The first step towards developing the most appropriate package of measures for a travel plan is to obtain accurate information on travel patterns and issues. This requires more than simple counts of traffic and pedestrian flows, parked cars or cycles in shelters. To properly understand how and why people travel in the way they do requires a survey of people, their existing travel habits and their attitudes toward travel.
Having established this baseline travel data it is then essential that changes and trends are identified if the travel plan is to be successfully monitored and managed on an ongoing basis. Knowing why people do or don’t use certain methods of transport provides a travel plan coordinator with the information they need to plan future measures.
TPS have experience of undertaking all aspects of travel surveys/monitoring projects, from initial survey design, through to implementation and analysis.
Travel survey/monitoring services typically delivered by our team include:
- Staff travel surveys
- Visitor travel surveys
- Patient travel surveys
- Student travel surveys
- Traffic counts
- Carbon footprinting
Some examples of our work
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
In 2011 TPS were responsible for undertaking a survey of staff travel patterns of 7000 Bank of America Merrill Lynch associates, from across 6 sites throughout the UK and Ireland …
West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust
In order to inform the travel plan development process TPS undertook a data collection process at the West Suffolk Hospital, including staff/visitor travel surveys, car park occupancy surveys and a sustainable site audit …
Newcastle Great Park
TPS are engaged by the NGP Consortium to fulfil the annual data collection requirement. This process includes staff travel surveys, resident travel surveys, traffic counts and the monitoring of public transport patronage …
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Thorpe Park Business Park
On an annual basis TPS undertake a site wide survey of travel patterns across the Thorpe Park Business Park in Leeds. Results are fed back to Leeds City Council in compliance with the planning approval …
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