Audits and research
About this activity
Suitable for all nurseries and schools.
Carry out audits and research to help prove that your travel activities have been successful, or to provide an answer to why your efforts to improve have been less successful than you’d hoped. Use the results to provide evidence for resourcing needs to your senior management, for external funding applications, or to promote your school’s active travel work in the local press.
Your research could include follow-up questionnaires on active travel events or surveying parents/carers about their knowledge of sustainable travel, for example, you could involve an on-street audit to count traffic or interview people who live within your school’s vicinity (see Sustrans' Big Street Survey resource for inspiration).
Work with your TFL Explorer/Pioneer/Navigator Ambassedor and/or your school travel working group to identity the question you want to answer through your research, include who you want to involve and the best way to collect the information you need.
How to evidence your activity
- Involve your borough travel planning officer: Share your ideas, set targets and discuss any challenges
- Record the feedback from those surveyed
- Sign in to Travel for Life account to tell your story. Detail your activity, include copies of any surveys audits and the results. Add photos of your research in action
Activity steps
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Consultation
This activity counts towards:
- Consultation
How it helps
- Encourages pupil participation
- Encourages a wider school engagement
- Supports Travel for Life accreditation