• Sarah Toy

  • Theme:Transport, Behaviour and Society
  • Project:Future scenarios to predict levels of car ownership in Generation Z
  • Supervisor:Lorraine Whitmarsh
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Sarah is a chartered civil engineer and started my career working on water supply systems in the UK and developing countries. She became interested in the interface between human behaviour/choices and technical solutions when working on low cost water supply and sanitation projects in Africa. This led her to question how the built environment affects the health and wellbeing of humans as part of our planetary ecosystem and she developed this interest further while working for the sustainable transport charity Sustrans.

Sarah has worked both in the public and private sector and, since 2015, she has worked with a number of cities (including Bristol, Bath and Liverpool) to develop visions and strategies for a resilient, net zero carbon future. This has made it clear to her that future mobility technologies and behaviours will be central to delivering the changes we need to make in our daily lives.

Sarah was attracted to AAPS by the trans-disciplinary teamwork and she is excited to be learning from others as well as sharing her own experiences. Her emerging research question is "how can future mobility technologies and policies be designed to prioritise active travel particularly for children and young people?"

Name Role Description Date Website
Smart Class Transport workshop for South West of England Participant

Series of presentation on Future Transport Zone including demand buses, neighbourhood mobility hubs.

28/04/2022
AAPS Conference 2022 Attendee

The first annual conference to present the students research to a wider audience.

12/07/2022
- 13/07/2022

AAPS Conference 2022

Mechanical Engineering Design and Project Exhibition Presenter

Presented to visitors, external and internal, on the Innovation project that Cohort 3 were working on.

01/06/2022

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