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Old Oak and Park Royal – towards active travel? Full report [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
• The Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) is committed to the London mayor’s sustainable transport targets and the need to enable active travel.
Greenwood, D., Aldred, R., Gerhards, J.
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Disruption, an opportunity to facilitate long-term modal shift to cycling? Stories, lessons and reflections from the COVID-19 pandemic

open access: yesActive Travel Studies, 2023
The study utilises the ‘natural experiment’ of COVID-19 to explore how disruption affected individuals’ perceptions and experiences of cycling, through semi-structured interviews with eight cycle-shop owners and 30 residents in the Liverpool City Region,
Malachy Buck
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Tradeoffs between Time Allocations to Maintenance Activities/Travel and Discretionary Activities/Travel [PDF]

open access: yesTransportation, 2006
This paper focuses on the tradeoff in time allocation between maintenance activities/travel and discretionary activities/travel. We recognize that people generally must travel a minimum amount of time in order to allocate one unit of time to the activity.
Chen, Cynthia Q, Mokhtarian, Patricia L
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Situating divergent perceptions of a rapid-cycling network in Montréal, Canada

open access: yesActive Travel Studies, 2023
As cities work to accelerate sustainable-transport transitions, the expansion of cycling networks has become a significant topic of debate. Even as cycling mode shares are increasing across a number of North American contexts, ‘bikelash’ (i.e.
Ahmed M El-Geneidy   +3 more
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Introduction to the Special Issue - Electric Micromobility Futures

open access: yesActive Travel Studies, 2023
This introduction to the Special Issue on Electric Micromobility Futures highlights the phenomenal growth of availability and use of small vehicles with electrical power assistance such as electric scooters and electric bikes.
Kiron Chatterjee, Tim Jones
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Does the Use of E-Scooters Bring Well-Being Outcomes for the User?: A Study Based on UK Shared E-Scooter Trials

open access: yesActive Travel Studies, 2023
E-scooters are a relatively new mode of travel in the UK and their impacts on physical and mental health are uncertain. Although their use does not involve physical activity directly, through walking or cycling, they might provide other well-being ...
James Woodcock   +3 more
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Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, Car Use, and Active Travel: evidence from the People and Places survey of Outer London active travel interventions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This paper reports on analysis of impacts of active travel interventions in Outer London between 2016-19. We find larger effects (decreased car ownership and use, increased active travel) in intervention areas where Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) were
Aldred, R., Goodman, A.
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“Cycling … is Not Going to Occur Naturally”: A View on the Research Agenda for Bicycle Mobility in Urban South Africa

open access: yesActive Travel Studies, 2021
Although drafting might be an effective bicycle racing practice, closely following someone else’s lead is not necessarily the best course of action when it comes to bicycle planning – particularly in emerging or starter cycling cities that have ...
Gail Jennings
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Traveling and Resting Crystals in Active Systems [PDF]

open access: yesPhysical Review Letters, 2013
A microscopic field theory for crystallization in active systems is proposed which unifies the phase-field-crystal model of freezing with the Toner-Tu theory for self-propelled particles. A wealth of different active crystalline states are predicted and characterized.
Menzel, Andreas M., Löwen, Hartmut
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Why Mobility Justice Means Prioritising Accessible Walking Environments

open access: yesActive Travel Studies, 2021
Promotion of active travel is a fixture in transport policy and planning. Yet, this paper argues, walking and the availability of comprehensive and accessible pedestrian environments have an importance for mobility justice and sustainability which is not
Caroline Anne Mullen
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