About the project......

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 cross-disciplinary 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 create a better understanding of the factors underlying people's transport practices, and in particular, to better understand changes to transport behaviour.
  
• To develop new transport modelling paradigms that will better represent, and account for, the complexity of people's transport practices.
  

The knowledge and modelling paradigms developed as part of this project will provide a foundation for building more resilient and sustainable urban environments.

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

• Strand 1 - The qualitative panel study
• Strand 2 - Compiling historical information on transport and planning
• Strand 3 - Integrating knowledge sources
• Strand 4 - Planning visions of urban resilience
  
• Strand 5 - Development of new transport modelling paradigms

Project News

Recent and upcoming Step-Change papers and  presentations:

• ‘(Re)using Qualitative Data in Transport Modelling’ . Modelling on the Move: Towards Transport System Transitions - Seminar 3: Qualitative Data and Transport Modelling, Friday 12th April 2013, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge.
  
• Timms, P. (forthcoming). Imagineering mobility: Constructing utopias for future urban transport. Environment and Planning A.
  
• 'Mobilities' presentation @ Reconceptualising the object of qualitative longitudinal research: Duration and Seriality, New Frontiers in QLR workshop, March 18 2013, Quaker Meeting House, Manchester.
• 'Mobility Biographies' presentation @ at the 2013 BSA Annual Conference 'Engaging Sociology', 3-5 April, Grand Connaught Rooms, London.

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Transport and Mobilities News

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