Welcome
How we travel affects everyone, including the operation of your business or organisation. Having a well formulated, comprehensive travel plan or transport strategy in place will have many benefits and lead to cost savings.
David Hurdle DipTP, MA, MRTPI, FCILT provides consultancy services to enable you to implement an efficient transport policy for your organisation. Contact him to discuss your requirements.
Recent activity includes:
- A review of a town's bus network.
- A review of a county council's criteria for supporting 'socially necessary' bus services.
- A district council's provision of taxi ranks and facilities at them.
- A Travel Plan Good Practice Guide for London's local authorities, for Transport 2000; part-funded, and published, by Transport for London. This involved surveying all 33 authorities, all of whom responded.
- Research for the Department for Transport's National Business Travel Network on whether Travel Plans can aid staff recruitment and retention, improve productivity, morale and an organisation's image, and reduce sickness absence - Travel Plan Benefits for Employers report or for a summary see Advisory Note 4.
- Provision of comprehensive travel information on a village's website.
- Guidance for employers on encouraging staff to walk to work - Advisory Note 6.
- Guidance for employers on engaging with public transport operators - Advisory Note 9.
- 'Active Travel' (cycling and walking) audits.
- Think Cycling!; guidance for officers and councillors of English local planning and transport authorities.
This site also provides relevant transport news and transport facts and figures that will get you thinking.
For your information, you may also find the travel plan concept referred to as any one of the following:
- Company Travel Plan
- Company Transport Plan
- Green Travel Plan
- Green Transport Plan
- Commuter Plan
David also writes short stories for 5-7 year olds - about buses! Little Bus Stories has six fun stories about the adventures of different buses in the Little Bus Company. They are set in rural England during the last twenty years. The stories are Eric Turns Super Yellow, Michael Discovers a Postbus, Geoffrey Loses His Top, A Day at the Seaside, Rachel to the Rescue and Buses on Parade. Order a copy from the publisher Author House, www.amazon.co.uk or from your local bookshop quoting ISBN 1-4259-5160-0.