Regional Transport Delivery Plan (RTDP)

The draft RTDP outlines the potential interventions and funding strategies required to achieve the draft RTP objectives and to help deliver the Wales Transport Strategy (WTS) at the regional level.

  • Interventions: The draft RTDP includes a list of interventions that the CJC will look to progress to achieve the objectives in our draft RTP. These proposed interventions focus on the next five years up to 2031, with some longer-term proposals included to ensure ongoing development and funding. The final RTDP will include project information to support the prioritisation process, which will assess deliverability, affordability, and management of the programme. For projects at the concept or early development stage, assumptions will be made based on similar projects.
  • Funding the RTDP: Achieving the vision and long-term aspirations of the draft RTP will require unprecedented levels of investment, both in capital for assets and revenue for maintenance and operational costs. Historically, transport schemes in Wales have been funded through WG grants. Over the past five years, CCR received £272.4 million in WG capital funding for transport schemes. However, it is unrealistic to assume that WG transport grant funding will cover all draft RTDP schemes. Alternative funding sources will be pursued to fill the funding gap and achieve the draft RTP vision and objectives.
  • Alternative Funding Sources: The draft RTP explores various alternative funding sources, including private sector investment, developer contributions (S106), demand management measures such as clean air zones and workplace parking levies, land value capture mechanisms like tax incremental finance, pension funds, public sector borrowing, overseas investors, and investment banks. All avenues of potential funding will be sought. Continuing to seek public sector funding opportunities is also essential.
  • Revenue Funding Support: Ensuring ongoing maintenance and operational costs are covered to sustain new and existing infrastructure is also essential. Behaviour change incentives can also be resource intensive and costly, therefore it is crucial to ensure national-level funding continues to maximise impact.

You can read our draft RTDP here.

Guidance Note for the Delivery Plan

We have adopted a flexible approach to the development of the RTDP to allow for the inclusion of new schemes and interventions that align with RTP objectives. This allows CCR local authorities to take advantage of future investment opportunities and pursue innovative solutions. This adaptable strategy will provide a more resilient and efficient programme of schemes.

During the early stages of the RTDP development it became apparent that there are a large number of proposed interventions, particularly when considering the ten local authorities’ aspirations for active travel, bus and resilience, digital, and road safety highways engineering schemes. Schemes under these categories have many common features in terms of aims, likely costs and deliverability. For this reason, these interventions have been included as ‘regional’ schemes rather than listed individually by specific local authority. This has resulted in an all-encompassing, but manageable and concise RTDP.

Some large-scale active travel schemes have been individually included in the RTDP in recognition of their strategic importance and in some cases their more advanced level of development.