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Transport for All: Amplifying the voices of disabled people in policy debates
A project striving to increase access to all modes of transport and streetspace across the UK.

Vision Zero Road Danger
The first project funded from the Alastair Hanton Memorial Fund, this campaign focuses on reducing motor vehicle dominance and traffic harm.

Right Prices, Fair Fares
A project aimed at building support for car traffic demand management in Scotland.

Better Buses UK
A project facilitating grassroots coalitions of citizens to campaign for a step-change in bus services, with a focus on tackling the ‘big four’ barriers commonly identified as limiting bus use: value for money, frequency, reliability, and coverage.

Lucy Eggleston
Seeking to answer the question “What would happen if residential streets had no cars?”, this study will explore the full range of benefits and co-benefits associated with a reduction in the reliance on vehicles in urban neighbourhoods.

Modal Shift
A project investigating the possible policy levers needed to help the UK achieve its necessary car mileage reduction targets.

Stepping off the road to nowhere
How changing our approach to transport modelling could increase sustainability and prosperity.

Good Travel
The UK’s leading eco attractions working together to develop incentives to help visitors experience great green days out without their car.

Cleaner Air Market
A project which showcases how a working market can decarbonise its complex supply chains, reduce its contribution to local air pollution, and create a more accessible, equitable and sustainable market experience for all.

Pedal to the Pitch
Encouraging football fans to walk, wheel and cycle to games, this project aims to work with clubs and fans to find greener, cleaner and more enjoyable ways to travel to football matches.

Spoke Out
A cycling project encouraging more girls, women and non-binary people to cycle, whilst protecting our planet and encouraging cycling instead of driving.

Pathways to Net Zero
Raising awareness of the vital importance of traffic reduction as part of the strategy to decarbonise transport, and to focus Government attention on what is needed to deliver this.

Municipal/ Regional Franchising of Multi-Drop Deliveries
Researching, developing, and modelling the business case for a new market-based mechanism designed to encourage more environmentally sustainable operational behaviours in the last-mile freight market.

Campaign for Better Transport
Making the concept of distance-based road pricing publicly and politically acceptable.

Healthy Streets Scorecard
A project to encourage all London boroughs to implement key measures to dramatically improve air quality and road safety, boost active lifestyles, and reduce carbon emissions – often literally overnight.

Car Free Low Carbon Travel for Longdendale
Developing a robustly tested package of alternatives to private car use in order to address the climate emergency and the impacts of traffic, and to influence the decision makers.

Better Buses for West Yorkshire
Seeking clear commitments from the mayors of West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire to deliver a step-change in bus services in those regions – delivering the fares, timetables and routes that local people need.

Tackling Traffic
Working with business groups to make sure Scotland meets its new 20% traffic reduction target. The aim of this project is to shape Scottish Government transport policy so that the ambitious target is matched by equally ambitious action.

Centre for London
A project to look at what can be learned from the controversy around LTNs and how to build public support for measures to reduce car dominance and promote active transport.

Save Rimrose Valley
A campaign to fight Highways England’s Port of Liverpool Access Scheme. This would see the destruction of Rimrose Valley Country Park: a vital community and environmental asset in a heavily urbanised part of north Liverpool.

Friends of the Earth Scotland
A campaign to advocate for the measures needed to deliver on the Scottish government’s commitment to reduce car use.

Transport Action Network
Supporting people and groups pressing for more sustainable transport in England and Wales. TAN are also enabling change at a national level by challenging the Government’s road building plans, legally and politically, and in the national media.

Transport for New Homes
Campaigning for new housing to be built close to existing town centres and public transport links.

Thames Crossing Action Group
Representing thousands of people who are opposed to the proposed Lower Thames Crossing.

Better Buses in Greater Manchester
A coalition of passengers, staff, environmental groups, older people and community groups campaigning for a better, publicly-controlled bus network in Greater Manchester.

20s Plenty for Us
Advocating for 20 mph as the appropriate speed limit on streets where people walk, live and play.

StreetFocus
StreetFocus aims to enable local authorities and communities to provide, for the first time, a user-friendly citizen-orientated national interface to planning applications.

Transform Scotland
A campaign to get meaningful commitments to the decarbonisation of transport into the manifestos of each of the main political parties for the Scottish Parliamentary elections in May 2021.

CPRE: Transport Deserts
Transport Deserts: Every village, every hour 2021 sets out what a comprehensive bus network for England would look like.

Phil Goodwin
Appointed FIT Senior Fellow in 2020, working with Professor John Whitelegg, on the theme of transport and climate change.

John Whitelegg
Appointed FIT Senior Fellow in 2020, working with Professor Phil Goodwin, on the theme of transport and climate change.

Hope Valley Climate Action
The Travelling Light project sets out to deliver transformative and sustainable change in the way local people and visitors travel in, and to, the Hope Valley.

Possible
Fit funded Possible's Frequent Flyer Levy campaign, which aims to replace Air Passenger Duty with a fairer, greener tax regime and its Climate Perks initiative, which empowers employees to make climate-friendly holiday travel choices.

Greener Transport Solutions
A not-for-profit organisation currently developing ‘A Manifesto for Decarbonising Transport’.

Action Vision Zero
Supporting groups and individuals campaigning to end death and serious injuries on the roads where they live.

Parking Transformed
A project from CPRE London, working with local campaigners and groups to challenge local authorities to place parking more centrally in their policy toolbox.

Climate Action: Race to Zero Innovation awards
The Race to Zero Innovation awards will award five young people aged 16 to 35 for sustainable transport solutions they would like to implement.

Stop the A38 Expansion
Raising awareness of the damage that the proposed A38 road scheme will cause to the environment and wildlife.

Bike Is Best
A campaign from Fusion Media, on a mission to show the British public that there is no better time to ride a bike.

Jonathan Tyler
Studying the potential for Britain to adopt Switzerland’s timetable practices. This system rests on the philosophy of securing a basic level of provision of public transport for all but the smallest of settlements.

John Austin
Developing a methodology to identify potential Mobility Hub locations in the South West region of England, using geographical modelling techniques and a wide range of datasets.

Mike Tisdell
Conducting an analysis of the discourse that has emerged in response to trial Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods in collaboration with FIT senior fellow Professor Phil Goodwin.

Alistair Kirkbride
Developing the case for the Lake District and Peak District National Park Authorities to take on transport powers.

Ian Sesnan
Researching opportunities to integrate heritage/private railways into national rail networks to enable urgent affordable expansion of local public transport.

Beate Kubitz
Beate Kubitz was awarded a fellowship in June 2020 to study how rural and suburban transport could unlock Mobility as a Service (MaaS).