5. Achieve travel behaviour change

Our Key Principles are:

• We will work towards ensuring all people can use their preferred mode of transport
• We will balance between investment across all modes, supporting transport choice
• We will reduce light vehicle kilometres travelled and the associated emissions to align with our sustainability goals.

What will we do?

• Increase investment into education and travel behaviour change
• Investigate alternative funding mechanisms to support transport choice and make alternative modes more attractive
• Support more micro-mobility (e.g., e-bikes, e-scooters etc) services and infrastructure, carbon neutral vehicle infrastructure, and travel behaviour change initiatives
• Provide better internal connections to encourage people to use modes other than private car for short trips
• Work with companies, communities, and schools to implement travel demand management plans
• Work with Environment Canterbury to increase understanding of available transport services and options
• Work with schools to establish multi-modal travel behaviour from a young age
• Ensure Council’s Parking Management Strategy optimises parking demand and supply, while continuing to monitor the effectiveness of parking enforcement
• Continue to support the North Canterbury Cycle Sense Programme.