LAQM Consultation meeting

The Air Quality Management Resource Centre, UWE, is hosting a meeting on 1^st August to help decide the future of air quality management in England. The meeting, which will be attended by Defra and air quality professionals across the country, is in response to Defra’s consultation on the future of Local Air Quality Management in England (see https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/local-air-quality-management-in-england-review).

"Watch A City Decide Its Low-Carbon Future On This Awesome Website" - US magazine article on 'Future Bristol'

US Magazine 'Fast Company' interviewed Rose last Friday about her Future Bristol website and have published a great article on the project.
Have a read here: http://www.fastcoexist.com/1682580/watch-a-city-decide-its-low-carbon-future-on-this-awesome-website

New paper on GIS and carbon benchmarking of city travel systems

Tim has just had a new paper published in the journal Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment.

The paper on 'Comparing and presenting city-level transportation CO₂ emissions using GIS' is written with ex-UWE colleagues Owen Waygood and Erel Avineri based on work undertaken as part of the EU Framework 7 CATCH project (http://www.carbonaware.eu/)

The full reference is: 

Edward Owen D. Waygood, Tim Chatterton, Erel Avineri, Comparing and presenting city-level transportation CO2 emissions using GIS, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 24, October 2013, Pages 127-134, ISSN 1361-9209

The paper can be found here:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136192091300093X

Tim doing Disruption interviews with York City Council

On 12th July, Tim will be carrying out interviews for the Disruption project at York City Council. The project is studying how recent changes in office location and flexible working practices have impacted on staff, both in their work and wider lifestyles.