Webinar 2: Speakers and Panelists

Mode: Virtual (over Zoom and Facebook live)

Date/Time: 13 April 2023, 1-3pm, Philippine Standard Time; 2-4pm Japan Standard Time; 3-5pm Melbourne Time

The webinar is open to the public. To receive the webinar link, please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xTLVE3sIScinAbicZ2o6_A

Webinar coordinator/ moderator: Dr. Iderlina Mateo-Babiano, Associate Professor, University of Melbourne / Dr. Varsolo Sunio, S&T Fellow (for transport and logistics), DOST-PCIEERD / Dr. Sandy Gaspay, Assoc Prof, ICE, UP-Diliman and Research Fellow, UP-NCTS

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Description

Organized in collaboration with the project team of "Developing An Intersectional Equity Framework to Support Walkability Transitions", supported by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundation (VREF), and the EASTS International Research Group "Walkability transitions towards healthier and more active transport environments", this webinar focuses on the implementation of initiatives in Japan and Australia that support and promote the transition to healthier and walkable environments.

Talk 1: Citizens' walking and the built environment: Insights from large-scale step-count data in Yokohama, Japan

Prof. Kimihiro Hino

Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo

Dr. Hino is an Associate Professor in Urban Planning Department of Urban Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo. His research interests include: Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED), Active Design and Planning, and Regeneration of Housing Estates. He has published "Active Urban Planning & Design Guide" (in Japanese) as the principal investigator of a research project supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS): https://hpd.cpms.chiba-u.jp/activeguide/

His personal website can be viewed here: https://sites.google.com/site/hinokimihiro/

Talk 2: Walkability of Australasian cities: international comparisons

Dr. Melanie Lowe

Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Prior to her current appointment at RMIT University, Dr Melanie Lowe was a Research Fellow in Urban Resilience and Innovation at the Melbourne Centre for Cities, The University of Melbourne. Melanie’s research investigates how to plan healthy and resilient cities, and the use of indicators to monitor and inform policy. She works at the interface of the public health and urban planning fields, highlighting the co-benefits that can be achieved for human health, sustainable development, liveability and urban resilience. Melanie works collaboratively with researchers and policymakers across a range of disciplines to strengthen consideration of health in city planning. Her research has been included in local, state and federal planning and public health policy documents in Australia. She is a lead investigator for the Global Observatory of Healthy and Sustainable Cities.

Panelists from collaborating Special Interest Groups

"Developing An Intersectional Equity Framework to Support Walkability Transitions" (Walking as a Mode of Transport, supported by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundation)

The aim of the research group is to develop an intersectional equity framework that will support walkability transitions. The framework will target transformative change at the individual (e.g. actors/stakeholders including policymakers, users, operators), street/neighbourhood (planning and design) and at the city level (policy and governance scenarios).

Iderlina Mateo-Babiano (PhD), The University of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA

Varsolo Sunio (PhD), University of Asia and the Pacific, PHILIPPINES

Philip Peckson (PhD), University of Asia and the Pacific, PHILIPPINES

Sandy Mae Gaspay (PhD), University of the Philippines, PHILIPPINES

Danielle Guillen (PhD), University of the Philippines, PHILIPPINES

Alexis Fillone (PhD), De La Salle University PHILIPPINES

Sheilah Napalang (PhD), Women in Transport Leadership Knowledge

Pawinee Iamtrakul (PhD), Thammasat University, THAILAND

Somsiri Siewwuttanagul (PhD), Mahidol University, THAILAND

Trinh Tu Anh (PhD), UEH University, VIETNAM

Tri Basuki Joewono (PhD), Parahyangan Catholic University, INDONESIA

Joemier Pontawe, The University of Auckland, NEW ZEALAND

Dadang Utomo, University of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA

Nguyen Hoai Pham, UEH University, VIETNAM

Ken Abante, Ateneo de Manila University, PHILIPPINES

Anne Patricia Mariano, Women on the Move

"Walkability transitions towards healthier and more active transport environments" (EASTS International Research Group)

The purpose of this International Research Group is to scope different walkability transition scenarios that can create positive walking experiences for individuals and support the transition to healthier, more active environments. How can ‘healthier by design’ initiatives support the transition in obesogenic environments to healthier, pedestrian-friendly ones? This study aims to address the following three sub-questions: 1) What scenarios pose as key barriers to walking in obesogenic environments? 2) What ‘healthier by design’ scenarios can facilitate the increase in walking propensity in obesogenic environments? 3) What transport policy-relevant evidence can be derived to support the co-creation of healthier, walkable environments?