Tech Talk video: Promoting and enabling active travel

This Tech Talk features Annabel Precious from Civic Engineers discussing the challenge to engineers to promote better build environments that enable active travel. She shares how engineers can improve designs to promote safer and more inclusive spaces for people walking and cycling, as well as how it creates more liveable spaces.

Learning outcomes

After watching this video, you will:  

• Understand how engineers can drive change in transport planning by promoting and designing active travel  
• Have gained insight into the solutions being used on projects and the benefits in terms of communities, health, safety and the environment of designing better active travel infrastructure
• Have learnt how putting value and carbon at the heart of designs can drive change in the way infrastructure is used and urban areas are planned
• Understand the importance of active travel to effective placemaking and in challenging the way that urban environments are designed