Information Sheets

Sustrans publishes a wide range of information sheets to help you - whether you're a member of the public interested in sustainable transport, or involved in designing and building cycle facilities.

See below for current list - click on the title to download as a pdf file for Acrobat Reader.

For details of free cycle maps, please browse by region and area in Get cycling. To purchase the latest Sustrans National Cycle Network maps, interesting guides and accessories visit our online shop.

Note: For Safe Routes to Schools publications, see www.saferoutestoschools.org.uk

Route user monitoring report to end 2006
The latest figures from 2006 - the National Cycle Network is leading the growth in cycling in the UK.

Information & Policy Sheets

Travel Behaviour Research
Baseline Survey 2004 (pls call 0117 915 0334 for email copy if required).

Ways for Wildlife - ff02.pdf
Describes how traffic-free cycle paths can benefit wild animal populations.

Shared Use Routes - ff04.pdf
Covers Sustrans policy and design guidance for paths shared with pedestrians.

People with disabilities and the National Cycle Network - ff05.pdf
Well designed paths can provide a major new amenity for wheelchair users and others.

The Cycle Friendly Employer's Information Sheet - ff11.pdf
Advice on how to encourage cycling to work, and why it is good for business.

Sustrans Good Cycling Code - ff15.pdf
Code of Conduct for cyclists - how to cycle safely, without causing a nuisance to others.

Cycle parking in rural areas - ff17.pdf
Designing secure cycle storage sympathetic to a rural setting.

Designing for security - ff21.pdf
Good design can reduce concerns about personal security on traffic-free paths. Endorsed by ACPO - For more advice on designing safer environments see Secured by Design.

Access Controls - ff22.pdf
Information sheet for path builders, detailing how to prevent abuse of cycle paths, while not obstructing legitimate users.

Cycle routes and their impact on neighbours - ff23.pdf
The proximity of a quality cycle route can have many beneficial effects on those in the local community.

Direction Signing on the National Cycle Network - ff26.pdf
Updated March 2006 - Consistent and continuous signing is a vital aspect of the NCN.

Ways through the Countryside - ff27.pdf
The National Cycle Network and public rights of way.

Cycle Tourism - ff28.pdf
1999 report on developments and characteristic of the UK cycle tourism market.

Working the Net - ff34.pdf
The benefits to business of formulating travel plans and developing cycle network links.

TravelSmart - changing the way we travel - ff36.pdf
Prompting changes in individuals travel behaviour through Individualised Marketing.

Bristol's VIVALDI TravelSmart Programme - ff36a.pdf
Leading the way in travel behaviour change.

Cycle Parking - ff37.pdf
In order for cycle parking to be useful, a few important factors must be taken into account when choosing the design and location. This information sheet aims to avoid expensive mistakes and offer guidance on the best solutions.

Rural Minor Road Traffic Calming - ff38.pdf
June 2003 guidance (updated September 2004) on how to make rural roads safer for cyclists and pedestrians.

Traffic restraint and Retail vitality - ff39.pdf
Information sheet looking at town centre planning, and how customers reach shops.

Safe Routes to Stations - ff40.pdf
Enabling more passengers to walk and cycle to railway stations.

Vivaldi Information sheet - ff41.pdf
Bringing it all together - examines the integration of various Sustrans projects in Bristol schemes.

Making Traffic-free paths more accessable - ff42.pdf
This leaflet is aimed at path providers, whether they are local authorities, statutory bodies or private landowners. It aims to give advice on how to improve accessibility for disabled path users, and on the implications of the Disability Discrimination Act (1995), in particular part 3, which came into force on 1 October 2004.

Highways and Greenways - ff43.pdf
The interface between Highways and Greenways.

Low carbon travel - ff44.pdf / Cymraeg
Reducing the climate change impact of road transport.

Transport and social justice - ff45.pdf (bilingual)
Are roads the way out of poverty?

Transport and social justice - ff46.pdf
Why sustainable transport is the only route to a socially just transport system.

Active travel & health publications

Introduction to Active Travel

How to produce Active Travel directions for your visitors and staff

FH14 Active travel and adult obesity
This information sheet assesses the scale of the UK's 'obesity crisis' and reviews academic evidence concerning the impact of travel choices on health and weight.

FH13 Active play and travel
This information sheet gives a review on research and guidance on the benefits of independent active play and active mobility in childhood.

FH12 Active travel and health inequalities
This information sheet reviews academic evidence regarding the benefits of physical activity for people in the most deprived communities.

FH11 Active travel and women's health
This information sheet reviews evidence regarding the benefits of physical activity for women.

FH10 The value of investment in active travel
This information sheet sets out the evidence supporting why walking and cycling are the best buy in transport investment.

FH09 Creating the environment for active travel
This information sheet emphasises the need to create suitable environments to enable people to fit physical activity into their daily lives by walking or cycling.

FH08 Active travel and healthy ageing
This information sheet demonstrates the importance of being physically active throughout the life course, highlighting the specific benefits for older people. It also emphasises the need to create suitable environments to enable people to fit physical activity into their daily lives by walking or cycling.

FH07 Active travel and mental well-being
This information sheet provides evidence demonstrating the benefits of physical activity for treating or preventing a range of mental health conditions. The evidence is supported by some real life examples where walking and cycling in particular have helped improve mental well-being.

FH06 Active travel and healthy workplaces
This information sheet addresses the role that walking, cycling and other forms of physical activity could play in reducing levels of sickness absence from work and reports on the potential benefits of physically active travel, for employers and their staff.

FH05 Safe Routes to Healthcare
This information sheet introduces the Safe Route to Healthcare approach to improving access to healthcare sites on foot, by bike and by public transport, for staff, patients and visitors.

FH04 Active travel as physical activity promotion
This information sheet reports on innovative work being carried out around the country to promote walking and cycling as physical activity, showing best practice so that others can replicate it.

FH03 The economic potential of active travel
This information sheet looks at the economic costs of physical inactivity and obesity, and the economic benefits of increased physical activity and active travel.

FH01 Healthy and active travel
This information sheet describes the many health benefits of walking and cycling regularly.

Challenge Brochure
Sustrans Active Travel published this brochure advocating that "The National Cycle Network is the largest environmental intervention in the UK promoting public health."

Active Travel Scotland publications

Introduction to Active Travel Scotland

How to produce Active Travel directions for your visitors and staff

Active Commuting for Your Business flyer

How to promote walking and the workforce
This guidance sheet aims to assist employers in promoting walking to work to staff.

Moving towards improved health and a better environment
This booklet contains case studies of organisations and businesses across Scotland who have introduced walking and cycling initiatives to get their workforce more active and gain their Healthy Working Lives Award.