CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Report: “Impacts of active travel interventions on travel behaviour and health“ http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Report: “Impacts of active travel interventions on travel behaviour and health“ en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:06:17 +0000 Tulyar on "Report: “Impacts of active travel interventions on travel behaviour and health“" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21460#post-373448 Sun, 18 Feb 2024 13:27:06 +0000 Tulyar 373448@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The most effective active travel delivery is when the interventions have nothing to do with active travel</p> <p>- LEZ - people discover that cycling less than 1Km per day can save them £60 by parking outside LEZ &amp; riding or catching a bus/coach</p> <p>- UCI road closures - discovering that your drive could be switched to a 20 minute walk, 5 min bike ride or a 5 min train ride (every 30 minutes), saving £6000/year if you don't then need to own a car</p> <p>- twice (in 2004 and in 2006) close 2 major rail lines in London. As pioneers show how easy it is to cycle, the idea snowballs &amp; in 2 months the cycles parking counts are up 1000+% forcing TfL to redesign a major bridge &amp; road system to cope with the huge change in vehicle count - now over 50% of vehicles are bikes</p> <p>Turn the telescope around </p> gembo on "Report: “Impacts of active travel interventions on travel behaviour and health“" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21460#post-373382 Tue, 13 Feb 2024 21:02:58 +0000 gembo 373382@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@dave the main thing is to be elected / re-elected </p> <p>The other thing of actually doing anything worthwhile is alas secondary. </p> Dave on "Report: “Impacts of active travel interventions on travel behaviour and health“" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21460#post-373367 Tue, 13 Feb 2024 10:23:08 +0000 Dave 373367@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"The programme generates over £1bn health economic benefits for a programme cost of £100 m.</p> <p>Low Traffic Neighbourhoods may have very high value for money (as much as 50:1 to 200:1)."</p> <p>Lib dems: "but there were a few cheap votes in reopening the road to private cars" </p> chdot on "Report: “Impacts of active travel interventions on travel behaviour and health“" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21460#post-373364 Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:38:15 +0000 chdot 373364@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214140524000173" rel="nofollow">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214140524000173</a> </p>