Understanding transport behaviour change and changing transport modelling

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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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Job Opportunity 
We are seeking post graduate students or researchers who are interested in helping us code qualitative interview transcripts for the StepChange project - a longitudinal qualitative study that locates people’s travel, transport and mobility practices in the context of their life histories. The work will be undertaken on a casual basis over a period of up to 12 weeks.  Experience in the use of NVivo qualitative data analysis software is essential. Location in Manchester or the Northwest would be an advantage. Please contact Andrew Miles (andrew.miles@manchester.ac.uk) or Niamh Moore (niamh.moore@manchester.ac.uk) for further details.
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