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- Next steps for multi-million-pound transport schemes
- Brunel Way overnight closures coming up this month
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- Have your say on 20mph proposals for Congresbury
- Changes to North Somerset’s bus services coming in April
- Proposed plans to upgrade the A38/A368 crossroads between Churchill and Langford take a step closer
- Opening up the line for more rail travel in Bristol
- Looking towards the future of Western Harbour
- Positive feedback received for proposed city centre changes
- WESTbusStop+ makes sustainable travel more convenient
- Popular metrobus service to run later in the evenings and on Sundays
- Over £440K for new walking and cycling improvements awarded today
- Crossing improvement works in Radstock – please plan your journey
- Wheel-y good news: £4.6 million boost to improve walking and cycling
- Locally designed bus services are re-connecting North Somerset communities
- North Somerset Council strives to close funding gap for Portishead rail line
- Have your say on proposals to tackle access issues in Long Ashton
- Full steam ahead for Bristol and Portishead Line
- Trial Liveable Neighbourhood in Bath set to be made permanent
- Plans to pilot a residents parking scheme in Weston-super-Mare unveiled
- Bathurst Swing Bridge to close in March for restoration works
- Three new bus services for Bristol
- £1 million resurfacing works across Bristol city
- Major transport scheme across Bath and North East Somerset launches consultation
- Consultation on Post-16 Home to School Transport launched in North Somerset
- Highway improvements in Prior Park Road, Bath – please plan your journey
- Dundry Lane improvements set for February
- Next steps for A4 Portway transport corridor project
- Committee to make decision on traffic signal refurbishment of College Green / Canons Road junction
- Views sought on five B&NES Liveable Neighbourhood schemes
- Clevedon seafront updates begin next month
- Plans for the number two bus route updated
- 40 cycle hangars to be installed across Bristol in February
- Work to get underway to make Princess Victoria Street’s pedestrian zone permanent
- Centre Promenade work to get underway this month
- Final testing of Redcliffe Bascule Bridge lifting systems
- Help shape Transport Hub and travel options for Nailsea
- North Somerset Council launches ‘your new journey’ in Pill
- 100,000 free journeys in first month of Birthday Buses
- Birthday buses are back: free travel and new offers
- Bath active travel consultation extended
- Views sought on proposed 20mph zone in Kenn
- Trial measures to be installed to make streets in east Bristol quieter and safer
- Council launches consultation on active travel routes across Bath
- Shaping plans for Western Harbour
- West of England Mayor launches new WESTlocal services with free bus travel
- Highway works at Lansdown Road junction complete
- Centre Promenade works get set to start
- Service changes in South Gloucestershire and Wotton-under-Edge
- Time to catch the bus? Changes coming to your North Somerset services from September
- Bristol City Centre Transport Changes consultation launches
- Bathscape Walking Festival returns with new walks
- Malago Road re-opening to two-way traffic this week
- Happy birthday Portway park & ride
- Community-led public transport services announced in North Somerset
- Avonmouth celebrates WESTlocal success
- Bus service changes September 2024
- North Somerset remains committed to reopening the Portishead rail line
- Free travel days on North Somerset’s bus Network
- The Big Lemon will run the X10 Bus Service
- Residents asked their views in highway survey
- 20mph zone to be introduced in Hutton
- 20mph zone to be introduced in Hutton
- New Cut bridges restoration programme update
- People Power brings new WESTlocals
- Completion of Old Market Gap improvement works
- Road changes introduced at West Harptree
- Bristol City Council Begins Engagement for the South Bristol Liveable Neighbourhoods Project
- Planning permission granted for new off-road greenway in South Gloucestershire
- West of England moves closer to new public transport system
- National Highways to close A36 Warminster Road for essential repair work
- Multi-million pound funding agreed to progress with plans for three major transport routes in Bristol
- Pier to Pier Way opens
- Council continues investment in active and sustainable travel options for local people
- Have your say on proposals to improve active travel between Warmley and Longwell Green
- Charlton Road, Keynsham roadworks – please plan your journey
- High Street, Weston temporary closure for works
- Queens Avenue stabilisation works to get underway in June
- Thornbury residents asked about travel in the town
- Small Portishead parking change to make big difference for service vehicles
- Temporary closure of North Parade Bridge for maintenance works
- Next phase for city centre security scheme
- “WESTcharge” Electric Vehicle charging points – coming to a street near you?
