The problem

Source: 'Inside the black box' report

• Transport models were designed to support growth in car ownership and reduce journey times (Boyce and Williams, 2015)

• Few tools for assessing active travel potential or provision in/around new developments

• Yet tools for transport planning and development are based on old priorities

The ActDev tool

4 month UKRI funded project on high impact research in transport/planning

Publicly available tool with maps and data on active travel levels, potential and provision

Levels of analysis

The ActDev Team

About this workshop

• Opportunity to present the tool, get feedback, help decide next steps

Providing feedback

• Go to https://actdev.cyipt.bike/feedback/

Perspectives

14:15 - 14:30

• Lynda Addison, Lead on planning and transport integration, Transport Planning Society

• Julian Sanchez, Active Travel, Programme Manager, Essex County Council

• Megan Streb, Partnership Manager, Sustrans

Panel session

14.30  - 15.00

• Graham Smith, Urban Design Group
• Robin Lovelace, Associate Professor of Transport Data Science, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds
• Lucy Taussig, Consultant, Active Travel

About the ActDev project

15:00 - 15:55

• The ActDev Tool, Robin Lovelace and Joey Talbot (15 min)
• Planning and routing data in the ActDev project, Martin Lucas-Smith (10 min)
• Traffic simulation in and around new development sites (10 min)

• Q&A (20 min)

• Breakout rooms 16:00 - 16:45

1. Locating development sites: moderator Lynda Addison
2. Policy: moderator Roger Geffen
3. Good design of development sites: moderator Joey Talbot
4. Planning/routing data: moderator Martin Lucas Smith
5. Technology: moderator Dustin Carlino

The ActDev tool

See https://actdev.cyipt.bike/

Research findings

• Median distance to town centre is 3.2 km only three within 2.0 km
• 14% of trips made by active travel around 35 sample site locations compared with 14% nationwide
• Provision of good infrastructure varies considerably

Planning applications nationwide

Location of 100k+ 'large development sites'

Analysis is work in progress

Modelling change: scenarios

Site level data

Core ActDev Layers

See https://actdev.cyipt.bike/manual/

Contextual layers

The A/B Street tool

Live demo of the tool

The importance of open data and open tools

• Transport models have a huge impact on transport planning
• More people with access to good data -> better outcomes

The ActDev Questionnaire

Your feedback will help improve our work

References

Boyce, D.E., Williams, H.C.W.L., 2015. Forecasting Urban Travel: Past, Present and Future. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Beimborn, E., Kennedy, R., 1996. Inside the Blackbox: Making Transportation Models Work for Livable Communities. Citizens for a Better Environment.

Lovelace, R., Parkin, J., Cohen, T., 2020. Open access transport models: A leverage point in sustainable transport planning. Transport Policy 97, 47–54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2020.06.015

Thanks

Thanks to the University of Leeds and the Institute for Transport Studies