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Giving Travel Advice at Events

European Mobility Week Training Workshop 15th April 2015

Jenn Champion-Cope - Sustrans

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Giving Travel Advice at Events

• Attracting Attention

• Giving Travel Advice

Conversation Skills Overcoming Barriers

• Selling the Benefits of Active Travel

• Further Resources

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Attracting Attention

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How they currently travel?

Giving Travel Advice – Starting the Conversation

Local congestion

How they get to the event?

What journeys could they change?

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Giving Travel Advice – Conversation Skills

Active Listening

Open Questions

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Giving Travel Advice – Overcoming Barriers

Personal solutions

Autonomy

LeafletsTraining

Resources

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Benefits of Active Travel

Cycling and walking burns calories not fuel so saves you

money and gets you fit

Cycling and walking reduces traffic congestion making the roads safer for

children, cyclists and pedestrians

Regular walking and cycling is great for

your heart and lungs

Traveling to your destination actively

means you arrive alert and ready to make the

most of your day

Walking is great for muscle and bone strength

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Further Resources

PTP-Cycle website

www.ptpcycle-europe.eu/

Jenn.champion-cope@sustrans.org.uk