- Update on Keynsham High Street lining works
- Bath Hill in Keynsham to be resurfaced – please plan your journey
- Regional Mayor pedals way to (another) £850,000 funding boost for walking and cycling in West
Projects
- Bristol School Streets: Shirehampton Primary School
- Bristol School Streets: Headley Park Primary School
- Bristol School Streets: Oasis Academy Bank Leaze School
- Bristol City Centre Transport Changes
- Bike, scoot and bus without the fuss
- Bristol School Streets: St Werburgh’s Primary School in St Werburgh's
- Brand-new Ashley Down station
- Bristol School Streets: Ashton Gate Primary School
- Bristol School Streets: Fair Furlong Primary School
- Bristol School Streets: Ashley Down Primary School
- Bristol School Streets: St Bernadette Catholic Primary School
- Bristol School Streets: Cathedral Schools
- A4 Portway Transport Corridor
- Portway Park & Ride Rail Station
- Bristol School Streets: Whitehall Primary School
- Bristol School Streets: Minerva Primary Academy
- Bristol School Streets: Chester Park Junior School
- Improvements to the number 2 bus route (A37/A4018)
- Somer Valley Links improvements
- North Filton and Henbury train stations
- Bristol School Streets: Redfield Educate Together Primary Academy
- Bristol School Streets: Victoria Park Primary School
- Bristol streets – Transport Corridor Improvements
- Portbury, Avonmouth & Severnside (PAS) Transport Strategy
- Trinity Academy transport works
- West of England Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan
- West of England Bus Strategy
- Bristol School Streets: Wansdyke Primary School
- Bristol School Streets: St Peter’s C of E Primary School
- Bristol School Streets
- Portishead rail line: MetroWest Phase 1
- Old Market Cycle Safety project
- Cycle Ambition Fund: Bristol North to South Route
- National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF)
- Cycle Ambition Fund: Frome Greenway Link
- Cycle Ambition Fund: Cattle Market Road
- Cycle Ambition Fund: Bristol East West route
- Cycle Ambition Fund: Easton Safer Streets
- Cycle Ambition Fund: Southmead Quietway
- Access WEST
- Bristol Shared Use Routes for People Walking and on Bicycles Policy
- Cycle Ambition Fund: South Gloucestershire
- Cycle Ambition Fund: Bristol
- Cycle Ambition Fund: Bath & North East Somerset
- Sustainable Travel Transition Year Fund 16/17
- Cycle Ambition Fund: Bristol On-Street Bike Hangars
- Cycle Ambition Fund: Bristol Cycling & Walking Bugbears
- Cycle Ambition Fund: Filwood Quietway
- Cycle Ambition Fund: Malago Greenway
- West of England Low Emission Bus Scheme bid
- Henbury rail line: MetroWest Phase 2
- Freight consolidation
- Joint Local Transport Plan
- Local Highways Maintenance Challenge Fund
- Cycling Ambition Fund
- Cribbs Patchway metrobus extension
- metroBus Project Information
- MetroWest
Essential Evidence
- No 187: Examining the politics of transport planning
- No 186 Active Travel & Physical Activity. Evidence Review.
- No 185: The effectiveness of a 20mph speed limit intervention on vehicle speeds in Bristol
- No. 184 How methods and levels of policing affect road casualty rates
- No. 183 Assessing the potential for carbon emissions savings from replacing short car trips with walking and cycling
- No 182 Sustainable Travel Towns: An evaluation of the longer term impacts
- No 181 Can environmental improvement change the population distribution of walking
- No 180 Insights on disruption as opportunities for transport policy change
- No 179 Suburban rail stations, walking distance and other key determinants
- No 178: More evidence as to the importance of co-benefits of climate change mitigation
- No. 177: Knowledge Translation for evidence-informed road safety
- No: 176 Play Streets during school vacations
- No. 175 Traffic Safety Culture
- No 174: Traffic & environmental impacts of Urban Freight Consolidation Centres (UCCs)
- 173: Future Streets: Knowledge exchange and researcher-practitioner collaboration
- No 172: Active travel interventions need to be attractive to the physically inactive
- No 171: Visual looming & child pedestrian safety
- No 170: Urban cycle use, Safety in Numbers, and speed limits
- No. 169: Mobile phone use while driving
- No 168: Stressing the harms of physical inactivity to promote exercise
- No 167: Speed & Crash Risk: OECD’s recommendations
- No 166: Age-related decline and cycling: new evidence
- No 165: Policy making and evidence selection
- 164: The rise and rise of e-bikes
- 163: Negotiating Multi-sectoral evidence on transport and health
- 162: Air pollution exposure among motor vehicle occupants
- No. 161 Traffic-law enforcement & its relationship with risk of death from crashes
- No 160: Effective ways to grow the urban bus market
- No 159 What could a switch from 30 mph to 20mph achieve across a whole country’s population?
