We are connected.
Our goal is to create a connected, accessible destination that supports a greener future.
Our ethos of active, innovative and sustainable travel solutions are at the forefront of our enhanced masterplan. Best practice now has a focus on prioritising accessible modes of travel such as walking and cycling, followed by sustainable travel modes via public transport and then facilitating the motor vehicle. In designing this way, the placemaking needs of people who work and visit us are considered and facilitated from the outset.
The active travel vision starts from a Bicester town catchment for walking, then expands locally for cycling and lastly covers a wider area for public transport and motor vehicle movements.
Assessing the transport impacts
Cycling times
Walking times
Our estate benefits from nine existing or permitted access points onto Buckingham Road, Skimmingdish Lane or Bicester Road. It is a requirement to take a visionary approach to Transport Assessment that reflects the overarching aim to encourage active and sustainable travel. The vision is then validated using placemaking design and travel modal shift forecasting to test various travel scenarios and identifying how they can be achieved.
Active travel connections
We have already made a number of localised improvements to the surrounding walk and cycle infrastructure as part of the redevelopment of the site.
Buckingham Road forms a key route in the Bicester Local Walking and Cycling Improvement Plan (LCWiP), alongside being a key route between Bicester Motion and Bicester North station. Improvements to the pedestrian and cycle infrastructure are being investigated.
Sustainable travel
Measures proposed to be implemented to promote sustainable travel include:
Provision of a strategic Mobility Hub on the estate, with connections across the site to a network of local mobility hubs
Dedicated shuttle bus operation to nearby railway stations or other clusters of staff and visitor locations
Car sharing - the implementation and promotion of a car sharing scheme, alongside the provision of dedicated lift share parking spaces across the estate, could reduce the number of vehicle trips associated with the estate
Live/work - allows for the internalisation of trips on site as employees could live and work on the Bicester Motion site.
