Street mobility and accessibility: developing tools for overcoming older people's barriers to walking
Lead Research Organisation:
University College London
Department Name: Epidemiology and Public Health
Abstract
Walking (or cycling) around an area helps people to keep physically active in their daily life, reducing the risks of obesity and depression. Streets that are pleasant to walk along also provide opportunities for people to meet and chat with friends and acquaintances. This both enhances the quality of life and is good for health.
Busy roads can deter people from going outside their home to socialise, walk or cycle because of noise or fear of injury. This can also lead to people deciding to avoid making trips, particularly if the alternative to crossing a busy road (e.g. an underpass) increases distances or is considered inaccessible, unsafe or unpleasant. People living on streets with heavy traffic know fewer neighbours and have fewer local friends than people living on streets with less traffic; people with fewer social contacts have worse physical and mental health and die younger. When people do not even try to cross roads because of traffic, they often cannot reach shops, health facilities, services, friends or family easily. This is called community severance (CS).
All these effects are worse in older and other vulnerable groups, for whom mobility and social ties are fundamental to good health. This severance increases social inequalities and exclusion, leading to various economic and social costs. CS probably affects people's physical and mental health and wellbeing too, but this has not been studied very much. Studying health effects of community severance is challenging, as there are no agreed measurement methods that can be used easily and because this is a complex subject, crossing several areas of expertise.
We will first study two residential areas to develop an in-depth understanding and measure of CS. We will ask local residents what is important to them. We will observe what happens in practice when older people try to walk around their neighbourhood. We will consider all this information in the context of the whole area, the levels and composition of road traffic and the way streets connect to each other. We will use the information we collect to develop ways to measure CS in three ways: (i) questions to individuals to assess the effects on them, (ii) how they value these impacts, and (iii) a measuring tool to estimate the extent of community severance due to particular types of roads or road layouts. We will then test these tools in two different residential areas.
The main methods we will use are: community engagement, to explore perceptions and measures of CS and potential solutions; household-based surveys of travel behaviour, social networks, health and wellbeing; computerised surveys to elicit residents' values for severance and mitigation; on-street surveys of travel behaviour; measurement of traffic and road characteristics; space syntax methods, to study how the network of streets affect accessibility and mobility; and analyses integrating these discipline-specific methods. The final stage will be to test the impacts on CS - and thus on mobility and wellbeing - of proposed interventions to reduce CS.
By the end of this project, we will have developed and tested three tools. The first two will be for local government to use, to model and to value levels of CS in their area. The third will be a set of questions that can be asked in surveys to find out whether and how severance affects local people. The survey can then be used by local communities, providing information they can use in discussions with local councillors and staff. The tools can be used by local government to test proposed transport policies, development plans and interventions to assess whether they will affect severance. They can also be used by researchers to find out whether and how CS affects people's mobility, social isolation, and short- and long-term health and wellbeing. The survey can also be used in national surveys so that a more complete picture of this problem is obtained across the UK.
Busy roads can deter people from going outside their home to socialise, walk or cycle because of noise or fear of injury. This can also lead to people deciding to avoid making trips, particularly if the alternative to crossing a busy road (e.g. an underpass) increases distances or is considered inaccessible, unsafe or unpleasant. People living on streets with heavy traffic know fewer neighbours and have fewer local friends than people living on streets with less traffic; people with fewer social contacts have worse physical and mental health and die younger. When people do not even try to cross roads because of traffic, they often cannot reach shops, health facilities, services, friends or family easily. This is called community severance (CS).
All these effects are worse in older and other vulnerable groups, for whom mobility and social ties are fundamental to good health. This severance increases social inequalities and exclusion, leading to various economic and social costs. CS probably affects people's physical and mental health and wellbeing too, but this has not been studied very much. Studying health effects of community severance is challenging, as there are no agreed measurement methods that can be used easily and because this is a complex subject, crossing several areas of expertise.
We will first study two residential areas to develop an in-depth understanding and measure of CS. We will ask local residents what is important to them. We will observe what happens in practice when older people try to walk around their neighbourhood. We will consider all this information in the context of the whole area, the levels and composition of road traffic and the way streets connect to each other. We will use the information we collect to develop ways to measure CS in three ways: (i) questions to individuals to assess the effects on them, (ii) how they value these impacts, and (iii) a measuring tool to estimate the extent of community severance due to particular types of roads or road layouts. We will then test these tools in two different residential areas.
The main methods we will use are: community engagement, to explore perceptions and measures of CS and potential solutions; household-based surveys of travel behaviour, social networks, health and wellbeing; computerised surveys to elicit residents' values for severance and mitigation; on-street surveys of travel behaviour; measurement of traffic and road characteristics; space syntax methods, to study how the network of streets affect accessibility and mobility; and analyses integrating these discipline-specific methods. The final stage will be to test the impacts on CS - and thus on mobility and wellbeing - of proposed interventions to reduce CS.
By the end of this project, we will have developed and tested three tools. The first two will be for local government to use, to model and to value levels of CS in their area. The third will be a set of questions that can be asked in surveys to find out whether and how severance affects local people. The survey can then be used by local communities, providing information they can use in discussions with local councillors and staff. The tools can be used by local government to test proposed transport policies, development plans and interventions to assess whether they will affect severance. They can also be used by researchers to find out whether and how CS affects people's mobility, social isolation, and short- and long-term health and wellbeing. The survey can also be used in national surveys so that a more complete picture of this problem is obtained across the UK.
Planned Impact
Beneficiaries will include the public sector, the third sector and, particularly, older members of society. The project will increase understanding of the complex nature of community severance (CS) and its effect on mobility at different ages and degrees of disability, and its impact on independence, wellbeing, social networks, and civic engagement. New tools measuring CS that equate with people's perceptions of ease of movement around their area and how this impacts on their lives will increase understanding of individual mobility behaviour and the relationship between ageing individuals and their social and physical environments. It will enable future work to assess effective interventions to overcome constraints on older people's quality of life, providing a sound evidence base for policy and practice.
It will enable cross-sector policy development and appraisal, allowing the creation of a common language and set of issues that can then be shared between policy makers and community leaders, enabling routine modelling by planners of CS using an evidence-based design and engineering tool validated against user-centred data with particular implications for street design and spatial planning locally, nationally and internationally. Altering the built environment to reduce CS will facilitate mobility and activity and decrease isolation in ageing populations. It will enable an evaluation of how extensive CS is and how it influences perceptions of societal norms, especially where CS is severe, informing design decisions regarding urban restructuring on residents, mobility and wellbeing in complex built environments. This has implications for 'Big Society' policy nationally and social cohesion and mobility at neighbourhood level.
The study will identify 'willingness to pay' to reduce severance and knock-on cross-sector benefits of improved wellbeing and physical and mental health. It will help make the case to the Department of Transport, the Treasury and other bodies for public funding to address CS problems.
Project outputs will include survey tools that can be used nationally (e.g. Health Survey for England), locally (e.g. PLACE surveys), and in studies of older people e.g. English Longitudinal Study of Ageing to assess impacts of severance on long-term health and wellbeing.
Measuring local community severance and its impacts on individuals' wellbeing in a repeatable, validated way will enable local government to assess and mitigate existing severance and model impacts for new proposals, improving quality of life for people living and working in the UK. We intend to ensure the impact is long-lasting by creating tools for end-users, disseminated to organisations in relevant and comprehensible forms. We will also organise a final workshop for senior national policy-makers.
Interventions reducing CS and increasing mobility will help maintain older people's independence, reducing health and social care costs, and facilitate access to local goods, thus enhancing the local economy and improving local social engagement. Broader economic impact will result from increased mobility, since physically active people have better health and cost society less, adding life to years.
Existing research, such as Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors (I'DGO), focuses on the street and home level, not the broader public realm. I'DGO's design guidance will be complemented by the proposed, validated CS measurement, valuation and survey tools, enabling planning interventions which promote mobility and social cohesion. We will enhance the capabilities of local communities to identify issues and engage effectively with professionals to address problems affecting local wellbeing. We will also strengthen and extend the capabilities of traffic engineers, transport planners, urban designers and others to recognise CS and deal with it effectively, working with local communities.
It will enable cross-sector policy development and appraisal, allowing the creation of a common language and set of issues that can then be shared between policy makers and community leaders, enabling routine modelling by planners of CS using an evidence-based design and engineering tool validated against user-centred data with particular implications for street design and spatial planning locally, nationally and internationally. Altering the built environment to reduce CS will facilitate mobility and activity and decrease isolation in ageing populations. It will enable an evaluation of how extensive CS is and how it influences perceptions of societal norms, especially where CS is severe, informing design decisions regarding urban restructuring on residents, mobility and wellbeing in complex built environments. This has implications for 'Big Society' policy nationally and social cohesion and mobility at neighbourhood level.
The study will identify 'willingness to pay' to reduce severance and knock-on cross-sector benefits of improved wellbeing and physical and mental health. It will help make the case to the Department of Transport, the Treasury and other bodies for public funding to address CS problems.
Project outputs will include survey tools that can be used nationally (e.g. Health Survey for England), locally (e.g. PLACE surveys), and in studies of older people e.g. English Longitudinal Study of Ageing to assess impacts of severance on long-term health and wellbeing.
Measuring local community severance and its impacts on individuals' wellbeing in a repeatable, validated way will enable local government to assess and mitigate existing severance and model impacts for new proposals, improving quality of life for people living and working in the UK. We intend to ensure the impact is long-lasting by creating tools for end-users, disseminated to organisations in relevant and comprehensible forms. We will also organise a final workshop for senior national policy-makers.
Interventions reducing CS and increasing mobility will help maintain older people's independence, reducing health and social care costs, and facilitate access to local goods, thus enhancing the local economy and improving local social engagement. Broader economic impact will result from increased mobility, since physically active people have better health and cost society less, adding life to years.