- No. 158 The Just City: Equal entitlement
- 157: Liveable Neighbourhoods and evidence for increased walking
- No 156 Transport & Social Exclusion – Where are we now?
- No 155 Road User Charging
- No 154 Multiple health benefits of urban tree canopy
- 153: Child pedestrian casualties and deprivation
- No 152 Association between recreational and commuter cycling, changes in cycling and Type 2 Diabetes risk
- No 151: The Need to Change How People Think About the Consequences of Travelmode: - what is most influential?
- No 150: Change in commute mode: – what is most influential?
- 149: Motives, perceptions and experiences of electric bicycle owners
- 148: Pluralistic ignorance and climate change – inaccurate perceptions of others’ opinions
- 147: Can air pollution negate the health benefits of cycling and walking?
- No 146 Quantifying the transport-related impacts of parental choice in England
- 145: Transport walking and the importance of urban neighbourhoods
- 144: Beyond Best Practice in Road Safety thinking – seeking a culture change
- 143: Essential Evidence on a page: Further evidence of declining independent mobility among children in England
- 142: Kinetic Energy Management, Haddon’s Matrix, and Road Safety
- 141: Transport & Poverty
- 140 How much can active travel contribute to reducing the disease burden?
- 139 Green spaces and cognitive development in primary school children
- 138: The legacy of Jerry Morris’ research on physical activity
- 137: Transport user needs and marketing public transport
- 136: Near misses and related incidents among UK cyclists
- 135: Impact of changes in mode of travel to work on changes in body weight
- 134: Priorities for an age-friendly bus system
- 133: Walking and Cycling: Build it and will they come?
- 132: Children & young people’s views on local travel and constraints on mode choice
- 131: Induced Motor Traffic
- 130: Democratic Streets
- 129: Respiratory responses to short-term exposure to traffic related air pollution
- 128: Improving urban air quality through increased cycling use
- 127: Child-Friendly Cities
- 126: After School Physical Activity: the importance of outdoor play with friends
- 125: Effectiveness of School Crossing Patrols
- 124: Acceptable utility walking distance
- 123: Effect of subsidising bus travel on the occurrence of road traffic casualties
- 122: What is the best dose of nature and green exercise for improving mental health?
- 121: School based driver education for the prevention of crashes: Evidence and policy
- 120: Effects of a cycle training course on children’s cycling skills and cycle use
- 119: Walking to Work: Does it contribute to increasing total physical activity time?
- 118: Car manufacturers and global road safety
- 117: Can society address social inequalities borne by pedestrians & cycle users?
- No. 116 Health Integrated Planning
- 115: Older people’s experience of cycling
- 114: Impacts of a new public transport system on users
- 113: City-wide residential streets 20mph speed limits
- 112: Older car drivers and planned approaches to driving cessation
- 111: Commuting to work and traveller stress
- 110: Blaming Children for Child Pedestrian Injuries
- No 109 The prevention paradox and population strategies applied to transport
- 108: Association between midlife cardiorespiratory fitness levels and later-life Dementia
- 107: Behaviour change techniques to promote walking and cycling: Systematic Review
- No 106: Evidence form the 2011 Census on Walking, Cycling and Driving to work
- No. 105 The benefits of residential motor vehicle parking management
- 104: Effectiveness of Safe Routes to School Programmes
- 103: Traffic noise and health
- 102: Health benefits of mass recreational programmes
- No 101: Digital natives and car use
- No. 100 The Concept of Progress: Myth or reality?
