All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar:

Introducing the Propensity to Cycle Tool and explaining the new health impact calculation methods.

Dr Anna Goodman, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Dr Rachel Aldred, University of Westminster, London.

Watch the seminar by Dr Aldred and Dr Goodman on our Youtube channel.

About the Propensity to Cycle Tool

The Propensity to Cycle Tool (PCT) is an open source transport planning system that was designed to assist transport planners and policy makers to prioritise investments and interventions to promote cycling. The PCT answers the question: ‘where is cycling currently common and where does cycling have the greatest potential to grow?’.

The PCT can be used at different scales, either as a strategic planning tool or on a  smaller scale, for example to use the level of commuter cycling along a particular road to estimate future mode share for cycling on that corridor under different scenarios.

• Download the PCT Essentials document

About Dr Goodman

Anna has an epidemiology background and specialises in the field of sustainable transport, with a particular focus on promoting walking and cycling. One of her key research interests is the potential to use primary, secondary or register-based data to evaluate population-level transport interventions, including through natural experimental designs. She also collaborates with CEDAR on various projects in modelling the health and environmental impacts of different transport scenarios.

Profile on the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine website.

About Dr Aldred

Rachel is Director of the Active Travel Academy and Reader in Transport at the University of Westminster. Rachel has ten years’ experience of researching active travel, and has made contributions to the field in areas including conceptualising and calculating active travel potential, developing methods for evaluation research, near miss studies, applying epidemiological methods to active travel injury risk, and exploring cultures of active travel, including processes of stigmatisation and marginalisation. She has published more than 25 peer-reviewed papers in these areas, and was in 2016 awarded the ESRC Prize for Outstanding Impact in Public Policy.

• Rachel Aldred personal website

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