Accessibility & User Needs in Transport for Sustainable Urban Environments - AUNT-SUE

Completed

Energy Efficiency(Transport)
Not Energy Related

Basic and strategic applied research
Applied Research and Development

SOCIAL SCIENCES (Sociology)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering)

Not Cross-cutting
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Consumer attitudes and behaviour)

Dr R Marshall
Design and Technology
Loughborough University

Standard

EPSRC

01 July 2007

31 December 2009

30 months

£296,704

Systems engineering

East Midlands

Sustainable environments and communities -- Process Environment and Sustainability

Dr R Marshall, Design and Technology, Loughborough University

Professor K Case, Sch of Mechanical and Manufacturing Eng, Loughborough University
Dr D Gyi, Human Sciences, Loughborough University

Project Contact, London Borough of Camden
Project Contact, Docklands Light Railway
Project Contact, South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Exec
Project Contact, Brighton and Hove Council
Project Contact, British Urban Regeneration Association
Project Contact, CCD Design and Ergonomics Ltd
Project Contact, RICS Foundation
Project Contact, Transport for London
Project Contact, London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Project Contact, British Transport Police
Project Contact, London Transport Users Committee
Project Contact, Bristol City Council
Project Contact, Transport for Greater Manchester
Project Contact, Hertfordshire County Council

The proposal integrates the expertise of the research centres and project partners in transport policies and planning, design, operations and evaluation. The UK government, European Commission and other agencies rightly emphasise the importance of socially inclusive and sustainable interventions. As yet, however, there is a dearth of comprehensive 'toolkits' and resources to support those who are working to reduce social exclusion in journey environments. The shared vision isto produce rigorous methodologies for sustainable policies and practices that will deliver effective socially inclusive design and operation in transport and the public realm from macro down to micro level. Three Core Projects will develop decision-support tools that will establish benchmarks and incorporate inclusion into policies, and support the design and operation of journey environments and transport facilities. A real-world but controlled 'Testbed' facility will allow these to be piloted in the context of the policy intentions and constraints that shape implementation. Solutions will then be tested and transferred to other Case Study areas and sites.Phase 2 of AUNT-SUE will build on the suite of tools developed in Phase I and apply these to intensive case studies of transport interchanges, nodes and development areas. This will both develop and test techniques to design accessible journey environments (routes and facilities) and transport provision and planning, and consult on these with people who have been identified as socially excluded from travel. Three inter-linked research modules will be validated through integrated case studies outlined below, utilising a GIS-based platform supported by CAD, relational databases and both quantitative and qualitative social surveys

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