Local Transport Plan for Kent 2006-11

10.1 The effectiveness of the policies, strategies and interventions proposed in Kent's LTP will be monitored throughout the period of the Plan and measured against a series of performance indicators and targets. Kent's LTP indicators take the form of seventeen mandatory indicators, agreed between Government and Local Authorities to reflect the Shared Priority objectives of improving accessibility, tackling congestion, providing safer roads and improving air quality, and a series of fourteen local indicators, established by KCC to reflect its local transport strategies. The links between Kent's LTP targets and its Shared Priority objectives are summarised in Table 10.3.  In setting its own performance indicators, Kent aims to complement its mandatory indicators and present a clear and visible connection between current transport issues at a local, regional and national level. A number of the performance indicators included in this Plan continue on from Kent's first LTP 2000/01 to 2005/06. This reflects the relative importance of certain transport objectives in the longer term and also ensures that the excellent progress made towards improving transport in Kent over the past 5 years is built upon throughout the period of this Plan and beyond.  In setting its LTP targets, Kent has looked to set challenging target levels based on what KCC and its partners can realistically achieve by 2010/11. Full details of Kent's approach to monitoring its LTP are outlined in Appendix 1 Performance Indicators and Targets. A summary of Kent's LTP performance indictors and targets is shown in Tables 10.4 and 10.5.