Accessible and Sustainable Transport

Transport plays a vital role in our lives. It affects everything we do – getting to work, going on holiday, visiting family and friends, or just exploring. And yet transport means so much more as well. Good transport links can make a difference to our quality of life and our opportunities. Transport is a key driver of the modern economy and fundamental to the vitality of towns, cities and countryside.

Throughout this policy statement the TCPA identifies how national and local transport networks can be improved to create well served accessible communities, enhance quality of life, stimulate the economy, and protect the environment.

The TCPA calls for a more strategic approach to transport provision, requiring: 

• integration of local and national transport networks; 
• co-ordination between government departments’ corporate strategies to form coherent policies; and 
• transport provision to be a primary consideration, but subservient to factors such as homes and retail, in planning or re-planning communities.

Download the TCPA policy statement on Planning for Accessible and Sustainable Transport (published July 2005)

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