We will shortly be setting a series of five-year targets which will enable us to measure our progress towards our transport objectives.

Over the five years of the Plan we will publish Progress Reports to give details of how we are doing. Our success or otherwise in moving towards the targets we set for the national indicators will play a major part in the Government’s decisions about the level of funding that they make available to us.

Our targets will relate to our local priorities both for transport and for quality of life. The Government expect that the targets we set will be challenging but also realistic. They must relate to the outcomes that we expect to achieve with the programmes set out in our spending plan, rather than being simply an expression of what we would ideally like to happen.

We will be setting targets for the following indicators:

National Indicators

• Total traffic levels, peak hour traffic flows and levels of congestion
• Condition of roads (proportion of roads requiring maintenance)
• Number of children and total numbers of people killed or seriously injured on county roads each year
• Number of slight road casualties each year
• Bus punctuality and levels of satisfaction with bus services
• Access to work and hospitals by public transport
• Levels of cycling
• Mode used for journeys to school
• Traffic related air quality in designated Air Quality Management Areas