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