This is an absolutely brilliant paper that I can only recommend to all those interested in transport poverty/equity but also in sustainable transport/climate, and on how to reconcile the two. I can only hope that it will have the impact it deserve doi.org/10.1016/j.er...

Do you want to be formally involved with @bpsenvpsych.bsky.social? We are currently seeking applications for Chair and Committee Members of the Env Psy Section. Deadline 22 Sept Appointed committee member: www.bps.org.uk/news/volunte... Chair: www.bps.org.uk/news/volunte...

Interesting-looking new article mapping the different strands of transport policy research doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Looking into #bus deregulation today... Fun fact: Many of the bus companies started when WWI soldiers returned (the learnt engineering and driving). There were so many that they ate into rail profit leading to the creation of the big 4 railway companies!

This chart from @safeclimate.bsky.social ate.bsky.social is a beautiful work of art — and a horrifying observation of our warming planet 🧪

Good reporting on an attribution study from @nature.com: 🫠 Emissions from each of the 14 biggest #fossilFuel Firms made >50 heatwaves otherwise near-impossible 📈 Exxon & Aramco made 51 #heatwaves ≥10,000× likelier 🔥180 companies caused ~½ the rise in intensity (forest loss most of the rest)

Perhaps a future lab session? @entsresearchgroup.bsky.social

New @natclimate.nature.com study on climate belief systems worldwide: ⁉️Middle East & North Africa shows more inconsistent beliefs, due(?) to economic interests 📨Societies with more information exposure → tighter climate belief networks 🚫Interconnected beliefs corr. with anti-climate stances

”The large, heavy passenger vehicles were responsible for over 20% of the growth in global energy-related CO2 emissions last year” #Abundance 🫢 www.iea.org/commentaries...

🚗 The richest are on course to emit 13x more carbon than the poorest from their domestic travel by 2035. ✈️ If you include international travel, the richest are expected to emit 22x more than the poorest. More here: www.ippr.org/media-office...

Interesting article from Utrecht (relevant elsewhere) on the role of shared mobility hubs in tackling transport poverty. Based on focus groups with residents of a deprived neighbourhood. Biggest issue = no one has any idea what ‘shared mobility hubs’ are & that one existed in their neighbourhood.

We are proud to see our first-ever CAST briefing on the subject of sport, “I would be laughed out the stadium”: How to break climate silence in British football", shortlisted for the #SportPositiveAwards25 in the Research of the Year category. 👏 awards.sportpositivesummit.com/shortlist-20...

2.1 e-bikes are sold per 1,000 people in Britain, putting the UK second-last among 30 European countries. France's subsidies *tripled* sales. It's insane that we don't subsidise #E-bikes in the UK considering all the benefits they bring to both the people who use them AND those who don't!

Our new #FlashFiction #competition has launched. We're asking for <500 words about moments of #epiphany where attitudes/behaviours change for the greener – see www.greenstories.org.uk/flash-fictio... £1000 ($1200) worth of prizes. #writerslife #WritingCommmunity

Very cool that the @rgsibg.bsky.social is offering free bus travel around #Birmingham for the #RGS2025 conference! Great way to reduce scope 3 emissions. I wonder what the lasting impact is on modal choice for return visitors in the future... would love an impact assessment!

🌍 81% of UK football fans care about climate 🗣️ But rarely talk about it 🔇Leading to misperceptions & social stigma ⚽ @pledgeball.bsky.social could change that New CAST Briefing out now, based on my impact assessment with Pledgeball - a grassroots org using football to break the climate silence.

A timely study shows how bus service reductions harm seniors: "People could not reach their usual range of destinations, travelled less often, and felt a sense of entrapment in their homes...People experienced a loss of freedom, independence, and control over their lives." doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

It's so lovely to see how the users of my local library of things has grown over the years. A fantastic resource and place of community. A reason to be optimistic this morning :) Thanks Share Bristol #CircularEconomy #LibraryOfThings

The Council Climate Action Scorecards are a great (FREE) resource! Unfortunately still just funded by grants. Please consider supporting them while donations are being *match funded* – particularly at a time when Reform-run councils are considering reversing climate emergency declarations. Thanks :)

👋 Are you a small or medium-sized business in the UK? We're running a short @uniofbath.bsky.social survey on #SMEs attitudes towards staff travel 🕐 ~10 mins 🎁 £500 in vouchers to be won + more 🔒 Anonymous & secure Take part here 👉 uniofbath.questionpro.eu/SmallEmploye... #SmallBusiness #Travel #SME

It's rather hot in Europe 🥵 atm! #Climate communicators should keep in mind these 10 guidelines (from Climate Ressillience for All) & 7 core principles (from @climatevisuals.bsky.social )to communicate these #heatwaves with the severity they deserve.

👋 Are you a small or medium-sized business in the UK? We're running a short @uniofbath.bsky.social survey on #SMEs attitudes towards staff travel 🕐 ~10 mins 🎁 £500 in vouchers to be won + more 🔒 Anonymous & secure Take part here 👉 uniofbath.questionpro.eu/SmallEmploye... #SmallBusiness #Travel #SME

🚨 Another open postdoc position "Psychology of Transformation" at Leuphana in Lüneburg 🚨 ✏️ Apply here: s.academiccloud.de/Thqqfi (5 years, 100%) 🔗 The position is related to this PhD position: bsky.app/profile/oliv... 🧠 More information on the postdoc position:

Join me at poster #72 today at #ICEP2025 ! I'll be presenting results from my first study exploring the role of employers and local authorities in #TDM . Good news - employees largely prefer more effective behaviour change interventions!

