Description du projet
Zoom sur l’impact des espaces verts pour les déplacements urbains
L’habitabilité urbaine est fortement liée à l’environnement et à son état général. Et la végétalisation constitue un élément important de l’équation. Si les avantages des espaces verts urbains (jardins domestiques et parcs) sont bien documentés, on sait peu de choses sur leur impact dans le cadre des déplacements urbains quotidiens. Financé par le Conseil européen de la recherche, le projet GREENTRAVEL produira des connaissances sur la manière dont les populations urbaines bénéficient équitablement de l’exposition aux espaces verts pendant les déplacements et des effets sur le bien-être qui en découlent. En s’appuyant sur des technologies de pointe pour mener des expériences de réalité virtuelle, le projet indiquera où ajouter de la verdure pour faire progresser l’équité. En tenant compte des différents modes de transport, les résultats montreront si et pourquoi les environnements de déplacement verts sont importants pour les individus et quels sont les éléments de verdure pertinents.
Objectif
Greenery is an integral part of healthy and liveable urban environments. Availability of greenery is a question of environmental justice and equity. The benefits of greenery have been clearly shown in the residential context, but exposure to greenery in everyday urban travel environments has been studied much less, if at all.
The project will produce a novel understanding of the quality, availability and wellbeing impacts of green urban travel environments. Furthermore, it will produce knowledge on how equitably green exposure during travel and related wellbeing impacts are available to urban populations. It provides approaches and analysis on where to add greenery to advance equity.
The project draws on the recent developments in urban informatics: It employs cutting edge technologies from immersive Virtual Reality to Big Data mining, but also critically evaluates it. Controlled VR experimentations and carry-on sensors will be used to reveal if and why green travel environments matter for people and what greenery features are relevant, also considering seasonal variations. The understanding will be backed up with more traditional surveys. Computer vision on street-view images and 3D models will be used to map relevant greenery features, from the human perspective and considering seasonalities. Mobile Big Data will be leveraged to study the mobility flows of the urban population and to reveal the equity of green exposure during these everyday trips, also considering different transportation modes. Finally, advanced spatial prioritization and green routing tools will identify the future potential for greener travel environments for everyone.
When successful, the project will produce transformational knowledge on the importance, availability and equity of green urban travel environments. It will produce completely new open methods and transferable procedures for analysing green travel environments in Europe and beyond.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencebig data
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencecomputer vision
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata mining
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationsvirtual reality
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régime de financement
ERC - Support for frontier research (ERC)Institution d’accueil
00014 Helsingin Yliopisto
Finlande