Name:

iConnect

Parent study:

N/A

Other names:

iConnect Cheshunt; iConnect Travel to School

Description:

iConnect is a quasi-experimental study of the travel, physical activity and carbon impacts of Connect2, a UK-wide programme of constructing new walking and cycling routes in local areas, conducted as part of an interdisciplinary research consortium.

Locations:

Cambridge, UK Sustrans:Great Shelford to Waterbeach
Cardiff, Uk Sustrans and Cardiff Bay Trail
Cheshunt, UK
Kenilworth, UK Sustrans
Southampton, UK Sustrans

Keywords:

Carbon, cycling, environment, evaluation, infrastructure, intervention, natural experimental study, physical activity, transport, travel, walking.

Research areas:

Evaluating the effects of environmental and policy interventions on active living and understanding related patterns and mechanisms of behaviour change.

Research purposes:

The study was established to assess the impacts of infrastructural interventions on travel behaviour, physical activity, carbon emissions and energy use at individual and population level and to explore why these interventions are (or are not) effective, in what ways, for whom and in what circumstances.

Population:

1. In the iConnect core module, adults living within approximately five kilometres of one of the three study sites.
2. In the iConnect Travel to School case study, pupils at the secondary school.

Status:

Field work completed, analysis and further preparation and development of datasets ongoing.

Recruitment:

No longer recruiting.

The final dataset for the core module includes approximately 7000 survey responses.

Start date:

Data collection began: April 2010

End date:

Data collection ended: July 2012

Links:

Title	URL
Local Study Web Page	https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/research/studies/iconnect/
Summary on EPSRC Website	https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/G00059X/1

Identifiers:

Identifier	Description
EP/G00059X/1	Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Approvals required:

Approval	Details
Ethics	Seperate components of the study has separate ethical approval as follows:
Core module	University of Southampton Research Ethics Committee (CEE200809-15)
Travel to school	University of Cambridge Psychology Research Ethics Committee (2010.04)

Funding required:

Funding	Details
Grant	Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council<

Data access:

Enquiries about access to data should be directed to the principal investigator or Unit Local Lead (Dr David Ogilvie). Requests for access to data will be considered by the study scientific committee which the principal investigator and co-investigators

Data collected:

To be added

Sample size:

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Sampling method:

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Participation type:

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Inclusion criteria:

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Exclusion criteria:

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Current size:

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Accountable people:

Role	Name (follow link for contact details)
Principle Investigator	Prof John Preston
Principal Investigator	Dr David Ogilvie

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Related parties:

This study is conducted in collaboration with the Universities of Bristol, East Anglia, Edinburgh, Loughborough, Oxford, Southampton and West of England.