As part of the programme, we have a list of resources on a range of topic areas for participants to utilise.
- This paper sets out interventions that have been used effectively in European cities: A dozen effective interventions to reduce car use in European cities: Lessons learned from a meta-analysis and Transition Management
- Findings from this paper were also written about in ‘The Conversation’ which has an audio/podcast available: 12 best ways to get cars out of cities – ranked by new research Impact of interventions encouraging a switch from cars to more sustainable modes of transport
- BetterPoints: behaviour change case studies
Mott Macdonald work:
Exploring behaviour change communication using innovation:
- CoMo guidance on car club procurement
- CoMo new developments guidance
- CoMo mobility hubs guidance
- Travel Better
- North Somerset Council Parking Standards Supplementary Planning Document - Page 21 - Car Club Schemes at All New Developments
- Co Cars for helping councils with research and delivery of EVs and Ebikes
- Swindon | Co Wheels
- Moray Car Share example of rural car share scheme in Scotland
- Shared Wheels / Liftshare activity in Lancashire
- CoMoUK guidance, including Mobility Hub Delivery Models; Mobility Hubs Guidance; and Mobility Hubs Toolkit, as well as guidance for planners and developers in Scotland, case studies from Bremen and Ghent and a list of mobility hubs in the UK that are either complete or under development.
- Exeter Mobility Hub Case Study – Co Cars
- SESTran Mobility Hubs Strategy Study: containing some Scotland-specific information, but also principles applicable everywhere
- Speyside low carbon hub case study
- East Lancashire Strategic Cycleway Network
- Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans (LCWIPs)
- New Eastern Villages | Swindon Borough Council - Good example of masterplan developed by Council - over 100 different landowners, plus land promotors and developers.
Tools to help think about where you wish to be in the future
- The benefits of a ‘decide and provide’ approach to transport planning
- Better planning, better transport, better places by the CIHT
- Investigate cultural reasons that could be preventing the adoption of new approaches and guidelines for decision making processes.
- The Future of Transport Outside Cities (University of Hertfordshire)
- South East Scotland Regional Transport Partnership (SESTran) Study of Mobility Hubs
- CoMoUK Mobility Hubs Guidance
- Transport-related social exclusion (transportforthenorth.com)
- Transport-related social exclusion in the North of England
- Cutting carbon from infrastructure: Cutting carbon from infrastructure isn’t a burden – it makes good business sense - Mott MacDonald
- How to design infrastructure in the age of carbon crunch: How do designers rise to the carbon crunch challenge? - Mott MacDonald
- Excellent in-depth study from five school streets in London
- Ignore false claims and bad journalism – most LTNs do reduce traffic | Andrew Gilligan | The Guardian
- Wider study of attitudes to schools streets in London across 30+ schools
- Sustrans collated evidence for School Streets
- Sustrans collated evidence for Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, showing many studies over decades supporting the conclusion that traffic is not just displaced, it actually usually tends to evaporate
- GLA - New studies show School Streets improve air quality - Transport for London (tfl.gov.uk)
- TfL - in-depth study of five school streets in London
- TfL - wider study of attitudes to schools streets in London across 30+ schools Research using children’s back-packs to measure air quality
- Mayor launches air quality monitoring backpacks trial | London City Hall
- Backpacks with air sensors help reduce school run emissions | Evening Standard
- World's largest study to monitor air quality exposure of 250 children (kcl.ac.uk)
- “I am an air quality scientist”– Using citizen science to characterise school children's exposure to air pollution - ScienceDirect
- Engaging primary students with the issue of air pollution through citizen science: lessons to be learnt
- The Channel 4 Dispatches programme ‘Highlighting Britain’s Toxic Air Scandal’
Roger Mackett research on children’s travel
- Neighbourhoods for Active Kids: study protocol for a cross-sectional examination of neighbourhood features and children's physical activity, active travel, independent mobility and body size | BMJ Open
- Children’s travel behaviour and its health implications - ScienceDirect [which includes some discussion of measures to increase children’s walking and cycling, including to school]
- Other research on reducing reliance on car for travelling to school
- Walking school buses in the Auckland region: A longitudinal assessment - ScienceDirect
- The future of last-mile deliveries: Understanding the Local Perspective (LGA & University of West England)
- E-cargo bike case studies: one in Milton Keynes, where 12 e-cargo bikes have been purchased to support trials for companies, and a second for the UK’s first e-cargo bike share scheme in Hackney
- A range of articles from the C40 Knowledge Hub A TfL evaluation of freight consolidation demonstrator projects
- Some of the features Reading Buses had used to attract more people onto their buses, including the student section of their website on bus travel: University Students - Reading Buses (reading-buses.co.uk)
- Details of the young people 80p fares in South Yorkshire: Get there with the Mayor's fare - Travel South Yorkshire
- Related to bus travel, creating mobility hubs can be a useful tool in promoting bus, by making small, attractive interchange points.
- CoMoUK guidance, including Mobility Hub Delivery Models; Mobility Hubs Guidance; and Mobility Hubs Toolkit, as well as guidance for planners and developers in Scotland, case studies from Bremen and Ghent and a list of mobility hubs in the UK that are either complete or under development.
- Additionally, here is a Exeter Mobility Hub Case Study – Co Cars and an example SESTran Mobility Hubs Strategy Study.
- Department for Transport Active Travel local authority toolkit
- CIHT Active Travel resources, including a template engagement strategy and a section on ‘building support’, that looks useful Also from the CIHT is a recent podcast with Prof Rachel Aldred from Westminster University who is well worth following in general, being a leading figure in gathering data around cycling to demonstrate its positive impacts, for example this academic assessment of the impact of the major investments in London
- A good example of an interactive transport maps: West Midlands Starley Network.
- Also for those who haven’t seen it the Rapid Cycleway Prioritisation Tool is a useful one to see cycling potential in your area.
- PRINCE2 Processes: 7 Processes of PRINCE2 Explained | UK - quick guide and some free templates. Worth checking whether organisations already have corporate templates for each stage.
- Transport Xtra: events
- Sign up to Smart Transport weekly updates - lots of webinars, case studies, etc. on Transport Decarbonisation
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