Tim presenting at MODEshift Convention

Tim will be presenting the 'fleximobility' work (http://www.fleximobility.solutions) from the Disruption project today at the annual MODEshift Convention in Birmingham (http://www.modeshift.org.uk/convention).

MODEshift are the UK's leading sustainable travel organisation.

AQMRC responds to the NICE consultation on outdoor air quality and health

The AQMRC recently responded to the National Institute of Clinical Excellence’s call for comments on the development of reducing the ill-effects of outdoor air quality on health. The guideline scope, can be found here: http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/GID-PHG92/documents/air-pollution-outdoor-air-quality-and-health-final-scope2 and our comments and NICE responses to each comment can be found here: http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/GID-PHG92/documents/air-pollution-outdoor-air-quality-and-health-draft-scope-stakeholder-comments-and-responses-table2

 

 

AQMRC delighted to support Bristol City Council's bid for an Ultra Low Emissions Scheme

The AQMRC are delighted to support Bristol City Council’s bid for an Ultra Low Emissions Scheme for Bristol. We look forward to the opportunity for collaboration on such an important scheme.

 

Bristol Bright Night Success!

The AQMRC were very active at the Bristol Bright Night event at @Bristol on Friday. Both Jo and Ben spent the morning explaining air pollution, challenges and solutions to schoolchildren by showing them an enormous laminated map of Bristol City and its air quality management area (which was frequently sat upon and crawled across in the search for homes and schools, by all!) The evening was also exciting, with both Jim and Tim presenting during the Green Hour talks whilst Jo and Ben continued to discuss air pollution issues with those attending (with help from the giant laminated map of course!). A big thank you should also be given to Enda for playing a key role in the event’s organisation and ultimately, it’s success!

 

 

Dr Jo Barnes responds to VW emissions scandal

Jo has been engaged widely with both radio stations and the print media in discussing the recent Volkswagen scandal. A list of her media engagements are shown here:

 

·         Live studio interview with BBC Five Live Drive (22 Sept 2015)

·         Quoted in the Daily Telegraph (23 Sept 2015) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/11883416/vw-scandal-emission-target-death-rate.html

·         Live telephone interview with BBC Radio Tees (23 Sept 2015)

• Live telephone interview with BBC Radio Bristol (29 Sept 2015)

·         Live telephone interview with BBC Scotland (w/e 25 Sept 2015)

 

 

 

Tim presenting at ESRC Behaviour Change Seminar Series

On Monday 21^st September, Tim will be giving a talk about his work on ‘behaviour’ at the Watershed in Bristol as part of the ESRC Behaviour Change Seminar Series http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/bl/research/bsmc/esrcseminarseries.aspx

 

The series is organised by Bristol Social Marketing Centre at UWE, in conjunction with partners from Capita, City University London, National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), On Target Consulting, University College London, University of Bath, University of Exeter, and the University of Manchester.

 

Presentation for Transport Planning Society in Birmingham

Tim will be leading a workshop for the Transport Planning Society in Birmingham on Thursday 30^th July on Flexi-mobility – Re-thinking Everyday Travel Patterns.

 

The work stems from the EPSRC/Energy Programme funded Disruption project.

http://www.tps.org.uk/westmidlands/events/id/0808/

 

 

 

 

Tim at 14th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research

This week Tim will be representing the Disruption project, the MOT project and the EPSRC Travel Behaviours Network at the 14th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research in Windsor (19th-23rd July).

He will be giving a presentation on 'New geographies of motoring: Variations in car type, size, usage, emissions and energy use in the UK' 

http://www.iatbr2015.org.uk/index.php/iatbr/iatbr2015/paper/view/516

UWE represented at National Air Quality Symposium, Beijing

Professor Martin Bigg and a small team of academics and environmental leaders were invited by the Consultative Committee to the State Council, China, to advise on air quality matters, and the drafting of Chinese air quality legislation.

