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It’s all action at Active Travel Studies!

Trans experience in urban Brighton, new data from Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and the joys and struggles of Black male cyclists in London are just some of the latest active travel reports from the University of Westminster’s Active Travel Academy. For links to the podcasts, datasets and more, see below… You can read the ATS Journal here

Listen to Matt C. Smith discuss their research into trans and non-binary experiences in Brighton and Hove

ATA’s Rachel Aldred sat down with University of Brighton PhD researcher Matt C. Smith to discuss their investigation into trans and non-binary experiences in the urban spaces of Brighton and Hove. They have two specific research areas – analysing how trans features within planning policy in the city of Brighton and Hove and the experiences of trans and non-binary residents using creative mapping sessions.

Listen to the podcast or download the transcript here.

Rachel came across Matt’s work while listening to them present at the RGS-IBG research conference.

Matt’s first academic paper based on this research is now available!

Latest data on London’s Low Traffic neighbourhoods

Since the introduction of emergency Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) from March 2020, the Active Travel Academy (ATA) has been gathering data on LTNs in London. ATA is now making the latest version of the dataset available – it runs to November 2022 and includes both modal filters and LTN area maps. Read the blog to find out more and download the datasets.

New podcast episode on the joys and struggles of Black men cycling in London

Akwesi Osei, Transport Planner at Possible, discusses his recently published research into barriers to Black men cycling in London with Dulce Pedroso, long-distance cyclist and PhD researcher at the University of Westminster’s Active Travel Academy.

Link to the podcast and show notes/links here.

Read Akwesi’s journal article co-authored with Active Travel Academy’s Rachel Aldred here.

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Add to the conversation on active travel

Issues of air pollution, climate breakdown, an inactivity epidemic, road injuries and deaths, and unequal access to transport are more urgent and relevant than ever. Does your research speak to these pressing policy problems? Active Travel Studies (ATS) welcomes submissions from those taking a critical approach to these themes.
Very nearly in its third year, the ATS Journal is a flourishing forum for high-quality and relevant research on all aspects of active travel. It forms part of the Active Travel Academy (ATA)’s mission to create a bridge between researchers and the practitioner and activist communities.
The ATA at the University of Westminster brings together a broad spectrum of expertise to lead research, teaching and knowledge exchange on walking, wheeling, cycling and other active modes, use of ‘micromobilities’ and reduction in car use.
The ATA believes all disciplines and expertise are needed to address the acute global problems that car-dominated transport systems have created and takes a critical approach to pressing policy problems, drawing on a wide range of tools and methods, from Big Data to (auto)ethnography.
It was important to founding editors Tom Cohen and Rachel Aldred that the journal was as accessible as possible, for both readers and contributors, which is why it is available open-access (all content is available to all at no cost) and there are no article processing charges.
The ATS Journal fills a gap in the academic market. “There are numerous transport journals, but none that addressed active travel specifically, despite it receiving growing attention as a topic,” says Tom. “We hope we are helping to cement the status of active travel as a major part of the transport discourse, amongst researchers, practitioners and activists.”
ATS is a good shop window for authors working on walking, wheeling, cycling and other forms of active travel. The fact that it’s open access means there are no barriers to those who want to read the material and, with no article processing fees, authors themselves are not out of pocket.
“We would like ATS to be well known and well respected as the primary source of recent research on all aspects of active travel,” says Tom.
To access all issues of the ATS Journal and to make submissions, in written and/or multimedia formats, please visit https://activetravelstudies.org/