Issue - meetings

Forward Plan Ref: 2019/150

Contact: Chanika Farmer, Transport Development Control Lead – Cherwell, West Oxfordshire and Oxford Tel: 07557 082590

Report by Director for Planning & Place (CMDE4).

The report discusses the licensing of the A40 VISSIM Model to 3^rd parties.

Oxfordshire County Council commissioned Wood PLC to construct a VISSIM transport model for the A40 corridor.  The intellectual property rights in the developed model are owned by the council.

The A40 VISSIM Model models the existing conditions and expected future growth including the West Eynsham and Oxfordshire Cotswold Garden Village allocated sites. The model was initially designed to help OCC assess the A40 corridor and help unlock growth in Oxfordshire. Whilst not used for the Eynsham Park & Ride site due to time constraints, the model will help to inform the Eynsham Area Action Plan (AAP) and the subsequent planning applications.

It is proposed that the A40 VISSIM model be licensed to transport consultants on a non-exclusive basis in return for a one-off license fee equal to 25% of OCC’s development costs.

The license agreement will enable the transport consultant, using the A40 VISSIM model, to assess the impact of the planning application and fully mitigate any impact of the proposals.

OCC Legal services will be involved in the grant of the necessary licence grant.

The Cabinet Member is RECOMMENDED to approve the sharing of the A40 Transport Model subject to the license agreement being signed.

Approved

The Leader of the Council considered (CMDE4) a report setting out a proposal for Oxfordshire County Council to license a VISSIM transport model for the A40 corridor commissioned from Wood PLC to model existing conditions and expected future growth including the West Eynsham and Oxfordshire Cotswold Garden Village allocated sites. The model initially designed to help the County Council assess the A40 corridor and help unlock growth in Oxfordshire would help to inform the Eynsham Area Action Plan (AAP) and subsequent planning applications. The intellectual property rights in the developed model were owned by the County Council.

The current proposal was that the A40 VISSIM model be licensed to transport consultants on a non-exclusive basis in return for a one-off license fee equal to 25% of OCC’s development costs. The license agreement would enable the transport consultant, using the A40 VISSIM model, to assess the impact of the planning application and fully mitigate any impact of the proposals. Oxfordshire County Council’s Legal services would be involved in the grant of the necessary licence grant.

Will Madgwick presented the report and confirmed that the current expectation was that the model would only be used on the West Eynsham and Oxfordshire Cotswold Garden Village sites although that could be expanded to include other schemes if or when required.

The Leader of the Council welcomed the report along with confirmation that it could be expanded and, therefore, having regard to the information set out in the report before him and the representations made to him at the meeting confirmed his decision as follows:

approve the sharing of the A40 Transport Model subject to the license agreement being signed.

Signed…………………………………………

Leader of the Council

Date of signing……………………………….