How to write a school travel plan:

1 - Set up a working group

• Get together a team of enthusiastic people to help produce the plan and share tasks.

2 - Undertake consultation

• Talk to everyone in the school community to find out what your school's particular transport problems are.
•  Conduct surveys to find out how children currently travel to school.

3 - Set targets and agree on initiatives

• Come up with ideas to encourage walking, cycling and to decrease car use that would work for your school.
• Set yourself some realistic targets and timescales for the next few years.

4 - Write up the travel plan

• Create a travel plan outlining your issues and proposed solutions and providing evidence of consultation.
• Once written, you can also apply for a travel plan grant from the DfT/DfES towards the funding of items such as cycle parking.

5 - Implement the plan and publicise it

• Make it work
• Action the plan
• Tell everyone about it!

6 - Monitor, review regularly and reassess

• A successful travel plan is a living, breathing document; make sure that yours is regularly reviewed and improved upon.
• Targets will need to be closely monitored.

A Guide to School Travel Plans

For more detailed information on producing and implementing a school travel plan, download the guide

You can use the following Microsoft Word document as a template when writing your school travel plan:

> School travel plan template (Microsoft Word document, 8 pages, 331 KB)