Personal Travel Planning | Choose Cycling

One of the barriers to people choosing green travel is a lack of knowledge and confidence about its practicalities, such as public transport routes, timetables and other essential information. Personal Travel Planning can overcome this.

We have trialled two forms of personal travel planning, both of which were extremely effective and led to an 86% reduction in car use:

Cycling PTP
A Personal Consultation with a experienced travel consultant and cycle trainer. During a face-to-face consultation, personal travelling requirements are dicussed and the client is given whatever guidance and information they need. This may include

guidance on a suitable bike and any concerns, such as load-carrying, cycling equipment/clothing, bike security etc

recommending a safe cycle route for regular journeys and an alternative walking/ bus/ train route

offering a bike check and up to an hour's free cycle training. We may cycle one of the client's regular journeys.

giving maps and information on local cycling and walking, and maps and timetables for local bus and train routes.

General PTP
A Personal Travel Plan sent to the client by email, combined with local maps and information about cycling and public transport routes and timetables, sent to the client by post.

Choose Cycling carried out a Personal Travel Planning Pilot in Derby in 2007 - see http://choosecycling.blogspot.com/ for more information.

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