Our research

Urban, transport and mobility planning have a major impact on how people can use the urban spaces and how people can move in the city. Thus, by exploring how urban public spaces and spaces of mobility can be transformed and redeveloped for people and not for cars, peoples’ physical activities can increase by moving through urban spaces as pedestrians or cyclists. This will also have a major impact on people’s health and well-being as well as on the sustainability of the urban transport and mobility systems. For this, our research focuses on how planning processes are conducted and how power relations affect this process in favour of motorized modes of transport or active modes.

Aims

• To improve the transport and mobility systems in order to increase healthy modes of transport.
• To unravel power relations in urban and transport planning that contribute to unsustainable and unhealthy transport and mobility systems. 
• To contribute to a just and sustainable transport and mobility system

Impact

Hopefully, research on urban and transport planning in relation to health can make an impact on how people can move and use urban space in a more active and healthy way. This is being done through a focus on active modes of transport, such as walking and cycling.

How our research contributes to CoPARLU

By researching how we can plan our societies and cities for more active modes of transport this research taps very well into the network of CoPARLU.