Community severance / barrier effect of transport

Street Mobility and Network Accessibility project

A 3-year project developed at University College London to create new tools to measure and monetise the barrier effect of roads on pedestrians. Contact j.mindell@ucl.ac.uk or p.anciaes@ucl.ac.uk for further information

The Street Mobility Toolkit

Publications from the project

Anciaes, P., Jones, P., Mindell, J., Scholes, S. (2022) The cost of the wider impacts of road traffic on local communities: 1.6% of Great Britain’s GDP. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 163, 266-28.

Higgsmith, M., Stockton, J., Scholes, S., Mindell, J S. (2022) Does community severance affect health? A novel attempt to quantify community severance and assess its impact on self-rated health of adults in Great Britain. Journal of Transport and Health. 22: 101162.

Vaughan, L., Anciaes, P., Mindell, J. (2020). Cars, conflict and community severance., in B. Appleyard (Ed.) Livable Streets 2.0. Elsevier, Ch.9.

Mindell, J., Anciaes, P. (2020). Transport and community severance., in M. Nieuwenhuijsen and H. Khreis (Eds.) Advances in Transportation and Health – Tools, Technonologies, Policies, and Developments. Elsevier, Ch.7, 175-196.

Anciaes, P., Jones, P. (2020) A comprehensive approach for the appraisal of the barrier effect of roads on pedestrians. Transportation Research A: Policy and Practice. 134, 277-250.

Anciaes, P., Stockton, J., Ortegon, A., Scholes, S. (2019) Perceptions of road traffic conditions along with their reported impacts on walking are associated with wellbeing. Travel Behaviour and Society, 15, 88-101.

Anciaes, P R., Jones, P., Metcalfe, P J. (2018) A stated preference model to value reductions in community severance caused by roads. Transport Policy, 64, 10-19.

Anciaes, P R., Jones, P. (2018) Estimating preferences for different types of pedestrian crossing facilities. Transportation Research F: Psychology and Behavior,  52, 222-237.

Dhanani, A., Tarkhanyan, L., Vaughan, L. (2017) Estimating pedestrian demand for active transport evaluation and planning. Transportation Research A, 103, 54-69.

Mindell, J S., Anciaes, P R., Dhanani, A., Stockton, J., Jones, P., Haklay, M., Groce, N., Scholes, S., Vaughan, L. (2017) Using triangulation to assess a suite of tools to measure community severance. Journal of Transport Geography, 60, 119-129.

Anciaes, P R., Jones, P. (2016) The effectiveness of changes in street layout and design for reducing barriers to walking. Transportation Research Record 2586, 39-47.

Anciaes, P R., Boniface, S., Dhanani, A., Mindell, J S., Groce, N. (2016) Urban transport and community severance: linking research and policy to link people and places. Journal of Transport and Health 3(3), 268-277.

Anciaes, P R., Jones, P., Mindell, J S. (2016) Community severance: where is it found and at what cost? Transport Reviews 36(3), 293-317.