Healthy, Equitable and Sustainable Urban Mobility: promoting active travel and public transport for a post-pandemic world

This Research will provide detailed empirical evidence to inform the development of a robust evaluation, monitoring and assessment framework
for establishing the wider impact of Active Travel interventions.

The aims of the project may be summarised as:
1. To quantify the extent active travel (AT) methods have improved in urban
areas during the pandemic and associated impacts on public health and
environment.
2. To develop appropriate methodological framework to measure the extent
to which AT may result in long-term behaviour changes and public health
benefits, including the pandemic’s influence over local attitudes.
3. To implement the framework by contrasting experiences with rapid
implementation and locations with varying degrees of maturity/experience.
4. To evaluate the wider impact (benefits and costs) of alternative
implementation strategies for active travel measures, including a comparison
of rapid / tactical delivery models and traditional methods across the case
study locations.
5. To conduct a policy analysis and propose steps necessary to bring about
institutional reform to create new ways of working in partnership between
councils, state government and industry in the implementation of AT policies
that are more efficient or effective than the status quo. This will include
recommendations to integrate non-communicable diseases (NCD) and
infectious disease prevention into urban transport planning.
6. To develop guidelines and recommendations for the future evaluation of
AT measures both from the perspective of understanding success but also
building and assessing