Existing research, such as Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors (I'DGO), focuses on the street and home level, not the broader public realm. I'DGO's design guidance will be complemented by the proposed, validated CS measurement, valuation and survey tools, enabling planning interventions which promote mobility and social cohesion. We will enhance the capabilities of local communities to identify issues and engage effectively with professionals to address problems affecting local wellbeing. We will also strengthen and extend the capabilities of traffic engineers, transport planners, urban designers and others to recognise CS and deal with it effectively, working with local communities.
Organisations
- University College London (Lead Research Organisation)
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (Co-funder)
- Economic and Social Research Council (Co-funder)
- Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (Collaboration)
- Universidade de São Paulo (Collaboration)
- Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Collaboration)
- Cayetano Heredia University (Collaboration)
- University of the Andes (Collaboration)
- Greater London Authority (Collaboration)
- San Sebastián University (Collaboration)
- Transport for London (Collaboration)
- General Directorate of Provincial Transportation Havana (Collaboration)
- Havana University of Technologies José Antonio Echeverría (CUJAE) (Collaboration)
- University of La Frontera (Collaboration)
- Federal University of Minas Gerais (Collaboration)
- National University of Colombia (Collaboration)
- British Geriatrics Society (Project Partner)
- Faculty of Public Health (Project Partner)
- Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (Project Partner)
- Inukshuk Consultancy (Project Partner)
- UK Health Forum (Project Partner)
- Transport and Health Study Group (Project Partner)
Publications
Mindell J
(2017)
Using triangulation to assess a suite of tools to measure community severance
in Journal of Transport Geography
Ortegon A
(2019)
Street Performance Assessment in Havana, Cuba
Ortegon A
(2019)
A new road/street network classification for Havana, Cuba
P Anciaes
(2019)
Perceptions of road traffic conditions along with their reported impacts on walking are associated with wellbeing.
in Travel Behaviour and Society
P R Anciaes
(2018)
Estimating preferences for different types of pedestrian crossing facilities
in Transportation Research F: Psychology and Behavior
Stockton J C
(2017)
Local Transport Today
Street Mobility And Network Accessibility Research Team
(2014)
Community severance glossary.
Description | We have developed a suite of tools to help local communities, local government staff, national policy-makers, and researchers assess and value community severance, the barrier effect of busy roads on people's mobility, lives, and wellbeing. We have created a toolkit, which can be downloaded for free from our project website at www.ucl.ac.uk/street-mobility/toolkit. Users of the tools can download from that site: 1. the whole toolkit report; 2. brief reports on each of the individual tools (plus an introduction and a summary of what was known and what we found); 3. the Health and Neighbourhood Mobility Survey questionnaire; and 4. Guides to conducting a survey and to analysing a survey, including a spreadsheet to aid data entry and analysis. The community severance index tool and the valuation tool are the last elements of the toolkit to be completed and made available. We obtained additional funding that enabled us to conduct further national 'stated preference' surveys, enabling a more robust valuation tool and community severance index to be produced. The results were then peer-reviewed by Highways England, published as a journal article (after further peer review), and presented at conferences and to working groups of the Department for Transport, Transport for London, and Transport for Greater Manchester. The tool was being developed in conjunction with Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) but the Covid-19 pandemic took TfGM staff away from this. It is now being piloted by the New Zealand Transport Agency and Transport for London. We will add these two new tools to the project website when testing and tweaking has been completed. However, the have added a mention in the website that the tool is already available to anyone, on request (in exchange for feedback). We published nine working papers: * about cross-disciplinary research, including different perspectives, languages, facilitators and barriers to working well, using 'community severance' as the exemplar (now submitted as a manuscript to Journal of Transport and Health); * quantifying community severance; * valuing community severance economically (required for local government to justify investment); * definitions of community severance (ending with the area-based definition our research team agreed on; * developing and testing a pen-and-paper self-completion questionnaire for assessing community severance; * a review of non-academic literature and resources relating to community severance; * pedestrians avoid busy roads: evidence from video surveys and bus stop data * Analysis of the relationships between motorised traffic levels and pedestrian flows in the street network in the Woodberry Down case study area; * How pedestrians balance safety, walking time, and the utility of crossing the road? A stated preference study; and * Pedestrians' preferences regarding signalised crossings, footbridges, and underpasses. Nine papers have been published in peer reviewed journals. One manuscript has just been submitted and another is in preparation. We will add them to ResearchFish and to our project website when published. Presentations at numerous conferences have been uploaded to the project website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/street-mobility/Publications (Conferences tab). Each of these papers and presentations is available open access, except for the paper from the Transportation Research Board conference published in TRR which does not allow open access (but is the 'journal' in which conference papers are published). The space syntax analyses for the London case studies was enlarged into a complex walkability model. We used a similar approach to define our fourth study area, in Birmingham, to validate the findings in London that community severance occurs where high walkability coexists with high traffic volumes. A walkability model for the entire country is now being prepared. In addition local authority level walkability maps have been produced for each London borough, based on the London walkability model. Further analysis of data from our four case studies across England showed that people's perceptions about traffic volumes affects their perceptions of traffic speed, and vice versa. These also depend on the type of vehicles and on how the speed of traffic varies during the day. Secondly, participants who perceived the traffic volume as heavy and the traffic speed as fast were more likely to report that the traffic conditions were a barrier to their walking locally and that this was a specific reason why they avoided the busiest road in their area. Thirdly, the participants who felt the road traffic conditions were particularly bad, and who reported greater impacts of traffic on their walking, had on average, significantly lower wellbeing. This remained true even after allowing for other factors about the individuals and the location. |
Exploitation Route | The final version of the self-completion questionnaire is now freely available for local communities and local, regional and national government and agencies to assess community severance in areas where there is concern, or to assess potential impacts of road or other planning schemes. We will also seek funding to include these questions in nationally-representative health examination surveys and cohort studies, to assess the links between community severance and health. The results of the stated preference study and the valuation tool have been made available to Highways England and to the Department for Transport, to feed into its Transport Analysis Guidance system for costing and valuing road and other travel schemes. The community severance index and the valuation tool will also be made freely available for local transport planners and policy-makers to assess local roads to cost existing problems and to assess how proposed changes may affect both the community severance index and the cost. In general, transport schemes have detailed costs for businesses and car users (particularly any delays in their journeys) but pay little attention to pedestrians and cyclists, ignoring delays they experience. Our valuation tool will improve equity across travel modes, aiding transport planners and policy-makers who are aiming for transport policies that help people (rather than the vehicles in which they travel) reach their desired destinations. Like the other tools that we developed, this will be freely available by downloading it from the website after it is tested. The tools for assessing pedestrian behaviour and the pedestrian environment have been written up for local authority use, with suggestions for less resource-intensive approaches. The walkability model developed for London has been made available for each London Borough, in conjunction with Transport for London. Having discovered that community severance appears to occur where walkability is high in the same places as unusually high traffic volumes, we developed a similar model for Birmingham and predicted where community severance would occur. We used this predictive model to select the fourth case study area, as a test of the model. Our six 'most likely' sites were confirmed by local authority transport planners as being known as the worst areas. This model can therefore be used by other local authorities to predict where severance might occur and to take steps to mitigate it. Our successful small grant bid with colleagues from four Latin American countries enabled two of us to visit four cities in three Latin American countries to inform a wide audience of policy-makers, practitioners, researchers, and students about community severance and our project and to disseminate the toolkit. We have initiated joint work to develop country-specific versions of the toolkit for Chile: the survey questionnaire was translated into Spanish by physical activity researchers in two cities in Chile (Santiago and Temuco) for use locally. Elements of the Toolkit have also been used in Havana, Cuba to aid redesign of a transport hub to improve life for pedestrians. We are in discussions with researchers in New Zealand to adapt the toolkit for use in those countries. There continues to be considerable interest in the toolkit: we continue to run well-attended workshops describing community severance and the toolkit and how it can be used. Most recently, we ran a workshop before the 5th International conference on Transport and Health in Melbourne, Australia, November 2019. |
Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Construction Education Environment Healthcare Leisure Activities including Sports Recreation and Tourism Government Democracy and Justice Retail Transport Other |
URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/street-mobility |
Description | We have developed a suite of tools to assess and value the impacts of busy roads (community severance) at the individual and area level. We have been working with local communities and with local, regional and national government, feeding back our findings and contributing, where relevant, to current consultations on redevelopment or other urban and/or transport planning. 1. We developed, tested and piloted an individual Health and Neighbourhood Mobility Survey questionnaire for local residents to complete. It has been amended with each iteration; the final version was tested in the fourth of our case studies, and a shortened version was used in a nationally-representative online survey of 2,000 adults in Great Britain. 2. We developed a stated preference computer-based questionnaire, which has been used, in conjunction with data from the Health and Neighbourhood Mobility Survey, to create a tool to value how important people think community severance is, in financial terms across the whole local population. This can be used by local government when considering a business case for changes to infrastructure that would affect community severance (the barrier effect of busy roads or transport infrastructure) and by national government and agencies when considering major infrastructure changes. 3. We conducted PERS audits of the pedestrian environment in all four case study areas. The data have been analysed and fed back to local government staff on how easy it is (or is not) to walk around an area for adults in general and for those with disabilities that affect mobility. In the fourth case study area, we trialled a less intensive version, as what is feasible in this research project would require too much person-resource in a local authority. 4. We conducted and analysed street video surveys. A modified method of this data collection and analysis has been used in Havana, Cuba, when considering how to redesign and busy square used as a transport interchange where there is considerable conflict between heavy volumes of motor traffic and of pedestrians. A study in Havana in 2019/202 used some of the tools in a joint project between the local transport authority and a university department. 5. We included the use of space syntax to assess how connected an area is for pedestrians. This has been extended to examine how ethnic diversity is related to shop footfall, using space syntax as a contributing method. 6. We developed a walkability model for London that included space syntax methods. This model accounted for 92% of the variability in walking, when compared with pedestrian data for London, provided by Transport for London. 6a: Transport for London are now using the model, particularly borough-level models which they are sharing with each borough to help them influence policies to increase active travel, particularly walking. 6b: A UK-wide walkability model has been prepared for the Department for Transport, to help with planning. 7. We have created a community severance valuation tool, which is now publicly and freely available from our project website. 7a: Highways England funded additional data collection to make the data that populates the valuation tool more robust. This tool can be used in planning and policy-making, and is particularly useful for local authority staff who need to make a business case for investment in infrastructure changes as it provides the hidden costs of the current situation in a way that can balance the costs experienced by car users and by pedestrians. 7b: Transport for Greater Manchester provided additional funding and staff support to develop the severance index and valuation tool further. The Covid-19 pandemic took TfGM staff away from this. However, the tool was then piloted elsewhere. 7c: The valuation tool has demonstrated that nationally, community severance costs at lesat 1.6% of GDP in local effects on wellbeing, social isolation, and loss to the local economy. This paper was published to much acclaim, and the work has also been presented at various academic and practitioner conferences. 8. Researchers in Australia and in Chile have used our questionnaire (translated into Spanish in Chile) to help their students explore the impact of busy roads on local people. 9. Our research into how health and place-related factors interact is shaping the urban design team's ongoing research into related topics, such as mental health and loneliness, access to healthy food, or how improving the walkability of children's home environment can improve health outcomes. |
