School Travel Plans
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A 'school travel plan' identifies ways of making the journey
to school safer and more pleasant by discouraging car use and
promoting walking, cycling and bus use.
By helping schools develop a 'school travel plan' Peterborough
City Council aims to:
- Improve pupil health and well-being
- Improve pupil confidence and awareness of their local community
- Reduce road accidents
- Reduce traffic congestion and pollution around schools.
A school travel plan is developed by the school community and
is tailored to the school's specific needs. The most successful
school travel plans include both 'hard' measures, such as dedicated
entrances for pedestrians, speed ramps and cycle storage, and
'soft' measures, such as cycle training, awareness campaigns and
reward schemes.
Peterborough City Council has a dedicated School Travel Plan
Co-ordinator, a resource person for all Peterborough schools
developing school travel plans, who can:
- Provide information / resources for each stage of the school travel plan process
- Help schools access funding for their school travel plan
- Link schools to complimentary services offered by the City Council
- Link schools with other Peterborough schools working on school travel plans
- Link schools in to national events such as Walk to School Week.
Safer Journeys to School
'Safer Journeys to School' is a
national initiative where local councils work intensively with
specific schools to develop their school travel plan, and support
them in reducing car use on the school run and creating safer
walking, cycling and bus routes in to the school.