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School Travel Planning Elisabeth Knight

Road Safety Manager

020 8583 5034 elisabeth.knight@ hounslow .gov.uk

Why produce Travel Plans Why produce Travel Plans

• Reduce traffic congestion around

schools

• Improve road safety for children
• Encourage w alking and cycling
• Contribute to children’s healthy

lifestyles through increased exercise

• Reduce pollution from traffic

around schools

Schools are required to: Schools are required to:

• Carry out a travel survey amongst pupils and staff
• Set up a steering group w ith eg. governor, member of

staff, parent, pupils

• Set targets for increases in w alking and cycling
• Formulate an action plan show ing how they intend to

reach targets

• Submit Travel Plan for approval by Transport for

London

• Monitor Travel Plan annually
• Re-w rite and resubmit their Travel Plan every three

years.

Capital Grant Funding for Schools

Approval of the plan releases a one-off capital grant payment for each school to be spent on access or on-site improvements. A typical primary will receive around £5000, with a secondary receiving around £10,000. Can be spent on a range of schemes including:

• Cycle parking
• CCTV
• Guardrails
• Security gates
• Parent shelters
• Trees
• Entrance Re-engineering

• Publicity material
• Annual conference for schools
• Termly new sletter
• Theatre in Education
• Teacher cover for developing plans
• On and off-site additional engineering w ork for w hich

schools can bid

• A variety of cycling initiatives
• At least one larger scale engineering project each year

to increase safety on the route to school.

Additional funding has been obtained from TfL to facilitate school travel planning, including:

The role of the Road Safety Team – School Travel

School Travel Advisor – help and assistance throughout the process. Provides a number of resources –

• sample surveys and a survey analysis and reporting service
• maps and data,
• promotional material, support/funding for events etc
• consultancy for schools, ensuring they reach DfES/DfT criteria

Schools are encouraged to use the web site: www.hounslowstp.org

The role of the Road Safety Team - Walking

Walk to School projects:

• Walk on Wednesday or ‘WOW’
• Debra the Zebra!

Pedestrian Training:

• ‘Safer Steps’ roadside training

with parent volunteers

• In class ‘street scene’ training

The role of the Road Safety Team - Cycling

• Level 1 – off-road, playground based cycle training – year 5
• Level 2 – on-road practical cycle training – years 6 & 7 plus holiday

courses

• UPP+ - Further cycling activities such as Cycle Trains
• Cyclicious – a cycling programme for secondary school girls
• Try and Ride – a cycle loan scheme for primary & secondary schools
• Bike Clubs – as part of Extended Schools scheme

Cycling cont.

Family cycle ride – Grand Union Canal, Brentford

Bike Train – Cranford Junior.

Motorcycle training

The role of the Road Safety Team – Other Projects

• Junior Road Safety Officer Scheme – volunteer pupils

in primary schools running programs relating to road safety and travel awareness throughout the year.

• TW4 Project – working with Somali families
• Asian Elders Project – walking groups for older

people in partnership with Health Promotion Team

• Road Safety Forum – information sharing and events

with other stakeholders, including Met Police, fire service, ambulance service etc.

Central Hounslow Schools

Recent work has included:

• Cycle parking shelter installed at Lampton and

Hounslow Town Schools.

• Bike Clubs at Beavers Community and St. Mark’s

RC schools. Beavers and Hounslow Heath Schools have also run ‘bike trains’.

• Suffah Primary School is developing a Travel Plan

and has taken part in cycle training.

TW4 Project with Somali Families

• There is a disproportionate

number of casualties amongst children in this community.

• TW4 project works with

families of young children and runs motor cycle training for teenage boys.

• We have successfully bid

to TfL for funding in 2009/10 to extend this project in the borough.

Parking outside schools

• Audit has taken place of ‘school keep clear’ markings
• utside schools
• Schools have been invited to opt for ‘all day’ or

‘morning and afternoon’ parking restrictions.

• Traffic orders now in place and information plates
• rdered
• Enforcement by camera to begin October 2008.