Making Peterborough cycle friendly

Atkins will present their work with Peterborough City Council to develop action plans for cycling infrastructure intervention. The action plans have been used to strategically prioritise improvements to the cycling network.

Ryan Burgess, Transport Planner and Project Manager & Gordon Webster, Transport Planner, Atkins

Walk to School Outreach Programme: Economic Appraisal summary

Between September 2012 and March 2015, Living Streets, the UK charity for everyday walking, delivered a project to raise levels of walking to school in partnership with 15 local authorities across England. The scheme found increases in the number of pupils walking to primary and secondary school of 23% and 12% and achieved an overall BCR of 4.2 to 1. 

Tim Fitches, Impact & Evaluation Manager, Living Streets

Bikeshare: Poster Child or Passing Fad?

From the first modern scheme introduced in Lyon in 2006, there are now hundreds of bike share programmes around the world. The LSTF has funded a few in England. Are they viable in the long term?

Hannah Budnitz, Go-How

Cycle Share in a small city

Lessons in adapting and marketing a public cycle hire scheme from the city of Bath.

Jessica Fox-Taylor, Bath and NE Somerset Council

Walking Workplaces in Greater Manchester

Working with Transport for Greater Manchester’s Travel Choices business network of 450 employers and 300,000 employees, the ‘Walking Workplaces’ initiative encourages and promotes walking as part of the daily commute by undertaking workplace walking challenges, promoting and participating in national events; and developing bespoke mapping and information leaflets for workplaces.

Carragh Teague, Walking Coordinator, Transport for Greater Manchester

Sustainable travel towns - longer term impacts. 

In 2004, Darlington, Peterborough and Worcester jointly received £10 million funding from the Department for Transport for the implementation of large-scale ‘smarter choice’ programmes over a five year period, as part of the ‘Smarter Travel Towns’ (STT) demonstration project. What were its impacts and have they be sustained in the longer term?

Sally Cairns, Senior Research Fellow, TRL/UCL

Bostin Bikes

How the LSTF funded Bostin Bikes programme has helped remove the barrier of non bike ownership and improved the number of people completing on road cycle training.

Mitchell Robinson, Sustainable Travel Officer, Centro & Dan Morris, Business Development Manager, BikeRight!

Tyne and Wear Go Smarter to Work – Ensuring a Legacy

A look at Tyne and Wear’s travel planning scheme that has used strategies such as travel champions, forums and bespoke business case tools to ensure legacy and sustainability of the project. 

Claire Whitfield, Principal Transport Planner, & Andy Winmill, Associate Director, WSP| Parsons Brinckerhoff

Encouraging electric vehicle use through rural car clubs

Car clubs may be answer to the provision of low emission affordable transport in rural areas. What is the role of communities in their uptake?

Bob Sherman, Harbury Car Club

Marketing a rural car club to visitors

Successfully engaging tourism may be key to sustaining rural car clubs. Lessons from Bute in marketing to visitors. 

Caroline Spiers, Car Bute

Integrating car clubs with bike share 

A battery assisted bike sharing scheme will launch in Exeter this year. Mark Hodgson of Co-Cars presents how this will be implemented.

Mark Hodgson, Co-Cars

Case Study: on-street electric bike hire in Oxford

An assessment of Oxford’s electric bike hire scheme and lessons learnt for wider application.

Tim Caswell, Hourbike 

JoinMyJourney

A look at how Joinmyjourney website and apps has enabled commuters to find matches and contact potential journey sharers securely using map based displays. The project is being launched at the Aztec West Business Park in Gloucester and part funded by a local business.

Verity Heal, LSTF Project Manager, South Gloucestershire Council

East Sussex Wheels 2 Work (ESW2W)

Operated as a social enterprise, ESW2W provides loans for mopeds, motorcycles and electric bikes. Now running at 50% financial sustainability the scheme has supported 175 individuals since September 2013, which equates to 356 loan agreements.

Max Jowett, East Sussex County Council 

Low or zero emission buses

The CEO of Reading buses, which won many of the UK Bus Awards presents their policy on low and zero emission buses.

John Bickerton, Chief Engineer, Reading Buses

Meeting the Needs of Older and Disabled Travellers

Older and disabled people have limited awareness of the potential benefits of travel information services delivered to smart phones and ‘Apps’. The joint ITS (UK)/IET publication ‘Meeting the Needs of Older and Disabled Travellers’ emphasises that over 80% of over-60s would not use journey planning websites, apps or text messages and highlighted the benefits of encouraging greater use of ‘Apps’ to improve public transport experience through valuable travel information that will significantly improve their journeys. With a slow uptake of smart technologies among older and disabled people what novel approaches could be adopted to develop, market and introduce these technologies?

Neal Skelton, Head of Professional Services, ITS United Kingdom

Can Smarter Travel Get People out of their Cars? Lessons learnt from Greater Manchester

A summary of Transport for Greater Manchester’s PTP scheme which is engaging approximately 30,000 households through tailored travel packs and journey plans.

Tamsin Stuart, Associate Director, AECOM & Julian Ashworth, Business Travel Advice Manager, Transport for Greater Manchester      

Opportunities & Lessons learnt from St Helens

A look at the challenges, opportunities and lessons learnt from undertaking a PTP project during winter in a deprived area of St Helens.

David Brown, Transport Planning Assistant, St Helens Council 

Training a new generation of sustainable transport planners

A look at the development of Swindon’s on-line travel plan training portal (now publicly available at www.travelplans365.com), which is a pioneering new approach to embed training and best practice into the day-to-day work of business travel co-ordinators.

Stephanie Norris, Senior Consultant, Integrated Transport Planning Ltd 

Nottingham LSTF Programme

A presentation on Nottingham’s LSTF programme which between 2011-15 achieved £50 million in monetised benefits, at a positive ratio of 3.05. Total distance cycled increased by an estimated 10 million km and total bus and tram trips increased by over half a million.

