iTRACE has been nominated for Outstanding Project of the Year in this years Smarter Travel Awards. The Awards will be finalised at the presentation on the 10th May.

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DEFRA resently released the schedule for submitting NI 195 results through the 08/09 year. The submission deadlines for the three four-monthly surveys and annual survey for the 2008/9 survey year are:

Tranche One - Thursday 28th August 2008
Tranche Two - Monday 29th December 2008 (due to Christmas break)
Tranche Three -Tuesday 28th April 2009
2008/9 Annual Return - Monday 1st June 2009

Details can be found at NI195.com.

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iBase has released the new version of it's performance monitoring software for NI 195. "We have added quite a lot of useful new reports to emulate those provided by the NI195 website, with our system though you can get the results before you submit them to DEFRA.  The new software is now available." Says Dan Blanchet, Commercial Manager. Click the link for details of our  NI 195 software.

Details of the new performance indicator can be found at www.NI195.com.

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iBase attended the Project NOMAD Classroom 2008 event on the 10th April 2008, "a radically different Flexible & Mobile Workshop event in Central London…".

Check out our Registered Supplier profile on the NOMAD site or click the image for detail of the event.

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iBase Systems has fended off tough competition to be short listed as one of only four finalists in the European Green IT Awards 2008. iBase was nominated in the Use of IT to support Green process or people change catagory.

This an impressive achievement, made all the more so due to the large number of entries this year.The European Green IT Awards are part of the European Green IT Summit & Awards, being held on the 13-14 March 2008 in London.

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iBase sponsored the ENCAMS CSG Conference in Manchester this month. There was a very intertesing NI 195 workshop hosted by Brian Johnson and Hugh Thornton of ENCAMS, details of the new performance indicator can be found at www.NI195.com.

iBase presented it's new NI 195 software and the case for using mobile software and technology in waste and contract management.

Click the link for details fo our  BVPI 199 / NI 195 software.

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Monitoring failures are undermining the effectiveness of travel plans - According to the latest bulletin from Local Transport Today (LTT487 07 Feb 08).

The study by Napier and Loughborough Universities surveyed Development control or travel plan officers from 139 highway authorities in England:

"The paper's authors (Tom Rye of Napier, Emma Young, and Stephen Ison of Loughborough) report that almost 75% of travel plans appear to be drawn up as a requirement of the planning process through either planning conditions or planning obligations, rather than voluntarily…

Worryingly, a fifth (21%) of respondents said they did not monitor travel plans… 46 out of the 86 respondents said there were examples of travel plans in their area that had not been implemented or were likely to be in breach of their condition/ obligation… Only four respondents said they had ever taken enforcement action against a breach of travel plan condition or obligation…

When respondents were asked how they would enforce a travel plan, the majority of the 32 answering the question said they were not sure. The other 54 respondents did not answer the question…"

A vital part of evaluating the performance of a travel plan are the results of on-going site and staff surveys, these are at the heart of iTRACE our successful Travel Plan Management and Monitoring system (currently in use at all 33 London Boroughs as well as Wigan, Milton Keynes, Portsmouth City, Southampton City, Hampshire County and Buckinghamshire County Councils). Download more information as PDF.

For the full LTT article, follow the link Local Transport Today (LTT487 07 Feb 08).

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iBase spoke about iTRACE, the Travel Plan Management system, at the London Councils TRAVL Conference on the 30^TH January 2008. The presentation formed part of the "Travel Plan Guidance and Sustainable Travel Initiatives in London" agenda.

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BVPI 199 Changing it's name but here to stay...

Communities Secretary Hazel Blears today unveiled the New Performance Framework for Local Authorities and Local Authority Partners: Single Set of National Indicators that will come into force for local councils next April.

The Performance indicator previously known as BVPI 199 is to continue under the new National Indicator Framework as: NI 195 Improved street and environmental cleanliness (levels of graffiti, litter, detritus and fly posting) Defra DSO.

The new Framework list is available from the Communities and Local Government website

Important factors influencing the decision to retain BVPI 199 are that there is a strong correlation between its score and that of BVPI 89 - "Percentage of people satisfied with the standard of cleanliness in their local area." BVPI 89 is a headline indicator but is not measured every year. An authority's BVPI 199a score gives a good indication of what the BVPI 89 grade will be. Also BVPI 199 is invariably part of the new LAAs (Local Authority Agreements - LAA a three year agreement, based on local Sustainable Community Strategies).

One of the recommendations put forward was to have a more robust data collection method - our BVPI 199 solution for handheld computers offers exactly that. Read more about our BVPI 199 solution.

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