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Cycling

Asked by Sir Ashley FoxConservativeDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 30 June 2026UIN 13303

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance Active Travel England issues on the use of data from adjacent routes, junctions or sensors when estimating baseline cycling demand for a proposed scheme.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood

The Department for Transport publishes guidance to support local authorities to conduct appraisal, supported by bespoke advice provided directly to Authorities. This includes methods to estimate walking and cycling demand to account for relevant local factors. Active Travel England publishes monitoring and evaluation guidance for active travel that recommends methodologies to estimate baseline cycling demand and evaluating scheme performance by comparing the data collected with the estimated number of walking, wheeling and cycling trips per day without the proposed scheme using the Active Modes Appraisal Toolkit (AMAT).

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