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Equality Impact Assessment - Traffic Management Schemes
1. What is the name of the function, policy or service that is being assessed?
Traffic Management – Schemes (design and construction)
2. What are the aims of the function, policy or service? How do they relate to the departmental objectives in the Service Plan? Whose needs it is designed to meet? What are the current priorities?
Making Wiltshire’s roads safer and providing alternatives to the use of the private car.
Measures are introduced to improve road safety and encourage walking, cycling and use of public transport.
3. In what ways might this function, policy or service affect some groups of people differently? Might some groups find it harder to access the service? Do some groups have particular needs that are not well met by the current policy or service? Consider all six equality strands: race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age.
Racial/Ethnic
These are not factors in the provision of engineering measures
Gender
These are not factors in the provision of engineering measures
Sexual Orientation
These are not factors in the provision of engineering measures
Religion/Belief
These are not factors in the provision of engineering measures
Disability
Certain types of traffic management schemes provide facilities for the disabled.
Age
Can be a factor in the provision of schemes but to a lesser extent.
4. What evidence do you have for your judgement? Is there evidence of public concern (e.g. complaints)? Have staff raised concerns? Is there local or national research to indicate that there could be a problem?
Traffic management schemes are designed and constructed in accordance with current legislation and codes of practice. The County Council complies fully with its legal obligations relating to design standards. For the disabled, the Department for Transport’s guide to good practice “Inclusive Mobility” is used.
5. How and with whom have you consulted with as part of your assessment? What were the results? Have you published the results of that consultation? If so, where?
Design standards and codes of practice are produced nationally with input from disabled groups as considered appropriate.
6. If you have found that the function, policy or service might have an adverse or disproportionate impact on a particular group of people, can you justify this?
Measures are introduced to assist the mobility of the disabled and older road users rather than have an adverse affect on them generally.
7. If the impact cannot be justified, what do you intend to do about this? Are there changes that you could introduce which would make the function, policy or service work better for this group of people? Is further research or consultation required?
N/A
8. How will you monitor the take-up or impact of the function, policy or service in future?
The provision of facilities for disabled pedestrians at pedestrian crossings is monitored via a best value performance indicator.
9. What actions do you plan to take as a result of this equality impact assessment? Please state any resource implications.
N/A
10. There is a legal requirement to publish the outcomes of Equality Impact Assessments. Please outline how / where this will happen.
Assume this is a Corporate decision on publishing policy.
11. Name of person completing form
Traffic Manager
Date assessment completed
5.2.07
12. Senior manager approval
Assistant Director - Planning & Regeneration
Contact Details
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Equality & Diversity Team
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Wiltshire County Council
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Wiltshire
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