Now officially out with nice formatting and all 🥳 "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"Cars make us lonely." —Donald Appleyard, Livable Streets, 1981. 🧵

It's #WorldEnvironmentDay so I'm sharing some food for thought from the Behavioural Scientist: 🚫 Mobilisation bias: small groups act collectively more effectively; large groups face coordination challenges ⚖️ The @sabincenter.bsky.social is developing legal techniques to combat the climate crisis 😍

Trade unionists calling for action on climate and nature. Don’t believe those who say we have to choose between protecting jobs and protecting our planet.

Welcome news! It continues the post-2015 trend of correcting chronic under investment. "In the survey asking users about infrastructure quality, the UK ranked 27th in terms of overall perceived infrastructure quality, in the middle of OECD countries" (Zhang & Cheng, 2023). Maybe we can catch up?

One of my all time favourite reports includes this attempt at summarising the benefits from investment in active travel. It’s one of the best investments a government can make - something acknowledged within many of DfTs own reports. Link: www.who.int/europe/publi...

👇New Nature Cities (@nature.com) paper on the impact of protected bike lanes in getting more people cycling. Comparing 28 US cities over 6 years, it found areas that installed protected lanes saw 𝟭.𝟴𝘅 growth in cycling vs painted lanes alone. And 𝟰.𝟴𝘅 the growth of areas with no bike lanes at all.

Different worldviews and knowledge systems influence the ways people interact with and value nature. 🌿- IPBES #ValuesAssessment All these values must be considered to effectively address the #biodiversity crisis. 🌍🧪 Read the Values Assessment Report: www.ipbes.net/the-values-a...

Stunning. May was brutal for Trump in federal court: 96% loss rate ⚖️. Even GOP-appointed judges have ruled against the admin 72% of the time. District courts are doing their job defending the Constitution. Soon the Supreme Court may be the only court unwilling to defend the rule of law.

Sad graphs on the squeezing of outdoor play and school playtimes in England. Maybe rather than showing Adolescence in schools we could improve play facilities for young people? on.ft.com/4cx4Rm2

If you believe parts of the media electric vehicle sales stalled. The data tells a very different story: Global electric car sales are accelerating at an unprecedented pace. Over past 3 years sales nearly tripled—reaching 17.3 million new registrations in 2024, up from just 6.5 million in 2021.

More of this please. Co-designing play spaces with children and young people near their homes led to “what researchers say is the highest increase in children’s physical activity ever recorded by an intervention of its kind”

Important stuff from @katjadiehl.bsky.social, linking children’s exclusion from their streets to both car-centrism and adultism (which are of course connected): “how deeply adultism is ingrained in our cities — and how it robs children of what they need most: freedom, movement and self-efficacy”

Does anyone know of an equivalent to the 'public transport accessibility level (PTAL)'? I need an index used across the UK which measures the accessibility of public transport in each postcode #PTAL #ActiveTravel

An unbelievably simple and intuitive intervention. Could #motonormativity explain why it wasn't thought of sooner?

I can't stop flip-flopping between #Python and #Netlogo for my #agentBasedModel. Do any #ABM researchers have anything to say about #agentpy and #mesa ? This is all I can find to compare them... agentpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/co...

Multiple representations can triangulate understanding and build a more complete mental model of #sustainability... Today is the UK’s #Earth #OvershootDay. If everyone lived like the UK, our consumption would exceed the planet's capacity today 👣>🌍 Source: Global Footprint Network 2025

I'd be interested to understand why designers have moved towards tall/blunt designs. Aesthetics? To delineate from older models?

I've been at the @mobilityways.bsky.social conference on zero carbon commuting today. #ZC3 is always a favourite of mine, and this year has been no different! I've gathered my highlights, favourite facts, and thoughts in a thread🧵

Excited to be presenting this work at @rgsibg.bsky.social #IBG2025 with @esmallwood.bsky.social, Laura Seminati & Ruth Gibson! We'll be sharing our collaborative project “Envisioning the Future of Mobility: Exploring Children’s Conceptions of Future Mobility Using Participatory Arts-Based Methods.”

Went to the #Bath ebike demo day yesterday 🚲⚡🪫 Really helpful to test what works for your needs. I'd love to run a small study to assess how it changes people's perception of #ebikes. Field interviews + attendance data seems feasible! Great to see people enjoying the track :)

What an awesome way to kick off #EarthDay 🌍♻️💚 Thanks @entsresearchgroup.bsky.social !

We have a really exciting day of #EnTS tomorrow! In the AM Matteo Menapace joins us to play #Daybreak with us. In the PM Jack Hodgkiss teaches us how Daybreak is used to explore the impact of game play on cognitive understanding, affective response, and behavioural engagement. Then... we workshop 😍

🚨 Interesting new paper alert from *European Transport Research Review* 🚨 Riel, Kouvelas & Makiridis analysed 11,879 #simulation studies and 672 #repositories, to find <2% of papers share supplementary material 👎 Why does this matter?...

Really pleased to see the #accessibility work going on at #Bristol Temple Meads - Station Innovation Zone. They've just selected two 'innovators' for a 6-month trial. Journey Alerts seems like it could have a serious 'curb cut effect' and a service like Ampetronic seems long overdue 😍

The government’s data release (based on provisional figures) is here: www.gov.uk/government/s... The progress made in cutting UK emissions by cleaning up our energy supply should be celebrated - it shows what’s possible. The progress made on reducing transport emissions (so far), is less inspiring