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
…and other activity
Recent presentations (contact alistair@lowcarbondestinations.org for copies if not linked)
- Rural visitor destinations: Big, well understood markets and lots of carbon to save So where are the scheduled coach services? At Confederation of Passenger Transport Coach conference, 27th November 2025
- “Is this franchising? Designing world-class access & transport in Lake District valleys” Presentation at Rural; Roundtable event, September 9th 2025
- “What does transport integration mean for rural visitor destinations? What are we trying to achieve?” Presentation, September 3rd 2025 at national roundtable
- Session chair “How buses can stimulate the rural economy” at Quality Rural Bus conference, July 17th 2025
- 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
