Travel Plan training Rob Sage Active Travel manager, Sustrans Cymru

Sustrans is the charity that’s enabling people to travel by foot, bike or public transport for more of the journeys we make every day. Our work makes it possible for people to choose healthier, cleaner and cheaper journeys, with better places and spaces to move through and live in.

1,400 miles of NCN Approx 55 Million trips in 2013

Cwm to NCN46, Blaenau Gwent Before After

Portrait benches

Policy: Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013 identify and map current routes for walking and cycling; develop a prioritised list of schemes to deliver the network; identify and map routes for an enhanced integrated network promote the network to increase usage and report each year on progress

Active Travel Maps Leaflets & posters Dr Bike, Smoothie bike, Crazy bikes Bike breakfast Led rides and walks Promoting active travel

Advocating Travel planning for business Where to start?

29% increase activity 24 sick days removed 61% improve wellbeing Improved productivity Reduced staff turnover Local High street footfall “If I cycle I feel more energetic. When I stopped cycling, I was falling asleep on the sofa at night. I no longer do that.” Business Benefits

Be the solution

Be ‘Green’ ‘ISO14001’

Range of businesses in SE Wales took part: Barclays Lloyds Dwr Cymru PHS Dolmans RCT homes W&W homes IPO Interactive Online Challenge

Travel Planning Develop a Travel Action Plan Simple list of actions that your organisation will do to help encourage and enable staff to travel actively based on your local needs. A travel plan is a tool that can help your business reduce costs, such as those associated with staff expenses and fleet vehicles, and can also help you address car parking issues. A travel plan can also be a valuable part of your organisation’s ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ agenda

1.Get senior commitment & decide who needs to be involved 2.Carry out survey and site audit work 3.Analyse the results and produce a travel action plan 4.Implement the plan and monitor progress 5.Evaluate success and review the action plan Travel planning process

Survey When? Where? How? Who? Journeys

Commuting travel by employees between work and home; Business travel & Fleet such as employees travelling to meetings (including journeys made by air), e.g. a sales team may spend most of its time on the road; Deliveries deliveries made by goods and service vehicles operating as part of the organisation’s activities; deliveries to the site made on behalf of another organisation Visitor Travel travel by visitors to and from a particular site, e.g. visitors to a workplace, shoppers to a retail outlet, patients to a hospital and tourists to a leisure attraction; Journeys to consider

Side audit About looking at the interaction between people’s mode of travel and your premises.

Simple measures: Directions

Provide staff and visitors with access to simple map and/or directions to your office Offer the Cycle to work scheme to staff Take part in national campaigns: Walk to Work week th May 2015 [Living Streets]Walk to Work Bike Week 13 th – 21 st June 2015 [Multiple incl. Sustrans]Bike Week Cycle to work day 4 th September [Multiple incl. Sustrans]Cycle to work day Pay cycle mileage for business trips Limit free car parking to essential users Offer flexitime to accommodate different commuting patterns Simple measures: Cycling

ActivityDescription Promotional Event Organise one-off event within workplace to promote project. Spread the word, distribute promotional materials, Promote upcoming events, both within and outside workplace Pool Bike LoanTrial a bike for a day/week/month Adult Cycle Training (Bikeability Plus) Adults can book lessons to help them build their confidence on the roads. Beginner Cycle Training Some adults never learned to ride a bike when they were children! We can teach you to ride a bike. Cycle Maintenance 1 day Ranging from basic checks, right up to industry- recognised qualifications, which might be of particular benefit to Workplace Champions. Dr Bike Teaches the basics on how to check a bike for safety and road worthiness. Bike Powered Smoothies Pedal your way to a tasty, healthy drink with our bike powered smoothie maker. Bike Breakfasts Reward the cycling efforts with a health breakfast (this can also be themed) Combined event Bike Breakfast with Smoothie maker, info stand and maps followed by Dr Bike Simple measures: Cycling

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