School Travel Plans and Safer Routes to School

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School Travel Plans and Safer Routes to School

• Lynda Clarke
• School Travel Plan Team Leader
• Andrew Freeman
• Programmes and Strategy Manager, Safer Routes to
  School

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School Travel Plans and Safer Routes to School
Schemes focus on young and novice cyclists
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Cycling to School

• Healthier, Safer, Greener Journeys to School
  Hertfordshires Sustainable Modes of Travel
  Strategy (SMOTs)
• School Travel Plans
• Safer Routes to School

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Do School Travel Plans and Safer Routes to School
schemes conform to the Cycling Strategy?
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HCS 1 Policies and Programmes.

• Healthier, Safer, Greener Journeys to School
  (SMOTs Strategy)
• Local Transport Plan
• Children and Young Peoples Plan
• Planning policy
• Schools Development Plans, Healthy Schools and
  Sustainable Schools framework

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Healthier, Safer, Greener Journeys to School
Sustainable Modes of Travel Strategy (SMOTs)

• To improve walking routes
• To improve cycling routes
• To improve passenger transport services
• To promote the use of the sustainable transport
  infrastructure
• To inform families of the travel options
  available
• To engage schools and colleges in travel plans
• To encourage partnership working and links to
  other plans, programmes and initiatives
• To continue SMoTs development

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School Travel Plans - key elements

• Description of school and existing travel
  patterns
• Issues
• Objectives and targets
• Action plan
• Monitoring and review

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Safer Routes to School

• Infrastructure improvements to address barriers
  to walking and cycling to school

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HCS2 HCC support to cycling.

• Taking advantage of grant funding opportunities
• Govt grants for School Travel Advisers and SMoTs
• STP Capital grants
• Bike it
• Cycle Training
• Links to National cycle network
• Sharing and learning from best practice elsewhere
• Bike it projects
• Cyclicious and Cyclone
• Communication and training
• Face to face support to schools and volunteers
• School Travel Website
• Promoting cycling and the use of sustainable
  transport infrastructure
• School Travel Advisers and Bikeability

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HCS3 Development of cycle network

• SMoTs audit of infrastructure and needs
• Safer Routes to School schemes
• Sustrans Links to Schools

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HCS4 Checking that changes to roads will
encourage sustainable transport

• Audit of existing provision
• Analysis of traffic data analysis and accident
  data
• Existing problems potential solutions examined.

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HCS5 Encouraging cycling on the carriageway

• Identification of barriers to cycling to school
  identified through school travel plans and SRTS
  forum groups
• Improvement of highway infrastructure through
  SRTS schemes
• Travel plan initiatives

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Millbrook School Cheshunt new cycle storage
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HCS10 Promotion and Partnerships

• Cycle Target Group
• Safer Routes to School forums
• Parent information
• County Cycle Forum
• School marketing and promotional activities

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HCS11 Cycling within STPs/SRTS and partnerships
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0-7 Pilot Partnership to encourage use of outside
environment
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Bike it projects
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Links with local groups
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School Sports Partnerships
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Areas that could be improved

• More direct support to schools keen to promote
  cycling ie storage facilities and initiatives
• Promotion of cycling where schools benefit from
  good local cycle facilities particularly at the
  stage where parents are choosing schools
• Specific focus on cycling in SRTS forums

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