Edinburgh Napier University

Effective Trigger Speeds for Vehicle Activated Signs on 20 mph Roads in Rural Areas

Journal Article

Olowosegun, A., Fountas, G., & Davis, A. (2024)

Effective Trigger Speeds for Vehicle Activated Signs on 20 mph Roads in Rural Areas. Safety, 10(1), Article 25. https://doi.org/10.3390/safety10010025

This paper aims to offer novel empirical evidence as to the identification of the most effective Trigger Speeds (TS) for Vehicle-Activated Signs (VAS) in rural areas. To achie...

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...

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

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

Increase total physical activity time through active travel - Year 2

2020 - 2021

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: £17,928

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

Essential Evidence for Scotland

2019 - 2019

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: £5,047

Continental Style Zebra Crossings

2018 - 2022

This project is to assess the feasibility of making continental style zebra crossings legal on Scotland's roads and to test their impact on pedestrian safety, attitudes and experience. Scotland provi...

Funder: Rees Jeffreys Road Fund | Value: £18,479

Blog for Public Health Scotland

19 December 2023

Blog on 20mph speed limits in settlements across Scotland as a move from 30mph. This follows the Bute House Agreement between the SNP and Green Party so that the Scottish Government has stated that al...

Invited Keynote Speach by Professor Davis at National Active Travel Conference

11 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

10 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.