Neil Taylor, Associate Director, ITP & James Ashton, Transport Strategy Manager, Nottingham City Council

Delivering more for less - the success of PTP in times of austerity.

Over the last 5 years, AECOM and ITP have worked together to develop an effective, low cost approach to the delivery and evaluation of household PTP. This session will cover the lessons learnt through the deployment of this PTP model to deliver behaviour change across the East Midlands.

Ross Paradise, AECOM & Emma Taylor, Integrated Transport Planning

Smarter Travel for Slough businesses

A case study on the Slough LSTF workplace behaviour change project, which involves small and large businesses across Slough, a very car dependant area.

Laura Wells, Senior Transport Planner, Atkins 

Behaviour Change Marketing

myPTP (my personal travel plan) breaks new ground

Is there a single tool that can encourage and support hospitals to drive down ‘do not attend’ figures, those moving on to new residential sites to travel sustainably to work and occupiers on business parks to attract new staff? myPTP is about to enter a new phase, to provide a consumer facing service which includes all the benefits of this award winning tool and the flexibility of its website based facility.

Mark Hand, Business Development Director, Liftshare

Learning from the Dutch: Improving customer experience during roadworks

Arcadis present strategies for improving customer experience during road works, drawing on their experience working with the Dutch transport ministry. Their approach, which encourages peak period trip avoidance, is now routinely used in Holland and Sweden. Can it be applied in the UK?

Dima Fadda, Consultant, Arcadis
 

Delivery of travel training to help overcome barriers to employment

A discussion of the impact of travel training delivery, engaging with jobseekers and employment support agencies (housing associations and employment skills providers), to overcome barriers to employment. This highlights a refined approach to personalised travel planning for journeys to interview and accessing work opportunities.

Nicola Scott, Senior Transport Planner, Atkins & Lisa Bloomer, Managing Consultant, Atkins

Intelligent Mobility – making it happen

An introduction to the intelligent mobility projects being trialled and delivered in the West Midlands. Particular focus will be on Centro’s ground breaking partnership with Innovation Birmingham and Transport Systems Catapult to deliver an Intelligent Mobility Incubator for tech start-ups and SMEs, focused on our Transport Innovation Challenges, at iCentrum Birmingham, opening April 2016.  

Andrew Page, Smart Mobility Manager, Centro 

Are modern technologies failing local authority transport groups? 

This paper considers the availability of automated routing tools and GIS based visualisation platforms to improve the planning of school transport and how these can be adopted in a simple low cost way via the Cloud. It examines the effectiveness of such tools against real data and how they can be adopted into the planning process without the pain and cost of replacing existing processes and systems.  

Phil Lightowler, Kent County Council 

Achieving Mobility as a Service

Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is emerging as part of the wider Intelligent Mobility movement, it is frequently cited as way to increase the use of sustainable travel modes through the provision of a holistic, user-focused mobility package. Atkins presents a high level framework for UK cities to achieve MaaS considering the commercial, governance and operational elements of its delivery with practical steps for transport authorities.

John Bradburn, Consultant in Intelligent Mobility, Atkins

Designing the new mobility

This presentation will bring together the new thinking in user-centred design, service design and user experience, through case studies, tools and practical examples, to show how it can be effectively applied to mobility as a service. The approaches will ensure that the end-user (the traveller) extracts the maximum benefit, hence increasing uptake of services and maximizing sustainability aims.

Luke Harmer, Lecturer, Loughborough Design School 

Accelerating Connected & Automated Vehicle Testing

Transport Systems Catapult present the results of their research into what the public sector could do, both at local and national level, to accelerate connected and automated vehicle testing and deployment in order to capture some of the early benefits.

Alan Nettleton, Technologist, Transport Systems Catapult

Apps as infrastructure

Drawing on his experiences of developing transport apps for bus operators in Bournemouth and Nottingham over the last 7 years, Passenger Technology Group (PTG) CEO Tom Quay will talk about apps as infrastructure, and how, while the Internet of Things is fast approaching, the key to smarter cities everywhere is the mobile computer in everyone’s pocket.

Tom Quay, CEO, Passenger Technology Group 

Bus audio-visual announcements

A successful strategy to improve accessibility using audio-visual services.

Guide Dogs & TAS Partnership

Transport regulation through social media

A look at how Transport API have been harnessing social media data to provide real time feedback on transport services. 

Jonathan Raper, CEO, transportAPI

Intelligent Mobility

Promoting active travel at a life change moment: Beat the Street in Hounslow

Beat the Street has been part of an EU funded consortium programme entitled SWITCH. SWITCH combines practical expertise; a clear and transferable methodology; and tried and tested examples of locally effective campaigns.  This session will give you an opportunity to understand how one SWITCH partner, Hounslow, is using fun, innovative technology and health messages to achieve their objectives of replacing short car trips with walking and cycling and increasing physical activity levels across the area.

Chris Norfield, Behaviour Change Strategist, London Borough of Hounslow

CycleStreets

CycleStreets is based in Cambridge and creates a range of technology relating to cycle planning and advocacy tools. Their main product is a UK-wide cycle journey planner system, which lets cyclists plan routes from A to B by bike.

Fasteroute

Fasteroute specialise in developing innovative data-driven solutions to improve the travel experience for public transport passengers.

Base

Base build mobile apps that use data science to influence behaviour. Base’s team of researchers, strategists, designers and developers partner with clients to create successful digital experiences. 

transportAPI

transportAPI is a transport data aggregator that takes multiple transport data feeds and aggregates them into a restful API. Companies and Developers can then build digital products and services such as transport apps or integrate transport data into their services