Research Projects within the Walking as a Mode of Transport program (Walking)

Measuring Walkability: A Comprehensive Index for Enhancing Pedestrian-Friendly Environments in Latin American Cities

• Project Leader: Ana Margarita
• Larranaga Uriarte Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, School of Engineering, Laboratory of Transport Systems, (LASTRAN), Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Crime, perceived insecurity and the walking behaviours of older people: a comparative study in Chile and Mexico

• Project Leader: Giovanni Vecchio
• Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile.

Walking to School in Latin America

• Project leader:Alexandra Krstikj
• School of Architecture, Art and Design, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey State of Mexico, Mexico.

Exploring the Personal Burden and Value of Pedestrian Experiences of Women from Low Income Backgrounds in Nairobi and Dar–Salaam

• Project leader: Violet Wavire
• Kenyatta University, School of Education, Nairobi, Kenya.

From accessibility measures to the understanding of walkability

• Project Leader: Juan Pablo Ospina Zapata
• School of Applied Sciences and Engineering, Universidad EAFIT, Colombia.

Walking across borders: exploring challenges to walkability in the Global South

• Project Leader: Joseph Ferreira
• Dept of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.

Inequality in Walking the 24 hour city: temporality, intersectionality and the embodied experience in Dar es Salaam, Tshwane and Cardiff

• Project Leader: Margot Rubins
• Spatial Planning, School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, UK

Work-walks and walkscapes: Women domestic workers’ lived experiences and contexts of mobility in Lima and Mumbai

• Project Leader: Burte Himanshu
• Centre for Urban Science and Engineering (CUSE), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-B) Powai, Mumbai, India.

Long-distance walking: a wildcard of mobility futures?

• Project leader: Farzaneh Bahrami
• Urban Design and Mobility, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, Netherlands.

Walking and Freight Delivery Operations. Contrasting Space-Sharing Conflicts in Two Cities Within the Global South and North

• Project Leader: Catherine Waithera Gateri
• Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya.

Using a Peer Research Methodology to Investigate Children’s Mobility Challenges in Secondary Cities in Ghana and Liberia: A Comparative Study of Cape Coast and Ganta

• Project Leader: Jack Jenkins
• Dept of Anthropology, Durham University, South Road, Durham, UK.

Investigating young men’s experiences of walking in secondary cities: A comparative study of walking in South Africa and the United Kingdom

• Project Leader: Gina Porter
• Dept of Anthropology, Durham University, South Road, Durham, UK.

Investigating young men’s experiences of walking to the ‘bus’ in low income neighbourhoods of Cape Town and London: a comparative study built round a community peer research methodology 

• Project leader: Gina Porter
• Dept of Anthropology, Durham University, Durham, UK

Biosocial Walking: Investigating the emotions of urban walking for migrants from the global south

• Project leader: Tess Osborne
• Human Geography, Dept of Geography, Geology and the Environment, U. of Leicester, Leicester, UK

Developing An Intersectional Equity Framework to Support Walkability Transitions

• Project leader: Iderlina Mateo-Babiano
• The University of Melbourne, Urban Planning, Diversity and Inclusion, Melbourne School of Design, Australia

Urban roads: enablers or barriers to walking?

• Project leader: Karel Martens
• Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Mobile digital technology as a tool to study walkability to advance theory, policy, and practice of walking for transport

• Project leader: Tamara Bozovic
• Centre for Transport & Society, University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK

Children and Adolescents’ Everyday Walking: Experiences and Practices from an Intersectional Perspective

• Project leader: Karen S. Cuevas
• NGO La Reconquista Peatonal, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Transforming the unwalkable city: knowledge, practices, and interventions for a more inclusive future of walking in Africa

• Project leader: Daniel Oviedo
• Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London (UCL), London, UK

Walking as a mode of transport in ‘unwalkable’ contexts: Cross-city experiences from Ghana and Nigeria

• Project Leader: Enoch F. Sam
• Dept of Geography Education, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana.