Talk:Travel plan

I have made a lot of changes to the original page, which was an excellent overview of workplace travel plans in the UK. I have amended this to make it more generally applicable to all Travel Plans in the UK, Australia and NZ. My aim was not to delete anything.

The page could be further improved by some input from other countries and especially from the US.

Travelplanner (talk) 02:58, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

The original page follows: The UK's Department for Transport has defined travel plans as a package of measures produced by employers to encourage staff to use alternatives to single-occupancy car-use.

Travel plans are becoming increasingly common in the UK. The general aim is to reduce the negative effects of traffic upon business, individuals, communities or the environment.

A real-estate developer in the UK will often be required to provide a travel plan as part of a Section 106 agreement under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 or may have a travel plan requested as a condition to gaining planning consent. Proposals generally include mechanisms to reduce the need to use a car and to promote and provide for sustainable transport through marketing initiatives, contributions to public transport and walking and cycling infrastructure.

The first travel plans in the UK were adopted in Nottingham by Nottinghamshire County Council in 1995.