Active Travel Academy

As part of the Active Travel Academy’s mission to create a bridge between researchers and the practitioner and activist community, we have set up a journal. Active Travel Studies – an Inter-disciplinary Journal is designed to be a forum for high-quality and relevant research on all aspects of active travel. We’ve made it open-access (meaning all its content is available to all at no cost) to minimise barriers to its use. And there are no article processing charges, thereby also making it accessible to authors from all backgrounds. You can see our publications and invitations for contributions at the journal’s home page, https://activetravelstudies.org/

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Still I Ride 2: How women of colour are challenging discourses in and through cycling December 7, 2021
Cycling has always been about more than its health, economic and environmental benefits. The rise of women cyclists coincided with the age of the new, educated and independent woman. The early moral outcry over women’s cycling outfits and alleged damage to their feminine physical features may seem ridiculous today yet cycling continues to be linked […]
Still I Ride 1: How women of colour are challenging discourses in and through cycling December 7, 2021
So, in a culture, where the car is really dominant, being a cyclist can make it feel like you’re a second class citizen. And if you already feel invisible in society, because of your identity, because of who you are or the way you look, it may seem odd that you would opt for more […]
Harrie Larrington-Spencer talks accessible cycling with Professor Rachel Aldred April 14, 2021
Professor Aldred talks to Harriet Larrington-Spencer, a researcher at Healthy Active Cities at the University of Salford. Harriet, or Harrie, developed an interest in active travel after experiencing cycling in Copenhagen and the Netherlands, and after losing the use of her left arm following a collision with a driver. Harrie discovered that while a tricycle […]
Active Travel Media Awards - the interviews part one January 28, 2021
Laura Laker interviews Fare City's Charles Critchell, the Active Travel Academy Media Awards' only double winner. In 2019 Charles won our investigations/long-term follow-up category for his piece, Burning Bridges, on the closure of Hammersmith Bridge to motor traffic, and in 2020 won the campaign or research category for a two-parter on non-commercial use of cargo […]
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods - latest evidence from the People and Places study September 23, 2020
Low traffic neighbourhoods have been around for decades – but recently many more have been deployed as part of COVID-19 interventions to help people walk and cycle more, and avoid public transport. New analysis of three years of the People and Places study in “Mini Hollands” in London, by Dr Rachel Aldred and Dr Anna […]
Cycling for Everyone: how we get there August 28, 2020
Sustrans’ and Arup’s new report, Cycling for Everyone, was published at a time when both the Black Lives Matter movement and the active travel movement are at the forefront of public discussion. Susan Claris is one of the report’s authors, and Global Active Travel Leader at Arup, and Daisy Narayanan is Sustrans’ Director of Urbanism.Coincidentally […]
Walking practices in the Global South with Daniel Oviedo and Luz Navarro August 19, 2020
The current global pandemic has pushed most cities in the Global North to rethink how we envision our streets to create car-free, safe, healthy and clean environments for its citizens. However, in the context of African cities, this transition is marked by extreme poverty, unequal access to good quality infrastructure and lack of resources. Dr Daniel Oviedo works at […]
PhDPOD: How a ‘practice theory’ approach can help us make sense of cycling experiences, cultures, and activism July 30, 2020
Our second PhD pod showcases Dr. Rorie Parsons’ PhD research. Rorie used a range of different qualitative methods, including archival analysis, interviews, and ride-alongs, to explore cycling cultures and cycling advocacy in Newcastle. This takes in both contemporary practices and those that came before them, exploring links between what cycling means, how infrastructure is designed […]
PhDPOD: New qualitative research delves into the why and how of active travel July 15, 2020
Some of the most exciting active travel research is done as part of a PhD, and this is our first Active Travel Podcast to showcase a couple of recent PhD studies.These two projects, from Dr. Katja Leyendecker and Dr. Emma Mbabazi, use qualitative methods to dig into the how and the why of travel. Katja’s […]
Active Travel Podcast - data in active travel, part two July 1, 2020
Data in active travel is big news right now, and this is our second in a two-part series discussing some of the latest research in the field.When a global pandemic required us to avoid public transport and, ideally, cars, making cycling's usefulness for everyday trips even more apparent, transport authorities needed to know quickly where […]

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24 Jun

A new paper published today in @Active_ATA looks at #cycling trends in #Scotland during COVID and demonstrates the positive impact reduced traffic and improved cycling infrastructure can have on cycling levels.
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22 Jun

Tomorrow! (Thursday). Going to be talking about a range of @Active_ATA research & some of what I've learnt & am learning from colleagues' & my own use of a variety of approaches/methods/data sources to study active travel related topics, from go-alongs to sensor data. https://t.co/ZKGPmDJQu6

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Next Monday, 5pm - @Sustrans and @WeAreCyclingUK present on who walks/wheels/cycles and why and how we get more of it. In person (London) or online https://t.co/C2saL0qmtF

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