Cambridge hosted the UK’s national Active Travel event, Active County Cambridgeshire 2026, with the city welcoming around 800 industry professionals to explore innovative ways of creating active, vibrant and healthy places.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority Mayor Paul Bristow and Councillor Alex Beckett, Chair, Cambridgeshire County Council’s Highways and Transport Committee, made presentations alongside representatives of other local partners responsible for helping to deliver active travel across the region, including the Greater Cambridge Partnership.

The locals were joined by experts from Heidelberg, Germany (Cambridge’s twin city), leading cycling city Utrecht in the Netherlands, and senior representatives from the Department for Transport, the Welsh Government, Transport Scotland and Active Travel England. The event saw the announcement of new guidance and next steps for active travel policy and funding in the coming months and years.

Councillor Alex Beckett, Chair of the Highways and Transport Committee at Cambridgeshire County Council, said: 

“These schemes highlight our commitment to creating safer, healthier, and more sustainable ways for people to move around our county. Alongside the infrastructure, our behaviour-change programmes are helping residents, schools, and businesses embrace walking, wheeling, cycling, and shared travel as part of everyday life.

“Hosting this conference [gave] us the opportunity to share learning, strengthen partnerships, and inspire the next phase of active travel delivery.

“It’s brilliant to welcome the delegates to experience first-hand the innovation and ambition driving Cambridgeshire’s cleaner, greener transport future.”

(Picture: Cambridgeshire County Council)