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.

The Research
Our research is organised around five inter-related work strands:

Project News

Recent and upcoming Step-Change papers and  presentations:
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