Management & Consultation

A successful school travel plan process is essentially a matter of people interacting effectively, deciding things together and making a commitment to change. This section looks at ways of mustering support, collecting the important information and involving the people who can make a difference.

Click on any of the following headings for more information on management and consultation topics:

What's It all For?

First principles for School Travel Plans projects
Where do we start?

Involving young people
In the best safe routes schemes young people take a major role.

Working with communities
Overlapping communities have different priorities - how to involve them all.

Neighbourhood Initiatives Foundation
Information about the Neighbourhood Initiatives Foundation charity and their Planning for Real ® technique.

Political support
Where to find it and how to use it.

Residents - problems
Better to get them all out in the open.

Green travel plans
Plans to reduce work-related car use.

Targets
Targets for the whole project and for individual school travel plans.

School Travel Plan process
A brief overview of the School Travel Plan process.

Possible funding opportunities
National and local sources of funding.

Criteria
Selecting the right schools to work with isn't always easy.

Tools
Useful IT tools to make the job easier.