- No. 99 Intelligence-led traffic policing: Motoring Offences and Other Offences
- 98: In sickness and in health at work: the importance of physical activity
- No 97: Effectiveness of speed cameras in preventing road traffic collisions & casualties
- 96: Declining Independent Mobility among children
- 95: Motivations for active commuting
- No. 94 Incrementalism (or muddling through)
- 93: Longevity and walking
- 92: Impact of a free 1 month public transport ticket on mode choice
- 91: The impact of free older persons’ Bus Pass on Active Travel in England
- No 90 Assessing the evidence to assist planners
- No 89: Co-benefits as a new approach to optimising public policy effectiveness
- No 88 Collaboration, sectoral protectionism, and reticulists in public policy
- 87: Physical Activity Deficiency – Lessons from tobacco control
- No 86 Olympian efforts needed to increase physical activity – a global challenge
- 85: The health impacts of reducing short car tips
- 84: Physical Activity compensation in British 8–13 year olds
- 83: Bike-rail integration?
- 82: Severance, social support and health
- 81: Physical activity by stealth? The potential health benefits of a workplace transport plan
- No. 80 Measuring Transport performance
- 79: The paradox of the effective speed concept
- 78: Neighbourhoods and mental well-being
- 77: Is your local area a good place for young people to grow up?
- 76: Benefits of shift from car to active travel
- 75: Accident: No such thing?
- 74 Can parents affect the likelihood of young drivers having accidents?
- 73: Representation of cycling in newspapers
- 72: Health risks and benefits of a bicycle sharing scheme
- No 71: Policy transfer and learning in the field of transport
- 70: Exercise at work and self-reported work performance
- 69: Non-cycling adults – how to engage them in cycling
- No 68 Spend on high streets according to travel mode
- 67: Speeds of drivers in the presence of child pedestrians
- No 66. Public Health White Paper: Healthy Lives Healthy People
- 65: Physical activity, walking, and the prevention of falls
- 64: The common cold, physical activity and immune function
- 63: Dose response to physical activity
- 62: ‘Nudge’: Normative social influences on behaviour change
- 61: Doorstep walks
- 60: Traffic-related air pollution and asthma in children
- 59: Global Perspective – Urban populations, transport and health inequalities
- 58: Car use, weight gain and climate change
- 57: Community severance
- 56: Children’s physical activity and academic achievement
- 55: Casualty and Road Danger Reduction
- 54: Health effects of a neighbourhood traffic calming scheme
- No 53: Perceived barriers to public engagement with climate change
- 52: Is speeding a “real” anti-social behaviour?
- No 51: The Precautionary Principle
- 50: Peak Oil
- 49: Food deserts
- 48: Attitude-based targeting of mobility types for mode shift
- 47: Stairs instead of escalators
- 46: Use of non-motorised modes and life stages
- No 45: Effective interventions to increase cycle use
- 44: Electrically assisted Cycling
- 43: Child physical activity and effect on body weight
- 42: A Convenient Truth: climate change mitigation from transport is good for health
- 41: Neighbourhood green environments where people can walk
- 40: Effect of driving cessation on the elderly
- 39: The social patterning of exercise behaviours and deprivation amplification
- 38: Women and commuter cycling
- 37: Impact of retirement on physical activity
- 36: Children’s Independent mobility
- 35: Urban Environment
- 34: Evidence led policy or the art of the possible?
- 33: Assessment of the Active for Life campaign
- 32: NICE Guidance on the promotion and creation of physical environments
- 31: Walk in to work out
- 30: Cost Benefit Analysis of walking and cycle track networks
- 29: Illness arising from Road Transport
- 28: Public Transport and Physical Activity
- 27: Air pollution
- 26: Effect of crime and neighbourhood on physical activity
- 25: Cycling Safety – Lessons from The Netherlands, Denmark and Germany
- 24: Economic Benefits of Cycling
- 23: Mass community cycling events
- 22: Inverse Care Law
- 21: Obtaining a driving licence and interventions to influence the decision
- 20: Health Impact Assessment (HIA)
- 19: Unintended health impacts of road transport policies and interventions
- 18: The role of habit in travel behaviour
- 17: Using pedometers to increase physical activity and improve health
- 16: Objective monitoring, children’s travel and physical fitness
- 15: Vision Zero
- 14: A healthy school journey
- 13: Cycling reduces absenteeism at the workplace
- No. 12 Life change events and participation in physical activity
- 11: The importance of walkable communities
- 10: Cycle commuting
- 9: Unintended consequences of bus re-regulation – the impact in South Yorkshire
- 8: Physical Activity: the best buy in public health – but most undervalued
- 7: Weight gain and car use
- 6: Walking to health
- No.5: Impact of highway traffic capacity reductions
- 4: Cycling and all-cause mortality
- No. 3: The Evidence Hierarchy
- 2: Segmentation in behaviour change
- 1: Safety in Numbers
