependency and increased park and ride use .
The Nottingham Express Transit has reduced car dependency and increased park and ride use .

The Nottingham Express Transit has reduced car dependency and increased park and ride use .