Transplan

Past work: a showcase

Green Access Audits for nature reserves, heritage attractions, countryside destinations, railway stations and urban housing areas.

The Icknield Way Path near Hitchin, Hertfordshire. Picture: Chris Wood, 2006.

Research and writing on a variety of transport, cultural heritage and development topics.

The Chilterns Rambler bus, promoted by Widen teh Choice as part of the Herts. Sustainable Transport Partnership, in Tring. Picture: Chris Wood.

Bus network analysis, service development and promotion, including DRT and leisure services.

CoastLink demand-responsive bus at Dunwich. Picture: Chris Wood.

Work with the railway industry and CRPs as Widen the Choice on Rail Gateways to the Countryside.

RSPB and National Express logos on station name signs at Lakenheath. Picture: Chris Wood, 2003.

Development work and advocacy for light rail.

A National Express train calling at Buckenham on a Sunday. Picture: Chris Wood.

Conference programme development and event organisation.

In-house document design and photography.

International experience: Sweden, Austria and France.

Widen the Choice

Widen the Choice was a dynamic animator in sustainable countryside access from 2002 to 2009. A partnership between The National Trust, the RSPB and Natural England (initially The Countryside Agency), Widen the Choice covered the East of England region, working to make it easier for people to reach the countryside by means other than the car. The following are legacies of the partnership's work, carried out by Transplan's Chris Wood. The links all open in a new window.

Green Access for Countryside Recreation: How to make it easier for more people to visit the countryside and its attractions whilst reducing their environmental footprint; good practice guide to Green Access Audits. (4.44MB)
Linking People to the Landscape: The Benefits of Sustainable Travel in Countryside Recreation & Tourism; by Claire Sparkes & Chris Wood. (1.75MB)
The 'right' to travel: seeing the world in a globalised, climate-vulnerable era; paper presented to the Seventh Transport Practitioners' Meeting in Reading, July 2009. (126kB Word file)
The 'right' to travel: presentation; PDF of the presentation of the above paper at the Seventh Transport Practitioners' Meeting in Reading, July 2009. (4.27MB)
New life for small railways stations: gateways to the countryside; paper presented to the Sixth Transport Practitioners' Meeting in Reading, July 2008 (with Clive Morris of National Express East Anglia). (1.09MB)
Green access audits in the countryside; paper presented to the Fifth Transport Practitioners' Meeting in Manchester, July 2007. (76kB)
Can Cinderella get to the ball? Implementing the green travel, countryside access and social inclusion agenda in rural leisure travel; paper presented to the UK Transport Practitioners' Meeting in Birmingham, July 2005. (70kB)

Find out about other aspects

of Chris Wood's work

On LinkedIn
On Research Gate
On Academia.edu

In order to read the PDFs you can download from this site, you'll need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software. If you haven't got it, then go to this site to download it - free!

Other resources

The following links are to PDFs of past Transplan Occasional Papers and other materials produced by Chris Wood.

Temple of the Muses: Beyond the Secular Museum; a manifesto for museums!
Who's afraid of the congestion wolf?; paper presented to the Eighth Transport Practitioners' Meeting in York, July 2010. (103kB)
OP1: Integrating Cycling and Public Transport (1996) - - COMING SOON!
OP2: Design and Layout of Car-free Housing (1998) - - COMING SOON!
OP3: Community Involvement in Transport Planning (1999) - - COMING SOON!
A Railway Revolution... A proposal with the LRTA for a 'tram-train' light rail network for eastern Norfolk. (3.76MB)

Chris Wood at the 2008 Community Rail Awards

Chris Wood at the 2008 Community Rail Awards. Picture: Ian Dinmore.

Widen the Choice was placed third in two categories for its Rail Gateways to the Countryside work in the Yare Valley (Norfolk) and at Lakenheath (Suffolk), with National Express, the RSPB and the Wherry Lines CRP. Picture: Ian Dinmore.

Transport

Tourism

Heritage

Past work: a showcase

Widen the Choice

Find out about other aspects

of Chris Wood's work

In order to read the PDFs you can download from this site, you'll need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software. If you haven't got it, then go to this site to download it - free!

Other resources

Chris Wood at the 2008 Community Rail Awards

Ring Chris Wood on 07707 - 223 099,
or, since 1&1 no longer think it's good customer service to provide web contact forms, e-mail him by putting chris 'at' in front of the site's web address (less the www.)

This site and its contents, unless otherwise stated, are copyright © Chris Wood, 2020. 'Transplan' is a trading name of Chris Wood.

Transport

Tourism

Heritage

Past work: a showcase

Widen the Choice

Find out about other aspects

of Chris Wood's work

In order to read the PDFs you can download from this site, you'll need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software. If you haven't got it, then go to this site to download it - free!

Other resources

Chris Wood at the 2008 Community Rail Awards

Ring Chris Wood on 07707 - 223 099,or, since 1&1 no longer think it's good customer service to provide web contact forms, e-mail him by putting chris 'at' in front of the site's web address (less the www.)

This site and its contents, unless otherwise stated, are copyright © Chris Wood, 2020. 'Transplan' is a trading name of Chris Wood.

Ring Chris Wood on 07707 - 223 099,
or, since 1&1 no longer think it's good customer service to provide web contact forms, e-mail him by putting chris 'at' in front of the site's web address (less the www.)