Messaging, Emergencies, and Public Disontent: Implementing Active Travel Initiatives During COVID-19
Public Participation in Transport in Times of Change
ISBN: 978-1-80455-038-0, eISBN: 978-1-80455-037-3
Publication date: 3 May 2023
Abstract
Given the unprecedented scale of the climate emergency and the need for swift and radical change in how we travel, it is important for local authorities to consider how best to use their ‘authority’ to initiate sustainable change. However, without collective decision-making, longstanding issues around equity, real, and perceived injustices will trump any good intentions and policies. In this chapter, I attempt to make sense of why the initial stages of the Emergency Active Travel Fund (EATF) a mobility scheme designed to tackle two emergencies – the pandemic and the climate – largely failed in the eyes public, even though it was designed with their benefit in mind.
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Acknowledgements
This research was funded through the UKRI Economic and Social Research Council's Impact Acceleration Account and administered through the Leeds Social Sciences Institute. The project, ‘Sustaining Active Travel Neighbourhoods’ was co-designed by Robin Lovelace, Morgan Campbell, Margo Hanson, and Paul Chatterton (University of Leeds) in partnership with the Connecting Leeds team at Leeds City Council.
Citation
Campbell, M. (2023), "Messaging, Emergencies, and Public Disontent: Implementing Active Travel Initiatives During COVID-19", Hansson, L., Sørensen, C.H. and Rye, T. (Ed.) Public Participation in Transport in Times of Change (Transport and Sustainability, Vol. 18), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 117-136. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2044-994120230000018009
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:Emerald Publishing Limited
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