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Understanding transport behaviour change and changing transport modelling

STEP-CHANGE (Sustainable Transport Evidence and modelling Paradigms: Cohort Household Analysis to support New Goals in Engineering design) is an EPSRC funded project that brings together a research team from the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) at the University of Leeds, the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Birmingham, and the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change (CRESC) at the University of Manchester.

This project has two main goals:

• To better understand how people's transport and travel practices have changed in the past and how they might change in the future.
  
• To develop new transport modelling paradigms that will better account for the complexity of people's practices and enable the planning of a more sustainable future.
  

Ultimately, the project is intended to provide researchers and planners with the tools for building more resilient and sustainable urban environments.

For more information about our research click Here.

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Project News

Recent and upcoming Step-Change papers and  presentations:

• Timms P, Tight M, Watling D, (2014), "Imagineering mobility: constructing utopias for future urban transport" Environment and Planning A 46(1) 78 – 93 
  
• Rajé, F. (2013). 'Visions to Step-Change: Embedding participation in transport research'. Modelling on The Move, Seminar 5 - Participatory Modelling, University of Birmingham, 20 November 2013.
• Rajé, F.; Tight, M.; Timms, P; Watling, D. (2013). 'Promotion of walking in the suburbs: the role of urban design & provision of quality space'. Presented at Walk21 - Munich, XIV International Conference on Walking and Liveable Communities, Munich, Germany, 11-13 September 2013,
• Alternative narratives of the transport system. Presented at 'Making Mixed Methods work in Transport Research' 20th June 2013, University of Leeds.

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Forthcoming Event:


'The Time of Mobile Methods' Dr N Moore, Dr A Miles & Dr C Lewis
Panel at British Sociological Society Annual         Conference http://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/bsa-annual-conference.aspx

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