Unlocking the Potential of Site Based Mobility Management through Local Travel Plan Groups

This article describes Travel Plans, a potential means by which excessive car use can be addressed. Travel plans are defined as a package of measures tailored to meet the needs of individual sites and aimed at promoting greener, cleaner travel choices, and reducing reliance on the car. They can involve traffic generators such as retail parks, hospitals and local authorities. The authors note that travel plans are usually seen as a relatively cheap and uncontroversial measures that can be introduced in a targeted and site-specific manner. However, the involved organizations must be motivated to address a problem, for example, traffic congestion, which they may not see themselves as being the major cause of. The authors describe the use of local travel plan groups (LTPGs) or networks as a way to offer organizations more influence as to how local transport decisions are enacted. The article includes a review of existing LTPG’s and their potential for effective policy transfer. A few specific case examples used include Stockley Park, near Heathrow Airport in London (United Kingdom); a downtown business improvement district in Boulder, Colorado (United States); the Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Schiphol Airport Transportation Management Association; and the Transportation Management District in Montgomery County, Maryland (United States). The authors draw on research undertaken for the European Commission North West Europe Interreg IIIB program-financed OPTIMUM2 project.

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