Solent Transport

One awards evening🎊 Two awards🏆🏆 Now that's value for money💸 Our Mobility Credits Project Manager, Luke Redfern, had an excellent night representing the #SolentFTZ at the City Transport & Traffic Innovation Magazine (CiTTi) Awards yesterday evening… walking away with two wins for “The Mobility-as-a-Service Award” and “The Transport Inclusivity Accessibility Award”. None of the Solent Future Transport Zone's achievements are possible with out the support of colleagues from our local authority partners: Dominic McGrath from Hampshire County Council, Stewart Chandler from Isle of Wight Council, Felicity Tidbury from Portsmouth City Council and Pete Boustred from Southampton City Council; and our lynchpin #MaaS partners Trafi with the ever-supportive Damian Bown. Luke reflected on the awards evening, "the FTZ team is having a genuine impact on people and their lives. Whether that’s helping them understand their travel options more, subsiding travel for some of the lowest income families to allow them to access goods and services, developing and delivering new transport services to improve connectivity, providing quick and helpful customer support when things do go wrong, or tackling air quality through better logistics – every day, hundreds (if not thousands) of people are subconsciously improving their lives from all the benefits of improved mobility… and that makes all the challenges worthwhile.".

And we're off! Councillor Jordan, Acting Chair of the Solent Transport Joint Committee, is opening the Future Transport Forum. Inspiring words as we look forward to two days exploring and celebrating the work of the UK's Future Transport Zones and beyond. #SolentFTZ #conference #hampshire #isleofwight #portsmouth #southampton #futuretransport #sustainabletransport

We're proud to be shortlisted as finalists under "Best Equity and Inclusion Initiative" for our Mobility Credits trial (pg 7) - the largest of its kind in the UK and the only one in England to be delivered using a MaaS app. Congratulations to all the finalists, it's inspiring to see so many innovative transport projects! #SolentFTZ #MobilityCredits #sustainabletransport #equity #inclusion

Time has rapidly passed and we are only two days before the next Future Transport Forum! Looking forward to hearing all the updates from the amazing work the Solent Transport team is doing 🚇 And also have a very interesting fireside discussion on the opportunities and challenges of women in future transport alongside Rasita Chudasama and facilitated by Caroline Hildreth ⭐ where I will be wearing both my Women in Transport and Women in Bus and Coach hats ✨ Join us on the 22nd at 14.00 at the main foyer workshop 4 🔧 Please send me a message if you are also attending 🔗 #ftf25 #futuremobility #womenintransport #womeninbusandcoach

ℹ️ Future Transport Forum - Getting Hereℹ️ It's finally here! The Future Transport Forum 2025 is happening this week. It's being held at Novotel, Southampton, and is easily accessible by public transport. 🚆Just a 5 minute walk from Southampton Central Station. Exit the station via Platform 4. 🚲Bike storage will be available directly outside Novotel, provided by Cyclehoop. 🛴🚲 Voi Technology e-scooters and e-bikes can be found all around the city using the Breeze or Voi app. There is a parking bay in the Novotel car park (outside the Ibis Hotel). 📱What3Words: FAULT.GRIT.ACTORS 🚗You can park for free in the Novotel car park, but you must register your licence plate on each day to avoid a fine. We look forward to welcoming everyone there! #SolentFTZ #conference #futuretransport #southampton #transport

Great to see another project that our partners Decarbon Logistics Solutions (A Volofleet Portfolio Company) are working on taking off! A new micro hub has launched in Birmingham to help reduce congestion and carbon emissions arising from last-mile deliveries. Read more here https://lnkd.in/euQgaZcD 🚲 #SustainableLogistics #Microconsolidation #microhub #SolentFTZ

At the Future Transport Forum you’ll get to immerse yourself in the latest thinking, technologies and innovation driving all things personal mobility. From designing your own mobility credits trial to trying out e-scooters and e-bikes and the UK’s first multi-city MaaS app, it’s not to be missed! Only one week away, book your place now! Link in comments #SolentFTZ #conference #innovation #January2025 #networking #mobility

We recently applied for planning permission to use part of a car park in Winchester as a last mile logistics hub, and are pleased to say that planning permission has been granted! The concept of a logistics hub is that delivery vans drop off parcels to a centrally located hub. The parcels are then sorted and grouped before being delivered to their final destinations using sustainable transport options such as cargo bikes. The aim is to reduce the number of vans delivering parcels around the city and replace these with cleaner, greener transport. It is hoped this approach will help ease traffic congestion, reduce carbon emissions and improve air quality in the city centre, as well as deliver improved business efficiencies by adopting more sustainable solutions. It’s been a journey of working with key stakeholders to identify suitable sites for a logistics hub and carefully assess the available options. Reaching this stage demonstrates the potential viability of car park space for logistics hubs. Thanks go to Decarbon Logistics Solutions (A Volofleet Portfolio Company) for their hard work on this. Our next steps are to further develop the design of the hub and appoint an operator. Watch this space for more! #SolentFTZ #micrologistics #sustainablelogistics #cleanair #sustainabletransport #innovation #logisticshub #winchester

Kicking off 2025 with a surprising figure from our micromobility schemes. Voi Technology parking bays are now a familiar sight for many across the Solent area. But did you know there are more than 570 places to hire and drop off e-bikes and e-scooters in Portsmouth, Southampton and on the Isle of Wight?! Specifically, there are ⭐ 202 spots in Portsmouth ⭐ 286 in Southampton ⭐ 88 on the Isle of Wight and even more sites will be added this year! These numbers combine the former Beryl bike parking bays - that have since been converted to Voi bays - with the existing Voi ones, rather than counting them separately. This is because many of the bays are co-located. If we counted them separately, the figures would be even higher! #2025 #micromobility #SolentFTZ #escooter #ebike #parking

Merry Christmas from all of us at Solent Transport! Thank you to all of our partners and suppliers who make everything we do possible. We wish you a restful festive period and a happy new year. We're excited for all that is to come in 2025. It's looking like it may be one of the busiest years yet for the Solent Future Transport Zone! #merrychristmas #sustainabletransport #Christmas2024 #SolentFTZ