Sub-plenary Sessions

Economy

Philip Insall, Sustrans, UK National Routes To Change Transport Culture Sustrans is the civil engineering NGO responsible for co-ordination of the UK National Cycle Network and other national programmes such as Safe Routes to Schools and Safe Routes to Stations. In 1994 we proposed a national network of cycle routes, as a way to support local authorities in the development of more sustainable transport policies. The week of Vélo Mondial, we are celebrating the launch of the first 8,000 km of this Network. During the project it became clear that the potential economic benefits of this project are huge. It also became clear that we had not done enough to monitor usage and to evaluate those economic outputs. We are now taking steps to correct this. The paper identifies the key areas of economic benefit, gives broad indications of the potential scale of those benefits, and appeals for more study from the people best qualified to assess and quantify them. A conventional presentation gives examples of the presenter’s work and encourages the audience to follow them. This may be your only chance to hear a presentation which recommends “don’t do what we did, do what we say”.