Healthy Streets: Redefining the role of a transport authority to create an active city

The provision of seamless public transport as a whole journey from door-to-door raises a number of organisational issues. While there is no single 'best' organisational model to overcome these issues in all contexts, it has been suggested that having a 'lead' organisation or overarching authority with overall responsibility for coordinating urban transport is advantageous for seamless travel. Transport for London (TfL) is a prime example of a lead organisation with overarching authority. TfL is responsible for almost all of London’s public transport and for delivering the Mayor’s Transport Strategy (MTS). A definining theme of the present MTS is the ’Healthy Streets’. The Healthy Streets Approach is described as providing a framework for putting human health and experience at the heart of planning the city. According to MTS,  the Healthy Streets will help provide an attractive whole journey experience that will facilitate mode shift away from the car.