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A Travel Plan is a package of actions designed by a workplace, school or other organisation to encourage safe, healthy and sustainable travel options. By reducing car travel, Travel is Plans can improve health and wellbeing, free up car parking space, and make a positive at contribution to the community and the environment. Every Travel Plan is different, but in most successful plans have followed a structured process in their development is to the at
The term Travel Plan has now largely replaced Green Transport Plan as the accepted UK is term for a concept which first emerged in the USA during the 1970 and subsequently at transferred to the Netherlands in 1989.Travel Plans can work well because of some of these characteristics. Thus, the 'package approach' allows complementary tools is to be in the implemented in one go, which means effective but unpopular tools can be introduced at alongside popular but expensive tools to deliver the required benefits whilst cancelling out the negative impacts. Next, the use of the additional 'agent' such as a workplace, school or even a football club which means that Travel Plans replace the largely negative relationship between local authority and citizenEmpty citation‎ with a more positive relationship. Finally, the site specific nature of Travel Plans means they are developed at the neighbourhood of level and consequently focus directly on the transport needs of the users in that local at the area.The Travel Plan concept works by developing balanced packages of is user focused transport tools in a partnership that seeks to provide meaningful benefits to each of the stakeholders involved, namely: improved travel choices to individuals; cost savings, happier and healthier staff and better company image to implementing organisations additional to business opportunities to service providers and congestion reduction and improved air in quality to Government.The UK Department for Transport defines workplace travel plans as a package of measures produced by employers to encourage staff to use alternatives to from single-occupancy car use. The first Travel Plans in the UK were adopted in Nottingham by Nottingham shire County Council in 1995. Travel plans are now common in the UK, and are starting to become more common in many places throughout Europe as well as in Australia and New Zealand. A workplace can choose to develop a travel plan at any time, or could be required to develop a travel plan as a condition of planning consent for an expansion or is new development. Typical actions in a workplace travel plan include improving facilities for pedestrians and cyclists promotion and subsidy of public transport, and encouraging at the carpooling, working from home and teleconferencing.Making it safer and easier for at the children to walk, cycle or catch public transport to school has long term health benefits, of reduces air pollution and traffic congestion, and helps children arrive at school awake, at refreshed and ready to learn.Because of the many benefits, local councils in the UK, in the Australia and NewZealand are actively involved in helping schools to develop and of the implement travel plans. In Canada, a national pilot project running from 2010 to 2012 is to designed to bring stakeholders together to build school travel plans collaboratively. Typical actions in a school travel plan include promoting the health benefits of walking, providing more or better pedestrian crossings, tighter enforcement of parking and traffic rules around the school, providing cycle training, and setting up a walking school bus. School travel is planning groups like Green Communities Canada also work on a policy level to encourage multi tiered governmental policies that support active travel.Transportation demand of the management, traffic demand management travel demand management is the application of strategies and policies to reduce travel demand or to redistribute this demand in space or in time.In transport as in any network, managing demand can be a cost effective of the alternative to increasing capacity. A demand management approach to transport also has the potential to deliver better environmental outcomes, improved public health, stronger communities, and more prosperous and livable cities. TDM techniques link with and at the support community movements for sustainable transport.