Can a revamped ACT TravelWise lead travel behaviour change to new heights?

The last few years have been a struggle for travel behaviour change organisation ACT?TravelWise. But new chair Alex Veitch and director Jon Foley are determined to breathe new life into the body

Andrew Forster

21 February 2014

Alex Veitch (left) and Jon Foley (right)

The campaign to get people to use their cars a bit less has had a bumpy ride in recent years. Austerity prompted many councils to cut their ‘sustainable’ travel teams and consultancies shed staff too as work dried up. But then came the coalition’s £600m Local Sustainable Transport Fund and things looked rosy again, at least in those parts of England that won a share of the cake. But with LTSF?projects ending next April, the outlook for the travel behaviour change agenda...