New developments tend to get built on the sites that developers want to bring forward at the invitation of local authorities, rather than in the places that make most sense from an integrated and low-carbon transport perspective.

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This is the second session in the Planning Transport Futures Today webinar series.

The way land use changes over time, not just physically but in terms of character (how it is used and inhabited by different communities), is hugely complex. To understand and predict how those changes will interact with, and feed back into, any development proposal or planning policy, we need new approaches and toolkits.

Planning is full of tough choices and compromises, but there are ways to encourage more effective integration of land use and transport planning. This webinar will showcase the options:

• Create an evidence base: what critical mass is needed to make a bus service self-sustaining? How can planners be aware of all different accessibility requirements of different housing types? Has consideration been given as to how existing transport services could be integrated within new sites to encourage active travel and walkable neighbourhoods?

• Bring together local authorities, developers and stakeholders such as National Highways, bus operators and future mobility providers to ensure they have the information they need to create the right sustainable transport strategy

• Develop new, and improve existing, tools and technologies to better integrate land use and transport

• Undertake place-based study to identify the optimal locations for effective, low-carbon strategies

Chair: Emma Anforth, Associate Director, SYSTRA

Ed Parham, Director of Innovation and Design, Space Syntax
Amy Beasley, Senior Economic Development Manager, National Highways
Katie Adnams, Urban Innovation Team Lead, Connected Places Catapult 
Tom Simpson, Land-Use Transport Interaction Modeller, SYSTRA 

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