From street trees and vertical gardens, to urban meadows and forests, greenery plays an important role in sustaining healthy and liveable cities. However, the availability of greenery in our cities is also a matter of justice and equality: we don’t all access and experience greenery – and enjoy the benefits it imparts – equally. This is already well understood in residential neighbourhoods. Yet, the effects and benefits of exposure to greenery during people’s everyday active travel as they move around the city, and how equitably these are distributed, are less well known.
The GREENTRAVEL Project aims to leverage advanced urban informatics methods to examine how urban greenery in everyday travel environments impacts the health and wellbeing of urban residents in European cities, and identify solutions to promote fairness and equality. We want to understand why travel environment greenery matters, where and when it is available, and importantly, for whom.
GREENTRAVEL is funded by the European Research Council and lasts for five years (2023 to 2027).
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GREENTRAVEL project builds on our previous and other projects on urban exposures: