Active Travel Academy » Tuesday 27th July – Active Travel Policies and Perceptions

Today’s theme is ‘Active Travel Policies and Perceptions’.

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Presentations

Mind the gap: exploring the growing gulf between high quality evidence in support of active travel and the paucity of implementation by local authorities – John Whitelegg

Understanding why the adoption of sustainable mobility practices is different between urban areas – Miguel Loyola, John Nelson, David Levinson, Geoffrey Clifton

A reality check on active travel. Assessing the difference between sustainable mobility policy and practice in Malta – Maria Attard, Suzanne Maas, Carlos Cañas

Deconstructing accessibility – discursive barriers for increased cycling in Sweden – Janet van der Meulen, Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren

Reframing Cycling – M. Cristina Caimotto

Quickviews

The Active Travel Media Awards celebrate excellent media coverage of cycling and walking. But what makes such coverage excellent, and why is it important? This showcase collects together a selection of key ideas and views from shortlistees and others related to the 2020 awards. Links to the nominated articles referred to are available below the showcase.

Nominations for the 2021 awards will open in September 2021.

Active Travel in the Media (video showcase)

Individual videos, along with the related articles that were shortlisted for the 2020 awards:

Marcia Veiga on the importance of stories in drawing people to active travel.
- Marcia’s orignal article
David Bocking on representing research in local media.
- David’s original article
Charles Critchell on why communicating research to people through extended journalistic formats is important.
- Charles’s original article part 1 and part 2
Sarah Berry on narrating new experiences of active travel.
- Sarah’s original article
Tom Wall on how journalists should try and cover disputed topics in active travel coverage.
- Tom’s original article
Emma Latham Phillips on unequal access to green spaces, and representing the voices of others.
- Emma’s original article
Lucy Marstrand-Taussig on children’s school travel in the time of Covid.
- Lucy’s original article
Clyde Loakes on how Waltham Forest went from a local to national story.

Further reading & resources

Websites and Organisations

FareCity – “A think tank and social enterprise dedicated to the co-creation of fairer cities.”

Mobile Lives Forum – “A mobility research institute that is preparing the transition to more desirable and sustainable lifestyles.”

Possible (Travel area) – “At Possible, we want to see a zero carbon society, built by and for the people of the UK, and we want to see this fast.”

Shropshire Climate Action (Transport Theme) – “The many ways that people can retain the independence of easy transport in ways that are regenerative and keep us within the necessarily tight carbon budgets that will keep us safe.”

Academic and Grey Literature

Aldred, R. (2012) Governing transport from welfare state to hollow state: The case of cycling in the UK, Journal of Transport Policy 23(2) pp. 95-102, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2012.05.012. Also available Open Access from rachelaldred.org.

Attard, M., 2020. Mobility justice in urban transport – the case of Malta. Transportation Research Procedia, 45, 352–359, https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2352146520301885

Caimotto, M. C., 2020. Discourses of Cycling, Road Users and Sustainability [online]. Cham: Springer International Publishing, http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-44026-8

Cohen, T., 2020. Tools for addressing transport inequality: A novel variant of accessibility measurement. Journal of Transport Geography [online], 88, 102863. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0966692320309406

Loyola, M., Nelson, J., Clifton, G., and Levinson., D., 2021. Narratives in Transport Research, Sydney. Available Open Access from the University of Sydney.

Van Der Meulen, J. and Mukhtar-Landgren, D., 2021. Deconstructing accessibility – discursive barriers for increased cycling in Sweden. Mobilities,, 1–16, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17450101.2021.1902240.

Whitelegg, J. and Haq, G., 2017. The Global Transport Problem: Same Issues but a Different Place. In: The Earthscan Reader on World Transport Policy and Practice, Routledge, 34–57, Available Open Access from ResearcGate.net.

Winters, M., Buehler, R., and Götschi, T., 2017. Policies to Promote Active Travel: Evidence from Reviews of the Literature. Current Environmental Health Reports [online], 4 (3), 278–285. http://doi.org/10.1007/s40572-017-0148-x. Also available Open Access from ResearchGate.net.

Listen to the ATA Podcast

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Dr. Harrie Larrington-Spencer, Research Fellow at the Active Travel Academy, interviews Professor Aimi Hamraie, who directs the Critical Design Lab, and whose research focuses on disability, accessibility, and urban design. Show notes and transcript link available at https://blog.westminster.ac.uk/ata/accessibility-and-urban-design-ata-podcast-20241/. Show notes by Professor Rachel Aldred and podcast editing by Chris Gregory of Alternative Stories. Hosted on […]
Queering Cartographic Methods July 6, 2023
Rachel Aldred, Professor of Transport and Director of the Active Travel Academy, interviews Ellis Fannin, a PhD researcher at the University of Manchester, about their research on queering cartographic methods. Show notes and transcript link available at https://blog.westminster.ac.uk/ata/queering-cartographic-methods/. Thanks to Ellis and to our ATA interns, Rob Coates (who prepared and edited the audio files) […]
Barriers to Black men cycling in London June 1, 2023
Dulce Pedroso, PhD researcher at the Active Travel Academy, interviews Akwesi Osei of Possible about his research into barriers to Black men cycling in London. Show notes and transcript link available at https://blog.westminster.ac.uk/ata/barriers-to-black-men-cycling-in-london-ata-podcast-3/. Thanks to Akwesi and Dulce and to our ATA interns, Rob Coates (who prepared and edited the audio files) and James Stevenson […]
Planning for Trans Futures May 2, 2023
Professor Rachel Aldred, Director of the Active Travel Academy, interviews Matt C. Smith of Brighton University about their research into trans in planning, and trans experiences in the city. Show notes and transcript link available at https://blog.westminster.ac.uk/ata/planning-for-trans-futures-ata-podcast-20232/ Thanks to Matt and to our interns, Rob Coates (who prepared and edited the audio files), James Stevenson […]
Neurodiversity in the City April 4, 2023
Professor Rachel Aldred, Director of the Active Travel Academy, interviews Dr. Therese Kenna of University College Cork about her research into experiences of neurodivergence in the city. Show notes and transcript link available at https://blog.westminster.ac.uk/ata/new-ata-podcast-season/ Thanks to Therese and to our interns, Rob Coates (who prepared and edited the audio files) and James Stevenson (who […]
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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 […]

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