TRL delivers report to Campaign for Better Transport

Date: 22/6/2011

"Door to Door Journeys" is a report compiled by TRL for Campaign for Better Transport, which sets out the opportunities and challenges that exist for improving door-to-door transport.

If public transport is to offer a real and attractive alternative to cars, it needs to offer the same kind of door-to-door service that cars do. In this report, TRL sets out how government, local authorities and operators need to make improvements around four themes: Information; Interchange; Connections and Ticketing.

It also reflects on the talks of integrated transport that took place under the previous Government and examines the opportunities that currently exist, including the McNulty review on the rail industry and the Competition Commission inquiry into the bus market.

The report which is available from Campaign for Better Transport can be found here was prepared by TRL's Sustainable Transport Planning Group.

TRL's Sustainable Transport Planning Group covers five main interest areas:

• Climate change (both mitigation and adaptation, including financing mechanisms);
• Environmental assessments (e.g. Strategic Environmental Assessments, Sustainability Appraisals);
• Sustainable transport (pedestrian, cycling and public transport studies including Pedestrian Environment Review System - PERS - analyses);
• Transport planning (including land-use and transport planning, Local Transport Plans, economic assessments and evaluation); and
• Sustainability studies (policy and strategy studies including wider environmental matters and developing Key Performance Indicators).

Issued by TRL's Media Communications Team
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