Small and Local Scheme, Assessment Tool, DISTILLATE

This report presents the development and testing of a tool designed to support the decision making process for small and local schemes that do not have to proceed through to a full NATA1 appraisal. It is also intended that it could be used with larger schemes to provide an initial indication of whether they are worth pursuing to the full appraisal stage.

The small and local assessment tool allows users to select a set of indicators appropriate to their circumstances, weight the indicators in terms of importance, assess the impact of proposed project(s) against the indicators, and finally combine the weighting and assessment to derive a final score that will give an indication of whether a project is worth pursuing, or a priority list where more than one project is assessed. Packages of measures can also be assessed. A pick list of potential indicators is provided derived from the NATA appraisal, Local Transport Plan guidance, UK Best Value Performance indicators (BVPI) and other appropriate sources. Users are also able to add in their own local indicators to the assessment.

The small and local scheme tool is an MS excel (.xls) file. It is currently available on request from Charlotte Kelly (c.e.Kelly@its.leeds.ac.uk) or Ann Jopson (a.jopson@its.leeds.ac.uk)

The tool is supplied with a large range of indicator sets appropriate to transport and land use decision making for practitioners to source from.