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20 mph speed limits: A meta-narrative evidence synthesis of the public health evidence

Book Chapter
van Erpecum, C.-P. L., Bornioli, A., Cleland, C., Jones, S., Davis, A., den Braver, N. R., & Pilkington, P. (2024)
20 mph speed limits: A meta-narrative evidence synthesis of the public health evidence. In J. S. Mindell, & S. J. Watkin (Eds.), Health on the Move 3: The Reviews (167-195). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.atpp.2023.12.001
Twenty mile per hour (20 mph) or 30 kph speed limit interventions are increasingly common in a wide range of European cities. Importantly, 20 mph or 30 kph speed limit interve...

Motor traffic reduction: A road to be travelled

Journal Article
Davis, A. (2023)
Motor traffic reduction: A road to be travelled. Journal of Transport and Health, 33, Article 101688. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2023.101688
Road traffic injuries (RTIs) are the eighth-leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for 1.35 million deaths each year (Road Safety, 2022). Vehicle speed is a major contri...

Factors influencing e-cargo bike mode choice for small businesses

Journal Article
Malik, F. A., Egan, R., Dowling, C. M., & Caulfield, B. (2023)
Factors influencing e-cargo bike mode choice for small businesses. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 178, Article 113253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2023.113253
As a viable alternative to traditional and electric cars and vans, e-cargo bikes have the potential to improve the sustainability of urban logistics operations, particularly f...

Intelligent Real-Time Modelling of Rider Personal Attributes for Safe Last-Mile Delivery to Provide Mobility as a Service

Journal Article
Malik, F. A., Dala, L., Khalid, M., & Busawon, K. (2022)
Intelligent Real-Time Modelling of Rider Personal Attributes for Safe Last-Mile Delivery to Provide Mobility as a Service. Applied Sciences, 12(20), Article 10643. https://doi.org/10.3390/app122010643
This paper develops an intelligent real-time learning framework for the last-mile delivery of mobility as a service in city planning, based upon safe infrastructure use. Throu...

Walking and Cycling: latest evidence to support policy-making and practice

Report
Götschi, T., Davis, A., & Racioppi, F. (2022)
Walking and Cycling: latest evidence to support policy-making and practice. Bonn, Germany: WHO Europe
Active travel modes, especially walking and cycling, are now recognized by many as modes that are fully equal to other urban transport modes, integrated in planning frameworks...

DATASET: The impact of Covid-19 on travel behaviour, transport, lifestyles and residential location choices in Scotland

Dataset
Downey, L., Fonzone, A., & Fountas, G. (2022)
DATASET: The impact of Covid-19 on travel behaviour, transport, lifestyles and residential location choices in Scotland. [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.17869/enu.2022.2853752
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Edinburgh Napier University’s Transport Research Institute has been undertaking a study, funded by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), in...

Particular matter prediction using synergy of multiple source urban big data in smart cities

Journal Article
Honarvar, A. R., & Sami, A. (2021)
Particular matter prediction using synergy of multiple source urban big data in smart cities. Intelligent Decision Technologies, 15(3), 371-385. https://doi.org/10.3233/idt-200147
At present, the issue of air quality in populated urban areas is recognized as an environmental crisis. Air pollution affects the sustainability of the city. In controlling ai...

Intelligent nanoscopic road safety model for cycling infrastructure

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Malik, F. A., Dala, L., & Busawon, K. (2021, June)
Intelligent nanoscopic road safety model for cycling infrastructure. Presented at 2021 7th International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS), Heraklion, Greece
This paper is concerned with the development of an intelligent nanoscopic safety model for cycling safety. The present models are primarily focused on motorists modelling at a...

Intelligent Nanoscopic Cyclist Crash Modelling for Variable Environmental Conditions

Journal Article
Malik, F. A., Dala, L., & Busawon, K. (2022)
Intelligent Nanoscopic Cyclist Crash Modelling for Variable Environmental Conditions. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 23(8), 11178-11189. https://doi.org/10.1109/tits.2021.3101118
A cyclist is a vulnerable road user whose interaction with the road infrastructure depends on several factors, including variable environmental conditions of lighting and mete...

