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The LTP Handbook
This online resource helps make the planning and production of LTP easier for local authorities. It contains useful contacts, the latest information on LTP guidance from the government and a checklist of key requirements.
Public Transport Needs of Minority, Ethnic and Faith Communities Guidance Pack
The Department for Transport commissioned Social Research Associates to carry out research into the transport requirements and the provision of public transport for minority ethnic and faith communities. The first stage of the research identified specific problems, which were being experienced by minority ethnic and faith groups when using the public transport system. The next stage examined ways in which these problems could be addressed. This Guidance Pack, together with an accompanying video (available on request) is the outcome of that work and is intended to be used by transport planners and operators to improve accessibility of transport for all.
The Local Government Association (LGA)—general information
The LGA exists to promote better local government. It works with and for our member authorities to realise a shared vision of local government that enables local people to shape a distinctive and better future for their locality and its communities. The LGA aims to put local councils at the heart of the drive to improve public services and to work with government to ensure that the policy, legislative and financial context in which they operate, supports that objective.
The Local Government Association (LGA)—Local Transport Guidance, Accessibility Planning Guidance and LTP Mandatory Indicators
This is a combined response to three consultation documents. The Association and relevant officer societies have discussed with the Department significant portions of the contents of two of these related documents, and the principles lying behind the third have also been debated.
The Local Transport Planning Network
The Local Transport Planning Network is a website designed for Local Transport Planners and deliverers. The Network provides the means of sharing good practice, carrying out process and performance related benchmarking and enables the development of transport policy ideas on a national level.
Better local public transport beacon case studies
Cambridgeshire, Halton, Telford and Wrekin, Transport for London and West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Authority, were Beacon Council award winners under the theme of Better Local Public Transport. The link above shows how they’ve demonstrated excellence in improving local transport including improving accessibility.
The Countryside Agency—Involving parish councils in transport issues 805Kb
The Countryside Agency has recently published in February 2005, a report that outlines the wide range of opportunities that exist for joint working between parish councils and those involved in designing and implementing transport policy throughout rural England.
The Countryside Agency—Accessibility Audits
The Countryside Agency has developed an accessibility audit, designed to be used by Parishes to identify aspects of accessibility that are problematic in the area.
Neighbourhood Renewal Unit
The Neighbourhood Renewal Unit is tasked with narrowing the gap between deprived neighbourhoods and the rest of the country. It provides further information on accessibility planning.
PTEG Social Inclusion and Transport Good Practice Guide
In the Right Place: : accessibility, local services and older people
Without accessible services and transport, older people can easily suffer social exclusion and lose their independence. This guide for planners of services and transport, written by Help the Aged senior policy officer Dr Alan Burnett, looks at the needs of older people and at the problems they encounter in getting around, stressing that effective strategies can be developed only if older people are directly consulted.
Disability Rights Commission
Information on the Disability Discrimination Act is available from the Disability Rights Commission, including the draft code of practice on the provision and use of transport vehicles.
Making the case: Improving health through transport
This publication is aimed at those interested in developing health and transport policies; those involved in partnership work with local authorities; those with responsibilities for NHS estates; and those developing work where transport will play a significant part.

Responsibilities for passenger transport including concessionary fares schemes
Useful information on passenger transport including concessionary fares schemes can be via the ATCO web site. The Association of Transport Coordinating Officers was formed in 1974 to bring together local authority officers whose work involved what were then new county council responsibilities for passenger transport.

Open the LTP Network Accessibility Planning Forum Summary. 67Kb
The Centre for Accessible Environments
The Centre for Accessible Environments (CAE) is concerned with the practicalities of inclusive design in the built environment. It provides information, design guidance, training and consultancy services. The Centre is also a forum for collaborative dialogue between providers and users on how the built environment can best be made or modified to achieve inclusion by design.
Conference papers on accessibility planning
Conference papers relating to some aspects of accessibility planning are also available from PTRC. These include those presented to the European Transport Conference.
University College London Accessibility Research Group
The Accessibility Research Group is based in the Centre for Transport Studies at University College London. It has a wide-ranging brief to understand what accessibility is, why it is important, what barriers to access exist, how these could be eliminated or reduced and who these barriers affect.