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We've got lots of news to report and events to inform you about, so do scroll down and have a look. In the sidebar, you'll also find a job opportunity with our member TPS Transport Consultants in West Yorkshire.
Our Business Forum (an enhanced membership scheme soon to be branded as Business+) is holding its third event on 12 July in London, titled 'How Your Business Can Improve Commuter Travel and Employee Satisfaction'. As the event was postponed from 14 May, new delegates will be limited to those who are representing businesses seeking to address parking, transport and travel issues at their own sites. If you have contacts with such businesses, please encourage them to register.
PTRC Course Discounts: Act TravelWise members receive a discount on course bookings. The upcoming courses and more information can be found here. There's also a discount on relevant Landor LINKS conferences, e.g. Cycle City Active City (June conference in Manchester with details in this e-bulletin) and Healthy Streets (October 2018, London).
Save the Date!: The Act TravelWise Annual Conference & AGM 2019 will be held on 31 January 2019 in Birmingham. The theme is currently being finalised.
Our Member Login Area on Acttravelwise.org is now populated with scores of guidance documents, conference presentations and other resources made available exclusively to members. If you're not already an Act TravelWise member, it's easy to join and you can do this by completing our Membership Form found on the website. Among other benefits, membership gives you a free place at all of our events throughout the year. You also get discounts on registration at our partners' events.
We encourage you to send in your news, job postings and event listings for future issues of the monthly e-bulletin. Just email them by the end of the month. This is a free service for members (£100 per item for non-members), reaching nearly 5,000 transport professionals. Also anyone may submit email addresses for adding to our e-bulletin distribution list here.
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Spurred on by GDPR, Act TravelWise has established email groups via Freelists.org to facilitate networking among its regional networks. So far there are four groups set up. If you are an Act TravelWise member in one of the regions below, you can now send a 'subscribe' email to join the appropriate group.
Yorkshire & The Humber - Join by sending an email to act-travelwise-yorkshire-request@freelists.org with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by visiting the list page at http://www.freelists.org/list/act-travelwise-yorkshire.
Midlands - Join by sending an email to act-travelwise-midlands-request@freelists.org with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by visiting the list page at http://www.freelists.org/list/act-travelwise-midlands.
South West - Join by sending an email to act-travelwise-southwest-request@freelists.org with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by
visiting the list page at http://www.freelists.org/list/act-travelwise-southwest.
South East - Join by sending an email to act-travelwise-southeast-request@freelists.org with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by
visiting the list page at http://www.freelists.org/list/act-travelwise-southeast.
All four groups are set up as 'moderated discussion' for now, meaning that subscribers will need their messages approved by the moderator before they are passed on to the group. Subscribers can set their preferences online, for example to receive a digest version rather than each message separately. We'll be monitoring how people feel about the groups before adding more regions.
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News
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In response to high demand from the Act TravelWise membership, TravelWise Week is back in 2018! The week-long campaign will be held at the same time as, and in co-operation with, European Mobility Week - 16-22 September 2018. Everyone is invited to get involved - whether you represent a local authority, transport operator, business, university, health care provider or even just as an individual. It's an opportunity to engage with the public, your employees and other partners.
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EPOMM - the European Platform on Mobility Management - has released its May 2018 e-update on the topic of 'Walking - Encouraging People-Powered Transport'. It addresses research, case studies, initiatives and strategies to promote walking.
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Twenty years ago we were the ‘new kids on the block’. Founded by Colin Brader in 1998, ITP sought to positively influence the design of places and the way we travel by aligning the disciplines of transport and land-use planning...
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What are you doing on 21 June? Clean Air Day 2018 is about informing people about the health impacts of air pollution and encouraging people to take pollution-busting actions on 21 June. To help spread the word and enable action, Global Action Plan has developed a range of materials to make it as easy as possible.
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As announced on 12 June 2018, the government has identified seven winning Cycle Ambition City bids and is contributing over £7 million to these cities this year as part of the Department for Transport’s cycle safety review.
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Events
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Cycle City Active City is the conference and exhibition for all those working to encourage utility cycling, walking and active, healthy lifestyles across Britain. Town and cities with high levels of cycling, walking, play and sport are healthy, fun and work for people. This event shows how we get from ideas to reality. Act TravelWise members receive a 20% discount on the delegate rates.
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Does your business have problems with parking, commuting or travel management? A free event on Thursday 12 July in London organised by Act TravelWise will help steer you towards solutions. The training event, to be delivered by leading experts in the field, will explain how to follow best practice in developing a business case for transport improvements, how to better manage on-site parking, and how to engage employees on the topic of air pollution. The fourth and final speaker will present on Whim, an innovative Mobility as a Service platform and its applications in the business sector.
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The South West regional group will have its next meeting on Tuesday 17 July, 1pm to 4pm, hosted by North Somerset Council. The topics will include the Go Ultra Low West (GULW) EV Project in the West of England, Electric Vehicles and Planning Policy, and Cycle to Work Scheme and Electric Bikes.
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The TfN board is now considering the results of the public consultation around its draft Strategic Transport Plan, before its process of revision begins. In their constructive engagement with the strategy, environmental transport organisations have been asking some important questions: will there be spatial ‘winners and losers’; how valid is the translation of the strategy’s economic foundations into a set of transport interventions; and does the strategy pass its carbon reduction test? This event provides an opportunity to hear different sides on these issues and to contribute to an ongoing debate about how the strategy can be improved before its adoption. Tickets are free for Act TravelWise members.
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