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School Travel Action Plan (STAP)
A TEMPLATE FOR SCHOOLS
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School Travel Action Plans (STAP)
Do people living close to your school complain about traffic congestion or parking?
Is there a road safety issue near your school?
Do you want to encourage children to be healthy and stay active?
Are you looking for ways to link healthy schools, environmental education and community engagement into your curriculum?
Do students who are late often site travel problems as a reason why?
If the answer to any of these questions is yes, a School Travel Action Plan can help.
School Travel Action Plans set out how a school community will plan for and support school journeys that reduce congestion, engage local
communities, promote environmental sustainability and encourage healthy travel.
The School Travel Action Plan (STAP) can help:
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minimise congestion associated with “the school run”
help children and parents make healthier travel choices
help children and parents choose more environmentally sustainable travel
improve safety for journeys to school and during school trips
give children an opportunity to develop road sense and independence
The School Travel Action Plan can be used by all those connected to the school ie staff, parents, pupils, governors and even neighbours. It will
inform them of actions and goals and explain who is involved.
This document provides some ideas about the structure of your plan. Your school travel action plan should include:
School Background – an introduction to the school, the travel action plan process and details about current travel opportunities
Current problems – information about any travel issues that your school faces
Aims & Targets – what the school wants to achieve
Action Plan – how you plan to achieve the objectives and a timetable for implementation and clearly defined responsibilities
Monitoring and Review – how you are going to track your progress.
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Template for a School Travel Action Plan (STAP)
This form provides a quick and simple format for a STAP. You can type straight into the boxes provided.
The plan should include some basic information about the school and set out what the school hopes to achieve and how this will be done. It
may be that later on some further exploratory information is needed, such as a travel survey, but initially it will be a document that focuses
much more on the intended aims and outcomes.
Name of school:
Address:
Postcode
Contact name:
Contact phone/email:
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1. About the School
Describe your school and the current travel patterns of staff, students, visitors, suppliers etc.
Gather data that helps build a picture of travel and transport at your school. Data might include your catchment area; where children travel from
to school; what local transport infrastructure is there? e.g cycle routes, bus services, trains. The local authority can help with data including road
safety data and local transport services. You can gather data yourself from within school, a simple survey to find out about current journeys to
school by staff and pupils for instance.
Insert a map of your school and the surrounding area showing car and cycle parking, cycle paths, pedestrian crossings, bus stops, train
stations and walking bus stops etc. The map needs to make it clear how the school can be accessed and if the access points change during
the school day. You can use the map in your prospectus.
2. Problems identified
List any current transport-related problems with your site at present (e.g. no safe pedestrian crossings nearby, inadequate cycling facilities,
demand for car parking too high, inadequate arrangements for disabled access).
3. Aims of your Plan
Changing the way people travel to your school can have many benefits such as promoting greater safety for pedestrians, improving
relationships with the local community, and enhancing students’ awareness of current travel options for today and the future. Prioritising
benefits will be different for each school.
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What do you hope to achieve with the travel action plan for your school?
What changes do you want to see and for what reasons?
Prioritise your aims so that you can target activity.
Remember to record your actions and make sure your aims are measurable so that you can evidence your success. E.g : x% reduction in
students travelling to school by car; an increase in the proportion of students cycling or walking to school ; an increase in the number of staff
involved in car sharing; an increase the number of staff travelling to work by public transport.
Aim
a) Reduction in complaints from local community
Priority
H/M/L
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b) Reduction in numbers of cars parked outside school during peak hours
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How will you know that change has been made?
example:1 Reduce congestion outside school
during peak hours of drop off and home time
c) Reduction in number of children being driven to school
example:2 Promote healthy lifestyles by
encouraging active travel
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a) Increase in children choosing active travel to school
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4. Action Planning
It is important to set out what measures you intend to undertake, implement or trial at your site. Some examples of actions which could be
included are given in Appendix 1.
AIM
Activity
Who can you
get to help?
1 & 2 Example:
Local Authority
Make cycling an option
through offering Bikeability
courses
1 & 2 Implement a count of bikes Children
parked in bike sheds and
around the site.
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Person
responsible
How will success be measured?
Completion
date
Ms. Smith
Number of students cycling? to school
Oct 2013
The caretaker
Increase in number of bikes parked in bike shed and
around the site.
Jan 2014
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5. Implementing your action plan
a. How can you integrate developing, monitoring and reviewing your action plan into the curriculum?
b. How could staff and governors model good travel behaviour to students?
c.
How will your STAP link to other strategies e.g. Healthy Schools; Environmental Policies; Children and Young People’s Plan etc?
6. Monitoring and Review
a. How will you engage and involve all members of the school community including children, staff and governors?
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b. Who will agree your STAP and take responsibility for monitoring its delivery?
c.
How will your STAP be monitored? (e.g. included in your School Improvement Plan (SIP))
d. When will your STAP be reviewed and who will review it?
e. How will you measure and celebrate your successes?
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School Travel Action Plan AGREED BY:
ROLE
POSITION IN ORGANISATION
Name in BLOCK CAPITALS
SIGNATURE
STAP
CO-ORDINATOR
HEADTEACHER
HEADTEACHER
STAP APPROVER
GROUP MANAGER STRATEGIC
TRANSPORT & PLANNING POLICY
PAUL MATHIESON
For further advice, guidance and information on school travel action plans or sustainable transport contact
[email protected] or visit www.ideasinmotionsouthend.co.uk
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Appendix 1 - Action Plan Ideas
Measures to promote public transport:
 Information, about buses, school buses and trains. Details of online resources such as www.travelinesoutheast.org.uk,
www.googlemaps.co.uk, www.transportdirect.info, www.firstgroup.com/ukbus/essex/,www.arrivabus.co.uk and www.c2conline.co.uk/travel_information/current_timetable
 Provide staff supervision at school bus stops
 Code of conduct for students using public transport
 Use of public transport (or walking) for school trips
 Local school trips
Measures to promote walking and cycling:
 Information about recommended walking or cycling routes
 Provision of an area for drying wet clothes
 Provision of secure storage such as lockers for heavy items, cycle helmets etc
 Road safety in the curriculum (pedestrian and cycle training)
 Certificates and or stickers for students travelling consistently on foot/cycle
 Involvement in walking/cycling campaigns
 Set up or extend Walking Bus routes
 Set up a Park and Stride scheme
 Adult cycle training for staff and parents
 Install (more) cycle parking
 Promote the Recycle Centre and Comfy Saddle to buy cheap reconditioned bicycles
Measures to promote car sharing:
 Set out prime spaces in the car park specifically for car sharers
 Reduce parking space
 Building an in-house car sharing scheme or encourage use of an existing one e.g. Liftshare
General measures
 Healthy and sustainable living in the curriculum
 Monitoring air quality around the school
 Notice board or display about travel to school
 Marketing and promotion of travel action plans and their benefits
 Using drama to promote the sustainable travel message
 Publicise events and achievements
 Regular meetings with interested parties, e.g. local residents or providers of before/after school clubs to discuss travel concerns
 Appoint a governor to co-ordinate regular reviews of travel issues via the SIP.
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