Our services focus on sustainable transport and cover the following specialisms:
- Visitor access and destination strategies;
- Sustainable transport strategies and input to masterplans;
- Active travel;
- Shared transport;
- Marketing, promotion & behaviour change.
Visitor access and destination strategies
The Service
We have undertaken visitor access and destination strategies for numerous National Parks and National Landscapes and offer the following services:
- sustainable access and travel management strategies;
- advice on governance, finance and partnership models to deliver ambitious strategies;
- public transport strategies and implementation plans, including role of taxi and community transport;
- parking management strategies and implementation plans;
- visitor comms and marketing plan, including specification of visitor ticketing products;
- co-design of visitor propositions with target visitor groups;
- proposals for active travel (walking and cycling) network enhancements and route development;
- active travel promotion - design and comms of itineraries, supporting services such as bike hire, tour-guiding;
- shared transport and mobility hubs.
See Case Study: Yr Wyddfa visitor access and travel management
Sustainable Transport Strategies
The Service
We provide area-based transport strategies – for town centres, high streets or visitor destinations, often as part of broader masterplans. The offer includes:
- Measures to enhance sustainable transport (walking, cycling, public transport, interchange);
- Place-making;
- Traffic and parking management to support the above.
Active Travel
The Service
We provide a full suite of active travel & behaviour change services:
- Walking, wheeling and cycling strategies;
- Route design and development;
- Complementary services to support walking and cycling: marketing and promotion, bike hire and loan schemes etc.;
- Behaviour change programmes to enable and encourage target groups to walk and cycle more.
See Case Study: Ilkley Active Travel Hub.
Shared Transport
The service
We offer specific expertise on shared transport schemes including:
- Shared bike schemes: design of community loan or visitor hire schemes;
- Mobility hubs: specification of mobility hub services and design;
- Car clubs: design of community-based car sharing schemes;
- Community transport: advice on how to enhance community transport services.
See Case Study: Isle of Bute e-bike scheme
See Case Study: Mobility hub guidance