Active Travel in England Report
Active travel describes everyday journeys made by walking, wheeling, or cycling. It includes trips that are made by foot, pedal-cycles, e-cycles, adapted cycles, wheelchairs, mobility scooters and push-scooters. Active travel is a low-carbon way to get around and offers many benefits compared with other forms of transport. Government believes active travel has potential to support its wider strategic priorities to increase physical activity, tackle obesity, improve air quality, level up, and achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
It is six years since DfT published its first Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy in 2017 and two years remain in the current funding period, to March 2025. This report, published in June 2023, examines whether DfT is set up to achieve its ambitions for increased walking, wheeling and cycling in England by 2025. The report assessed:
- DfT’s strategic approach to active travel
- progress made against DfT’s objectives for active travel since 2017
- progress in tackling the barriers to uptake of active travel