This paper uses six years of longitudinal data to examine impacts of active travel infrastructure in Outer London.
- We find a strong and consistent dose-response relationship found between infrastructure and uptake.
- There is some evidence of reduced car ownership and/or use in the areas with most interventions.
- The programme generates over £1bn health economic benefits for a programme cost of £100 m.
- Low Traffic Neighbourhoods may have very high value for money (as much as 50:1 to 200:1).
This paper analyses six years’ data from the People and Places longitudinal study. The study examines travel behaviour impacts of major investments in active travel infrastructure in three Outer London boroughs (the ‘mini-Hollands programme’).