Course Objectives

The course provides you with a knowledge of:

• how Transport Plans are created and linked in to the delivery of policies
• national, regional and local funding
• maintaining and implementing Transport Plans
• influencing travel decisions
• provision of travel information

Course Outline

• Policy implemented by transport plans
• Plans: creation and the link to policy; National, Regional; Local (LTP, LSTF); funding as part of the process
• Maintaining and implementing Transport Plans
• International variations
• Travel Plans as part of Transport Plans: commercial/residential sustainable development (site visit)
• Elements of travel planning
• Delivering Transport Plans: incentives for smarter travel
• Walking, cycling, public transport, teleworking
• Influencing travel decisions
• Travel Information
• Personalised travel planning
• Park and Ride, public transport ticketing/price incentives
• Marketing

This course is primarily aimed at those wanting to develop an appreciation of the transport planning process across a variety of spatial scales and understand how the Smarter Mobility agenda can be implemented through various means.

Please visit our website for more details https://www.ncl.ac.uk/sage.cpd/cpd/tpsm.php#aboutthecourse