News

Fancy a Healthy stroll?
Walkit.com the urban walking route planner is now available in many parts of Greater Manchester, it is a great tool to help plan good walking routes to local destinations and it will even calculate how much CO2 has been saved and how many calories have been burnt...view website

Green Bus Fund success
Greater Manchester is set to benefit from even more eco-friendly buses after transport leaders were awarded £1.6 million from the government's latest Green Bus Fund grants...read more

Freedom of the city with Manchester Metroshuttle
Manchester's free city centre Metroshuttle service will run on a new eco-fleet of low carbon, hybrid buses following a relaunch of the popular service, which last year carried over 2.5 million passengers...read more

A new police pod is helping to improve safety at Ashton Bus Station
A new police 'pod', which is aimed at reducing anti-social behaviour and helping passengers feel safer on public transport, has opened at Ashton Bus Station...read more

Local Link – a reduced service to Crompton Way Health Centre
North Bolton Local Link was introduced in April 2009 on the basis of joint funding of 50 per cent from GMPTE and 50 per cent from Bolton Primary Care Trust...read more

Health & Transport

Government announces plans for a new transport fund that will support behaviour change and increased sustainable travel...read more

Public health white paper / national Public Health Service - recommendations on active travel...read more

The Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC) is an independent body formed to advise Government on the transport needs of disabled people...view website

Travel Actively
Travel Actively is a portfolio of 50 projects being delivered by the Active Travel consortium, a partnership of leading walking, cycling and health organisations committed to providing for 1.8 million people to become physically active through active travel by 2012. Includes projects from Manchester and Trafford...view site

Cycling Action Plan for Scotland
To meet health and energy objectives Scotland has unveiled an ambitious cycling plan that will increase mode share for cycle journeys up to 10% of all trips; the plan will be backed by £3.9 million of investment...view website

Sustrans Newsletters

Win great prizes in our film competition (August 2010 edition)

Join the party on the path this month (September 2010 edition)

Value for money transport solutions (October 2010 edition)

Research

Do the Health Benefits of Cycling Outweigh the Risks?
This report looks at the health benefits and disbenefits of cycling and makes comparisons not only with the accident figures for cyclist verses car drivers but also the effects of reduced pollution in communities; in addition it looks at the increased risk of pollutants to cyclist, the benefits of improved air quality and of increased physical activity that comes with modal shift...view pdf

Child Casualty Report 2010
This recently published report provides further evidence that children in deprived areas are more likely to be injured in road traffic accident than those living in affluent areas...view pdf

Health on the Move Active travel - a preliminary report from the THSG. February 2010...read more

There are a large number of research articles related to health and transport located in the 'Research Artcles' section.

Events

The ACT TravelWise National Autumn conference will tackle the big question - the right to travel - getting more for less...read more

Future Manchester 2010
Manchester's first city-wide celebration of sustainable living and
working. AT LOCATIONS ALL OVER THE CITY
NOVEMBER 20 - DECEMBER 3..read more