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Pedestrian grant awarded
13 October 2003
UCL's Accessibility Research Group has been awarded a three year, £2 million, grant to create a new laboratory for investigating issues related to pedestrians and the pedestrian environment.
The Pedestrian Accessibility and Movement Laboratory (PAMELA) will have an
area of almost 150 square metres, and will include provision for different surfaces
and surface profiles, obstacles, lighting and background noise conditions. These
will be tested by a wide range of people - including those with various
disabilities - to learn how pedestrian interactions affect their ability
to move around the public realm.
The project will help in the search for methods to evaluate accessibility, eventually leading to recommendations for improving the design of pedestrian areas.
Professor Nick Tyler heads the group, which is part of UCL's Centre for Transport Studies in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. He said: "This research affects the whole population at some point. We all use pedestrian areas, and the project will help us learn how to make them safer and more user-friendly."
To find out more about the group use the link below.
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