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i-MOBYL

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The DUT project Inclusive Mobility Interventions for Young Adolescents and Livable Urban Spaces (i-MOBYL), officially started in February 2026 for 3 years to study and co-design behavioural interventions to encourage active mobility of adolscents (11-15 y.o; collegiens en France). We are delighted to be working with international partners from Netherlands (TU/Eindhoven), Switzerland (FHNW Basel), Austria (University of Salzburg) and UK (University of Surrey). In Paris we are collaborating with Laurence Duffort, Camille Hugbart and their team at CAUE75 (Conseil d’Architecture, d’Urbanisme et de l’Environnement de Paris).

Description

Urban and transport planning often overlook young adolescents (YA) and their everyday mobility experiences. Promoting active and multimodal travel among YA (ages 11–15) is essential, given the decline in their physical and mental health and the formative role of these years in shaping lifelong habits. i-MOBYL addresses several key scientific and societal challenges:

Underrepresented users: YA and their communities are rarely engaged in shaping urban mobility policies.
Lack of co-creation: Existing visions are not co-created with YA or translated into measurable objectives.
Limited empirical evidence: Empirical data on YA’s activity patterns and travel behaviour across their daily urban systems are scarce.
Weak intervention design: Few initiatives are tailored to YA or grounded in behaviour change theory. •
Implementation barriers: Local authorities are not involved in intervention co-creation.
Assessment and transfer gaps: Limited understanding of intervention performance and lack of mechanisms to transfer and adapt YA-focused mobility planning across contexts.

Team Télécom Paris:

Project partners:

Dena Kasraian and Gamze Dane (Lead; TU Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Michael van Eggermond and Dorothea Schaffner (University of Applied Sciences of Northwester Switzerland - FHNW, Basel))
Martin Loidl (Universität Salzburg, Austria)
Eleanor Ratcliffe (University of Surrey, UK)
Ursula Witzmann-Müller Mobilitat (Austria)
Punkt vor Strich GmbH
Stadtgemeinde Salzburg
Tranquil City Limited
Conseil d’Architecture, d’Urbanisme et de l’Environnement (CAUE) de Paris
Guildford Borough Council
Learning Partners Academy Trust _Kings College Guildford

Funding

i-MOBYL is funded under the Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) partnership scheme, and we (in Paris) are financially supported by ANR Projet-ANR-25-DUTP-0008.

IN and OUT

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Collaboration with Jakub Krukar, University of Muenster.

BEFIT

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Built Environment in Falls and Arthritis Study (BE-FIT)

Using a multi-method and hybrid approach to strengthen our understanding around the role of the built environment in contributing to (or reducing) the fear of falling as well as fear of movement and the ensuing activity avoidance.

Introduction As Singapore’s population ages, one of the key strategies to improve older adult residents’ quality of life is to allow them to ‘age-in-place’. This means giving them the opportunity to remain in their homes and communities and continue to lead an independent life, for as long as they can, as they age.

To facilitate this, enhancements in policy and infrastructure need to be made to allow the older adults to age gracefully. This includes mitigating the adverse impact of conditions such as Osteoarthritis (OA) while also avoiding falls . Both OA and falls lead to considerable physical, and psychosocial burden on the older individual, as well as socioeconomic impact on the healthcare system.

To encourage the older adults to be physically and psycho-socially active, current guidelines from the WHO and Healthier SG emphasise unravelling the role of macro-level factors such as urban planning and design on personal factors. Key to this is the need to mitigate environmental risks, while also encouraging and supporting healthier behaviors. Such measures that enable healthy behavior incidentally also create sustainable milieus and circumstances for curbing the risk of OA and risk of falling.

Road obstructions & uneven ground reduces mobility Road obstructions & uneven ground reduces mobility The Project In line with these guidelines, the Built environment in Falls and Arthritis Study (BE-FIT) project focuses on the interplay between urban features and the perception of older adults.

The study explores the relationships between Built Environment (BE), and psychosocial factors on physical activity, social participation and functional outcomes in a vulnerable elderly population with mobility challenges (patients with osteoarthritis and/or previous falls), to guide practice and policy.

While previous studies have looked the impact of BE features on healthy behaviors, BE-FIT is novel in the following aspects:

Leveraging on a variety of state-of-the-art digital technologies to track individual behavior on activity and mobility, but also walkability in the neighborhood

Together with our partners at CNRS we will be collecting information on mobility and walkability with wearable sensors to record kinematic, global positioning system (GPS) signals and mapping them via the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) instead of relying on participant recall.

In partnership with NTU’s Rehabilitation Research Institute of Singapore (RRIS) we will curate information on individual’s perception of neighborhood features using the novel photo-voice documentation approach

Environmental graphics and directional signage help increase navigability and accessibility Environmental graphics and directional signage help increase navigability and accessibility 2. Unraveling the interplay between individual- vs neighbourhood-level risk factors -

In collaboration with clinicians from Woodlands Health, TTSH and KTPH we will establish relationship between factors such as physical activity, mobility, walkability and socio-economic status to the neighbourhood-level data such as accessibility and collected via the EATlite tool (provided by the MOHT) to examine potential dynamic and reciprocal interaction effects

Using a multi-method and hybrid approach to strengthen our understanding around the role of the built environment in contributing to (or reducing) the fear of falling as well as fear of movement and the ensuing activity avoidance.
Tapping into the principles of implementation science for translation of research findings into practice (in cooperation with GERI), and ensuring greater collaborations between healthcare practitioners, urban developers and policymakers (by garnering government agency-level support from MOHT, URA, HDB and BCA).

A clearly marked kerb at a void deck to help prevent falls. How are these level differences and markings perceived by older pedestrians? A clearly marked kerb at a void deck to help prevent falls. How are these level differences and markings perceived by older pedestrians? In aligning with evidence-informed decision-making principles, the policy brief BE-FIT will compile comprehensive recommendations on improvements that can guide healthy practices and enable neighbourhoods to facilitate management of OA and falls as well as encourage uptake of healthy behaviors such as enhanced levels of physical activity to curb the burden imposed by these conditions.

The SPACIOUS project

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The SPACIOUS project

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Spatial Network Analysis | Panos Mavros

i-MOBYL

Description

Team Télécom Paris:

Project partners:

Funding

Links

IN and OUT

BEFIT

Built Environment in Falls and Arthritis Study (BE-FIT)

Links

The SPACIOUS project

The SPACIOUS project