Interested in the launch of Leeds' multi million-pound community project that encourages new zero-carbon mobility?

An article by Zag Daily shares further insights on the work, in conversation with Greg Marsden (@ITSLeeds).

👉Read the story: zagdaily.com/places/leeds-l…

Could you live without a car? Read some thoughts in Greg Marsden's excellent opinion piece: tinyurl.com/ybsutkdv Faculty of Environment - University of Leeds,

At Brighton Uni today joining my ELEVATE team environment.leeds.ac.uk/transport-soci… who are presenting ongoing analysis of our work to understand potential for where and who domestic use e-cargo bikes helps #decarbonisation & co-benefits like health _Micromobility_ Institute for Transport Studies at Leeds #ebike

The systems could include car clubs, responsive taxi-style bus services and shared bicycle and e-scooter schemes 🛴🚌

The £7.8m plan is being led by Institute for Transport Studies at Leeds, along with research partners Royal College of Art and Lancaster University and is being funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

A multimillion-pound project to encourage people in Leeds to design and try an alternative to private vehicle ownership has been announced🚗

The INFUZE study will ask communities across Leeds to help design bespoke alternative systems.

A new collaboration will encourage people in Leeds to design and try alternatives to private vehicle ownership.

Led by Greg Marsden Institute for Transport Studies at Leeds, partners include Leeds Council News West Yorkshire Combined Authority Calderdale Council Department for Transport Transport for the North.

Read more:
leeds.ac.uk/main-index/new…

You can still register for the 3rd Human-Centered VRU Simulation Workshop. Please see the programme and registration information below.

uolds.leeds.ac.uk/news/3rd-vru-w…

Institute for Transport Studies at Leeds Faculty of Environment - University of Leeds

REMINDER: applications are open for the Data Science MSc Scholarship for people from underrepresented groups.

👩🏾‍💻 Worth £10,000 per student
🔓 Open to data science and non-STEM students
📆 Deadline 12 midday, Monday 10th June 2024.

Find out more:
lida.leeds.ac.uk/data-science-m…

🚀Thrilled to announce my new role as a Lecturer in Data Science of Transport at the Institute for Transport Studies🚌🚲🚃, University of Leeds! Looking forward to contributing to innovative research and teaching in this dynamic field.📚🌟 #UniversityOfLeeds

'Hands-off driving assistance systems steam ahead' by Professor Oliver Carsten, Institute for Transport Studies at Leeds & PACTS

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🚦New publication alert!

'Interpreting pedestrians' head movements when encountering automated vehicles at a virtual crossroad' by Yue Yang, Yee Mun Lee, Ruth Madigan, Albert Solernou, & NatashaMerat.

Key findings 👇

Full text: doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.…

Want to take your knowledge to the next level with a Masters?
If you do, join us at our upcoming events👇

🗣In-person, Masters Study Fair
📍Outside Leeds University Union
📅Wednesday 8 and Thursday 9 May
🕰️10am-4pm

💻Masters Study and Funding online event
📅Wednesday 5 June
🕰️12-1pm

Data in LASER, the cloud-based Trusted Research Environment, is now available through 23 SafePods across the UK.

Find out how you can benefit in Leeds Institute for Data Analytics's short webinar, this Thursday 2 May.

About the event:
environment.leeds.ac.uk/events/event/6…

Join Science Media Centre UK and University of Leeds Press Office on Monday 13 May for a free talk about research in the media, why journalists need scientists, and how you can help shape media narratives.

Find out more:
environment.leeds.ac.uk/events/event/6…

📢A recently published research paper from colleagues at Institute for Transport Studies at Leeds investigates how fairness plays a role in planning decarbonised transport systems.

👉Read 'A just transition or just a transition?' sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Colleagues Institute for Transport Studies at Leeds driving the research agenda in this space. Highly recommended!

Recently spoke to researchers looking at impact of e-cars on the electricity grid. I wrote a blog wondering if e-bikes / e-cargo bikes might be a piece in the jigsaw puzzle of dealing with the issues blogs.brighton.ac.uk/elevate/2024/0… _Micromobility_

Delighted to be one of the recipients. Exciting things ahead and cannot be achieved without the brilliant team Human Factors @ ITS Leeds and Institute for Transport Studies at Leeds.

My PhD research (Mobility as a Service for Women and Goods Movement in SubSaharan Africa) won 🥇 💃🏽 in the Young Researchers Competition TRA Visions, the category of Crossmodality (Passenger Transport)
Thank you TRA
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'Enough is enough'

Road safety expert Dr Ian Greenwood spoke to #BBCBreakfast as 30 families bereaved by fatal road crashes call for graduated licences where restrictions are placed on new drivers

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…