Walking & Wheeling Archives - Page 8 of 12 - National Centre for Accessible Transport

Shared space: Negotiating sites of (un)sustainable mobility

Shared mobility spaces have become increasingly popular internationally as attempts to increase the uptake of active travel modes (walking, cycling…

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Transport accessibility for wheelchair users: A qualitative analysis of inclusion and health

Using the case of wheelchair users who choose to use public transport in London, this paper highlights the experiences of…

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Demographic and behavioural factors affecting public support for pedestrianisation in city centres: The case of Edinburgh, UK

This paper provides an integrated analytical framework to investigate the demographic and behavioural factors that significantly influence public support for…

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With us, we, like, physically can’t’: Transport, Mobility and the Leisure Experiences of Teenage Wheelchair Users

This paper reflects upon the experiences of 69 British teenage wheelchair users in their attempts to access leisure environments. Heiser's…

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Development of a mobility scooter finite element model

Mobility scooters (MSs) of different makes are now widely used in the UK as means of primarily providing manageable transport…

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Accessibility and user needs: Pedestrian mobility and urban design in the UK

It is over 18 years since the UK Disability Discrimination Act legislated for access in Britain's built environment and in…

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Citizenship and the embodied practice of wheelchair use

Citizenship has been associated with members of a community that engage in paid work (Painter and Philo, 1995; Desforges et…

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Urban services, pedestrian networks and behaviors to measure elderly accessibility

Relationships between the organisation of the pedestrian network and the location and distribution of activities represent an important element in…

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Making sense of diodes and sodium: Vision, visuality and the everyday experience of infrastructural change

The recognition of vision as a powerful register for organising urban space locates lighting technologies at the heart of urban…

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Road space reallocation in Scotland: A health impact assessment

Introduction: Road space reallocation involves re-distributing space away from motor vehicles, including car parking and carriageway space, towards other uses.…

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