Davi Gressler is a PhD Student at the Healthy and Sustainable Places Data Service at the University of Leeds. His PhD supervisors are Ed Manley, Nik Lomax and Gabriele Filomena.

Davi’s PhD will focus on improving measures of perceived access to local amenities

Improving access to local amenities by active travel is an important phase in enhancing the sustainability of urban mobility. By enhancing the presence of and connectivity to essential amenities, it is possible to reduce the necessity of car-based travel, and enhance opportunities for active travel, which in turn have benefits to health. 

This concept is the basis of considerable national government investment in active travel infrastructure, and a focus of many local government initiatives. Yet accessibility measures are still relatively crude.  

Davi’s PhD project will expand existing approaches to better consider how neighbourhood amenities and distances are perceived by citizens.