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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I am glad to announce our first event for this year’s
<a href="https://geoinfo.science/webinars/">RGS-IBG GIScience Webinar Series</a>. The “<a href="https://geoinfo.science/2022/01/25/webinar-2-february-2022-alfie-long-and-james-todd/">Accessibility and mobility in time of covid-19</a>” event will include two
talks, by Alfie Long and James Todd, on Wednesday February 9<sup>th</sup>, at 1pm UTC/GMT. You can sign up to the event on Eventbrite, following the link below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rgs-ibg-giscience-webinar-accessibility-and-mobility-in-time-of-covid-19-tickets-250301507547">Eventbrite – RGS-IBG GIScience Webinar: Accessibility and mobility in
time of covid-19</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Accessibility and essential travel: public transport and the mobility of vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 pandemic</span></u></b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">by Alfie Long</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Abstract<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The COVID-19 pandemic, and numerous lockdowns and restrictions, resulted in a significant decline in public transport demand and the replacement of usual out-of-home activities with online equivalents. Whilst
restrictions have since eased in the UK, a simple return to pre-pandemic travel behaviour is unlikely. In order to support public transport authorities and operators in providing an inclusive public transport system that meets the needs of users, the field
requires continued research into changes in public transport patronage by different population groups throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Using smart card travel data, we analyse demand for bus services during the COVID-19 pandemic to identify the groups of the older population that continued to use public transport services during lockdown
periods and that quickly returned to public transport when restrictions were eased. We compare these trends according to demographic characteristics of passengers as well as accessibility.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Biography<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Alfie Long is currently a PhD Student at UCL Department of Geography. His research is aimed at developing existing public transport big data infrastructure into simpler data formats that can be used to analyse
the social equity of public transport mobilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Analysing the Impacts of Lockdown Restrictions on the London Bicycle Sharing System</span></u></b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">By James Todd</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Abstract<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The COVID-19 pandemic has caused large scale disruptions to the daily lives of billions around the world. This is primarily a result of the implementation of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPI), in its
various forms, by local and national governing bodies to help minimise the spread of the virus. In the most severe cases lockdown restrictions were imposed on populations, forcing them to quarantine within their own homes except for limited and specific purposes.
Within this analysis we aim to quantify the impacts of these lockdown restrictions on the activity patterns observed within the docked London bicycle sharing system. Employing network and statistical analysis methods this work presents novel insights into
the changes in cycling behaviour observed spatially, temporally and at a system-wide scale.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Biography<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">James is currently an Associate Lecturer and Ph.D. student within the Department of Geography at UCL. His research aims to analyse the utility and validity of new urban mobility data sources in helping to
understand movement trends for Smart City applications. Over the past few years, James has worked extensively with bicycle sharing system data from over 600 cities, exploiting dock capacity information to create comparative heuristics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">All the best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Stef – Secretary of the GIScience RG.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">“It’s </span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">all going to be alright in the end, and if it's not alright, it's not the
end</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">”</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">(by Ol Parker, via Wittertainment)</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr Stefano De Sabbata (they/them)</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Lecturer in Quantitative Geography</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of Geography, Geology and the Environment,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford</span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#730F00;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#730F00;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">t: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">+44 (0)116 252 3812<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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