 

During the visit (22^nd – 27^th June), Professor Bigg presented at the National Air Quality Symposium in Beijing and subsequently visited Shandong Province, Jining and Taian, where he met with national and regional leaders. During the visit, air quality management expertise developed in the UK, particularly in reference to the challenges within cities, was discussed. The recent developments and plans for the City of Bristol and the roles of both Universities and regulators in understanding and addressing air quality challenges was also highlighted.

 

There was a great deal of interest from the Chinese delegates in the UK’s experience and expertise on air quality questions, and a desire to explore further how this might be made available to them. To this end, we look forward to hearing from our colleagues in the Chinese air quality soon!

 

Travel Behaviours at the Transport Catapult

As part of the final engagement activities of the Travel Behaviour Network (http://www.travelbehaviours.net/) Tim helped organise an event on 23rd June at the Transport Catapult in Milton Keynes, and presented work from the Disruption and MOT projects there as well as running workshop sessions on them.

 

 

 

 

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Dr Tim Chatterton

Senior Research Fellow
Air Quality Management Resource Centre
Faculty of Environment and Technology
University of the West of England
Frenchay Campus
Bristol
BS16 1QY

Tel: 0117 328 2929
Fax: 0117 328 3360
Email: Tim.Chatterton@uwe.ac.uk

 

 

MOT and Disruption at the Future Cities Catapult

As part of the final engagement activities of the Travel Behaviour Network (http://www.travelbehaviours.net/) Tim helped organise an event on 15^th June at the Future Cities Catapult, and presented work from the Disruption and MOT projects there.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

 

 

_________________________________________
Dr Tim Chatterton

Senior Research Fellow
Air Quality Management Resource Centre
Faculty of Environment and Technology
University of the West of England
Frenchay Campus
Bristol
BS16 1QY

Tel: 0117 328 2929
Fax: 0117 328 3360
Email: Tim.Chatterton@uwe.ac.uk

 

 

Tim running workshop at LSx and Client Earth event

On Tuesday 7^th July, Tim will be running a workshop session on transport behaviour based around the work of the Disruption project at the London Sustainability Exchange and Client Earth event “Taking a Deep Breath: Cleaning Up London’s Air”

http://www.lsx.org.uk/news/events.aspx?id=3640

 

 

 

Disruption project 'takeover' at Annual Transport Pratitioners Meeting

On Wednesday 1^st July, Tim organised a co-ordinated set of 4 presentations and a workshop around the Disruptio project (www.disruptionproject.net) at the PTRC 2015 Annual Transport Practitioners Meeting.

The presentations consisted of:

·         David Williams on his PhD work on “Defining and delivering sustainable transport: who has the power to change the way we travel?”

·         Jillian Anable and Tom Budd’s work from Aberdeen University(presented by Tim) on “Responses and adaptability to disrupted travel patterns – a questionnaire study”

·         Noel Cass and James Faulconbridge’s work from Lancaster University on “Spatial, temporal and social factors in everyday mobility and modal choice – 3 years of ethnographic studies”
and

·         Greg Marsden and Jeremy Shires from Leeds University on “Disruption as it happens - a selection of responsive case studies”.

 

Tim, Caroline Mullen and Greg also ran a workshop on “‘Flexi-mobility’ – Re-thinking Everyday Travel Patterns” (see www.fleximobility.solutions)

_________________________________________
Dr Tim Chatterton

Senior Research Fellow
Air Quality Management Resource Centre
Faculty of Environment and Technology
University of the West of England
Frenchay Campus
Bristol
BS16 1QY

Tel: 0117 328 2929
Fax: 0117 328 3360
Email: Tim.Chatterton@uwe.ac.uk

 

 

Jo interviewed on BBC Radio Bristol

Jo was interviewed alongside Julie Girling MEP on BBC Radio Bristol on 18th June. Topics included the visit of Karmenu Vella, the EU Commissioner for the Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries to the Bristol-Bath region, sources of air pollution in the area and some strategies for reducing air pollution.

