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AUNT-SUE Events

AUNT-SUE joints the Royal Geographical Society in August

27-29 August 2008

Claire Ellul and Ben Calnan, Londonmet, presented their paper on "Modelling Street Safety" to the Royal Geographical Society at the
International Annual Conference in London.


AUNT-SUE Travels to Reykjavik

10-13 August 2008

The HADRIAN teampresented a paper on "The Psychological Stress Perspective: A unifying view of accessibility in public transport and beyond" at the Nordic Ergonomic Society Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland.


AUNT-SUE supports: Designs on the Games

7 October 2008

AUNT-SUE members attended the free seminar that highlighted what should be considered from an accessibility viewpoint when designing new technological systems to be used by visitors to major events.

More details >>>


Exhibition and Talk at London Festival of Architecture

3 July 2008

AUNT-SUE organised two exhibitions for practitioners wanting to reduce exclusion in transport and public spaces as part of the London Festival of Architecture.


AMELIA receives 'Interdisciplinarity Prize'

11 June 2008

Professor Roger Mackett was awarded the 'Interdisciplinarity Prize' for the ideas underlying AMELIA (A Methodology for Enhancing Life by Increasing Accessibility) as part of the celebrations marking the 200th anniversary of the demonstration of a working steam engine by Richard Trevithick on the site currently occupied by UCL. The award was made at a dinner the celebrate the anniversary in the presence of HRH The Duke of Gloucester.


AUNT-SUE in Belfast

18-20 March 2008

Juliet Solomon, London Met, and Helena Titheridge, UCL, presented a paper on 'Planning, accessibility and transport' to the UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference 2008 - Belfast, 18-20 March 2008.


AUNT-SUE at GISRUK in Manchester, 2-4 April 2008

Ben Calnan and Claire Ellul spoke about "Modelling Street Safety in an Urban Environment" at the GISRUK 2008- Geographical Information Science Research Conference in Machester.


13 February 2008: Friends House, Euston Road, London, NW12BJ

This one-day symposium (including a walkabout in the King's Cross St Pancras ‘testbed’ area) was organised by the AUNT-SUE research consortium with the support of EPSRC and in collaboration with TfL and BURA. Speakers included:

Dr Heather J Cruickshank, University of Cambridge - Chair

Graeme Evans, AUNT-SUE Principal Investigator -
AUNT-SUE (2004-9)

Nigel Dotchin, Department for Transport -
Central government’s perspective on inclusive transport

John McNulty, Transport for London
Best practice in interchange planning, design & operations

Trevor Mason, Hertfordshire County Council
The benefits of AUNT SUE to local authorities

The following tools were presented:

AMELIA stands for ‘A Methodology for Enhancing Life by Increasing Accessibility’ and is being developed in collaboration with the Environment Department of Hertfordshire County Council. This GIS based tool can be used by transport planners to establish how many people meet accessibility benchmarks as a result of policy interventions. (Led by: University College London) Presentation >>>

HADRIAN stands for ‘Human Anthropometric Data Requirements Investigation and Analysis’. It is a SAMMIE CAD based tool that enables designers and planners to simulate how different individuals cope with various transport-related tasks, such as vehicle ingress/egress, and help identify issues at the concept stage of design or for a range of commercially available designs where one wants to select the optimum design. (Led by: Loughborough University) Presentations: Pete Davis and Steve Summerskill

STREET DESIGN INDEX: This GIS based tool is being developed to enable designers and planners to model the urban environment more comprehensively, and to understand how its diverse features can affect users’ perceptions of streets and public areas. It is being designed to help identify areas that are perceived negatively by pedestrians and so have the potential to restrict their movements. (Led by: London Metropolitan University) Presentation >>>

Please click on the following links for details on:

Speaker biographies >>>

Programme >>>

Walkabout details and "map-walk" output >>>

List of Participants >>>


AUNT-SUE Symposium: Planning and Designing an Inclusive Journey Environment

Our annual symposium has taken place on 21st March 2007. The symposium facilitated a discussion on the following topics:

Programme / List of Participants

"Inclusive Design and Operation"

