Urban traffic and health risk: what is the role for citizen participation in transport planning?

Abstract

Citizens feel increasingly engaged in outcomes of urban planning today. This engagement happens among others where urban transport causes serious annoyance, like noise or air pollution. In some cases, citizens have taken the initiative to measure strong annoyance by themselves, as driven by a feeling of distrust with actors causing the annoyance. As a bottom-up initiative, citizen sensing tends to be more comprehensive in goals compared to citizen science, the last being organized by established institutions, like universities, aimed at measurement for large databases. Despite the popularity of sensing initiatives, evaluation of influence on planning solutions has remained scarce. In response to this, the chapter presents a performance matrix of factors indicating how citizens’ sensing may be limited or enhanced in solving problems. The approach draws on case study results (airport, traffic circulation) and is introduced in the chapter by societal trends supporting active citizen participation and conceptualization of citizen sensing and citizen science.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 2 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.