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Transport and health: a personal and UK perspective (2020)
Book Chapter
Davis, A. (2020). Transport and health: a personal and UK perspective. In C. Curtis (Ed.), Handbook of Sustainable Transport (48-57). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789900477.00016

Starting in an era where three quantifiable impacts of road transport were viewed as the sum total of impacts – casualties and air and noise pollution – from the embryo of the evolving transport and health interdisciplinary field is charted from the... Read More about Transport and health: a personal and UK perspective.

Equality of restraint: Reframing road safety through the ethics of private motorised transport (2020)
Journal Article
Davis, A. L., & Obree, D. (2020). Equality of restraint: Reframing road safety through the ethics of private motorised transport. Journal of Transport and Health, 19(December), Article 100970. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2020.100970

Background: Motoring is an emancipation. It is both an individual freedom and a collective freedom with car ownership at 30, 491, 000 vehicles by 2019 in Great Britain. Yet, as the evidence of the impacts of road transport accumulates and the health... Read More about Equality of restraint: Reframing road safety through the ethics of private motorised transport.

Commuting and wellbeing: A critical overview of the literature with implications for policy and future research (2019)
Journal Article
Chatterjee, K., Chng, S., Clark, B., Davis, A., De Vos, J., Ettema, D., …Reardon, L. (2020). Commuting and wellbeing: A critical overview of the literature with implications for policy and future research. Transport Reviews, 40(1), 5-34. https://doi.org/10.1080/01441647.2019.1649317

© 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This review provides a critical overview of what has been learnt about commuting’s impact on subjective wellbeing (SWB). It is structured around a con... Read More about Commuting and wellbeing: A critical overview of the literature with implications for policy and future research.

Vicious or virtuous circles? Exploring the vulnerability of drivers to break low urban speed limits (2016)
Journal Article
Tapp, A., Nancarrow, C., Davis, A., & Jones, S. (2016). Vicious or virtuous circles? Exploring the vulnerability of drivers to break low urban speed limits. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 91, 195-212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2016.06.007

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd Levels of support for 20mph limits in Great Britain are consistently high. However, these positive attitudes are not translating into similarly positive behaviour changes in terms of complying with these new speed limits. Recent r... Read More about Vicious or virtuous circles? Exploring the vulnerability of drivers to break low urban speed limits.

Evidence-Based Decision Making When Designing Environments for Physical Activity: The Role of Public Health (2016)
Journal Article
Pilkington, P., Powell, J., & Davis, A. (2016). Evidence-Based Decision Making When Designing Environments for Physical Activity: The Role of Public Health. Sports Medicine, 46(7), 997-1002. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-015-0469-6

© 2016, The Author(s). The important role that the environment plays in health and well-being is widely accepted, as is the impact that the built and natural environment can have on levels of physical activity. As levels of physical activity are a ke... Read More about Evidence-Based Decision Making When Designing Environments for Physical Activity: The Role of Public Health.

Great Britain adults' opinions on cycling: Implications for policy (2016)
Journal Article
Tapp, A., Davis, A., Nancarrow, C., & Jones, S. (2016). Great Britain adults' opinions on cycling: Implications for policy. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 89, 14-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2016.05.001

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd. In its neglect of cycling, the transport policy history of Great Britain is typical of many car-dependent societies. Policy inertia with respect to sustainable travel may be driven by the assumptions that, firstly, most household... Read More about Great Britain adults' opinions on cycling: Implications for policy.

Support and compliance with 20 mph speed limits in Great Britain (2015)
Journal Article
Tapp, A., Nancarrow, C., & Davis, A. (2015). Support and compliance with 20 mph speed limits in Great Britain. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 31, 36-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2015.03.002

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. There are a number of challenges relating to both the support of and compliance with speed limits. The introduction of 20 mph limits in Great Britain is no exception: the recent rise in the deployment of thes... Read More about Support and compliance with 20 mph speed limits in Great Britain.

Can social marketing make 20mph the new norm? (2014)
Journal Article
Toy, S., Tapp, A., Musselwhite, C., & Davis, A. (2014). Can social marketing make 20mph the new norm?. Journal of Transport and Health, 1(3), 165-173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2014.05.003

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. This paper reports the findings of a study that explored the possible role for social marketing in supporting compliance with 20. mph signs-only speed limits. The study, completed in July 2012, involved a review of the literature... Read More about Can social marketing make 20mph the new norm?.

The commuting and wellbeing study: Understanding the impact of commuting on people’s lives
Report
Chatterjee, K., Clark, B., Martin, A., & Davis, A. The commuting and wellbeing study: Understanding the impact of commuting on people’s lives

Subjective wellbeing is about how well people consider their lives are going and is potentially affected by routines of daily life such as commuting. Clear evidence has not been available on the impacts of commuting on subjective wellbeing. This repo... Read More about The commuting and wellbeing study: Understanding the impact of commuting on people’s lives.

A public health approach to assessing road safety equity - The RoSE cycle
Book Chapter
Davis, A., & Pilkington, P. (2019). A public health approach to assessing road safety equity - The RoSE cycle. In A. Dupont-Kieffer, F. Di Ciommo, K. Martens, & K. Lucas (Eds.), Measuring Transport Equity. Elsevier

This chapter focuses on equity goals relating primarily to the reduction of adverse effects of the transport system, particularly road traffic collisions (RTCs), with a strong emphasis on the protection of vulnerable population groups. It describes t... Read More about A public health approach to assessing road safety equity - The RoSE cycle.