Attractive alternatives
    to car travel
    Promotion of
    Smarter Travel choices
    Spatial planning that
    reduces car usage

Welcome to Transport
for Quality of Life

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Working to make transport better for society and the environment.

We are a specialist consultancy that is working to create a more sustainable, equitable, cleaner transport system in the UK.

High quality, integrated, more sustainable transport options can enable journeys that are healthy, quick and cost-effective – improving transport equity and the individual traveller’s quality of life. When compared to travelling by private car, these options often result in significant improvements to road safety, congestion, pollution and climate impacts – improving the quality of our communities and environment too.

We bring respected experts together to form virtual teams that deliver projects to help develop better interventions and policies; evaluate national and local transport investment programmes; research ‘what works’; and share UK and international best practice.

Our portfolio of projects helps to make the case for policies and investment which support innovative and effective transport solutions, and which inspire and enable greater use of active travel, public transport and other less polluting travel options – helping the UK to decarbonise and move towards net zero.

In addition to our consultancy work, we publish Radical Transport 2-Pagers, to open up discussion about transport policy to everyone, beyond the current narrow terms of debate.

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What we do

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Services

Read about the services we offer and the types of projects we do

OUR exPertise

People

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Our TEAM

Clients

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our CUSTOMERS

Our founding directors

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Lynn Sloman started the sustainable transport consultancy Transport for Quality of Life in 2002, running it with Co-Director Ian Taylor for more than 20 years. On their retirement in 2024, it was taken over by Sally Cairns, Anna Goodman, Beth Hiblin and Lisa Hopkinson.

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Dr Lynn Sloman MBE

Founding Director

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Dr Ian Taylor

Founding Director

Lynn and Ian set up Transport for Quality of Life to do ground-breaking research to make our transport system more sustainable. They showed how thorough, robust evaluations of sustainable transport investment programmes could enable progressive policymaking, and encouraged radical thinking about how to change our transport system to meet people’s travel needs with less environmental impact.

Under Ian and Lynn’s leadership, Transport for Quality of Life has challenged the wasteful expenditure on road-building that damages the climate and increases car dependency, and the continued failure of the UK to match the best European examples of integrated public transport and land-use planning, which could make our cities and countryside better places and give people mobility options compatible with saving the climate.

Lynn and Ian’s work has helped set public policy on a different course. They forensically analysed how rail privatisation had failed and developed a blueprint for reintegrating the railways under public ownership. Their work on building a world-class bus system for Britain stimulated campaigns to re-regulate bus services, with the first success in Greater Manchester. Their model of the impact of active travel investment resulted in a step change in funding for walking and cycling. Their analyses were amongst the first to show that the climate emergency demands a rapid reduction in car mileage, because purely technological change is too slow. That work underpinned modal shift and car mileage reduction targets set by Welsh Government in 2021.

What our clients say

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  • “Transport for Quality of Life headed up a multi-disciplinary team to deliver a very ambitious project that is now the third edition of The Pedestrian Pound. Between them, Lisa and Beth were very organised, responsive and thorough – a safe pair of hands. We’re very pleased with the final result.”
    Rachel Lee
    Living Streets
  • “Their work combines painstaking accumulation of evidence, strong and incisive analysis and an ability to pitch a report in a way that can inform and influence debates.”
    Jonathan Bray
    Director, Urban Transport Group
  • “Cars cause environmental destruction, provoke stress and tear the heart out of communities. Car Sick provides a page-turning account of how we got into this mess, and more importantly, charts an attractive way out. If you’ve got a car, read this book. It will change your views, and could change your life.”
    Tony Juniper
    former Executive Director, Friends of the Earth
  • “Lynn Sloman has played a key role in making London the only major city in the world to achieve a ‘modal shift’ from car usage to buses, cycling and walking, and her fascinating new book makes an important contribution to the debate about where we go next.”
    Ken Livingstone
    Ex-Mayor of London
  • “This is high quality work, based on an extensive evaluation evidence base and a model that has been developed with a great deal of thought and care. The report is excellent – clear and insightful. Congratulations and thank you.”
    Andrew Morrison
    Deputy Director, Local Transport, Local and Regional Transport Analysis, Department for Transport
  • “Transport for Quality of Life played the role of ‘critical friend’ for our Local Sustainable Transport Fund bid.  Lynn Sloman’s assistance and expertise was invaluable. As a result the bid was much stronger in its focus.  This will bring considerable benefits as we switch to implementation.”
    Steve Lakin
    Sustainable Transport Officer, Central Bedfordshire Council
  • “Very good well thought-out format for today’s event ensured a productive session that made good use of business input.”
    Anon
    Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Chamber of Commerce
  • “The progressive expertise of Lynn Sloman and her team has resulted in unprecedented opportunities through our successful bid to the Local Sustainable Transport Fund.”
    Stephen Ratcliffe
    Director of Planning, Lake District National Park Authority
  • “Transport for Quality of Life are very committed and conscientious in getting projects right for clients.”
    Jonathan Bray
    Director, UrbanTransport Group
  • “Brilliant, because it incited lots of discussion – we were talking about it for days. “
    MSc student feedback
  • “I really enjoyed your presentation and had some really good feedback about it on the day.”
    Workplaces Project Officer
    Southampton City Council
  • “The Transport for Quality of Life team were always extremely helpful, professional, patient and very knowledgeable across the whole sustainable transport agenda. Their expertise and guidance not only helped produce a robust monitoring and evaluation programme, but informed how the delivery of services could be improved.”
    Adam Sendall
    Derby LSTF Programme Coordinator
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