Accessibility & User Needs in Transport for Sustainable Urban Environments - AUNT-SUE

该提案综合了各研究中心和项目伙伴在运输政策和规划、设计、运营和评价方面的专门知识。英国政府、欧盟委员会和其他机构正确地强调了社会包容和可持续干预的重要性。然而，到目前为止，还缺乏全面的“工具包”和资源来支持那些致力于减少旅行环境中社会排斥的人。共同愿景是为可持续政策和做法制定严格的方法，从宏观到微观，在交通运输和公共领域提供有效的社会包容性设计和运营。三个核心项目将开发决策支持工具，这些工具将建立基准并将包容性纳入政策，并支持旅行环境和交通设施的设计和运营。一个真实但受控的“试验台”设施将允许这些在政策意图和制约实施的背景下进行试点。然后，将对解决方案进行测试，并将其转移到其他案例研究区域和地点。AUNT-SUE的第二阶段将建立在第一阶段开发的一套工具的基础上，并将这些工具应用于运输交汇处、节点和开发区的密集案例研究。这将开发和测试设计无障碍旅行环境（路线和设施）的技术，以及交通的提供和规划，并就这些问题与被确定为被社会排斥在旅行之外的人进行协商。三个相互关联的研究模块将通过以下概述的综合案例研究进行验证，利用CAD支持的GIS平台，关系数据库以及定量和定性社会调查。

The proposal integrates the expertise of the research centres and project partners in transport policies and planning, design, operations and evaluation. The UK government, European Commission and other agencies rightly emphasise the importance of socially inclusive and sustainable interventions. As yet, however, there is a dearth of comprehensive 'toolkits' and resources to support those who are working to reduce social exclusion in journey environments. The shared vision is to produce rigorous methodologies for sustainable policies and practices that will deliver effective socially inclusive design and operation in transport and the public realm from macro down to micro level. Three Core Projects will develop decision-support tools that will establish benchmarks and incorporate inclusion into policies, and support the design and operation of journey environments and transport facilities. A real-world but controlled 'Testbed' facility will allow these to be piloted in the context of the policy intentions and constraints that shape implementation. Solutions will then be tested and transferred to other Case Study areas and sites. Phase 2 of AUNT-SUE will build on the suite of tools developed in Phase I and apply these to intensive case studies of transport interchanges, nodes and development areas. This will both develop and test techniques to design accessible journey environments (routes and facilities) and transport provision and planning, and consult on these with people who have been identified as socially excluded from travel. Three inter-linked research modules will be validated through integrated case studies outlined below, utilising a GIS-based platform supported by CAD, relational databases and both quantitative and qualitative social surveys.