Smarter Travel Project Fund

To support the Governments Sustainable Travel Policy Smarter Travel, it was pledged that a fund to support innovative sustainable travel projects would be established.  With this in mind, the Minister of Transport set up the Smarter Travel Project Fund. The Smarter Travel Project fund seeks to support individual demonstration projects that can show the positive impacts of specific interventions.

The objectives of the Smarter Travel Project Fund are:

• To assist the development of demonstration projects that can deliver sustainable transport initiatives at both a national and local level, achieving real and measurable changes in people’s travel choices and behaviour
• To assist the development of demonstration projects that aim to reduce the environmental impact of travel
• To increase the capability of organisations to help deliver sustainable travel
• To raise public awareness and acceptability of sustainable travel and transport issues

The first call for applications closed in September 2009. A total of 121 applications for funding were received. There are currently 31 demonstration projects being funded, and details of these projects can be found here.

Details of further calls will be made available on this website.

Queries relating to the Smarter Travel Project Fund can be made through the contact us section.