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DAS signal modelling to assist in uptake of active travel

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National efforts to promote cycling, walking and wheeling are set for a boost through a pilot project that will model active travel by analysing DAS (Distributed Acoustic Sensors) signals.

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By 2030, Active Travel England - an executive agency sponsored by the Department for Transport - wants to see cars left at home and 50 per cent of all trips in towns and cities undertaken by active travel (AT).

To this end, the government has made £3.2bn available to ensure the provision of AT schemes that deliver to new national standards, but local authorities can be challenged by the lack of insights into suitable AT interventions in a given area.

Now, Dr Mona Jaber, an IoT lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, is leading DASMATE (Distributed Acoustic Sensor System for Modelling Active Travel), an EPSRC-funded project being undertaken with industry partner Fotech and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

“It is anticipated that the preliminary outcomes of this pilot study would be used to inform how trials in urban areas, such as Tower Hamlets, should be planned,” said Dr Jaber. “Tower Hamlets are interested in measuring the uptake of active travel before and after a planned intervention.”

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