LIDA-Turing Mobility and Health Workshop

13 October 2022, 9.00 AM - 13 October 2022, 5.00 PM

keynotes: James Woodcock (Professor of Transport and Health Modelling, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge) & Susan Grant-Muller (Chair in Technologies and Informatics, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds)

University of Leeds and online

The increasing awareness of health, safety, and climate challenges among the public has led to many changes in people’s travelling behaviours and lifestyle choices. How people travel and use urban space is highly associated with health, environmental outcomes, and social equality. Emerging data and methods now provide new bedrocks for understanding these relationships.
This workshop will demonstrate how new data and methods may be used to answer vital questions regarding health benefits and risks (e.g. transmission of COVID-19) of travelling and lifestyle choices, transport resilience, and the development of an inclusive, sustainable urban system. Participants will also have an opportunity to connect with a multidisciplinary community looking at these problems from different perspectives.

Topics of interest

  • Socio-economic, health and environmental drivers/impacts of travelling and lifestyle choices;
  • Understanding the impacts of various crises and incidents (e.g. COVID-19, transport disruptions and climate change) on mobility and associated activity;
  • New data and models for mobility, health, safety, and urban analytics research;
  • Challenges and opportunities in open data and reproducible transport and health research;
  • Views on transport, health policies and sustainable urban development.

Call for Abstracts
We welcome submissions of abstracts (30-150 words) on ongoing or published work that aligned with the wider topics of interest. Closing date is 3 October 2022. 

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