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Pushing travel planning up the business agenda
 Welcome to the latest edition of NBTN News.
The Network is constantly looking for ways to push travel planning up the business agenda. Following a successful first year in charge, I am determined to step up NBTN’s campaigning to increase the number of organisations adopting travel plans and I would like to outline some of the activities planned in the coming months and the help that you can give us by taking part in our forthcoming members’ survey.
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2008/9 Annual Report shows NBTN goes from strength to strength
 A 10-fold increase in membership as organisations sign up to the Network’s mission to cut commuting and business travel by sole occupancy car use. New research, a growing body of case study evidence and an enlarged conference programme are getting the NBTN message out across the country that you can cut work-related car travel and save money.
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Travel plans help companies survive recession, new regional network hears
 Businesses with travel plans are happier, healthier, wealthier and are better placed to beat the credit crunch, a new regional travel network has heard.
More than 30 organisations attended the inaugural meeting in Cambridge in March and were told how helping staff travel to work and organising deliveries better can help you beat the recession.
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New planning guidelines published
 A new good practice guide has been published by the government for transport and planning professionals.
The updated guide shows how to develop a high-quality, robust travel plan as part of planning application. Packed with case study evidence, the new guide is aimed at developers, consultants, local authority planners and travel plan officers.
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Employers urged to encourage staff to cycle to work
 A campaign urging people to cycle to work is to be stepped up by Cycling England. The expert body – funded by the Department for Transport and charged with getting more of us cycling, more safely, more often – is to share cycle to work innovations from the Cycling Towns later this summer. These areas are receiving European levels of funding to create a step-change in cycling levels and to provide lessons for all local authorities in England.
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Traintaxi bridges the gap
 NBTN members will be familiar with the “last leg” problem where travelling staff often go by car rather than train because they are unsure about the final part of their journey from the rail station to their destination or because they aren’t certain about local cab availability.
Now a new service, called traintaxi, aims to bridge the gap to those final few miles. The exhaustive database, that includes every train, metro and underground station in Britain, matches each station with a taxi rank or three local cab firms serving each station.
It is a practical tool to help both businesses and travel managers connect those few final miles to the front door of their destination. To find out more, visit www.traintaxi.co.uk
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Car reliant or car dependent? RAC study on ‘The Car in British Society’
 With four out of five people living in a household with a car, driving numbers up by 30 per cent in the last decade and the suggestion that the car is the most popular form of “public transport”, this report is essential reading for all travel planners!
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ACT Travelwise Conference: Call for papers
 ACT Travelwise is looking for discussion papers for workshop sessions at its national conference in Newcastle-Gateshead in November. The theme is of this year’s conference is “A Healthy Approach to Travel Options: helping organisations and individuals to thrive’. Conference organisers are looking for papers that support its five workshop themes of Business, School, Public Sector, Innovation and Evaluation.
To apply, download a copy of the submission form
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Smarter Travel Workshop – People and Logistics 21st May 2009
 A Smarter Travel workshop to identify new initiatives and actions that can take to change your own and your organisation’s travel behaviour is being held in London this month. Among the presentations will be Royal Mail, the means consultancy and Better Bankside.
The conference is organised by the Association of Sustainability Practitioners and is being help on 21 May 2009 at the Royal Mail’s Pheonix Centre in London. For more information on the conference click here and to register, follow the link Registration
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Hop in for National Liftshare Day
 Tuesday 9 June is National Liftshare Day (NLSD)! It’s the time when car-sharing is at its most high-profile, so take advantage of this if you have a scheme to get new members with a NLSD campaign.
If you don’t yet have your own car-share scheme you can still use the event to encourage staff to register (free) with www.liftshare.com. Posters and publicity ideas can be found at www.liftshare.com/nlsd
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Energy Saving Trust Smarter Driving Programme
 The Energy Saving Trust offers subsidised smarter driving training for organisations’ employees to help them reduce their fuel costs and CO2 emissions.
The Energy Saving Trust trained 2400 people between January and March this year and saw an average 16.0% reduction in fuel consumption after training.
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