To listen again follow this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02st2kv#auto and listen from 37-45 mins

Jim, Jo and Ben at the 52nd International Making Cities Livable Conference on Achieving Green, Healthy Cities

The 52nd International Making Cities Livable Conference on Achieving Green, Healthy Cities, co-sponsored by The University of Bristol and the University of the West of England, is in Bristol this week, and the AQMRC's Jim, Jo and Ben will be ensuring that air quality features prominently. Jim will be presenting under the 'Air Pollution, Urban Noise and Health' session on Thursday afternoon delivering a talk entitled Urban Air Quality in Historical Perspective - or why we fail to learn the lessons of history, in which he will expound on the need to learn from past mistakes in order to address modern air pollution problems in urban areas. Jo and Ben will be presenting in the poster session on the same afternoon, both on the theme of 'Learning from Bristol'. Jo's poster captures research undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of local air quality action planning using Bristol as a case study, while Ben will present the findings of the Bristol European Green Capital Air Quality Masterclass that we were invited to organize by Bristol City Council on behalf of the outgoing European Green Capital City, Copenhagen.



Jo provides expert advise at Air Quality Hackathon in London this weekend

Jo will be providing expert advise at the Future Cities Catapult Air Quality Hackathon in London this weekend. The event, which has nearly 100 registrants so far, aims to get designers, data scientist and creative technologists working with a multitude of relevant datasets to come up with solutions to the following questions:

•  How could data help policymakers to make more informed decisions around air quality?
•  How could we reduce the number of short journeys made by car and encourage more active mobility?
• How could we design tools or services to help people understand the causes or effects of air pollution? 

Jo will be presenting, alongside Professor Frank Kelly (KCL) and Usman Haque (Umbrellium), on Air Quality Management and Policy to set the context for the event and will remain on-hand throughout to deal with any questions and as part of the judging panel to award the best hacks. Further details of the event can be found here: http://www.urbaninnovationcentre.org.uk/event/air-quality-hackathon

 

Disruption Citizen Workshops

Tim is in Leeds on Friday and Saturday this week, working with the Institute of Transport Studies at Leeds University running citizen engagement workshops for the Disruption project. 

www.disruptionproject.net

www.fleximobility.solutions

Jim, Jo & Huw at Air Pollution 2015

Last week, Jim Longhurst, Jo Barnes & Huw Brunt attended the 23rd International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution 2015 in Valencia, Spain. Jim & Jo, as conference co-chairs, presented the keynote and invited presentations respectively, while Huw presented on his PhD research on air quality management and public health. The conference was very well attended with 90+ delegates registered and a very interesting range of presentations from across the field. The conference proceedings are also now published: Longhurst, J.W.S.,   Capilla, C., Brebbia, C.A.  & Barnes, J. (Editors) (2015). Air Pollution XXIII. WIT Press, Southampton and Boston. pp466, ISBN: 978-1-84564-964-7. 

New publication

Following the recent Air Pollution 2015 conference, the proceedings have been published. Professor Jim Longhurst & Dr Jo Barnes are co-chairs and editors of this publication.

 

Longhurst, J.W.S.,   Capilla, C., Brebbia, C.A.  & Barnes, J. (Editors) (2015). Air Pollution XXIII. WIT Press, Southampton and Boston. pp. 466, ISBN: 978-1-84564-964-7.

Soapbox Science Success

Jo was one of 12 female scientists (though the only one from UWE) selected to participate in the Soapbox Science event in Millennium Square in Bristol yesterday afternoon. Blessed with warm sunshine and an engaged and interested audience, the event was a huge success and a lot of fun! The aim of Soapbox Science is to raise the profile of women in science, however Jo's primary goal was to raise public awareness about air pollution. Armed with a arsenal of props, an hour's worth of spiel and the mandatory white coat, Jo talked, atop her box, about what air pollution was, where it came from and what it did to us, as well as getting the audience to think about how they could reduce their own exposure as well as reduce their emissions. Given that Bristol was selected for European Green Capital status in 2015 in part for its track record on air quality management, it was apt that this subject seemed to strike such a chord with the public.