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Dr Steve Melia

Senior Lecturer in Transport and Planning
Centre for Transport & Society
Faculty of Environment and Technology
University of the West of England
Frenchay Campus
Coldharbour Lane
BRISTOL BS16 1QY

Telephone: +44 (0)117 32 83267
Fax: +44 (0)117 32 83899
Email: steve.melia@uwe.ac.uk

Professional Summary | Areas of Specialism |
Recent Publications | Online Presentations

Professional Summary

Steve has been appointed as a Senior Lecturer in Transport and Planning from January 2010. Prior to this Steve had studied for a PhD at UWE in the WHO Healthy Cities Collaborating Centre. His subject was: The Potential for Carfree Development in the UK. His primary (quantitative and qualitative) research was conducted online and in different parts of Britain. During the three summers of 2006 to 2008 he also cycled over 5,000 miles, visiting and studying European carfree developments and cities which have been successful in reducing car dependency.

His first degree was in Economics, from Liverpool University, and he has worked in Human Resources, community development and was a parliamentary candidate in 1997.

Steve is a founder member of Carfree UK and has worked as a freelance journalist (see www.stevemelia.co.uk).

Areas of Specialism

Carfree development
The interaction between transport and the built environment
Permeability at the street level
Potential for modal shift towards cycling and walking

Recent Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Melia, S., Barton, H. and Parkhurst, G. (2011, in press) Potential for carfree development in the UK. Urban Design and Planning, 164.

Melia, S., Barton, H. and Parkhurst, G. (2011, in press). The paradox of intensification. Transport Policy, 18(1).

Melia, S. (2010). Carfree, low car - what's the difference? World Transport Policy & Practice, 16(2), 24-32.

Conference Papers

Melia, S. (2010). Potential for carfree development in the UK. Paper presented at the 42nd Annual UTSG (The Universities' Transport Study Group) Conference, January, Plymouth. Awarded the Smeed Prize for the best student/recent student presentation and paper at the UTSG conference, January 2010.

Melia, S. (2007). Carfree development and the paradox of intensification. 40th Universities Transport Study Group Conference, January.

Professional Publications

Melia, S. (2011). The DfT's shared space guidance is based on flawed research and political spin. Local Transport Today. December 2nd (585).

Melia, S. (2011). Ireland's Ghost Housing Estates. Planning Magazine, November 18th.

Melia, S. (2011). Filtered and Unfiltered Permeability [online]. World Streets.

Melia, S. (2010). Urban intensification and problems - real and imagined. Town and Country Planning, July, 341-345.

Melia, S. (2008). Neighbourhoods should be made permeable for walking and cycling but not for cars. Local Transport Today, January 23rd.

Melia, S. (2007). Eco town mobility. Town and Country Planning, November.

Melia, S. (2007). Going Dutch: Can we, should we learn from the Netherlands cycling success story? Cycle, October/November, 36-39.

Melia, S. (2006/7). Cycling towns - Freiburg. Cycle, December/January, 43-44.

Reports

Melia, S. (2009). Transport Energy Descent Plan for Oxford [online]: Transition Town Oxford.

Melia, S. (2006). On the road to sustainability - transport and carfree living in Freiburg. Report for W.H.O. Healthy Cities Collaborating Centre edn. University of the West of England.

Online Presentations and Interviews

Interview with BBC Radio Kent, December 12th 2011: Shared Space and the Ashford Ring Road (mp2 file).

Steve Melia's seminar on The Paradox of Intensification (Youtube, 13.47 minutes), CTS Winter Conference 2010.

World Transport Policy & Practice Special Edition: A Future Beyond the Car?
This special edition is planned to be published early in 2012. The deadline for submission of articles will be 30 August 2011. A broad article by Guest Editor Steve Melia will set the scene for up to half a dozen articles. Further details available [pdf]