First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Construction,Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice,Transport,Other |
Impact Types | Societal Economic Policy & public services |
Description | Citations in a study by the UK Department of International Development |
Geographic Reach | Africa |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
URL | http://r4d.dfid.gov.uk/Output/201023/ |
Description | Invited participant in TRANSITION / ANTICIPATE Transport Trilemma workshop series on factors influencing carbon reduction and covid impacts on surface transport |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Description | Production of report evaluating solutions to improve Seven Sisters Road. The report was shared with the local council (Hackney). The local council then discussed the contents of the report with other stakeholders, including Transport for London, the developer responsible for a regeneration project around Seven Sisters Road (Berkeleys) and the engineering firm that is designing strategies to improve the road (Atkins) |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Description | Project outputs extensively cited in report on "Overcoming London's barriers" published by Future of London, a London-wide network of 3,800+ practitioners working on built environment and urban planning. Report also cites Street Mobility project members as "an excellent starting point for further information" on the topic of severance |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
URL | https://www.futureoflondon.org.uk/?ddownload=21204 |
Description | QUY TRÌNH XÁC Ð?NH KHUY?T T?T TRONG KHUÔN KH? CHUONG TRÌNH B?O TR? XÃ H?I ? CÁC QU?C GIA THU NH?P TH?P VÀ THU NH?P TRUNG BÌNH: TRU?NG H?P C?A VI?T NAM - (Improving Social Protection Services for People with Disabilities in Vietnam. Co-Published with MOLISA - Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Assistance, Government of Vietnam. |
Geographic Reach | Asia |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | In a follow up project funded by Australia's DFAT, we worked in collaboration with the Government of Vietnam's Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, to improve information/ generate greater insights into current practices regarding the assessment qualification system for people with disabilities to national social protection systems. This publication was done in collaboration with the Ministry and has been distributed to over 1000 government offices to help improve service/social protection deliver and increase the voice of people with disabilities themselves in the process. An English version will go up on line within the next month - the Vietnamese version was distributed in Feb 2018. Accompanied by a series of in-country workshops for Government officials and Vietnamese disability rights advocates, undertaken by the original research team - (Groce/Mont/Palmer/Mistra) assembled through this ESRC grant. We continue to work together - 2 academic articles currently in process based on follow up research in-country initially begun under the ESRC project. (Again, thanks for your support!) |
Description | Redesigning Seven Sisters Road in Woodberry Down |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Report with the main findings of a stated preference survey about severance on the A4 road, sent to practitioners at London Borough of Hounslow, who previously requested this information |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Description | Report with the main findings of one of the project's case studies (Woodberry Down) sent to practitioners at London Borough of Hackney who previously requested this information |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Description | Training workshop at 4th ICTH |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Training workshop on community severance & the toolkit at 5th International conference on Transport & Health |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Use of SMNA toolkit in planning redesign of Parque el Curita, Havana, Cub |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Walkability Analysis for Transport for London and the Greater London Authority feeding down to borough level |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Analysis was carried out looking at the walkability of London as a whole and each borough of London individually. Walkability was examined in relation to other indicators on motorised traffic, travel behaviour and socio-economic indicators. This analysis has informed high level policy and practice within TfL and the GLA. The work has also been presented to London boroughs and the information been made available to them. This is influencing local transport policy and approaches to changing travel behaviour and investment strategies. |
Description | EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account award |
Amount | £7,473 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 05/2019 |
End | 12/2019 |
Description | Funding from Highways England to apply one of the methods in the Street Mobility toolkit in case studies in their strategic road network and to consolidate the method for integration in their guidance |
Amount | £110,065 (GBP) |
Organisation | Department of Transport |
Department | Highways Agency |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2017 |
End | 03/2018 |
Description | Funding from Transport for Greater Manchester to develop a tool that incorporates results of Street Mobility research, to be used by practitioners |
Amount | £7,500 (GBP) |
Organisation | Transport for Greater Manchester |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2019 |
End | 11/2019 |
Description | Global Challenges Research Fund - to assess pedestrian conditions in Havana (Cuba) |
Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | University College London |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2019 |
End | 07/2019 |
Description | Small grant to attend EU cost action 4-day event to discuss the project with researchers in other interdisciplinary projects |
Amount | € 745 (EUR) |
Organisation | European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) |
Sector | Public |
Country | Belgium |
Start | 02/2017 |
End | 02/2017 |
Description | UCL European Institute small grants scheme for UCL staff |
Amount | £800 (GBP) |
Organisation | University College London |
Department | European Institute |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 12/2014 |
End | 07/2015 |
Description | UCL Santander Research Catalyst award (to pump prime future research) |
Amount | £5,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | University College London |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2017 |
End | 11/2017 |
Description | UCL Santander Research Catalyst award (visit to University of Sao Paulo to work on papers and proposals related to the Street Mobility project) |
Amount | £2,080 (GBP) |
Organisation | UCL Research Catalyst Award |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 12/2019 |
End | 12/2019 |
Title | Decision-support tool to measure and value interventions to reduce severance |
Description | Decision-support tool to measure and value interventions to reduce severance |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Too early to tell |
Title | Health & Neighbourhood Mobility Survey |
Description | The Health and Neighbourhood Mobility survey is useful for finding out what proportion of local residents have problems from motor traffic, or have other problems walking around the local area. Analysis of information collected through the survey may also reveal health inequalities, such as whether people with mobility impairment are more affected by fast or heavy traffic than other local residents are. Details about how the questionnaire was developed are available on the project website. In brief, we used existing questions where available, validated for other surveys. New questions were tested with local residents in a different area of London by discussing what they thought the questions were asking ('cognitive testing'), then improving the questions, and trying them out ('piloting'). The questionnaire starts by asking about the person responding, including their age group, gender, and how long they have lived at their address. This information means that users can check whether the people who answer the survey are typical of people living in the area. It also allows you to see if different groups (e.g. men and women, or older and younger people) have the same concerns, or are bothered by different things. The questionnaire also includes a few questions about general health, and about disabilities that affect people's mobility. It then asks some specific questions about the effects of busy roads. First there are questions about problems walking around the local area. Next, there are questions about the busiest local road. We have also written a guide to conducting a survey, aimed at community groups, based on the New Economics Foundation's guide for communities on measuring wellbeing; a guide to conducting simple analyses of the data (again, aimed at community groups), and an Excel sheet for data entry and simple anlayses. The questionnaire, the two guides, and the Excel sheet can each be downloaded from the 'Other documents' section of the page. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2015 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | An early draft of the questionnaire first used by others as part of the Leverhulme grant reported on previously in ResarchFish. The final version has been made available by free download, launched on 8th March 2017. It is too early for impacts. |
URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/street-mobility/toolkit |
Title | Participatory Mapping |
Description | Participatory mapping is a way to engage groups and individuals in the local community. It can be carried out rapidly, or through a longer and deeper engagement with individuals and groups, in which problems are identified and solutions proposed, and assessed for suitability and relevance. The project uses maps to help people visualise or analyse their local area by focusing on particular issues or questions, allowing people to share their understanding of their environment with others. Start by visiting the area to identify places where people gather (e.g. community centres, shopping centres, religious establishments), and which ones are in the right locations to contact people who live in the area being mapped. In addition, check available online information, for example the Census, to ensure that you are making contact with the different groups living in and using the area. Contact local community groups, housing providers, and religious group and ask about regular meetings, then ask permission to attend some to get familiarity and trust. Consider how to reach under-represented group through their social connections - e.g. a local establishment that they frequent such as a church or a mosque. In addition, consider recruiting 'community champions' who can reach out locally to people who do not attend meetings or are housebound. After these early visits, a programme of community engagement should be carried out, in one or more of these three ways: 1. Rapid appraisal mapping, which involves stopping people in the street and asking them to spend a little time contributing information. The information can be captured on a medium-sized map or an aerial image of the area by asking participants to carry out a short task, such as marking problem spots for crossing the street, or tracing their planned route from home to local facilities. This can also be done in a shopping centre - or even by stopping people near a local traffic node (e.g. near a Tube station). 2. Longer community mapping workshops allow participants to discuss issues more fully. Here you can follow a more detailed process, such as the one depicted in the figure below. The process can involve working in groups, in a discussion over large scale maps or aerial images, printed so people can annotate them. Post-it notes and coloured stickers are recommended to mark places on the map of concern to the group. This process can then be followed up with detailed individual work to investigate areas identified (e.g. by collecting traffic counts, or recording household perceptions) and an additional workshop can be set up to share the results with the group. Online mapping tools can be used to collate and share the information. Such workshops are best held in a place that is familiar to the participants, such as a local library or a community centre. 3. In-depth individual interviews, often with participants in the rapid appraisal mapping exercise or from community groups, can provide deeper insights into issues emerging from the maps and rapid appraisals. These can be part of the later stage of the community mapping project, in which participants share detailed experiences about their area. The use of maps or aerial images allows participants to point to problem spots or to describe different characteristics of their environment, such as informal road crossing points or places where formal crossing provision is inadequate. Once the data are recorded on maps (either online or offline), they can be collated using a Geographical Information System (GIS) and analysed. Qualitative information and descriptions from the interviews can be classified into categories to visualise different issues across the area. This can be done by developing 'codes' - keywords that identify a specific statement or part of an interview. Work is usually needed to code and classify qualitative statements, and then to test how well the coding works when it is used on different interviews or maps. A classification of the findings will then be produced. This can be used to visualise the information on a map, for example by indicating places that had positive comments - and those that had negative comments. Participants can then be asked in more detail about issues they raised concerning road traffic, pedestrian crossing facilities, use of public transport, social networks or neighbourhood boundaries. The resulting map can be used to identify issues that are frequently mentioned by community members. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The tool is freely available on our project website, launched on 8th March 2017. It is too early for there to be any impacts. |
URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/street-mobility/toolkit |
Title | Street Mobility Toolkit |
Description | Most people want to live in pleasant areas that are clean and quiet, and where it is easy to walk or cycle around the neighbourhood. Busy roads can cause problems for people who want to walk along them or to cross them, and also for people living nearby. In addition to noise and air pollution, the main difficulties are caused by: ? the volume, or sometimes the speed, of traffic; ? too few crossings; and ? not enough time to get across. All these can be unpleasant, but they can be more than that too - they can affect people's health and wellbeing. The impacts can be direct, for example from air pollution. They can also be indirect: for example, health can be affected when busy roads separate local residents from goods, services, or other people. This barrier effect is sometimes called 'community severance'. The UCL Street Mobility team has developed this toolkit, offering a suite of research approaches to identify, assess and value this barrier effect or 'community severance'. This toolkit contains tools developed to help local government and local communities assess, and value the costs of, community severance in their area. Knowing what the problem is in more detail helps to make a case for change. The toolkit is divided into eight sections, as follows: Introduction (this section) provides background information about the purpose of this project. It includes a table summarising the various tools for assessing the barrier effects of busy roads and what resources are needed to use for each one. What we know summarises the evidence about what 'community severance' is and how it affects people's lives, including their health and wellbeing. It also includes some references, for anyone who wants to read more about this. All work produced by UCL Street Mobility team members is available to all (open access). Where possible, we have used freely available sources for referencing other people's work, but access to some studies may be restricted. The next five sections explain the tools we have created to help local government and communities measure the effects of busy roads (Participatory mapping, the Health and Neighbourhood Mobility survey, Video surveys, Valuation, and Walkability). The last section describes other, existing tools that we have found useful (Space syntax, Street audits). Which tool (or tools) are selected for use depends on: ? What the users want to find out and/or measure; and ? What resources they have available (time, people, expertise, money). A Table is included in the toolkit to help potential users decide which tool(s) to use. It lists the tools, describes what they are for, and what resources are needed to use them. Each of the tools can be used independently, but can also be used in combination with any of the other tools, and in any order. For example, a community group might use participatory mapping and a street audit. A local authority might start with the Health and Neighbourhood Mobility survey and the valuation tool. A single tool can provide useful information, but using a range of tools will provide a more comprehensive assessment. The tools allow the problem to be broken down into smaller sections that can be dealt with by different people or groups. The toolkit also helps to forge links across sectors and departments. Local community groups and local government staff working together can produce the best information. Certain people, such as children and the elderly, or those with physical or mental health impairments, may be particularly sensitive and vulnerable to the effects of busy roads. Several of the tools contained in this toolkit can be used to identify and assess such inequalities. The tools will generally be used to measure the current barrier effect. However, some of the tools can be used to predict what the effects might be if there are changes. They can contribute to a vision of what streets can be like. They can also be used to monitor or evaluate the effects of interventions. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | It was launched on 8th March 2017, so it is too soon to show any impacts. |
URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/street-mobility/toolkit |
Title | Video surveys |
Description | This involves placing video cameras at particular points to film pedestrian and motor traffic. This is usually done for a 24 hour period or a 15-16 hour period (i.e. daytime). conducting video surveys is not novel, but the way we have analysed the data and the uses to which we have put the data is novel. The information collected from the video survey helps building a more detailed picture of who uses the road, when, and how. Taken together with results from a walkability model, the comparison of the actual pedestrian flows along different roads with what might be expected from the walkability model can give an indication of places that pedestrians avoid. These may indicate where action is needed to improve the conditions for pedestrians and to facilitate more walking for travel in the area. The data collected can also be used to identify particular problems faced by pedestrians at different times of the day, which may be related to variations in the levels or types of motor traffic. Some local authorities will already have cameras in place. Otherwise, there are a number of companies that can place the cameras at agreed locations on an agreed date. Some of these companies will also analyse the data, for a fee. Thought is required regarding where to site the cameras. This includes where each camera should be, and which way it should it face. The more cameras are used, the more information can be obtained. However, more cameras will increase both the cost and the amount of staff time required to view the video footage and analyse the data. The video footage can be used to record a number of items. Each of these will require a separate run-through for every camera: ? Vehicle flow (how many vehicles per hour or per day). ? Vehicle composition (the proportion of private cars; lorries; buses; coaches). ? Pedestrian walking flows (how many pedestrians per hour or per day). ? Pedestrian crossing flows: the number of pedestrians who cross at 'formal' crossings, (such as pedestrian signals, zebra crossings, footbridges, and underpasses) and at 'informal crossings' (which indicates where 'desire lines' are, where people want to cross the road, such as near a bus stop). ? Pedestrian crossing behaviour (where, when, and how people cross the road). ? Waiting times to cross the road. Pedestrian data can be disaggregated by age-group, gender, and disability, if the quality of the video footage is good enough. However, this will increase the time required for the analysis. A number of indicators can also be estimated from the raw data, for example, crossing ratios (the number of people crossing the road as a proportion of people walking along the road), or the number or proportion of people using the pavement who have an encumbrance, such as being in a wheelchair, using a mobility aid, pushing a buggy, or having luggage. The cost of a video survey varies, depending on how much analysis is done in-house or by the company implementing the survey. There is a fixed cost of around £400 for setting up the cameras. Each camera then costs around £35 (for 15-16 hours). Basic analysis of the footage costs £25 per movement recorded (for example vehicles in one flowing on one direction or pedestrians walking in one direction on one pavement). More detailed analysis (for example, of pedestrian crossing behaviours) costs more. These values exclude VAT and were valid in 2015. To make the analysis workload more manageable, the motor and pedestrian traffic counts can be done for parts of the day only, for example, for a 15 minute period during each hour (e.g. from 16 to 30 minutes past each hour), or without disaggregating the direction of the flow. The classification of motor vehicles and pedestrians can also be simplified (for example, vehicles can be counted simply as light or heavy). Vehicle and pedestrian flows can also be counted manually, without using video surveys. Data on the annual average daily vehicle flows in motorways and main roads can be downloaded from the Department for Transport's website. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The final version has been made available by free download, launched on 8th March 2017. It is too early for impacts. |
URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/street-mobility/toolkit |
Title | Walkability model using space syntax |
Description | Walkability models predict how easy it is for people to reach the places they want to walk to. It should be noted that 'walkability' does not measure how pleasant it is to walk these routes, but it is a good indicator of the potential for people to make these journeys on foot. Most walkability models include three factors: • Residential density: how many homes there are in the area, or how many people live in the area; • Land use mix: the variety of destinations available for people to go to, and how many there are; and • Connectivity: this assesses how easy it is to walk between two places in the area. It can use standard distances along pavements and paths, or the number of junctions there are in a standard area ('junction density'). Other models use space syntax to assess this; • Some models also include other factors, such as public transport accessibility. This measures the fact that people are more likely to use public transport and less likely to drive if they are in closer proximity to bus stops or train stations. Walkability models can be used by local government to ensure that the conditions for pedestrians are particularly good (pavement quality, lighting, greenery, etc.) in areas that have high walkability, particularly if budget cuts prevent good conditions everywhere. They can also be used to identify areas of community severance, where the effects of busy roads reduce the likelihood of people walking for local trips. Community severance occurs where areas of high walkability occur in the same place as busy roads. Local government may wish to use walkability models to identify these areas as places to reduce traffic speed or traffic volume, or to improve the number of crossings and the time they allow for pedestrians to cross the road. Two different walkability models for London have been created by members of the Street Mobility and Network Accessibility research team. Both have been validated using data on walking. The walkability model developed by Dr Ashley Dhanani uses a multi-layered approach. It measures land use diversity, taking into account all types of use, including all the floors in a building, as well as intensity of that land use, as well as public transport accessibility and office land use intensity. This means that the model includes a large variety and a high number of potential walking destinations. Street network accessibility is then assessed using space syntax methods. The model represents walkability values as continuously varying, while most models use administrative boundaries for their data and modelling. See image below of whole London walkability model. This model has been proven to predict observed pedestrian demand (based on a large database of measured pedestrian activity across London), accounting for 82% of the difference in walking activity levels between areas. The model has also been produced for Birmingham (see case study below), and is currently being developed for the whole of the UK. The walkability models themselves are not publicly available, but for further information about the models, their applications and access to them please contact ashley.dhanani@ucl.ac.uk. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | See Policy and practice section |
URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/street-mobility/toolkit |
Title | Redesign of Seven Sisters Road in Woodberry Down |
Description | We were invited to meet Transport for London (TfL) to share details of our Street Mobility project, in particular our data from the Woodberry Down case study. We have shared our qualitative findings (interviews conducted by Mapping for Change) about local residents' concerns as well as data from street movement video surveys in the Woodberry Down area, which we have agreed to share with TfL (whose staff are currently considering how Seven Sisters Road, East of Manor Park station, should be modified as part of hte local regeneration / redevelopment plans funded by a housing developer). |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | To be completed later |
Description | Adaptation of the Street Mobility toolkit for Latin American countries |
Organisation | Cayetano Heredia University |
Country | Peru |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I contacted some of these collaborators directly. having met them through a British Council Newton Fund Researcher Link workshop I ran or from the LatinAmerican Transport and Health network I have set up, as a branch of the Transport and Health Study Group. I drafted the grant proposal. |
Collaborator Contribution | Some partners introduced additional collaborators. They assisted with drafting the proposal. During our trip, seminars were hosted by Universidad Nacional and Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia; Universidade de Sao Paulo, in Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Universidad de San Sebastián and Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Santiago and Universidad de la Frontera in Temuco, Chile. We are now working with researchers we met in Brazil to develop transprot and health maps of Sao Paulo, focusing on walkability and community severance. Colleagues at USS and UdlF are translating our toolkit questionnaires into Spanish for use locally. We plan to develop a grant bid with colleagues at PUC later in 2018 to study community severance in Santiago. |
Impact | The initial output was a pump priming grant bid to fund a series of seminars and workshops in Brazil, Colombia and Chile, with the aim of developing a full grant bid. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Adaptation of the Street Mobility toolkit for Latin American countries |
Organisation | Federal University of Minas Gerais |
Country | Brazil |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I contacted some of these collaborators directly. having met them through a British Council Newton Fund Researcher Link workshop I ran or from the LatinAmerican Transport and Health network I have set up, as a branch of the Transport and Health Study Group. I drafted the grant proposal. |
