Mapping London’s new Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
Rachel Aldred
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3y ago
New Year Update: final map tweaks slightly shrink LTN areas to avoid wrongly including buildings on boundary roads and to include 3 Stoke Newington filters that went in right at the end of September. As before, note that the map only covers March-September 2020, and the caveats below regarding definitions. A paper is under peer review and analysis will be shared soon. My colleagues Anna Goodman, Ersilia Verlinghieri, Irena Itova, Megan Sharkey, and I have been starting to analyse where active travel infrastructure is being built in London. There’s literature on the benefits of these kinds of s ..read more
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Low Traffic Neighbourhoods: what is the evidence from the mini-Holland interventions?
Rachel Aldred
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3y ago
Summary: we are sharing a pre-print of analysis specifically looking at LTNs within Outer London’s mini-Holland schemes. Although the ‘LTN area’ sample size is small (most intervention areas weren’t LTNs) and uncertainty about effect sizes is large, we find consistent evidence about their direction. LTNs have reduced residents’ car ownership and/or use, and the already demonstrated increase in active travel from mini-Holland schemes is higher in LTNs. Low Traffic Neighbourhoods have become a hot topic across the UK, especially in London. They form part of a series of relatively cheap and quick ..read more
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Introducing the Active Travel Academy
Rachel Aldred
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3y ago
I’ve been a bit quiet on the blog lately: partly due to some exciting news that has also meant lots of stuff to organise! As some may have seen, I’ve recently been awarded over £500,000 over three years by the Quintin Hogg Trust to set up the Active Travel Academy at the University of Westminster. Combining research, teaching, and outreach, the Academy will make connections across disciplines to generate and share new knowledge about walking, cycling, wheeling, e/micro-mobilities, and reducing car use. I’m delighted to announce that we are recruiting two posts, one Senior Lectureship & one ..read more
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Response to Select Committee Inquiry on Road Safety
Rachel Aldred
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3y ago
This is a response to the Transport Select Committee on Road Safety: I’ll submit it tomorrow. Although the deadline has passed, they are still accepting submissions. I am a Reader at the University of Westminster who specialises in active travel. I have published many peer-reviewed papers on issues including road safety, and I am currently running an 18-month project on cycling injury risk funded by the Road Safety Trust. In this brief response I will highlight some headline themes related particularly to walking and cycling, but I am happy to provide further information and/or speak to the ..read more
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Upcoming talks: March-May
Rachel Aldred
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3y ago
5th March: presenting with my colleague Georgios Kapousizis on our work on cycling injury risk at the Road Safety Analysts conference 6th March: Propensity to Cycle Tool training workshops 12th March: presenting on gender and cycling for a Sustrans stakeholder workshop event in Edinburgh 15th March: presenting on research impact and stakeholder engagement to a day conference at Cardiff University 16th March: presenting on transport and equity for Labour Cycles national active travel summit, in London 21st-22nd March: presenting in Brussels on infrastructural interventions & active travel u ..read more
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Upcoming Talks – Jan/Feb 2019
Rachel Aldred
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3y ago
A few upcoming talks this month and next… London, Birmingham, Hertford and Madrid! Tuesday 22nd January (tomorrow), a talk to Herts County Council staff on the potential and impacts of transformational change in how we travel. Thursday 24th January, I’m speaking on qualitative research on perceptions of driving and cycling (completely new presentation, based on a paper from the People & Places study) as part of UDL’s Cycling Review. Thursday 31st January, *three* talks. Firstly a keynote at the ACT TravelWise conference in Birmingham, secondly a phone seminar for the Faculty of Public Heal ..read more
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Scaling Up ‘good enough’ evaluation of small active travel schemes
Rachel Aldred
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3y ago
Based on a soon-to-be-published Journal of Transport and Health paper: to follow. [Now available – free link here will work till Feb 12th] There are various problems with transport appraisal when it comes to walking and cycling schemes. Our scheme appraisal systems developed in the age of the car, hence their metrics focus on delivering benefits for motorists – particularly ‘time savings’ benefits. This has created a two-fold problem for walking and cycling. Firstly, because these modes have generally been ignored or marginalised within modelling and appraisal: in the UK, most area-wide tran ..read more
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Transport Committee Inquiry into Active Travel
Rachel Aldred
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3y ago
There’s a House of Commons Transport Committee Inquiry into Active Travel. While formally it closed last month, they are still accepting written submissions. Here’s mine: I am an academic working in the field of active travel who has published over 25 peer-reviewed journal articles on topics from injuries and near misses, to impacts of interventions, to equity and potential for growth. I am happy to provide more information or appear in person before the Committee to discuss my own and other authors’ research on the topic (including not yet published findings). Please find below a brief summ ..read more
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La Bicicleta Eléctrica: potencial, beneficios, requerimientos
Rachel Aldred
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3y ago
He escrito este pequeño articulo para #CienciaenelParlamento. Con disculpas por el mal uso del subjuntivo! Estoy aprendiendo… En este resumen hablo principalmente de ‘pedelec’ bicis. La UE define pedelecs como bicicletas con asistencia motorizada (eléctrica) que producen ayuda hasta el ciclista alcanza 25 kph y cuyo motor produce una potencia nominal continua máxima de no más de 250 vatios. Generalmente en países europeos, estas bicicletas están consideran como bicicletas normales según la ley, pero otras (par ejemplo, ‘speed pedelecs’ que puedan alcanzar 45 kph con asistencia motorizada) est ..read more
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Inequidad y atropellos viales
Rachel Aldred
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3y ago
This is my first blog post in Spanish. I’ve been learning and wanted to improve my professional Spanish – so thought some occasional short blog posts might be a nice way to do this. Muchas gracias a Gustavo Romanillos por tu ayuda. Recientemente, analicé los datos de una extensa encuesta británico, la Encuesta Nacional de Viajes (NTS). Estaba interesada en lesiones viales, especialmente lesiones de tipo ‘leve’, casi nunca reportadas. Desde 2007, la NTS preguntaba a sus participantes si habían experimentado un ‘accidente de tráfico’ en los tres últimos años. Si la respuesta es ‘si’, la encues ..read more
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