The Centre for Transport Studies is pleased to welcome
Owen Waygood, of the Travel Behaviour Laboratory (Kyoto University)
to lead this afternoon's CTS seminar entitled
Children in Transit Oriented Developed Japan:
Connections with Neighbours, Independent Travel, and Exercise
to be held
This afternoon, 15 April at 16:00
Please join us for presentation and discussion at
Room 601, Skempton Building, Imperial College London
(Maps and travel directions: www.imperial.ac.uk/cts/html/Miscellaneous/travelDirections.asp<http://www.imperial.ac.uk/cts/html/Miscellaneous/travelDirections.asp>)
About the Seminar
Children's travel in many developed countries has been shown to be increasingly by automobile. This should be a concern to society as: patterns established as children often carry through to adulthood; the increased car trip generation contributes to congestion, traffic danger, pollutants, and GHGs; and the children lose independence, daily exercise, and other developmental benefits of non-motorised travel. Most research on children has come from the UK and North America, which both have Anglo-Saxon traditions with urban planning roots in the UK. Japan has its own distinct history and recent urban planning concepts in keeping with the German model of separating industrial uses, but allowing mixed land-use in most other areas. This talk will discuss findings from several studies in the Osaka metropolitan area that discuss how the built environment and a connection with neighbours influences children's independent travel and exercise.
About the Speaker
Owen Waygood is a PhD Candidate in Civil Engineering Travel Behaviour at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. He is originally from the prairies of Canada, and has spent time living in the UK and several countries in mainland Europe. His primary research looks at how the built environment affects travel behaviour in Japan with respect to sustainable transport.
About the CTS Seminar Series
The CTS seminar series aims to facilitate discussion on current research topics in the transport field. Seminars are held jointly with our colleagues in the Centre for Transport Studies at University College. They are usually held on Wednesday afternoons at Imperial College London or University College London. Seminars are free of charge and open to all interested parties. Booking is not required.
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