Active travel and maintenance funding – a guide for decision makers

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About this webinar

How can routine highway maintenance help deliver better health, economic, environmental and transport outcomes through active travel?

This webinar explores how to improve active travel through routine maintenance schemes, unlocking benefits across local authorities.

The session covers:
• how to identify and make the case for active travel improvements within maintenance schemes
• how funding can be allocated to maximise multiple outcomes
• what good practice looks like when integrating active travel improvements into highways and maintenance decisions
• why the summer period is an important window to identify opportunities, ahead of final Local Transport Delivery Plan returns in October
 

Further information

This webinar is aimed at senior decision makers in local authorities, including Heads of Service, Assistant Directors and Executive Directors across transport, highways, place, environment and public health. It was recorded in August 2026.