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Silverstone Park

Sustainable transport consultants Vectos’ development at Silverstone Park — a 2 million square foot business park in Northamptonshire — was able to save £20 million that would otherwise have been spent on a motorway-style junction.

Rather than taking a traditional mobility approach of predict and provide (which forecasts an increased use of what we have currently – i.e. cars), it took a ‘vision and validate approach’. Vectos began with a positive vision for forms of life in a city or place and asked how mobility solutions could help to achieve it.

The result fuses inclusive active travel with local living and includes cycle highways and public amenities that stagger travel times to and from the park, by providing services workers can use before and after their working days.

Source: Shared by Mike Axon Redesigning Mobility for an Inclusive Future (Design Council Medium blog)