Our active travel team continues to grow due to the investment available to our clients, and our continued exceptional service provided. Ethos have considerable experience and expertise in all forms of active travel, ranging from the creation of innovative, and pioneering strategies, through to the design and delivery of award winning walking and cycling routes that generate significant modal shift.
Our project teams have considerable experience in the investigation of active travel studies, highlighting where improvements can be made to increase modal shift and help walking and cycling become more frequent modes of transport.
The company also has considerable experience in the investigation and delivery of other sustainable transport measures such as public transport projects. These include reliability surveys, usage surveys, strategy and policy development, and bus prioritisation.
Our strategies and action plans are designed enable everyday journeys to be made by active and sustainable modes, engaging people with healthy lifestyles. Our strategies enhance funding applications and effectively support the delivery of outstanding active travel infrastructure that achieves significant modal shift.
We have worked with a variety of clients on LCWIPs ranging from County Councils that require a holistic approach to be taken across a large area through to Town Councils that have a more concentrated emphasis. LCWIPs set out the strategic approach to identifying long-term cycling and walking improvements.
Ethos has supported a number of clients and communities to live well locally through the successful introduction of liveable neighbourhoods. Providing best practice guidance and stakeholder engagement as well as supporting business case development and funding applications.
Walking and cycling schemes often have complex issues to resolve. We have a track record of delivering feasibility studies and providing extraordinary designs that gain exceptional levels of engagement with high levels of support and buy-in from a range of stakeholders that successfully achieve funding.
We have successfully worked with schools and surrounding communities to deliver school streets across the UK. Our unique schools engagement processes ensure young people are at the heart of any proposals and designs. This combined with our expertise in road safety makes for effective and long-lasting behaviour change at the schools we work with.
Our active travel experts undertake active travel audits for clients who wish to assess the existing level of infrastructure and determine improvements that can be made. We produce detailed active travel networks to support the audits and identify areas for further development, which often leads to feasibility studies for future implementation.
We undertake studies that highlight the possible options for increased sustainable and active travel to work and as part of client’s operations. We develop workplace travel plans that are bespoke to employees and the business as a whole helping deliver on their carbon reduction and sustainability goals.
Our transport planning team provides expertise on integrated transport options that range from improvements to public transport to the investigation and delivery of micro-mobility. We place a strong emphasis on rental opportunities that include hire bikes and car clubs due to financial savings this can offer.
