Guidance for residential travel planning in London

By offering a mechanism in which the transport needs of new residents canbe considered and addressed from the outset, residential travel plans canhelp to reduce the need to travel and the need to use more energy-intensive forms of transport, while also improving overall access to goods and services and reducing severance of communities. This guidance for London, UKshould be used by developers and their agents to create a residential travel plan for a new development that will be considered by the local planning authority and the Mayor of London. Residential travel plans must be submitted with any new development that contains more than 80 residential units or for developments with fewer than 80 residential units but where the scale of the development is expected to have a significant impact on transport. Advice is given on the strategic policy context for residential travel planning, how to secure travel plans through the planning process and ensure their delivery, the design of the travel plan, and establishing targets and approaches to monitoring and management.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transport for London

  Windsor House, 42-50 Victoria Street
  London SW1H 0TL,   England 
• Publication Date: 2008

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 72p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: City planning; Metropolitan areas; Planning; Transportation; Urban areas
• ITRD Terms: 385: Conurbation; 143: Planning; 354: Town planning; 1155: Transport; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01100164
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: TRL
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: May 27 2008 9:53AM