Collaborator Contribution | Some partners introduced additional collaborators. They assisted with drafting the proposal. During our trip, seminars were hosted by Universidad Nacional and Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia; Universidade de Sao Paulo, in Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Universidad de San Sebastián and Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Santiago and Universidad de la Frontera in Temuco, Chile. We are now working with researchers we met in Brazil to develop transprot and health maps of Sao Paulo, focusing on walkability and community severance. Colleagues at USS and UdlF are translating our toolkit questionnaires into Spanish for use locally. We plan to develop a grant bid with colleagues at PUC later in 2018 to study community severance in Santiago. |
Impact | The initial output was a pump priming grant bid to fund a series of seminars and workshops in Brazil, Colombia and Chile, with the aim of developing a full grant bid. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Adaptation of the Street Mobility toolkit for Latin American countries |
Organisation | Federal University of Minas Gerais |
Country | Brazil |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I contacted some of these collaborators directly. having met them through a British Council Newton Fund Researcher Link workshop I ran or from the LatinAmerican Transport and Health network I have set up, as a branch of the Transport and Health Study Group. I drafted the grant proposal. |
Collaborator Contribution | Some partners introduced additional collaborators. They assisted with drafting the proposal. During our trip, seminars were hosted by Universidad Nacional and Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia; Universidade de Sao Paulo, in Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Universidad de San Sebastián and Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Santiago and Universidad de la Frontera in Temuco, Chile. We are now working with researchers we met in Brazil to develop transprot and health maps of Sao Paulo, focusing on walkability and community severance. Colleagues at USS and UdlF are translating our toolkit questionnaires into Spanish for use locally. We plan to develop a grant bid with colleagues at PUC later in 2018 to study community severance in Santiago. |
Impact | The initial output was a pump priming grant bid to fund a series of seminars and workshops in Brazil, Colombia and Chile, with the aim of developing a full grant bid. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Adaptation of the Street Mobility toolkit for Latin American countries |
Organisation | National University of Colombia |
Department | Departments of Engineering |
Country | Colombia |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I contacted some of these collaborators directly. having met them through a British Council Newton Fund Researcher Link workshop I ran or from the LatinAmerican Transport and Health network I have set up, as a branch of the Transport and Health Study Group. I drafted the grant proposal. |
Collaborator Contribution | Some partners introduced additional collaborators. They assisted with drafting the proposal. During our trip, seminars were hosted by Universidad Nacional and Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia; Universidade de Sao Paulo, in Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Universidad de San Sebastián and Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Santiago and Universidad de la Frontera in Temuco, Chile. We are now working with researchers we met in Brazil to develop transprot and health maps of Sao Paulo, focusing on walkability and community severance. Colleagues at USS and UdlF are translating our toolkit questionnaires into Spanish for use locally. We plan to develop a grant bid with colleagues at PUC later in 2018 to study community severance in Santiago. |
Impact | The initial output was a pump priming grant bid to fund a series of seminars and workshops in Brazil, Colombia and Chile, with the aim of developing a full grant bid. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Adaptation of the Street Mobility toolkit for Latin American countries |
Organisation | National University of Colombia |
Country | Colombia |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I contacted some of these collaborators directly. having met them through a British Council Newton Fund Researcher Link workshop I ran or from the LatinAmerican Transport and Health network I have set up, as a branch of the Transport and Health Study Group. I drafted the grant proposal. |
Collaborator Contribution | Some partners introduced additional collaborators. They assisted with drafting the proposal. During our trip, seminars were hosted by Universidad Nacional and Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia; Universidade de Sao Paulo, in Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Universidad de San Sebastián and Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Santiago and Universidad de la Frontera in Temuco, Chile. We are now working with researchers we met in Brazil to develop transprot and health maps of Sao Paulo, focusing on walkability and community severance. Colleagues at USS and UdlF are translating our toolkit questionnaires into Spanish for use locally. We plan to develop a grant bid with colleagues at PUC later in 2018 to study community severance in Santiago. |
Impact | The initial output was a pump priming grant bid to fund a series of seminars and workshops in Brazil, Colombia and Chile, with the aim of developing a full grant bid. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Adaptation of the Street Mobility toolkit for Latin American countries |
Organisation | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile |
Country | Chile |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I contacted some of these collaborators directly. having met them through a British Council Newton Fund Researcher Link workshop I ran or from the LatinAmerican Transport and Health network I have set up, as a branch of the Transport and Health Study Group. I drafted the grant proposal. |
Collaborator Contribution | Some partners introduced additional collaborators. They assisted with drafting the proposal. During our trip, seminars were hosted by Universidad Nacional and Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia; Universidade de Sao Paulo, in Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Universidad de San Sebastián and Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Santiago and Universidad de la Frontera in Temuco, Chile. We are now working with researchers we met in Brazil to develop transprot and health maps of Sao Paulo, focusing on walkability and community severance. Colleagues at USS and UdlF are translating our toolkit questionnaires into Spanish for use locally. We plan to develop a grant bid with colleagues at PUC later in 2018 to study community severance in Santiago. |
Impact | The initial output was a pump priming grant bid to fund a series of seminars and workshops in Brazil, Colombia and Chile, with the aim of developing a full grant bid. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Adaptation of the Street Mobility toolkit for Latin American countries |
Organisation | Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná |
Country | Brazil |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I contacted some of these collaborators directly. having met them through a British Council Newton Fund Researcher Link workshop I ran or from the LatinAmerican Transport and Health network I have set up, as a branch of the Transport and Health Study Group. I drafted the grant proposal. |
Collaborator Contribution | Some partners introduced additional collaborators. They assisted with drafting the proposal. During our trip, seminars were hosted by Universidad Nacional and Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia; Universidade de Sao Paulo, in Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Universidad de San Sebastián and Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Santiago and Universidad de la Frontera in Temuco, Chile. We are now working with researchers we met in Brazil to develop transprot and health maps of Sao Paulo, focusing on walkability and community severance. Colleagues at USS and UdlF are translating our toolkit questionnaires into Spanish for use locally. We plan to develop a grant bid with colleagues at PUC later in 2018 to study community severance in Santiago. |
Impact | The initial output was a pump priming grant bid to fund a series of seminars and workshops in Brazil, Colombia and Chile, with the aim of developing a full grant bid. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Adaptation of the Street Mobility toolkit for Latin American countries |
Organisation | San Sebastián University |
Country | Chile |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I contacted some of these collaborators directly. having met them through a British Council Newton Fund Researcher Link workshop I ran or from the LatinAmerican Transport and Health network I have set up, as a branch of the Transport and Health Study Group. I drafted the grant proposal. |
Collaborator Contribution | Some partners introduced additional collaborators. They assisted with drafting the proposal. During our trip, seminars were hosted by Universidad Nacional and Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia; Universidade de Sao Paulo, in Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Universidad de San Sebastián and Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Santiago and Universidad de la Frontera in Temuco, Chile. We are now working with researchers we met in Brazil to develop transprot and health maps of Sao Paulo, focusing on walkability and community severance. Colleagues at USS and UdlF are translating our toolkit questionnaires into Spanish for use locally. We plan to develop a grant bid with colleagues at PUC later in 2018 to study community severance in Santiago. |
Impact | The initial output was a pump priming grant bid to fund a series of seminars and workshops in Brazil, Colombia and Chile, with the aim of developing a full grant bid. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Adaptation of the Street Mobility toolkit for Latin American countries |
Organisation | Universidade de São Paulo |
Department | School of Public Health |
Country | Brazil |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I contacted some of these collaborators directly. having met them through a British Council Newton Fund Researcher Link workshop I ran or from the LatinAmerican Transport and Health network I have set up, as a branch of the Transport and Health Study Group. I drafted the grant proposal. |
Collaborator Contribution | Some partners introduced additional collaborators. They assisted with drafting the proposal. During our trip, seminars were hosted by Universidad Nacional and Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia; Universidade de Sao Paulo, in Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Universidad de San Sebastián and Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Santiago and Universidad de la Frontera in Temuco, Chile. We are now working with researchers we met in Brazil to develop transprot and health maps of Sao Paulo, focusing on walkability and community severance. Colleagues at USS and UdlF are translating our toolkit questionnaires into Spanish for use locally. We plan to develop a grant bid with colleagues at PUC later in 2018 to study community severance in Santiago. |
Impact | The initial output was a pump priming grant bid to fund a series of seminars and workshops in Brazil, Colombia and Chile, with the aim of developing a full grant bid. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Adaptation of the Street Mobility toolkit for Latin American countries |
Organisation | University of La Frontera |
Country | Chile |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I contacted some of these collaborators directly. having met them through a British Council Newton Fund Researcher Link workshop I ran or from the LatinAmerican Transport and Health network I have set up, as a branch of the Transport and Health Study Group. I drafted the grant proposal. |
Collaborator Contribution | Some partners introduced additional collaborators. They assisted with drafting the proposal. During our trip, seminars were hosted by Universidad Nacional and Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia; Universidade de Sao Paulo, in Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Universidad de San Sebastián and Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Santiago and Universidad de la Frontera in Temuco, Chile. We are now working with researchers we met in Brazil to develop transprot and health maps of Sao Paulo, focusing on walkability and community severance. Colleagues at USS and UdlF are translating our toolkit questionnaires into Spanish for use locally. We plan to develop a grant bid with colleagues at PUC later in 2018 to study community severance in Santiago. |
Impact | The initial output was a pump priming grant bid to fund a series of seminars and workshops in Brazil, Colombia and Chile, with the aim of developing a full grant bid. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Adaptation of the Street Mobility toolkit for Latin American countries |
Organisation | University of the Andes |
Country | Colombia |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I contacted some of these collaborators directly. having met them through a British Council Newton Fund Researcher Link workshop I ran or from the LatinAmerican Transport and Health network I have set up, as a branch of the Transport and Health Study Group. I drafted the grant proposal. |
Collaborator Contribution | Some partners introduced additional collaborators. They assisted with drafting the proposal. During our trip, seminars were hosted by Universidad Nacional and Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia; Universidade de Sao Paulo, in Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Universidad de San Sebastián and Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Santiago and Universidad de la Frontera in Temuco, Chile. We are now working with researchers we met in Brazil to develop transprot and health maps of Sao Paulo, focusing on walkability and community severance. Colleagues at USS and UdlF are translating our toolkit questionnaires into Spanish for use locally. We plan to develop a grant bid with colleagues at PUC later in 2018 to study community severance in Santiago. |
Impact | The initial output was a pump priming grant bid to fund a series of seminars and workshops in Brazil, Colombia and Chile, with the aim of developing a full grant bid. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Adaptation of the Street Mobility toolkit for Latin American countries |
Organisation | University of the Andes |