Intelligent cyclist modelling of personal attribute and road environment conditions to predict the riskiest road infrastructure type

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Malik, F. A., Dala, L., & Busawon, K. (2021, July)
Intelligent cyclist modelling of personal attribute and road environment conditions to predict the riskiest road infrastructure type. Paper presented at The 19th Annual Transport Practitioners' Meeting, Online
Infrastructure selection, design and planning play a pivotal role in creating a safe travel environment for road users, especially the vulnerable road user. In this work, it i...
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Chair of Transport & Health

2024 - 2025
This will allow me to continue and extend some of the work that I do, to promote and support policy and practice which results in an increase in total physical activity time, mainly as a result in an ...
Funder: Paths for All Partnership | Value: £28,407

Attitudes and behaviours towards 20mph speed limit 3 years post intervention

2023 - 2024
1) Augment the previous research undertaken by the Transport Research Institute, Edinburgh Napier University, to assess the impacts of the implementation of 20mph default speed limits across all Scott...
Funder: Paths for All Partnership | Value: £47,153

Effects and mechanisms of school traffic schemes in Great Britain: a natural experimental study

2023 - 2025
Promoting active travel, or walking and cycling, can have numerous health and environmental benefits. It can improve population levels of physical and mental health, result in health gains, and reduce...
Funder: National Institute for Health Research | Value: £4,542

Cross-lingual Audio-visual Speech Enhancement based on Deep Multimodal Learning

2023 - 2026
Speech enhancement and separation techniques are often used to improve the quality and intelligibility of speech degraded by background distractions, including speech and non-speech noises. We aim to ...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £12,000

Increasing Physical Activity through Active Travel - Year 3

2021 - 2022
A major element of the project is to help increase total physical activity time through active travel across the population. Research interests include: - translational research to ensure the evidence...
Funder: Paths for All Partnership | Value: £18,077

Essential Evidence 4 Scotland (3)

2021 - 2022
Such concise summarisation of sustainable transport-related topics is part of what is known of as Translational research. This tool can be powerful in providing practitioners with targeted evidence su...
Funder: Paths for All Partnership | Value: £5,969

Mountain Biking Data Sonification

2021 - 2023
We are embarking on a collaborative project between Music, the Sports, Exercise, and Health Science Research Group, and the Mountain Bike Centre of Scotland (MTBCOS) in a project encouraging people to...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £971

Essential Evidence for Scotland Year 2

2020 - 2021
Translational research can be powerful in providing practitioners with targeted evidence summaries when they have neither time, knowledge of, nor access to much of the peer reviewed evidence base. The...
Funder: Paths for All Partnership | Value: £6,475

Impacts of School Street closures on the local highway network

2020 - 2022
This project is to extend understanding of wider impacts of temporary street closures. It will consider any re-distributional effects of street closures around schools and it is under consideration wh...
Funder: The Road Safety Trust | Value: £13,600

Increase total physical activity time through active travel across the population

2019 - 2020
A major element of the project is to help increase total physical activity time through active travel across the population. Research interests include: - translational research to ensure the evidenc...
Funder: Paths for All Partnership | Value: £22,776

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3MT Competition is Open!

7 May 2025
3MT Competition is open for submissions! Can you convince non-specialist audiences that your research is really as important as you believe it is? Here’s your chance to find out!

Supervision as External for PhD at University of Maastricht

8 January 2024
In the Netherlands, external supervisions are called 'Promoters'. I am promoter to a Consultant in Public Health in Public Health Scotland who is undertaking her PhD through publication,

OptiWaSP Walking School Bus project: Strategic Advisory Group Member

31 October 2022
Over the past 4 decades, there has been a large modal shift from walking to school to accompanying children by car in England. Many studies have demonstrated the social, environmental, health, and ...

Invited Keynote Speach by Professor Davis at National Active Travel Conference

12 June 2019
Keynote speech to Scotland's premier annual active travel conference. Summarised Evidence Review findings from recent studies of most effective interventions to increase active travel and increase phy...

Invited presentation by Professor Davis to the Active Scotland Development Group

11 June 2019
Invited presentation to the Active Scotland Development Group quarterly meeting which had a focus on transport for this meeting.

Chief Medical Officer's highlights Chair of Transport & Health

13 December 2018
The Scotsman article by the Chief Medical Officer for her annual summary of the year included identification of my post of Professor of Transport & Health.

Neil Urquhart awarded Best Contribution to Information Society research theme.

24 July 2017
Neil Urquhart was awarded the Best Contribution to Information Society research theme award at the University Research Conference. Dr Urquhart has applied Artificial Intelligence methods based on evol...

TRI members give evidence at Scottish parliament committee hearing

8 February 2017
Professor Tom Rye and Dr Jason Monios of the Transport Research Institute gave evidence at a hearing of the Scottish Parliament Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee on 8th February 2017. The aim o...