Masters
Sustainable Transport
Setting policy & WelTAG
Cycling & PTAL

Cycling & PTAL

Task: ID max acceptable walking & cycling distancnes to public transport stops, & local destinations

  • Use time map eg radiusmapper.com
  • Comaps
  • Maximum and minium travel times
  • What obstacles are in place - psychological
  • Old layd, young mother with pram, young disabled man with wheelchair and car
  • What is acceptable depends on ability
  • Ability is really dependent
  • carrying things
  • What is acceptable and unacceptable. Depends on the setting. Depends on ability and dependents.
  • Availability of lighting, condition of pavements
  • Transport Scotland guidance
  • NHS figures on how long to walk for healthy living
  • Look at CoMaps for walking distance data
  • Pollution levels
  • Noise as a psychological barrier
  • Gradients map
  • Weather map and shelter along the routes
  • What academic studies are available to look at what makes travel acceptable, and by ability as well.
  • Accessibility issues - making as accessible as possible. Sheltered & social housing closer to services.
  • Active Travel Guidance - no more than 2 miles walking, 5 miles
  • W Chartered institute of transport and er, what was it? Jack
  • locations. multi-drop. Actual journies made.
  • Sociological map of who is talking to who. And then actual map of journeys made. Incentive to ask people, what journeys do they make, actually which journies they make. Choose by sortition, paid to report on journies made. Journey diary. Or tracker?!
  • Temporal representations of journeys on GIS. Data fades over time, fresh data, bright data.
  • Use 85th percentile, not based on the 100% outliers who love walking
  • Or use of the mean
  • acceptable walking Wakenshaw & Bunn 2015
  • cycling iRPT 2019
  • Time or distance? Or enjoyability of journey.
  • Different services and different audiences. What are the local services? Across range of different populations.
  • National Travel Survey Wales - actual data from journey diaries
  • Measuring time, measuring experience, more pleasurable environment
  • Transport and regeneration. And Reclaim The Streets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reclaim_the_Streets
  • Resting places for every so many minutes - street furniture and shelter as part of transport policy
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