Country | Colombia |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I contacted some of these collaborators directly. having met them through a British Council Newton Fund Researcher Link workshop I ran or from the LatinAmerican Transport and Health network I have set up, as a branch of the Transport and Health Study Group. I drafted the grant proposal. |
Collaborator Contribution | Some partners introduced additional collaborators. They assisted with drafting the proposal. During our trip, seminars were hosted by Universidad Nacional and Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia; Universidade de Sao Paulo, in Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Universidad de San Sebastián and Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Santiago and Universidad de la Frontera in Temuco, Chile. We are now working with researchers we met in Brazil to develop transprot and health maps of Sao Paulo, focusing on walkability and community severance. Colleagues at USS and UdlF are translating our toolkit questionnaires into Spanish for use locally. We plan to develop a grant bid with colleagues at PUC later in 2018 to study community severance in Santiago. |
Impact | The initial output was a pump priming grant bid to fund a series of seminars and workshops in Brazil, Colombia and Chile, with the aim of developing a full grant bid. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | London walkability analysis for GLA |
Organisation | Greater London Authority (GLA) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Undertaking walkability analyses for the whole of London and for each London borough individually |
Collaborator Contribution | they provided data, expertise, and time. |
Impact | Walkability maps for each London borough were provided by TfL to each borough to be used internally for policy formulation and practice. TfL have built an internal online digital platform for use by all TfL staff and this has been included in that. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | London walkability analysis for GLA |
Organisation | Transport for London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Undertaking walkability analyses for the whole of London and for each London borough individually |
Collaborator Contribution | they provided data, expertise, and time. |
Impact | Walkability maps for each London borough were provided by TfL to each borough to be used internally for policy formulation and practice. TfL have built an internal online digital platform for use by all TfL staff and this has been included in that. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | MAS-Havana |
Organisation | Havana University of Technologies José Antonio Echeverría (CUJAE) |
Country | Cuba |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I was introduced to the academics from the Faculty of Architecture at CUJAE and to the Director of Planning in the Direccion General de Transporte de la Provincia de la Habana and her team in 2018, when I was invited to Havana as part of a colleague's grant funding, for me to add public health expertise to their transport, sustainability and urban planning expertise. I gave a lecture on community severance and our street mobility toolkit to an invited audience of policy-makers, practitioners, and academics in April 2018. |
Collaborator Contribution | Two architecture students used our toolkit in their work in 2018. |
Impact | Outcomes: The April 2018 meeting led to an application by Mindell for funding from UCL's Global Engagement Fund to bring a transport and health colleague form Temuco, Chile to Havana to develop a workplan for the nascent Latin American network for transport and health. During the week's workshops, I gave a lecture to a different audience of policy-makers, practitioners, and academics on Transport and health, including information about community severance and our Street Mobility Toolkit. I have recorded elsewhere the STEPS-Havana project that is now also taking place. Multidiciplinary: Public health; Transport planning; Architecture; Air pollution sciences; Economics; Physiotherapy; Transprot engineering |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | STEPS-Havana |
Organisation | General Directorate of Provincial Transportation Havana |
Country | Cuba |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We have worked with them to develop a street classification for Havana ('link' and 'place'); Dr Ashley Dhanani has developed a pedestrian demand model for Havana, based on the London walkability model he developed as part of the SMNA project. We worked with the academics and students in the Faculty of Architecture at CUJAE, and practitioners and policy-makers from transprot planning in various Havana and Cuban authorities to conduct a street audit as part of a project to improve conditions for pedestrians and improve health outcomes for walking and cycling in Havana. |
Collaborator Contribution | They are helping to test the usefulness of aspects of the toolkit in different environments. |
Impact | Multi-disciplinary: UK: Economics, Public health, Space syntax, Transport engineering, Transport planning, Cuba: Architecture, Transport planning |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | STEPS-Havana |
Organisation | Havana University of Technologies José Antonio Echeverría (CUJAE) |
Country | Cuba |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We have worked with them to develop a street classification for Havana ('link' and 'place'); Dr Ashley Dhanani has developed a pedestrian demand model for Havana, based on the London walkability model he developed as part of the SMNA project. We worked with the academics and students in the Faculty of Architecture at CUJAE, and practitioners and policy-makers from transprot planning in various Havana and Cuban authorities to conduct a street audit as part of a project to improve conditions for pedestrians and improve health outcomes for walking and cycling in Havana. |
Collaborator Contribution | They are helping to test the usefulness of aspects of the toolkit in different environments. |
Impact | Multi-disciplinary: UK: Economics, Public health, Space syntax, Transport engineering, Transport planning, Cuba: Architecture, Transport planning |
Start Year | 2019 |
Title | Tool to measure the benefits of reducing community severance |
Description | Tool to measure the benefits of reducing community severance, integrating methods and results from the Street Mobility project and follow-up projects |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | Too early to know. Tool has just been released. |
Description | "Community Severance from Major Roads: Can We Measure its Effects on Determinants of Health? Lessons from Finchley Road, London, UK" - 6th International Jerusalem Conference on Health Policy, Jerusalem, Israel |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A presentation was given at a conference attended by around 200 people. The talk elicited questions and debate from the audience, around 50 individuals. The audience comprised mostly national and regional health policy-makers but there were also practitioners and researchers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | 1st International Conference on Transport and Health, London: How do pedestrians react to busy roads? Findings from video surveys |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | 2nd International Conference on Transport and Health |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Poster presentation given on stated preference survey and monetizing community severance. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214140516300391 |
Description | 2nd International Conference on Transport and Health |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation given on findings from community severance survey. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214140516301360 |
Description | 3rd International Conference on Transport and Health: Development of a suite of tools to assess the effects of busy roads on local residents. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | TO BE COMPLETED (AND NO. INVOLVED AMENDED) AFTER I RETURN FROM ICTH |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | @StreetMobility Twitter account |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The main purposes of the Twitter account were to increase awareness of community severance and our project, and to drive traffic to our project website. It is impossible for us to monitor the impact as we cannot tell which people registering for our conference (which was heavily advertised on Twitter) or visiting our project website were first alerted or were prompted by seeing a tweet. A Twitter Reach report on 10th March 2017 showed a total reach of 54,263 and 171,060 impressions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2006,2014,2015,2016,2017 |
URL | https://twitter.com/StreetMobility |
Description | Active Living Research conference 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Our contributions at the conference included: 1. A talk about the toolkit we have developed and how we validated it by triangulation in our second case study area. 2. A poster on the Health and Neighbourhood Mobility Survey and some of the findings. 3. A poster about the stated preference survey and how it is being used to develop the valuation tool. There was interest in using the tool, particularly by members of local community groups, although in general the current tool was felt to be less helpful in the USA because of the major barriers from infrastructure not just the presence of heavy traffic. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/street-mobility/publications |
Description | Active Living Research conference, Florida, 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | One of the project researchers and I ran a workshop at the ALR conference. Attendees came from a wide range of disciplines and types of organisations. The workshop focused on 'What is community severance (the 'barrier effect' of busy roads)?', and also on its effects on health, wellbeing and inequalities. The format was alternating small group discussion and brief presentations by me. The last part of the workshop was spent with attendees examining copies of our toolkit. One participant, from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, offered to provide examples of training models we can use for disseminating good use of the toolkit. Another participant, from the National Scientific Research Institute in Canada is intending to work on a grant bid to adapt the tool for use in Canadian cities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/street-mobility/publications |
Description | Assessing and valuing the impacts of busy roads on local people - Lecture by Prof. Jenny Mindell at Universidad San Sebastian, Santiago, Chile, 13 November 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture on "Encuestas de Salud de Las Américas y el Reino Unido (ESARU) and the use of health examination surveys in policy-making" and "Assessing and valuing the impacts of busy roads on local people". Part of series of activities in South America funded by a UCL Santander Research Catalyst Award |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Community severance vs social contact presentation at Universities Transport Studies Group Conference 2016 (Bristol) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation given on perceptions of neighbourhood traffic volume and speed in relation to levels of local social contact. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | DfT DPTAC Disability working Group meeting 19Jan2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The Disabled Persons' Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC), a statutory body set up to advise ministers and government on accessibility, functions through a number of working groups. The Evidence and Research Working Group held an afternoon's meeting on research into travel by disabled people in the UK. Twelve invited experts, of whom I was one, each spoke for 5-10 minutes on our relevant research, then discussed with the DPTAC members and civil servants from the Department for Transport what gaps there are in the research and how to make progress. I presented summaries of earlier work on walking speed of older people, and a brief outline of the Street Mobility project and some findings about community severance and difficulties crossing busy roads (for which the slower walking speed of older people is very relevant). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disabled-persons-transport-advisory-committee |
Description | Engagement with Transport for London for possible future collaboration |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Meetings and presentations to Transport for London to discuss for possible future collaboration |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
Description | Engagement with local authority in case study areas 1+2 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Meeting informed our project planning, data sharing, analytic plan and gained us local support Our results may be used in a local planning consultation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015 |
Description | Faculty of Public Health conference 2017: Development of a toolkit to measure and value local impacts of community severance due to heavy or fast traffic. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | As well as the talk, I also spoke to individuals in 1:1 conversations and mentioned the toolkit at other relevant sessions of the FPH conference. 46 people took copies of the printed Toolkit handbook. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.fph.org.uk/fph_annual_conference_and_public_health_expo_2017 |
Description | Final conference for SMNA |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | We organised a half-day conference for 150 people, which was oversubscribed. We interspersed presentations on the problem we were addressing, the toolkit, some of the tools, and some of the findings, with talks from external speakers: a) two researchers (Glasgow MRC unit and U of Cambridge) about findings of their study of community severance and the new M74) b) Carol Petrokofsky from Pubic Health England c) John Miles, from Kilburn Older Voices Exchange (KOVE) d) Cal shawcross, CBE, London's Deputy Mayor for Transport e) Lucy Saunders, Public Health consultant at Transport for London and the Greater London Authority |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/street-mobility/publications |
