PhD in Urban Planning

Project title: Cargo bikes as a vehicle for transport equity/n Based at the University of Southampton, School of Engineering (Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences) in Southampton, United Kingdom. The project investigates how cargo bikes function within family contexts and how their use may shape everyday mobility practices, children’s experiences, and transport equity. The project may focus on, or combine, several interconnected research strands including:/n- everyday family practices: exploring how cargo bikes influence school runs, caring responsibilities, trip-chaining, and time pressure, and how different forms of physical, emotional, and planning labour are distributed within households/n- children’s experiences of the city: investigating how travelling by cargo bike shapes children’s perceptions of safety, independence, learning, and belonging, as well as their identification with cycling as a mode of transport/n- equity and access: examining who is able to adopt cargo bikes and who is excluded, analysing the role of cost, housing, storage, infrastructure, cultural norms, and policy/n- traffic engineering and road safety: analysing how current street design standards accommodate cargo bikes used for family travel and how interventions might be adapted to improve both perceived and objective safety/n- cargo bikes and the transport socio-technical system: examining how technologies, infrastructures, institutions, and social norms interact to enable (or constrain) their integration into everyday urban mobility./nThe School of Engineering states commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and mentions university benefits such as maternity policy, onsite childcare facilities, and sustainability awards.