Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013 - Post-Legislative Scrutiny
The
Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013 (the Act) came into force in September 2014. The
term ‘active travel’ means walking and cycling and the Act focuses on walking
and cycling for transport rather than leisure. Section 2(7) of the Act defines
an “active travel journey” as “a journey made to or from a workplace or
educational establishment or in order to access health, leisure or other
services or facilities”.
The
Economy, Infrastructure and Skills
Committee
will undertake post legislative scrutiny to build on initial post legislative
scrutiny undertaken by the predecessor Enterprise and Business Committee
(Active Travel: the start of the journey (February 2016).
Engagement
Activity
Throughout
February the committee commissioned focus groups to discuss perceived barriers
to active travel, current good practice and areas for improvement - a
note from these visits is available here
In
December the Committee launched a survey to help it understand how and why
people cycle or walk, and why they don’t. Over 2,500 responses were received - a
report on these surveys is available here
A short video is also
available that summarises the results of the survey and some of the key
themes arising.
Business type: Committee Inquiry
Status: Complete
First published: 10/11/2017
Documents
- Report - Post Legislative Scrutiny of the Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013 (PDF 1 MB)
- Welsh Government response
PDF 169 KB
- Abstract report
- Short film
- Active Travel: Focus groups summary
PDF 263 KB
- Active travel: Summary of survey
PDF 784 KB
Consultations