Brecon Beacons Transport Strategy

ITP was commissioned by the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority (BBNPA) (now known as Bannau Brycheinniog) to prepare a transport strategy for visitor and resident travel across the National Park. BBNPA was the client for this project, which was funded and supported by the Welsh Government.

It is one of three Welsh National Parks, which attract 12 million visitors per annum between them, with around 3 million of those visiting Brecon Beacons each year. The National Park is also home to almost 34,000 people. Around 90% of visitors to the three National Parks currently travel by private car, with a high proportion of day visits.

We worked with a wide number of transport authorities, transport operators, leisure and tourism organisations to produce a shorter-term action plan and longer-term initiatives to align with Welsh Government / Transport for Wales net zero ambitions relating to transport. Options within the plan and strategy were influenced by successful case studies elsewhere in National Parks, Wales and further afield, along with key knowledge from the multi-organisation transport working group.

A key aspect of our work has been developing a transport emissions tool to test over a series of model years:

• Do minimum – UK and Welsh Government assumptions regarding fleet mix changes by 2030, 2041 and 2050 aligned to key policy targets
  
• The impact of anticipated mode shift changes of local and regional travel as a result of the packages recommended in the strategy
• The transport carbon impact to reflect changes in future visitor numbers to the National Park.