Transport Strategy & Planning

Effective Transport Strategies & Plans

City Science provide a range of transport strategy and planning services to our local authority partners, including active travel plans, place-based decarbonisation solutions and multi-model transport strategy. Using an evidence-based and policy-informed approach we identify challenges and opportunities to help you develop effective strategies and plans which benefit local people and places.

Active Travel Plans

Our active travel focus is about encouraging people to walk and cycle to help decarbonise their short journeys and improve public health.

Core Services

  • Delivering Local Cycling & Walking Infrastructure Plans (LCWIPs) (such as for Milton Keynes, North East Lincolnshire and Yeovil)
  • Providing Travel Planning Services (such as for the Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, and Exmouth Watersports Centre)
  • Developing Business Cases for Active Travel (summarised in our publication Activating the City)
  • Producing Routing Algorithms for Cycle Deliveries (utilising our Rush software)
  • Conducting Active Travel Pattern Analysis, Propensity & Modelling (such as for Birmingham City Council and Liverpool City Region)

Multi-Modal Place-Based Decarbonisation

We deliver data-led multi-modal insights, evidence, appraisals and strategies to help our partners deliver place-based decarbonisation and to support the local planning process.

Core Services

  • Delivering Infrastructure Strategies (such as delivering the Oxfordshire Infrastructure Strategy on behalf of Oxfordshire County Council and the Future Oxfordshire Partnership)
  • Developing Local Transport Strategies & Evidence bases for Local Plans (such as for Herefordshire County Council and Gloucestershire Joint Core Strategy)
  • Conducting Movement & Parking Studies (such as for Milton Keynes Council, Southend-on-Sea Borough Council and Exeter City Council)
  • Providing Net Zero Advisory (such as RTPI – The Role of Net Zero & Spatial Planning for the Royal Town Planning Institute)