10-Mar: Kate Carpenter, CIHT Vice President, on transport inequality
00:00:48 - News from around and about
00:11:24 - Kate Carpenter, Vice President of Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT), discusses inequitable access to healthy, safe, effective and affordable transport, and how this impacts on physical and mental health and wellbeing; access to education; healthcare; economic activity; social activity and options for shopping and other services.
CIHT is the main professional body for people working in the planning, design, construction and management of transport infrastructure. Kate is CIHT Vice President and In June 2026 she will become President for a year, with a theme of reducing inequality and inequity in transport.
00:50:30 - Ranty Highwayman also gives us the low-down on side road zebras.
Interesting Links:
- The CIHT Creating a public realm for all report
- Colour blind awareness: colourblindawareness.org
- Microsoft ColourSimulations app for Windows
- Microsoft's Color Binoculars app appears to have been discontinued
- Sight and other simulation Inclusive Design Toolkit
- Spectacles to simulate visual impairments
- Dr Tim Nutbeam, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Post-Collision Care
- Gender differences in trauma, shock and sepsis
- Gender differences in treating bleeding with TXA (tranexamic acid)
- Spinal injuries removing people from car crashes
- Transport Research Lab: Novice drivers: Evidence Review and Evaluation