Northumbria setting the wheels in motion for active travel in Newcastle...

Northumbria setting the wheels in motion for active travel in Newcastle...read more: 

http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/bne/news/active_travel

Participants needed: Everyday cycling (travel) survey in Newcastle

Participants needed: Everyday cycling (travel) survey in Newcastle:

Please go here to participate: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/D5N67NZ

Thank you.
Godwin Yeboah
PhD student at Northumbria University at Newcastle,UK.
Interest:Space-Time Geography;Agent Based Simulation; Cycling as Active Transport;GPS & GISc

Summer School and Young Researchers Forum on Moving objects and knowledge discovery.

It was excellent!

I enjoyed my (and other) presentation(s) and profound feedback and discussions from professors/experts. Also, it was great meeting all of you!

Enjoy these pictures if you could not take part:
http://cartogis.ugent.be/Summerschool/pics.php


Prior to this event, I had also attended Summer School on Social Simulation at the University of Surrey which was useful in understanding the challenges and high level thinking when one wants to use or not use agent based modelling technique.

Just sustainabilities - great lecture from Prof. J. Agyeman

Just sustainabilities - great lecture from Prof. J. Agyeman: http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sobe/news/julian_agyeman

Visitors/readers are directed to presenter's website: http://julianagyeman.com/

Amazing quote from the Earl of Albermarle...why you should, at least, think of Cycling....GISRUK2011

"The only obstacle that I know of to the use of the cycle becoming universal in this country, is that year by year the roads seem in many parts of England to be getting worse and worse....A revolt against the present system of road repair and surveying is being organised, and is likely to have a considerable success"

Source:
Woodforde, J. (1970) The Story of the Bicycle. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.

The Earl of Albermarle was once the president of the National Union of Cyclists and wrote this quote in the 1887 edition of the Badminton Library Cycling.

Other event I attended this month was the GISRUK 2011 where I presented a poster entitled "Application of GIS and DPT in Systematic Surveying, Inventory and Title Registration of Properties – A pilot study of Kaneshie town area in Ghana." The abstract can be found in the proceedings of the 19th GIS Research UK Annual Conference which was held at University of Portsmouth (with Ordnance Survey) on 27th to 29th April 2011.

Application of GIS and DPT in Systematic Surveying, Inventory and Title Registration of Properties – A pilo...

Climate Week 2011 at Northumbria University

I am planning to participate in the Climate Week celebration at Northumbria University and want to invite you to join!

Read more:
http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sobe/news/climate_week2011

Thanks.

Poster for Northumbria University Research Conference, 2011

Towards understanding and developing strategies for cycling in traditional UK Cities (Provisional title of PhD project)

Supervisors: Seraphim ALVANIDES; Emine Mine THOMPSON

Two of the most serious threats identified to be anticipated by the year 2050 are Climate Change and Obesity. UK government has decided, via the Climate Change Act, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 per cent by 2050; out of which 21% of domestic greenhouse gas emissions coming from transport, of which 58% come from the private car. Obviously, road transport has a major contribution to make. Recently, according to the Foresight (2007) report, it is forecasted that over half of adults in Britain could be obese by 2050 unless some measures are adhered to. One aspect of the measures in the report is related to transport and urban design; namely, to include increasing of cycling (i.e., Active Transport) and improving the design of communities.

This poster presents strands in literature, as mind maps, of ongoing research towards understanding the constraints and developing strategies for cycling in traditional UK Cities. In addition, there is a short discussion of appropriate concepts, tools, theories as well as a methodology for Global Positioning System (GPS) data collection.

See you! :)