Description | Follow-up workshop with representatives from Department for Transport, and other practitioners |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Following a previous workshop, members of the project discussed in more detail how can the tools developed by the project to improve methods of economic valuation of transport projects be integrated in methods currently in use by the Department for Transport. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Hackney Cycle Conference: Assessing and valuing the impacts of busy roads on local people |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | I was one of two keynote speakers at the Hackney Cycle Conference, the foremost cycling conference in London, attracting an audience of 200 participants from a number of countries. I talked about community severance (the barrier effect of busy roads), and the Street Mobility toolkit we have created and how to use it. I was then part of the panel at the end, commenting on a wide range of topics. All the copies of the toolkit that I brought with me were taken by participants at the conference. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008,2017 |
URL | http://www.hackney.gov.uk/cycling-conference |
Description | Inclusion of the Street Mobility toolkit in the CIVITAS Urban Mobility Tool Inventory. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Inclusion of the main output of the project (the Street Mobility toolkit) in the CIVITAS Tool Inventory. The inventory was created by the EU-funded projects SATELLITE and SUMPs-UP. Both are part of the EU initiative CIVITAS, which assists European cities in their efforts towards more sustainable and people-friendly urban mobility. The inventory is an online database of various tools and methods for practical use. It was launched in October 2017 and is being promoted broadly among European cities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://civitas.eu/tool-inventory/ucl-street-mobility-toolkit |
Description | Introducing Street Mobility: Public Health England conference, Warwick, September 2014 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | poster presentation |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Title: Introducing Street Mobility: a cross-disciplinary project developing tools to measure community severance and overcome barriers to walking among older people. Was displayed at PHE for 2 days. Conference attended by 1,400 people. Spoke to ~10 people at the conference; one contacted us afterwards |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | https://www.phe-events.org.uk/hpa/frontend/reg/tDailyAgendaAlt.csp?pageID=118450&eventID=286&eventID... |
Description | Invited lecture about community severance at University of Westminster |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture about community severance at University of Westminster |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Invited lecture at University of Westmister (2020) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture on Community Severance, for Msc. students, University of Westminster. Online lecture. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Invited lecture at University of Westmister (2021) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | on Community Severance, for Msc. students, University of Westminster, London. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Is community severance a public health problem? Evidence from the Street Mobility project's two London case studies at International Conference on Transport and Health, July 2015 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Talk sparked discussion and shared preliminary findings, informing analysis plan for main study Won prize for second highest scoring early career researcher abstract |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Kaynote lecture at The Active Living and the Environment Symposium, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Keynote lecture at the TALES symposium on Community severance and the Street Mobility and Network Accessibility project and Toolkit. Various local politicians present took copies of hte toolkit and expressed interest in using it in their locality. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.otago.ac.nz/active-living-2019/index.html |
Description | Keynote lecture at Kalamazoo |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | I was the invited keynote lecturer at the University of Western Michigan summer conference on Livable Communities: Active Transportation. The audience came from across the USA, including professional practitioners from private and public organisations, researchers, and students. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://wmich.edu/news/2018/05/46274 |
Description | Learning from the Street Mobility project: presentation by Dr. Paulo Anciaes in "Foro de Transporte y Salud", Bogota, Colombia, 7 November 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation in a seminar abour transport and health, with perspectives from UK and Colombia. Part of series of activities in South America funded by a UCL Santander Research Catalyst Award. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/street-mobility/latinamerica/index |
Description | Learning from the Street Mobility project: presentation by Dr. Paulo Anciaes in seminar in Temuco, Chile, 15 November 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation in a seminar about community severance. Part of series of activities in South America funded by a UCL Santander Research Catalyst Award |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/street-mobility/latinamerica/index |
Description | Learning from the Street Mobility project: presentation by Dr. Paulo Anciaes in seminar on "Exploring community severance in Chile", Santiago, Chile, 14 November 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation in a seminar about community severance. Part of series of activities in South America funded by a UCL Santander Research Catalyst Award. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/street-mobility/latinamerica/index |
Description | Learning from the Street Mobility project: presentation by Dr. Paulo Anciaes in seminar on "Measuring Urban Mobility: British and Brazilian Experiences", Sao Paulo, Brazil, 9 November 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation in a seminar abour transport and health, with perspectives from UK and Brazil. Part of series of activities in South America funded by a UCL Santander Research Catalyst Award. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010,2017 |
URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/street-mobility/latinamerica/index |
Description | London Assembly inquiry on Transport for London's role to promote Health |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | I was invited to be on a panel of four professionals to answer questions from elected Members of the London Assembly on their Health Committee. This was part of their Inquiry into the role of Transport for London in promoting health and reducing inequalities. The majority of the afternoon was spent on more general transport and health topics, and about the roles of different organisations and policy options for encouraging active travel. When discussion turned to modelling and valuing health impacts, I introduced them to the Street Mobility and Network Accessibility project, the toolkit we are preparing, and the valuation tool that we are creating. One of the other panel members (a transport planner / engineer from a commercial company) and one of the London Assembly Members have now been invited to attend our January 2017 workshop to make the draft toolkit as user-friendly, useful, and usable as possible. We will also invite all members of the London Assembly's Health and Transport Committees to the final workshop. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.london.gov.uk/LLDC/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=304&MId=6100&Ver=4 |
Description | Making Walking Attractive meeting in The Hague |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Participation at an invitation only two-day meeting in The Hague of 14 practitioners and researchers about 'Making Walking Attractive' to discuss barriers to and facilitators of walking, best practice, good examples from around the Netherlands, current policy and practice in Switzerland, Czech Republic, The Netherlands, France, and the UK, and plans for ongoing meetings, networking, and future projects. Much interest in JM's presentation of our Street Mobility project, and each participant took a copy of the Toolkit |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Meeting with Transport for London to discuss collaborative analysis results |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The meeting showed the validity of using the modelling tools that have been developed on the research project for predicting walking levels. This allowed the collaboration between the research project and TfL to continue. The modelling tools were accepted as useful and next steps were pursued in order to utilise them for analysis of walking levels and walkability in London for policy and infrastructural assessments. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | MfC: Engagement with local residents in Finchley Road area |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research and patient groups |
Results and Impact | Understanding of how Finchley Road does (or does not) affect lives of local residents, including maps of their travel patterns and modes. Information from this first set of discussions informed the content of the second set of workshops and the wording of the questionnaire |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | MfC: Engagement with local residents in Woodberry Down |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research and patient groups |
Results and Impact | Maps of local residents' travel patterns locally and greater understanding of the impact (or not) of Seven Sisters Road on their lives and of other local factors not relevant to our research but of greater concern to them. Blog written about this |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://streetmobility.wordpress.com/ |
Description | Oral e-poster presentation at Public Healht England conference 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Oral presentation of e-poster at the annual Public Health England conference, plus distribution of some copies of the Toolkit. Most attendees work as public health practitioners in local authorities; some work nationally on policy. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.phe-events.org.uk/hpa/frontend/reg/tOtherPage.csp?pageID=304396&ef_sel_menu=2923&eventID... |
Description | Oral presentation given at Sustainable Transport & Health Summit 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Oral presentation entitled "The Street Mobility and Network Accessibility Project:Developing tools to measure and overcome community severance" given at Landor LINKS Sustainable Transport & Health Summit 2017 in Bristol, UK. Sparked questions and discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.landor.co.uk/transporthealth/home.php |
Description | Participation in the EU COST action on Interdisciplinary Research Training School (4-day event with workshops comparing several interdisciplinary projects, including Street Mobility and Network Accessibility)) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A 4-day event with several workshops comparing several interdisciplinary projects across Europe on urban sustainability. A project member presented the methods and findings of the project, which were discussed during the four days in relation to the other projects. The event organisers are going to upload to their website the outputs of the event, posters presenting all the projects discussed (including Street Mobility) and a blog post by a project member. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Pedestrian stated preference presentation at Universities Transport Studies Group Conference 2016 (Bristol) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation on pedestrian stated preference (Estimating preferences for different types of pedestrian crossing facilities) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Poster presentation on "Close residential proximity to busy roads may deter local walking among adults" at Society for Social Medicine 2016 conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Poster presentation, including 3-minute oral presentation, at Society for Social Medicine conference. Questions were asked and the presentation promted discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://socsocmed.org.uk/meetings/annual-scientific-meeting/ |
Description | Poster presentation on "Evaluating and establishing national norms for mental wellbeing using the short Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (SWEMWBS); findings from the Health Survey for England" at Society for Social Medicine 2016 conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Poster presentation, including 3-minute oral presentation, at Society for Social Medicine conference. Questions were asked and the presentation promted discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://socsocmed.org.uk/meetings/annual-scientific-meeting/ |
Description | Presentation about the methods and findings of the project to postgraduate students |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | sparked questions and discussion afterwards |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Presentation at 2021 Active Living Research conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation at 2021 Active Living Research conference on "Cost-benefit analysis of road projects - monetizing the negative effects on pedestrians" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Presentation at Active Travel meeting of UK Department for Transport, Transport for London, and Transport for Greater Manchester |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation at Active Travel meeting of UK Department for Transport, Transport for London, and Transport for Greater Manchester |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Presentation at European Transport Conference 2015 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Presentation at Liveable Cities Conference: Developing tools to measure walkability in London incorporating wayfinding principals |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | The talk sparked discussion and raised awareness of research project's work After my talk I spoke with a people from industry who showed an interest in the work and discussed the increasing use of modelling tools to analyse pedestrian environments |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Presentation at Society for Social Medicine & Population Health Annual Scientific Virtual Meeting 2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation by Melissa Higgsmith of results of further analysis of Street Mobility data. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Presentation at the 15th Annual Transport Practitioners' Meeting, Nottingham, 28-29 June 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation at the 15th Annual Transport Practitioners' Meeting. Sparked questions and discussion and requests for further information abou the project, |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.ptrc-training.co.uk/Events/Programme.aspx |
