Active Travel Strategy
Moray Council strives to make walking, wheeling and cycling for everyday journeys more attractive, easy and safe. To achieve this, the council has developed and adopted the Active Travel Strategy (ATS) 2022 - 2027 in November 2022.
Active Travel (AT) means moving around using your own effort – by walking, “wheeling” or cycling. It includes everyday journeys like going to school, to work, to the shops, to access public transport, as well as going to sports or recreational places. Active travel is:
- beneficial for health and wellbeing
- cheaper than owning a vehicle
- enables local economies to thrive
- helps reduce traffic congestion
- mitigates the effects of climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions
As part of developing the Active Travel Strategy, and in consultation with key stakeholders, community groups and individuals with an interest in Active Travel, various objectives and activities were identified. The objectives relate to building more AT infrastructure, better connections with public transport, large employers encouraging staff to walk or cycle to work, and helping schools create a better environment for pupils and their parents or carers to walk, wheel and cycle to school.
Further details can be found in the Active Travel Strategy.
Please read here how Moray Council’s ATS links with the council’s Climate Change Strategy and other national strategies
Annual Update
Moray’s Active Travel Strategy runs from 2022 to 2027. As part of the strategy, Council Officers report annual progress against set objectives to the Economic Development and Infrastructure Services Committee. Updates were given during the November 2023 Committee, and will again be giving in the following November Committees until 2027. The ATS Update 2024 can be found under the 12th of November 2024 Committee documents.