Ersilia Verlinghieri

University of Oxford | OX · School of Geography and the Environment

Go alongs are a popular research method for studying everyday mobility practices, providing insight into embodied experiences of engaging with lived environments. Generally considered positive and productive, there is increasingly discussion of go-along interviews as emotionally, cognitively and physically demanding. We consider care an essential c...

The results of Queer Mobilities can now be downloaded. The publication summarises more than 22 hours of conversations with non-binary people and women from the LGTBIQ+ community about their experiences in the public space. According to their testimony, the participants instrumentalize a series of strategies to (in)visibilize their own dissident ide...

Car dependency greatly contributes to the climate crisis and the corrosion of public space. In response, cities are introducing pedestrianisation, cycle lanes or tactical urban interventions aimed at repurposing streets for other road users. Framed as ‘experiments’, these reallocations of street space disrupt traditional transport planning procedur...

The benefits of pedestrianisation are widely acknowledged. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, cities are increasingly proposing street closures, in some cases as isolated experiments and in others with more structural ambitions. Although generally seen favourably, street closures often give rise to conflicts. Existing literature on conflicts in pedes...

In this paper, we propose a mixed methods quantitative and qualitative approach to capture fully the measurable and less tangible social impacts of transport projects on local people and communities. The approach was used to assess the potential social impacts of a strategic road by-pass project case study in a deprived region of Wales in the UK. T...

In this article we examine equity in new active travel infrastructure in London, UK. We focus on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) introduced during Covid-19. These area-based schemes mainly involve ‘modal filters’ that restrict through motor traffic from residential streets within a neighbourhood. Such approaches to traffic management are traditio...

Transport-related carbon emissions have a wide range of detrimental health effects for the global population. At the same time, they play a key role in the aggravation of climate change which, in itself, is a main threat to human livelihoods and wellbeing. Although the COVID-19 pandemic brought a temporary and unexpected decrease in emissions, main...

This article explores how transport planning can contribute to improving human health and wellbeing. It explores the negative health outcomes linked to oil-based and motorized transport systems to then discussion and consider the way transport and mobility are linked to the idea of societal wellbeing. Subsequently, it considers potential policy app...

The dominant tradition in transport planning and policy practice considers travel as a derived activity and travel time as an economic disutility. A growing body of literature is challenging this perspective, demonstrating that being ‘on the move’ is a rich experience interlaced with profound shared and individual meanings that can have positive im...

In this article we examine equity in new active travel infrastructure in London, UK. We focus on Low Traffic Neighbourhood schemes (LTNs) introduced during Covid-19. These mainly involve ‘modal filters’ that restrict through motor traffic from residential streets. Such approaches to traffic management are traditional in the Netherlands, but relativ...

Transport is one of the few sectors of the economy that is continuing to see greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions grow in a majority of nations in both the Global North and Global South. With urbanization continuing, low carbon urban transport policies (LCUTP) are therefore critical for preventing dangerous climate change effects. At the same time, LCUTP...

For decades sustainability has been proposed as a framework for a necessary paradigm shift in transport planning. However, critical scholars have shown how this concept, presented with a strong emphasis on economic growth, has limited capacity to truly challenge the current transport-related environmental and social crises or to constitute an ecolo...

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is an important tools to integrate evidence in the decision-making process, and introduce health in all policies. In urban and transport planning, HIAs have been used generally to assess qualitatively urban interventions rather than offering more useful/powerful estimations to stakeholders through quantitative approac...

Ringland is crow-brained and crow-funded road tunnelling project for a six billion euro investment that has been completely initiated and developed bottom-up by local citizens. It has been proposed in response to the government’s plan to complete the ring road around the city of Antwerp, with the aim to mitigate its damaging health impacts. What ca...

This special issue brings together contributions from the three diverse perspectives of its co-editors – urban geography, planning and transport studies. Its primary aim is to think through the relevance and utility of contested mobilities as a framing concept, and Latin America as a paradigmatic case. In particular, we ask the question: what can s...

Introduction: Urban and transport planning have large impacts on public health, but these are generally not explicitly considered and/or quantified, partly because there are no comprehensive models, methods and tools readily available. Air pollution, noise, temperature, green space, motor vehicle crashes and physical activity are important pathway...

The aim of this report is to provide a social assessment of the impacts of Section 3 of the A465 Heads of the Valleys Road: Brynmawr to Tredegar, using a mixed methods approach which adapts and builds on the UK WebTAG appraisal guidance units 4.1 and 4.2. We define social assessment in this document as a study of the social and distributional impac...

The world is currently witnessing its largest surge of urban growth in human history; a trend that draws attention to the need to understand and address health impacts of urban living. Whilst transport is instrumental in this urbanisation wave, it also has significant positive and negative impacts on population health, which are disproportionately...

International conference on transportation and public health will bring together policy makers, practitioners and academics from multiple disciplines involved with transport planning, engineering, urban planning, public health, spatial and architectural design, environmental planning, and economics. Held with the US Centers for Disease Control and...

Transport poverty is an issue that has never fully captured the interests of the transport engineering profession in either the ‘global north’ or ‘global south’ and yet it is a problem that adversely affects the daily lives of millions of people across the globe. What precisely constitutes transport poverty is not adequately articulated within acad...

Background: The recent diesel scandal has again highlighted the impact that the transport sector can have on public health. Aim: To describe the current impact of transport planning on public health. Result: Transport is fundamental to our cities' economic and social development, but causes large health effects and impact through accidents, ai...

Presented in the Urban visions and Pathways Session at the 2015 RGS conference. Presents work in progress

Our research is based on analyses of broad literature, collection of original material through fieldwork, and personal experience in L’Aquila, an Italian city heavily da- maged by an earthquake in 2009. We took this site as a context of induced scarcity and of some Grassroots Urban Initiatives developed within it. After giving a broad narrative of...