Identifying travel and transport issues
Use "Exploring the Issues" instead
Overview
Education phase
Category of activity
ConsultationTypes of activity
How it helps
- Helps identify what activities to choose
- Supports all TfL Travel for Life travel activities
- Promotes active travel at leadership leve
About the activity
Identify and record your school’s travel and transport issues to help to track progress and areas for improvement. Your can work with your school travel working group and senior management team (SMT) to identify the key issues for your school.
To help with this process you can:
- Look at your hands-up survey data for pupils and staff to see their travel behaviours
- Speak with the wider school community to find out what travel issues people are experiencing. Go to the Activities page and refine by ‘Consultation’ for ideas on how to do this
- Ask what is preventing people travelling in a particular way – is there a negative perception about certain types of active travel? Is there a barrier to accessing it - such as a skill gap, lack of experience or equipment that they need?
Some examples of issues are: ‘Car use is too high’, ‘there is not enough bike parking’, ‘it’s hard to cross safely because of parking on zig-zag lines’ or a perception that it is ‘too far to walk’.
Top tip: When we assess your accreditation application, we look for evidence that the travel issues you raise have corresponding potential solutions, actions and resolutions. So it’s important to keep your school’s issues updated with your progress and any resolutions you’ve found.
How to evidence your activity
- Upload your issues and targets to the TfL Travel for life
Activity steps
Step 1
Identify issues - Work with your school travel working group and senior management to identify your school’s key travel and transport issues
Step 2
Make a note - Log on to TfL Travel for Life to add your issues to your school’s ‘issues and targets’ page
Step 3
Find solutions - With your school travel working group and the help of the TfL Travel for Life Online activity bank identify activities you can do to help solve the issues and get planning!
Step 4
Record potential solutions - Once you’ve agreed on what you will do to resolve your school’s issues, log on to TfL Travel for Life to record your plan in the issues section of your travel plan
Step 5
Check for success - At the end of the year, look back at the issues you listed to see whether the activities you planned helped to resolve them. If not, what can you do differently next time?
Step 6
Update your issue to 'resolved' - When your issue has been resolved, don’t forget to visit the issues page on TfL Travel for Life Online to mark your issue as complete.
Step 7
Tell your story - Add your story to the TfL Travel for Life website and feed back to your borough officer.