Integrating of planning, education, and health policies to solve transport issues – how can non transport policies solve transport and climate emergency issues?

What happens when transport policies are shaped by shared visions – easy access for all to health, employment, education, retail and leisure – and the non-transport policies that underpin them. 

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About the webinar

Ths is the third in a three-part series of webinars looking at the roles of smart data, national pricing and integrating transport and non-transport policy in delivering an integrated transport network.

This webinar will explore what happens when transport policy is shaped by shared visions – easy access for all to health, employment, education, retail and leisure – and the economic realities and non-transport policies that underpin them. It will also look at the integration of planning, education, and health policies to solve transport issues.

Transport is a ‘wider determinant’ of many social policies, for example access to health, education, and employment, but there are several challenges for both policy makers and practitioners in recognising it – and funding it – as such.

Public health policy has, in the past, played a key role in shaping transport policy – improving air quality, road safety and active travel initiatives, for example. But in traditional transport economics, the ‘value of time’ (the opportunity cost of the time that a traveller spends on their journey), and the belief that most people use a car to get around, has prevailed, leading to more road funding. This simple reality underpins our transport modelling, planning and investment decisions, but time savings cannot be the main economic benefit of transport investment, which means that conventional transport economic appraisal is misleading. 

When people step outside of their home, are the most efficient, accessible and fair transport options on offer for them?

But, if and when the UK transitions to vision-led transport planning, can we shift away from forecasting future transport demand based on current trends and expanding infrastructure accordingly, and instead establish a clear, desired vision for communities and designs transport systems to achieve that vision?

The focus is on creating sustainable, accessible, and people-centric environments – both urban and rural – and not roads.

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