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The data included in this repository includes the NVIVO files of the content analysis and results tables in Excel. The NVIVO files include a content analysis of the Local Sustainable Transport Fund bids for funding by local authorities in England. These were submitted in two tranches in 2011 and 2012. The successful schemes were delivered between 2012 and 2015. The content analysis was designed to identify any key trends in the data in terms of the type of schemes delivered. The second set of NVIVO files provide a summary from the interviews with 20 individuals involved in the LSTF(Local Sustainable Transport Fund) process to identify how the funding was interpreted at each level of the local authority system and what this meant for sustainable transport in England. Evidence suggests that we will need to change our travel habits and practices radically if we are to reduce the carbon emissions from transport to meet government and international targets. Technological developments such as hybrid and electric cars will, to some extent, allow us to reduce our carbon impact and maintain current lifestyles, but they cannot provide all of the necessary reductions in emissions, nor quickly enough. Our travel practices - why, where and how we travel - are a function of the many choices that make up our daily lives; it is difficult to untangle them from our patterns of housing, employment, education, leisure and so on. But we must do so if we are to bring about significant reductions in emissions whilst maintaining quality of life. At the same time, transport policies and the policy-making systems that produce them have developed a number of cultural assumptions, most importantly that travel practices are very stable and that it is very difficult to change both people's travel choices and policy makers' existing ways of thinking. In spite of this, there are actually many times when our everyday lives become disrupted, and these events provide windows of opportunity...