What are School Travel Projects?
School travel projects encourage and enable children to walk and cycle to school through a combined package of practical and educational measures.
School Travel projects also:
- improve road safety and reduce child casualties
- improve children's health and development
- reduce traffic congestion and pollution
School Travel projects involve:
- the whole school community
- local residents
- local authorities
- health and education workers
- police
School Travel projects are all about working together as a community to make the school journey safer and healthier for everyone.
Successful projects are child-centred, build on small steps to raise awareness and change travel behaviour and benefit the whole local community by helping to create safer, more healthy environments. Each school is different, with its own local problems and possible solutions.
Developing a School Travel Plan can help ensure the complete situation is considered and embed safe and sustainable school journeys into the whole schools ethos.
We have further information about school travel initiatives and policy specifically in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
You can also read more about what the Sustrans School Travel team does and use our News, Events and Resource sections for all the help you need to get your own project started!
Information Service
Our information service is free. Whether you want hard copies of our infosheets, would like to subscribe to our newsletters and e-bulletin, or need some specific advice, either call us on (tel) 0117 915 0100 or email schools@sustrans.org.uk.