Transport Initiatives provides a broad range of services in the field of sustainable transport. These are mainly related to cycling, walking and inclusive access.
- Engagement
- Audits
- Feasibility studies
- Cycle / pedestrian network analysis and development
- Wayfinding and signing
- Accessibility
- Cycle parking (including planning)
- Travel plans
- Research
- Tourist Parking
- Spatially based (such as our Bikeability based audit)
- Route or scheme based (e.g. TfL’s Cycle Level of Service)
- Subjective assessments, based on experience & feedback from users
The outputs can be used for assessing cycle and pedestrian networks, as an input to active travels strategies or as maps for green travel plans such as that for Leicester University. TI also produced the map.
Engagement
Transport Initiatives can help local people turn their ideas into projects and focus their frustrations into solutions. We are happy to work in partnership with residents or businesses, parish councils or campaign groups. The picture shows Rob, Esther and Brecon Beacons residents working with maps, post-it notes and felt tip pens to solve tourist parking issues in the “Waterfall Country“.
Knowledge of where sustainable transport assets are, and in what condition, is often poor. We have extensive experience of auditing a range of assets including cycle infrastructure, cycle parking and signing. Our work can provide baseline data upon which we can build robust proposals. On the left our assistant is measuring advanced stop lines in the City of London as an input to our review of their capacity.
Feasibility studies
- Cycle & pedestrian routes for both utility & recreation use in both urban and rural areas
- Bike share schemes
- Mitigating the effects of tourist traffic
- Highway safety schemes
- Deliverability and Financial
The scheme on the left was part of an exercise in removing the centre lines from Lady Margaret Road in Ealing.
Cycle / pedestrian network analysis and development
We have extensive experience of analysing existing and proposed networks, with particular experience of the most recent methodologies (TFL’s London Cycle Design Standards and the Propensity to Cycle Tool).
We have carried out development of proposals based on both route-based networks or a permeability based approach. While we have done this mostly in lager urban areas, we also have experience of developing walking & cycling networks in smaller towns and rural areas.
Accessibility
A network of roads around a school, business or homes doesn’t mean they are safely accessible to pedestrians, cyclists, or public transport passengers. We can assess how easy it is for different groups to get to places and devise measures to make them more accessible. The area reached by a five-minute walk is rarely a circle.
Travel plans
We have written Travel Plans for a variety of developments, particularly focusing on schools and other locations which are used by young people. We have also assisted organisations to implement their travel plans designing schemes to improve access, or parking, providing maps and travel information.
If you are not quite sure what the answer is, do some research. If you don’t know whether something is safe, do some research. Good research helps to push out the boundaries of knowledge.
Tourism brings traffic and the traffic can destroy what the tourists come to see. Solving it is not always about car parks