NHS Enfield Travel Survey / improving facilities for active transport

By: NHS Enfield

Positive outcome(s) of project:

Increase in % of people cycling to work, Good publicity, Increase in % of people undertaking physical activity at lunchtime

Description:

Travel Survey to identify base line and then prioritise improvements of facilities with the aim of increasing the number of staff and patients engaged with active transport.

Location:

Holbrook House, Cockfosters, EN4 0DR

Reasons for project:

Pressure on car parking, Business continuity – i.e. how staff could come into work in event of public transport failure, and staff health and fitness.

Partner:

MottMac Consultancy – collated survey, put together public transport maps, they were the drivers of the project.

Follow-up plan:

TfL want to do further travel survey – PCT will be very willing.

Only previous comment was that web-based survey was very unwieldy – this has been rectified.

Start date: 01/06/2008

Report published:

Implementation costs:

£9.5k consultancy fees, £400 printing costs, 6k infrastructure development (upgrading shower room and cycle parking)

Tool used: Transport for London travel web-based survey on transport habits.

Barriers in project implementation:

Pandemic flu (staff absence and changing priorities). Project was additional to workload and therefore could be difficult to find time to implement.

Contact: Glenn Stewart, Assistant Director of Public Health, glenn.stewart@enfield.nhs.uk, 0208 370 8199