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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
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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
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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.
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- 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.
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