Transport Planning Day 2025

Transport Planning Day is led by the Transport Planning Society to celebrate the best in transport planning, highlight its benefit to communities and chart a direction for the profession.

Every year we choose a specific theme for the campaign to focus on a different topic or issue within the Transport Planning profession.

Transport Planning has never been more important

– Gavin Newlands MP, Transport Planning Day 2020 Virtual Parliamentary Reception

The campaign includes several events which allows transport planners to network and promote their achievements.
The campaign also looks to encourage young professionals into the industry by highlighting what an attractive and rewarding career transport planning can be.

I joined Transport Planning Day 2020 to understand where transport planning is heading as an industry

– 2020 Audience Survey.

Date and Theme

This year's Transport Planning Day campaign will take place on Monday 10th November at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London and Online.

The theme for 2024’s Transport Planning Day is ‘‘The Integration Imperative – How can we make a reality of connecting Policy, Places and People?’

In November, we were pleased to see the Department for Transport set out its vision for the first integrated national transport strategy in over two decades, delivering on their manifesto commitment to ‘[Get] Britain Moving’.
Integration in transport planning, investment and service provision is no longer just an ambition - it is a necessity. Whether through better coordination between transport modes, improved data sharing, or aligning transport policy with spatial planning and climate goals, achieving a truly integrated transport system is key to unlocking economic growth, reducing environmental impact, and enhancing the user experience.

With the development of the first Integrated National Transport Strategy (INTS) for England, welcomed as a long time coming by  transport planners, there has arguably never been a more critical moment for the sector to explore how improved integration can deliver a more seamless, efficient, and sustainable transport network. It also represents an opportunity to compare and contrast the approaches taken in this space across the nations of the UK, learning from what has and hasn’t worked in different contexts.

With the call for ideas closed, we now await clarity on that vision. In the meantime, this year’s Transport Planning Day campaign will explore:

• Integration in practice between proactive management to make best use of existing networks and the need for capacity enhancements
• The importance of genuine integration across government departments, particularly in respect to decarbonisation and to land use and transport
• New opportunities for integration across all tiers of government around a core mission to deliver sustainable transport
• Innovation in how integration can support access to the network by all users
• The necessity of integration between the sustainable transport mission and the funding and expertise necessary to deliver it

For now, please save the date! More details to follow.