Department for Transport
Co-designing a strategy for transport
Research, strategy, design, events
Work that matters
Integrated Transport Strategy
Earlier this year we toured England asking transport and community representatives what they want from a new integrated transport strategy. We planned the roadshow events, facilitated the sessions, captured and interpreted the feedback and wrote a series of 10 regional and one national report that will inform the final DfT strategy.
From 11 February to 11 March 2025, the Integrated National Transport Strategy (INTS) team held eleven co-design events across England (Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Leicester, Ipswich, Bristol, Brighton, London, Falmouth and Milton Keynes). The events were designed to give regional stakeholders an opportunity to:
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Share their views to inform the development of the Integrated Transport Strategy;
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Explore how the Strategy could contribute to improving transport;
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Identify any regional transport issues or opportunities that should be considered.
We planned, facilitated and organised all the roadshow sessions. In total, 634 people attended the sessions during the five-week period. We gathered and interpreted over 5000 piece of qualitative data. We wrote 10 regional and one national report identifying key themes and areas of focus to inform the strategy.
Workshops took the form of ‘Town Halls’ of around 100 people with roundtable discussions of 6-8 people. Using both interactive tools and group discussions, we explored aspirations for the Strategy, how the user experience should ‘feel’, barriers to a more integrated approach and, as a central focus, a deeper look at five main themes we had identified as being central to the Strategy.
In June 2025 as part of this project we also designed and delivered seven online focus groups that ensured seldom-heard voices were included in the research, including disabled people, neurodivergent users, and younger people. These groups had previously been underrepresented in national transport consultations and these conversations will directly influence the DfT's approach to equity in transport policy.
