Active Travel in England

? It should consider whether its objectives remain achievable or whether it would be appropriate to adjust its targets, considering progress to date and available funding.

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? It should review its Gear Change actions and set out publicly which of these it will not be able to make further progress with, given available funding and its strategic priorities.

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DfT should: c. develop a more stable funding environment for local authorities delivering active travel interventions by working with others in government. This would help local authorities to invest in plans and resources and deliver interventions more efficiently;

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DfT should: b. support ATE to establish a benefits monitoring approach that tracks the contribution of active travel investments to all of government?s wider strategic priorities. This would improve the monitoring of active travel outcomes, enabling DfT and other government departments to make more informed investment decisions;

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DfT should: d. working with ATE, set out how it plans to address the safety concerns that persist around active travel.

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In establishing itself as a new executive agency, ATE should: e. develop a clear, consistent framework for standardised local data collection to provide baselines and inform scheme evaluations using comparative analysis. This plan should draw on digital technologies and ATE should be ambitious about the standards of data it expects and how these will be collected;

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In establishing itself as a new executive agency, ATE should: f. maximise learning from future active travel pilot schemes funded by DfT. This should include developing rigorous approaches to evaluation such as randomised controlled trials so that the impact of behavioural schemes can be understood and used to inform wider rollouts;

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In establishing itself as a new executive agency, ATE should: g. work with DfT to review the approach to public engagement on active travel. More is required to ensure that there is a good understanding of why active travel is important to enable behaviour change and increase walking, wheeling and cycling;

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In establishing itself as a new executive agency, ATE should: h. prioritise its work with central and local government according to who can make the greatest contribution to increasing rates of active travel, based on stakeholder analysis. ATE should undertake stakeholder analysis to identify organisations with common goals, or those that can make the greatest contribution to its objectives and should prioritise building relationships with those organisations.

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DfT should: (a) review its cycling and walking objectives for 2025 and beyond to inform setting appropriate targets for Active Travel England:

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