| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/N33638/01 |
| Title: |
REDUCING CHILDREN'S CAR USE: THE HEALTH & POTENTIAL CAR DEPENDENCY IMPACTS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Mackett, Professor R |
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| Department: |
Civil Environmental and Geomatic Eng |
| Organisation: |
UCL |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 January 2001 |
Ends: |
29 February 2004 |
Value (£): |
317,058
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| Transport Ops & Management |
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Transport Systems and Vehicles |
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The purpose of this research is to investigate the effects of increased car use by children, particularly for travelling to school. This is having a detrimental impact on children's physical activity and health, and may be leading to increased car dependency. There are a number of initiatives in the field of school travel such as Safe routes to school and Walking buses . The project will investigate the outcomes of these in terms of health and potential car dependency. Health impacts will be assessed by measuring quantities of physical activity and expediture of energy using body motion sensors and pedometers, and by measuring degrees of obesity by using skinfold calipers and body fat impedence meters. Potential car dependency will be assessed by collecting data on car use at various stages in the school career and comparing it with previous experience, for example by seeing whether car use at secondary school is influenced by school travel initiatives at the primary school stage, and whether the attitudes of 17 year olds to learning to drive and obtaining cars are influences by their previous car use.
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