{"id":39503,"date":"2024-04-03T16:00:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=39503"},"modified":"2024-04-02T16:45:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T15:45:12","slug":"active-travel-england-design-assistance-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=39503","title":{"rendered":"Active Travel England design assistance tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-38325\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/spanner_tool-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"106\" height=\"106\" \/>Active Travel England (ATE) has developed a suite of tools to support the development of designs and the assessment of design quality for active travel interventions and schemes.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image for illustration<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>GOV.UK writes:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 These design assistance tools should be used in conjunction with ATE scheme review tools.<\/p>\n<h2>Crossing selector tool<\/h2>\n<p>Provides a range of suitable design options when considering how to connect walking, wheeling and cycling routes over a main road between 2 side roads.<\/p>\n<h2>Route cross-section tool<\/h2>\n<p>Assists in confirming whether a corridor is suitable for different kinds of active travel infrastructure, given constraints such as carriageway width.<\/p>\n<p>Both tools are based on national guidance such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cycle infrastructure design LTN 1\/20<\/li>\n<li>Inclusive Mobility: making transport accessible for passengers and pedestrians<\/li>\n<li>Manual for streets 2007 and Manual for streets 2010<\/li>\n<li>existing street assessment tools, such as Cycling Level of Service (appendix A in Cycle Infrastructure Design LTN 1\/20 and Healthy Streets<\/li>\n<li>best practice and further evidence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/active-travel-england-design-assistance-tools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more and view the tools&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Active Travel England (ATE) has developed a suite of tools to support the development of designs and the assessment of design quality for active travel interventions and schemes. image for illustration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39504,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39503\/revisions\/39504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}