  • Russel Marshall, Loughborough University >>>>
  • Graeme Evans, London Met >>>>
  • Nick Tyler, UCL >>>>
  • Anna Hamilos, Inclusive Design Advisor, CABE & Louise Duggan, Streets Advisor, CABE Space >>>>
  • Andy Kemp, London Borough Camden

"Incorporating Social Inclusion Policy"

"Principles into Practice" (demonstrations)

Steve Shaw, London Met; Colin Mann, Head of TfL Borough Programmes


AUNT-SUE at London Biennale

17-25 June, London

AUNT-SUE presented aspects of the AUNT SUE research programme from 17th to 25th June at the ‘Gymnasium’ next to St Pancras/ King’s Cross.

Download the following exhibition features: Poster I; Poster II; Poster III; Poster IV

Artists, Helen Bendon and Jessica Thom are interpreting the work of AUNT-SUE, as well as related research programmes Viva City 2020 (24/7 cities) and InSITU (social inclusion and urban design). Their work was presented at Hoopers Gallery in Clerkenwell from 14th to 23rd June.


SYMPOSIUM 2006: Inclusive Transport and Urban Design - AUNT-SUE is older and wiser

January 2006, London, London Metropolitan University

Programme

Welcome Pack / List of Participants

10.00am: Introduction to Symposium

Stephen Shaw, Director of the Transport Research and Consultancy Centre (TRaC) at the Cities Institute, London Metropolitan University10.10am:

Principles into Practice

Stephen Shaw and Richard Simon, iCube Ltd. Download Presentation

10.40am: Benchmarking Accessibility

Roger Mackett, Professor of Transport Studies at UCL, Juliet Solomon, Researcher of the Transport Research and Consultancy Centre (TRaC) at the Cities Institute, London Metropolitan University and Trevor Mason, Principal Engineer for Transport Planning and Monitoring at Hertfordshire County Council. Download Presentation

11.10am: Design-for-all

Mark Porter, Professor of Design Ergonomics in the Department of Design and Technology at Loughborough University and Professor Graeme Evans, Director of the Cities Institute at London Metropolitan University. Download Presentation (Part I), Download Presentation (Part II, no animations), Download Presentation (Part II, with animations) Part II with animations requires Acrobat reader 6 and the DivX video codec.

12.00pm: Camden and Hertfordshire “testbeds”

Rana Imam (UCL Research Fellow) for Nick Tyler, Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering and Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UCL. Download Presentation

12.30pm: Discussion

Dai Powell (Rapporteur) Director Hackney Community Transport


Hertfordshire County Council and London Borough of Camden workshops

July 2005, Hertfordshire County Council/Camden Town Hall

Programme

Introduction and overview of the ‘AUNT-SUE’ project (Graeme Evans, London Met)

Incorporating social inclusion into policy (Roger Mackett, UCL)

Benchmarking accessibility (Juliet Solomon, London Met)

Development of HADRIAN to support socially inclusive transport design (Mark Porter/Keith Case, Loughborough)

Putting the research together in the community: the testbed (Nick Tyler, UCL)


Accessibility benchmarks and indicators in transport and urban design workshop

June 2005, London Metropolitan University

Programme (Presentations available on request)

12pm Lunch

12.30pm Welcome and Introduction by Roger Mackett (UCL)

12.40pm 'Current accessibility standards and local behaviour patterns' Hugh Barton and Sarah Hills (UWE)

1.10pm 'Accessibility and user needs in transport: what benchmarks, and why' Juliet Solomon (Londonmet)

1.40pm ‘Do we count what really counts? – lessons from the DISTILLATE project’ Greg Marsden (University of Leeds)

2.10pm 'Methodology for interpreting results from the BAPTIST policy analysis tool' Shepley Orr  (UCL)

2.40-4pm Further discussion on emerging themes


Inclusive Transport and Urban Design: Measuring Progress symposium,
January 2005, London Metropolitan University


How Can Developments in Mainstream Transport Technology HelpVisually Impaired Passengers?, April 2004, NCVO London


Acessibility and User Needs in Transport - Symposium, June 2003, London Metropolitan University


VIP Focus Group, May 2003, Royal National Institute of the Blind


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AUNT-SUE Partners include:

London Borough of Camden