Tuesday, October 26, 2010

New Research Projects: Children, Independent Mobility and Neighbourhood Environment

We recently received funding for a couple of projects that will at children's independent mobility in the city and explore how it's relationship to the built environment.

The first project is looking at the relationship between independent mobility, physical activity and the neighbourhood. This project involves both quantitative and qualitative data collection

The second project is mainly qualitative and involves trying to understand opportunities for play and independent activity for children living in medium an high density housing in Auckland.

Both projects use GPS to collect information on travel and mobility.

We have just started the pilot for the first project and I'm currently trying to figure out the logistics of managing the quite intensive data collection.