Travel Plans have been common in transport planning for three decades. If a Travel Plan is intended to have a positive effect on travel patterns arising from a new development, why isn’t it integral to the Transport Assesement or Transport Statement?

Says webinar host John Dales: 

At the heart of this, as I see it, and have always seen it, is the unnecessary and – surely – illogical separation of TPs from their Transport Assessment and Transport Statement (TA/TS)parents. Why should ‘soft measures’ or ‘behaviour change initiatives’ or ideas about ‘smarter choices’ be considered separately? If the TA sets a (hopefully challenging) mode share target for a given mode of X%, what role does a stand-alone TP have? Whatever benefit the measures proposed within a TP are intended to have, even if just nudges, should surely be reflected in the main TA/TS itself?

Monitoring is hardly ever done, and I have never seen there be any remedial action or other repercussions should Travel Plan promises be unfulfilled or targets unmet?

Read the full story here: https://www.transportxtra.com/publications/local-transport-today/news/78398/are-travel-plans-still-doing-their-bit-

John Dales, Director, Urban Movement

Ian Mitchell, Director, Mayer Brown

Nick Butler, Chief Operating Officer, Modeshift

Claire Fleming, Travel Plan Officer, Swindon Borough Council

Sarah Mcalinden, Travel2Next Coordinator, Next plc

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