The NTA’s Strategic Planning Team is responsible for ensuring that land use planning and transport planning are undertaken in an integrated manner.
As part of this remit, it is necessary to provide guidance to local authorities, regional authorities and transport planning practitioners as to how best to ensure this integration.
Guidance Documents
- Planning Cities and Towns for Successful Bus Services 2024
- The purpose of this document is to guide future planning decisions towards outcomes that are supportive of public transport, especially bus services.
- Smarter Travel Choices Documents
- This publication sets out guidance for local authorities, schools and workplaces as to how best to promote sustainable travel choices
- Permeability Best Practice Guide
- This document provides a guide for local authorities on how best to facilitate demand for walking and cycling in existing built-up areas
- Planning and Development of Large-Scale Rail Focussed Residential Areas in Dublin
- The purpose of this study was to assess the future delivery of rail-based large and medium scale residential development areas in Dublin
Area Based Transport Assessments and LTPs
The primary objective of an Area-Based Transport Assessment (ABTA) is to make sure that movement and accessibility of all forms, across all modes of transport, is considered as a key component in the development of areas at a local level.
A Local Transport Plan (LTP) is a report setting out the outcomes of an ABTA, providing details of the transport measures required for a settlement to function in a sustainable manner.
The suite of Advice Notes and guidance documents below provide a framework for the carrying out of ABTAs and the preparation of LTPs:
- ABTA and LTPs – Supplementary Advice Note 2024
- This note contains the latest NTA advice based on lessons learned in the undertaking of ABTAs to date, focussed mainly on governance and process
- ABTA Advice Note 2018
- Area Based Transport Assessment (ABTA) How To Guide, Pilot Methodology
- Area Based Transport Assessment (ABTA) Template Brief (LTP for LAP or DP)
- Area Based Transport Assessment (ABTA) Template Brief (LTP only)