More people walk, cycle and use public transport after using personal travel planning (PTP) schemes, research unveiled today by Transport Minister Rosie Winterton shows.
PTP encourages people to consider alternative transport options to the car. Today's research shows it can reduce the number of car journeys drivers make by 10%, and the overall distance travelled by car by 11%.
Lots of people would like to use their cars less and sustainable transport more, but need some help to get them started. So by having a travel plan would effectively be a win-win for the environment, for business and for individuals.
Personal travel planning (PTP) techniques involve alerting the public to alternative transport options to the car, either by personal visits to targeted households by travel advisors or through local marketing campaigns.
The Essential Guide to Travel Planning - produced for the Department for Transport's National Business Travel Network - acts as a 'one stop shop' for advice to employers about creating a travel plan and replaces the previous Travel Plan Resources Pack for Employers.
It will be sent to members of the network and made widely available to employers across the country.
Well this is all very well, but until our appalling public transport system is made better, safer and cleaner, we really have no option but to use the car which is clean, safe and far more convenient.
Instead of wasting money on this service invest it please into our dwindling buses, trains and tubes.
FemaleFirst - Jackie Violet