Dr Jonathan Flower

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  • Qualifications:PhD (Sustainable Futures - South West Doctoral Training Partnership), MRes in Social Research (distinction), and MSc in Transport Planning (merit) from the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) and an MSc in Community Disability Studies (distinction) from University College London (UCL).
  • Position:Senior Research Fellow
  • Department:College of Arts, Technology and Environment School of Architecture and Environment
  • Telephone:+441173284017
  • Email:Jonathan.Flower@uwe.ac.uk
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About me

Jonathan is a Transport Planner and researcher in Centre for Transport and Society. He is a board member for the Transport Planning Society, creating a link between academia and practice. He has been building experience in automated vehicles having coordinated and designed the Human Factors VENTURER trials. He has also worked on CAPRI (autonomous pods project) and an Innovate UK funded project known as MultiCAV (Multi connected and autonomous vehicle) in Oxfordshire.
 
His current work centres around street design and road safety, with a particular focus on crossing design and public transport safety, through projects with the Transport for London, Active Travel England, Road Safety Trust, National Institute of Health Research, High Volume Traffic and FCDO's Impact Fund. His other research interests include Safer Systems, micromobility and inclusive design. Jonathan also manages a large evaluation contract for the Department for Transport. 
 
Jonathan previously worked in International Development where he developed approaches to programme monitoring and evaluation that were used globally in more than 2,000 programmes and 10,000 projects.​

Area of expertise

  • Road safety
  • Healthy streets
  • Active travel
  • Micromobility
  • Pedestrian and cycle crossing design
  • Safer public transport operations (including buses and motorcycle taxis)
  • Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs)
  • Extended reality (XR) - immersive technologies, including virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality - for street design
  • Q-methodology

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