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2.   Purpose of this guide

This guide provides information and working templates for approved organisations to use when developing and implementing activities that encourage the safe and sustainable use of the land transport system. Use of this material will allow advisors to confidently make or recommend decisions.

Given the diversity of community programmes available, decision-making will be necessary as in many instances multiple competing priorities will need to be resolved and done so within a constrained budget. Additionally, using the guide will promote the use of packages by demonstrating relationships between activities.

This guide provides:

• a simple decision-making process and range of questions for each stage to assist in analysis
• information on the relationships between programmes, together with the template to analyse further possible programmes
• a list of information sources.

The guide doesn't dictate which community programmes should be implemented as that is dependant on circumstance. The overall success of an implementation programme will often hinge on an understanding of a wide set of influences, eg funding, integration with other policies and programmes, and community engagement.

Ideally a local transport strategy will be in place that has assessed the overall environment and issues, and prioritised how to address the issues.

This guide stresses the importance of taking such factors into account when making decisions.

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