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Travel Plans

What is a Travel Plan?

In 2001 Government policy was issued in the form of a new Planning Policy Guidance note (PPG 13) on Transport. This gave local authorities the power to request a Travel Plan to form part of planning applications for new building development and major refurbishments.

A Travel Plan is ultimately a tool to help influence travel behaviour with the aim of reducing traffic congestion. A Travel Plan sets out to reduce single occupancy car use and encourage greater use of alternative modes of transport such as car sharing, cycling, walking and public transport. It also encourages smarter ways of working.

Our skills and what we can offer

Traffic levels at current trends, are expected to rise over the next 20 years raising pollution levels and harming the climate. As a business you can be a major driving force in helping to reduce traffic levels and consequently its impact on climate change. A Travel Plan targeting your own workforce and / or your clients and customers can form an important ingredient to reducing your carbon footprint.

H&P Travel Plans can offer advice and support for producing a Travel Plan that:

• complies with planning requirements, and / or
• acts as a voluntary tool to help enhance business environmental and Corporate Social Responsibility credentials

H&P are committed to providing a personal and responsive service, understanding your business structure and playing close attention to detail to ensure your requirements are met.

Our Travel Plan team is lead by a key individual who has gained hands-on experience for over 4 years implementing a Travel Plan programme in the private sector. This included the headquarters and a number of stores of a major UK DIY retailer. Recently, he has been involved in a Transport for London pilot scheme for customer travel planning.

We have the ability to work closely with Developers, Local Authorities, Transport Operators and other key stakeholders to acquire support for Travel Plan implementation.

We will work in partnership with other major Transport and Travel consultancies to provide necessary technical skill, expertise and support to link up with other integrated transport measures, such as Transport planning and mobility management. This also includes the use of i-trace methodology, a management tool recognised by Transport for London and the London boroughs for monitoring Travel Plans.

The Key stages of the H&P service are:

1) Produce an initiation of the Travel Plan
2) Prepare the working Travel Plan with targets and measures
3) Implement first year monitoring
4) Measure and analyse results and make recommendations
5) Plan a programme for annual review

If you are interested in our Travel Plans service, please email us your details and a brief description of your requirements (if known) to travelplans@harrisandporter.co.uk and One of our team will contact you.