Transport Research

I'll be presenting a paper on the mode-shift benefit matrix, at the Money for Walking conference on 6 December 2005 at Guildhall.

"Five towns are to become beacons of cycling as one aspect of a Work Plan announced today by Cycling England, the new body set up by government to get “more people cycling, more safely, more often”. The five towns will be selected over the next few weeks and will receive extra funds to provide cycling facilities and other measures to enable people to use their bikes.
The Cycling England programme will also focus on schemes that help young people get on their bikes and that support wider aims of improving public health."


Full Press Release here

Related research links from the National cycling Strategy website

Cycling research services

Guidance on the UK cycle-to-work scheme

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Updated the page on walkability, including a summary of the work done previously on this and related areas.
walkability

Here's an interpretation of the new guidance on the UK's Cycle to Work scheme, which provides a means of hiring a bicycle through your employer out of pre-tax income - so you don't pay VAT, Income Tax or National Insurance on the money.

This CfIT report on World Cities touches on some of the issues I've worked on over the last few years. It's conclusions and recommendations will not come as news to those who work in this area. Nevertheless, it's another item for the bibliography.