TPS welcomes new report on Vision led planning

How to plan development and transport infrastructure more sustainably

The move to a vision-led planning system is a once in a generation shift in practice for the transport planning profession. This report, supported by the Transport Planning Society, provides a vital contribution to increasing our understanding as to how this new approach can, and has, worked effectively in practice. It marks an important first step in developing the tools and techniques necessary to resolve many of the unsatisfactory outcomes of car-centric development that has too often dominated in recent decades.

It is a joint initiative of the Centre for Transport and Society at the University of the West of England; ITP; Jon Parker Consultancy; Transport for Quality of Life; and individual partners including TPS policy panel members Phil Goodwin and Keith Buchan.

The report looks at the issues with the conventional ‘predict and provide’ approach to transport planning, considers how can we do it differently and what vision led planning looks like with a number of short case studies from across the UK.

The guide is intended to assist everyone who is in any way connected with development and transport infrastructure planning.  It has been fully endorsed by TPS as well as CIHT.

Essential reading for all transport planners!

To read the report in full, please click here.