
Design and Maintain Healthy Urban Design for Walking
The aim of the project is to increase knowledge about how pedestrian traffic can be increased, and how the safety situation for this mode of transport can be improved, by combining knowledge from a broad architectural perspective, with health science, policy research and innovation.
From a sustainability, climate and health perspective, to travel on foot is a central type of transport to achieve overall national and international goals. Traveling on foot also has a central and clear role and function in daily travel. The form of the built environment plays a key role as an enabler or inhibitor of urban outdoor activities such as walking. Different groups also have different demands, requirements and motivational factors. Likewise, different built environments – because of climate-related factors, other societal demands on the built environment and different mobility cultures – are more or less aligned to individual groups’ demands.
This project has two overall goals to increase knowledge about how pedestrian traffic can be increased and how the safety situation for this mode of transport can be improved, by combining knowledge from a broad architectural perspective, with health science, policy research and innovation. Specifically, the research will focus on how a healthy urban design for walking as a mode of transport can be conceived, designed, and maintained based on the needs and requirements of specific groups of pedestrians.
Participating researchers at Luleå University of Technology:
- Luisa Merlo, Doctoral Student in Architecture.
- Charlotta Johansson, Associate Professor in Architecture.
- David Chapman, Senior Lecturer in Architecture.
- Finn Nilson, Visiting Professor in Architecture.
- Agneta Larsson, Associate Professor in Physiotherapy.
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