Purpose

Herefordshire Council has recently been
successful in securing £19,990,449 funding from the
Department for Levelling Up to deliver the ‘Hereford
Transport Package’. This funding has been adopted into the
Council’s capital programme, as per above decision link. The
package includes funding for a number of Active Travel Measure
(ATM) improvements across Hereford City. In order to carry out
these improvements, essential traffic modelling work needs to take
place to inform the design process.

The Levelling Up Funds (LUF) includes budget lines for ATM
improvements to Blueschool/Newmarket/Commercial Rd and Aylestone
Hill, where funding will taken from to implement the
decision.

AECOM have been commissioned (via open tender) to develop the
Hereford Strategic Transport Model. The additional data collection
and modelling work sits directly alongside this work and is very
similar in nature. The work will be delivered as a variation to the
existing contract. This is best value option because they are
already on site delivering against the existing contract, and
already up to speed with key issues. Data analysis will also need
to be incorporated into overall transport modelling work