Promoting active travel and public transport for a post-pandemic world

在许多大城市，新冠肺炎刺激了开放街道的提供，开辟了自行车道，拓宽了行人通道，促使骑自行车和步行的人数空前增加。虽然这类基础设施一直得到城市规划者和设计师的支持，但大流行已成为一个重要的转折点，使城市能够追求长期可持续的交通倡议，包括投资于主动出行(AT)。有机会将AT作为综合运输战略的一部分加以推广，并开发工具对AT的影响进行强有力的评估，以便为未来的投资战略提供信息。这项提案将为我们的合作伙伴组织新南威尔士州交通运输提供实现这一目标所需的知识。

In many major cities, COVID-19 stimulated the provision of open streets, pop up bike lanes and widened pedestrian access, prompting unprecedented increases cycling and walking. While this type of infrastructure has always been supported by urban planners and designers, the pandemic has served as a vital inflection point, enabling cities to pursue long-term sustainable transport initiatives, including investment in Active Travel (AT). There is an opportunity to promote AT as part of an integrated transport strategy, and to develop tools for the robust evaluation of AT impacts to inform future investment strategies. This proposal will provide our partner organisation Transport for New South Wales (with the knowledge required to achieve this.