Description | Presentation at the 2020 Meeting of the Transport and Health Study Group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation at the 2020 Meeting of the Transport and Health Study Group |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Presentation at the 2021 International Conference on Transport and Health |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation by Melissa Higgsmith of results of further analysis of Street Mobility data. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Presentation at the 2021 meeting of the Universities Transport Study Group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation by Melissa Higgsmith of results of further analysis of Street Mobility data. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Presentation at the International Conference on Urban Health, 29 September 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation at the International Conference on Urban Health. Sparked questions and discussion afterwards |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Presentation at the meeting of the Network on European Communications and Transport Activities Research (Cluster 1: Networks) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | sparked questions and discussion afterwards |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Presentation given at Transport for London introducing London Walkability Model |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The talk spurred wider ranging discussion as well development of first steps in collaboration Plans were made for future collaboration and sharing of data to allow further work to take place |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Presentation to Highways England working group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | sparked questions and discussion afterwards and requests for further information that can possible lead to future collaborations |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Presentation to Southend-on-Sea Brough Council Transport and Planning Team |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Southend-on-Sea Brough Council Transport and Planning Team briefed through presentation of research into transport and its health impacts in Southend. Findings were reported to be in line with urban planning evidence produced by the council. Suggestion of future work to research impacts of redevelopment of transport infrastructure in Southend. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Presentation to Surrey County Council public health team, March 2015 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk made public health staff aware of issues regarding transport and health Public health staff met transport staff attending the talk so the two departments can have stronger connections |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Presentation with an overview of the project and results of one of the case studies in a meeting with representatives of Transport for Greater Manchester |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | discussion after the presentations, comparing the situation in the project case studies and in Greater Manchester |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Presentations at TRANSED, Lisbon: 1. Defining and measuring the impact of community severance on local accessibility, 2. Developing tools to identify and overcome barriers to walking among older people (both Anciaes et al) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Questions and discussion Ideas for future work on the project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Project blog (https://streetmobility.wordpress.com) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The main purposes of the blog were to increase awareness of community severance and our project, and to drive traffic to our project website. Wordpress statistics on traffic on the blog showed a total of 2351 visits sinc 2014, 61% of them from the UK, and 39% from other 70 countries. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015,2016,2017 |
URL | https://streetmobility.wordpress.com |
Description | Project website (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/street-mobility) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The main purposes of the website was to increase awareness of community severance and our project. Statistics for the last 6 months (1 Sep.2016-9 March 2017) showed 1122 page views |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2016,2017 |
Description | Seminar on community severance reported in a university news website and TV station in Chile. Prof. Jenny Mindell was also interviewed by the university TV station |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The seminar on community severance that we organised in Temuco (Chile), with presentations about our project, was reported in the Universidad de La Frontera news website, and broadcast on the university TV station (UFROVISION). Prof. Jenny Mindell was also interviewed by the university TV station |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | TRB Travel survey group (Washington) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A talk on how we have developed the pen-and-paper self-completion questionnaire to measure community severance. The talk was also widely disseminated through the TRB conference website available to all 13,000 attendees, who are mostly transport practitioners working in government or commercial organisations. Another talk in the session was very relevant, being about Stated preference surveys (another part of our research project) and statistical approaches to maximise usable data. After the talks, I introduced the speaker to another member of our team, who was presenting a poster about the Street Mobility stated preference survey and the findings to value community severance. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/interactiveprogram/Browse |
Description | Talk at Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A talk to a varied audience that was also streamed live. The audience was local to the venue (Dunedin, New Zealand) but international as I was in New Zealand. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Talk at International Conference on Transport and Health, Melbourne, Australia |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | sparked questions and discussion afterwards |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214140519304335 |
Description | Talk at New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities, Wellington |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk at New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities, Wellington on 20th March 2019: Community severance. The talk was streamed live to a largge 'mailing list' of professional practitioners, NGOs members, the general public, and academics and was also available for people to watch afterwards. Members of the audience at the actual venue were from the same wide range of groups. I don't know how widespread geographically the audience was/is (i.e. local, regional or national) but as they were in New Zealand, I have listed this as international. I had lunch afterwards with the other speaker, from Wellington City Council, who was very interested in the toolkit as she is doing similar work. We hope to liaise in the future. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2019/03/seminar-community-severance-the-barrier-effects-of-busy-road... |
Description | Talk at Preventive & Social Medicine seminar, University of Otago, Dunedin |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk at Preventive & Social Medicine seminar, University of Otago, Dunedin on 14th March 2019: Community severance & walking speed. The talk was streamed live to urban planners in Queenstown, New Zealand and in Queensland Australia. In addition to academics present at the actual venue, members of the audience were from NGOs and the general public. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Talk given at Living Streets introducing London Walkability Model |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The talk brought about discussion of the applicability of the work to various scenarios, and stimulated considerations of using analytical tools in new contexts. Continuing dialogue with contact at Living Streets and raising awareness of research project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Talk to Havana Transprot Authority lead staff on Transport & Health |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | I was invited to Havana to give two talks on Transport and Health, aimed particularly at the new head of Transport planning in Havana, but attended not only by members of her team but also other practitioners, policy-makers, and some researchers. The audience came from a wide range of disciplines and organisations. The first talk was about transport, health and inequalities. The second reported on my recent research, including the Street Mobility project, which aroused much interest among the practitioners and policy-makers present, to whom I gave a copy of the toolkit and of my slides. (Some of the researchers already knew about it and were using the toolkit in a separate project, reported elsewhere in ResearchFish) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Talk to the Geography department & invited guests at Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | I was invited to speak at an academic seminar but there audience includes not only researchers and students but also policy-makers and practitioners. For example, one of the attendees is a local city councillor and is very interested in the Street Mobility toolkit and how it might be used locally in Christchurch. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Task Force on Arterials and Public Health, USA |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | I submitted an abstract about the Street Mobility project to the TRB conference and was invited to give a presentation to the Task Force on Arterial (roads) and Health. Those attending were the members of the Task force and others, as it was an open meeting. Attendees included federal and state transport and health practitioners and policy-makers, plus a couple of academics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/am/2017/CommitteeMeetings.pdf |
Description | Transportation Research Board 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | I had a large poster presentation that included information both on the toolkit and on some of the findings from the validation in the second case study area. I was then asked to give an oral presentation to a larger audience of more senior people |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/street-mobility/publications |
Description | Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | sparked questions and discussion afterwards |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | presentation sparked questions and discussion afterwards |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | UCL Creating Connections events in Camden x2 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Made new contacts in the borough We will be inviting some of these contacts to future project events regarding feedback from local stakeholders and also dissemination |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Universities Transport Study Group Annual Conference 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | presentation sparked questions and discussion afterwards |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Universities Transport Study Group Annual Conference 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | sparked questions and discussion afterwards |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Walkability presentation at Universities Transport Studies Group Conference 2016 (Bristol) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Walkability presentation (Developing a walkability potentials model of London: Methods to create flexible tools to assess and plan for active travel) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | What is community severance and why is it important? presentation by Prof. Jenny Mindell in "Foro de Transporte y Salud", Bogota, Colombia, 7 November 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation in a seminar abour transport and health, with perspectives from UK and Colombia. Part of series of activities in South America funded by a UCL Santander Research Catalyst Award. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/street-mobility/latinamerica/index |
Description | What is community severance and why is it important? presentation by Prof. Jenny Mindell in seminar on "Exploring community severance in Chile", Santiago, Chile, 14 November 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation in a seminar about community severance. Part of series of activities in South America funded by a UCL Santander Research Catalyst Award. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | What is community severance and why is it important? presentation by Prof. Jenny Mindell in seminar on community severance, Temuco, Chile, 15 November 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation in seminar about community severance. Part of series of activities in South America funded by a UCL Santander Research Catalyst Award |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/street-mobility/latinamerica/index |
Description | Workshop with practitioners to discuss results of project |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Organised a workshop at UCL to discuss some of the project results. The workshop was attended by representatives of Department of Transport and by leading experts in the stated preference surveys, from universities and consultancy companies. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Workshop with practitioners to discuss the toolkit developed by the project |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop with practitioners to discuss and gather feedback on the toolkit developed by the project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Workshop with representatives of the Department for Transport (DfT) and other practitioners. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Members of the project suggested ways to improve methods of economic valuation, which could be integrated in the official guidance documents for policy appraisal published by DfT. Information about the project, and about the methods discussed in the workshop will be disseminated by the DfT representatives within their departments. Members of the project and DfT representatives made plans for further meetings and a possible conference to further develop and disseminate the methods discussed in this workshop. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | World Conference on Transport Research |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | sparked questions and discussion afterwards |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |