Useful Links
The following essential links are key organsiations providing resources to help encourage more people to walk more of their everyday journeys. Click on each of the headers underlined to take you directly to their website. If you have other sites and resources you would like to see added here please let us know.
ASTUTE
ASTUTE is a European-funded project with the aim of identifying, understanding and overcoming the barriers to sustainable travel. It's website has a very useful toolkit which details the main barriers and offers best-practice examples of how to overcome them.
Living Streets
Living Streets is a national charity that campaigns to create better streets and public spaces for people on foot. Their work spans policy, research, lobbying and advice on pedestrian issues. They have produced a number of visionary policies, briefings and published a series of DIY guides which are particularly suitable for community groups to help audit their streets and identify, in a structured way, some of the opportunities for making them safer and more attractive.
Department for Transport
The Department for Transport website contains a range of resources, guidance and data about walking within a transport context. This includes technical design guidance, school travel and travel awareness campaigns and key initiatives to support more walking.
Key documents on the website include:
Walking
Walking and cycling: an action plan
The action plan sets out measures from across government to increase levels of active travel by creating places to walk and cycle in and influencing travel behaviour through training, education, marketing and promotion. The 8th progress report is now available.
Encouraging walking: success stories
This companion to Walking and Cycling: an action plan, contains 50 examples of successful schemes from across England.
Building sustainable transport into new development: Options for growth points and eco towns
This document is aimed at all those involved in the planning, design and construction of new housing developments. It sets out advice on how to build an effective sustainable transport system in new developments, from the planning to the implementation stage. It recommends a variety of transport options to integrate and adopt according to the location and needs of the individual development.
Published: 03 April 2008
Climate change and transport
Information on climate change as well as links to sites with information on how people individually can reduce the environmental impacts of their transport choices.
Smarter choices
Smarter choices are techniques for influencing people's travel behaviour towards more sustainable options such as encouraging school, workplace and individualised travel planning.
Travel plans
A travel plan is a package of measures produced by employers to encourage staff to use alternatives to single-occupancy car-use.
School travel
Promoting safe and healthy journeys to school which, in turn, can also help to reduce the use of the car and impact of the 'school run'.
Travel awareness campaigns
Travel awareness campaigns aim to improve general public understanding of the problems caused by traffic growth and to encourage people to think about their own travel behaviour. These include annual events such as the In Town Without My Car! campaign.
Home Zones
Home Zones are residential streets in which the road space is shared between drivers and other road users with the wider needs of residents (including people who walk and cycle, and children) in mind.
The Campaign for Better Transport
Campaign for Better Transport is one of the members of the Travel Actively consortium and is delivering one of its portfolios of projects. Since 1973 it has been helping to create transport policies and programmes that give people better lives. Working nationally and locally, collectively and as individuals, through high-level lobbying and strong public campaigning, it aims to make good transport ideas a reality and stop bad ones from happening
Active Transportation – Canada
A new Blog dedicated to promoting Active and Sustainable Transportation in Canada. "Active Transportation - Canada" will feature a weekly posting of news articles, studies, reports, and other items, many of which are to do with walking and can offer an interesting comparison to our work here in England.
Modeshift
Modeshift is a community of school travel plan officers employed to help ensure every school in England has a School Travel Plan by 2010. The Modeshift network costs authorities £150 per year to join but most are members. They have a lively members only e-forum where they share frustrations, achievements, knowledge and expertise.
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) has become a leading organization in the promotion of environmentally sustainable and equitable transportation policies and projects worldwide.
ITDP was created by sustainable transport advocates in the U.S. to counteract the export to developing countries of costly and environmentally damaging models of dependence on the private automobile.
They publish a quarterly e-bulletin which you can sign up to by following this link.
Sustrans
Sustrans is a national sustainable transport charity. Their vision is a world in which people choose to travel in ways that benefit their health and the environment. They work on practical, innovative ways of dealing with the transport challenges that affect us all and have some excellent resources on their website, mostly orientated to cycling, but which provide vital references for people wishing to understand all dimensions of sustainable transport .
ACT Travelwise
ACT TravelWise is a membership network for organisations working to promote sustainable travel. They support their members in their work to promote sustainable travel through provision of first-class learning opportunities, partnership working, marketing support and networking events, all with a specific focus on building expertise and experience in travel planning and other cost-effective demand management measures.