Projects & activity

Summaries of current projects and activity

• Bus services is rural visitor destinations – What works?

Main report: Bus services is rural visitor destinations – What works

Annexe 1: Compendium – Bus services in rural visitor destinations 2025

Annexe 2: Bus services in rural visitor destinations – Case Studies

• What does world-class, low carbon visitor access & transport look like for Lake District valleys?

Whole project summary: LCD 3 valleys summary

Example of vision-led visitor access & transport planning based on the 6-component transport model:  What might world-class visitor transport look like for popular Lake District valleys

• What might carbon-reduced transport look and feel like in Cumbrian communities?

Translating strategy via community engagement to articulate what typical lifestyles and places might look and feel with net-zero-compatible transport systems.

Main report: Low carbon transport Cumbrian communities

Worksheets download: Low C communities worksheets

Mobility lifestyles worksheet download: Mobility lifestyles sheet

• Response to the Department for Transport’s Integrated National Transport Strategy from the perspective of rural visitor destinations, involving engagement with over 20 organisations INTS LCD response 2025-02-18 (February 2025)

…and other activity

• Recent presentations (contact alistair@lowcarbondestinations.org for copies if not linked)
  • Access & transport systems for rural visitor areas: appropriate approaches & required structures (November 26, 2024; Rural Roundtable organised by the University of Hetfordshire Smart Mobility Unit)
  • Chaired “Rethinking Travel and Transport” panel at Cumbria Tourism’s Future Trends and Innovation Conference (November 2024)
  • Panel at Tourism Mangement Institute Convention on sustainable transport (October 2024)
  • Buses in Rural Destinations and Visitor Areas: Backcasting world-class networks? Landor Quality Bus conference September 2024
  • Visitor & Leisure Travel Governance, Pecha Kucha, Foundation for Integrated Transport, August 2024
  • Low carbon rural visitor and leisure travel and the need for new governance arrangements at The future for rural mobility symposium, RGS, March 2024
  • What does really great in-destination visitor transport look like and how does it develop? Zoom discussion, Tourism Management Institute, April 2024