Abstract
A travel plan is a package of measures aimed at reducing the impacts of travel to a particular site. Such packages are also sometimes known as green transport plans, green commuter plans or mobility management plans. The Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions has recently started to use the term ‘travel plan’, preferring to drop the ‘green’ label in order to ensure that these plans are seen as addressing other issues as well as environmental issues. The ‘commuter’ label has also been changed to reflect the fact that this approach could be used to address many different types of travel, not just the journey to work. To date, however, the development of travel plans has concentrated primarily on work journeys and school journeys and there is an increasing amount of information aimed at encouraging the wider take-up of travel plans by employers and schools. This paper starts by explaining why these types of journey are being targeted and then goes on to provide a brief history of initiatives for reducing car use on the journey to school and the journey to work. It finishes with a summary of recent policy developments in this area.
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