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Guidance
"This guideline covers encouraging people to increase the amount they walk or cycle for travel or recreation purposes."
"This guideline includes recommendations on: policy and planning; local programmes; schools, workplaces and the NHS.
Recommendation 1 is high-level support from the health sector, ensuring a senior member of the public health team is responsible for promoting walking and cycling. They should support coordinated, cross-sector working, for example, by ensuring programmes offered by different sectors complement rather than duplicate each other.
Recommendation 2 is ensuring all relevant policies and plans consider walking and cycling. This includes a commitment to invest sufficient resources to ensure more walking and cycling – and a recognition that this will benefit individuals and the wider community.
Recommendation 3 is developing programmes, coordinated, cross-sector programmes to promote walking and cycling for recreation as well as for transport purposes, based on a long-term vision of what is achievable and current best practice.
Recommendation 4 is personalised travel planning.
Recommendation 5 is cycling programmes.
Recommendation 6 is walking: community-wide programmes.
Recommendation 7 walking: individual support, including the use of pedometers.
Recommendation 8 is walking and cycling in schools."