More residents, more jobs
DLR carries out detailed forecasting of
population and employment growth in Docklands, to inform our service plans and
upgrades. This is done by looking at planning applications in the Docklands and
future “masterplans” for big development areas, and combining them all
together. The result is a forecast of the number of home and jobs up to 2031.
Some particular areas of large development
drive this growth, including an expanding Canary Wharf, the massive
redevelopment around Stratford (including the Olympic Park), and more homes and
jobs in the Royal Docks.
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These forecasts are fed through to a
computer model of the transport network. This model takes into account the
forecasts and information from rest of TfL on the services being run on DLR, London
Underground, rail and buses, and predicts the number of people using each part
of the DLR.
Over 70 million trips are expected to be
made on the DLR over 2010 – around 250,000 per day on a normal weekday. This
will rise to over 100 million in 2012, thanks to the opening of the Stratford International
extension and the Olympics.
Demand on DLR will continue to rise until
2018, when Crossrail opens, and provides a new route between central London,
Canary Wharf and Custom House.