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Active Travel England (ATE) has developed a suite of tools to support the development of designs and the assessment of design quality for active travel interventions and schemes.

These design assistance tools should be used in conjunction with ATE scheme review tools.

Crossing selector tool

Provides a range of suitable design options when considering how to connect walking, wheeling and cycling routes over a main road between 2 side roads.

Route cross-section tool

Assists in confirming whether a corridor is suitable for different kinds of active travel infrastructure, given constraints such as carriageway width.

Both tools are based on national guidance such as:

• Cycle infrastructure designLTN1/20
• Inclusive Mobility: making transport accessible for passengers and pedestrians
• Manual for streets 2007andManual for streets 2010
• existing street assessment tools, such as Cycling Level of Service (appendix A inCycle Infrastructure DesignLTN1/20andHealthy Streets
• best practice and further evidence