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Overview

Karen Lucas is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, focusing their research within the social sciences, particularly transportation. Their work encompasses several subfields including transportation, economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, automotive engineering, and general health professions.

Their publication record includes a range of papers primarily related to urban transport, accessibility, and the intersection of transportation with social and economic outcomes. Frequent themes in their research include urban transport and accessibility, transportation planning and optimization, transportation and mobility innovations, urban and freight transport logistics, retirement, disability and employment, as well as energy, environment, and transportation policies.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Karen Lucas include:

  • Does transport help people to gain employment? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the empirical evidence (2020), published in Transport Reviews
  • Understanding accessibility through public transport users' experiences: A mixed methods approach (2020), published in Journal of Transport Geography
  • Does better job accessibility help people gain employment? The role of public transport in Great Britain (2021), published in Urban Studies
  • Emissions savings from equitable energy demand reduction (2023), published in Nature Energy
  • Queer mobilities: critical LGBTQ perspectives of public transport spaces (2021), published in Mobilities

Their collaborative network frequently includes researchers such as Jeroen Bastiaanssen, Daniel Johnson, Noel Cass, Ransford A. Acheampong, and Michael Poku-Boansi.

Karen Lucas has also published a book titled Transport and Mobility Futures in Urban Africa, released in 2022 by Springer International Publishing.

The venues where Karen Lucas frequently publishes highlight a focus on transportation and mobility studies, including:

  • Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice
  • Mobilities
  • Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Transport Reviews

Best Publications

  • Transport and social exclusion: Where are we now?

    Karen Lucas

  • Exposure to traffic-related air pollution and risk of development of childhood asthma: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Haneen Khreis;Charlotte Kelly;James Tate;Roger Parslow

  • A method to evaluate equitable accessibility: combining ethical theories and accessibility-based approaches

    Karen Lucas;Bert van Wee;Kees Maat

  • Transport poverty and its adverse social consequences

    Karen Lucas;Giulio Mattioli;Ersilia Verlinghieri;Alvaro Guzman

  • Investigating links between transport disadvantage, social exclusion and well-being in Melbourne-Preliminary results

    Graham Victor Currie;Tony Richardson;Paul Smyth;Dianne Anne Vella-Brodrick

  • Running on empty : transport, social exclusion and environmental justice

    Karen Lucas

  • Providing transport for social inclusion within a framework for environmental justice in the UK

    Karen Lucas

  • The social consequences of transport decision-making: clarifying concepts, synthesising knowledge and assessing implications

    Peter Jones;Karen Lucas

  • Rethinking the links between social exclusion and transport disadvantage through the lens of social capital

    Tim Schwanen;Karen Lucas;Nihan Akyelken;Diego Cisternas Solsona

  • Making the connections between transport disadvantage and the social exclusion of low income populations in the Tshwane Region of South Africa

    Karen Lucas

  • Making the connections: final report on transport and social exclusion

    Karen Lucas

  • Promoting pro-environmental behaviour: existing evidence and policy implications

    Karen Lucas;Michael Brooks;Andrew Darnton;Jake Elster Jones

  • The health impacts of traffic-related exposures in urban areas: Understanding real effects, underlying driving forces and co-producing future directions

    Haneen Khreis;Karyn M. Warsow;Ersilia Verlinghieri;Alvaro Guzman

  • Transport, the Environment and Social Exclusion

    Karen Lucas;Tim Grosvenor;Roona Simpson

  • Social impacts and equity issues in transport: an introduction

    Karen Lucas;Peter Jones

  • Social exclusion: what can public transport offer?

    Janet Robin Stanley;Karen Lucas

  • Investigating links between transport disadvantage, social exclusion and well-being in Melbourne: preliminary results

    G Currie;T Richardson;P Smyth;D Vella-Brodrick

  • Transport poverty and fuel poverty in the UK: From analogy to comparison

    Giulio Mattioli;Karen Lucas;Greg Marsden

  • Modelling the relationship between travel behaviours and social disadvantage

    Karen Lucas;John Bates;José Moore;Juan Antonio Carrasco

  • A new evolution for transport-related social exclusion research?

    Karen Lucas

  • The car in British society

    Karen Lucas;Peter Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Schwanen
Tim Schwanen University of Oxford
Dianne Vella-Brodrick
Dianne Vella-Brodrick University of Melbourne
Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen
Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen Barcelona Institute for Global Health
Gina Porter
Gina Porter Durham University
David Rojas-Rueda
David Rojas-Rueda Colorado State University
Tijs Neutens
Tijs Neutens Ghent University
Gordon Walker
Gordon Walker Lancaster University
Stephen Ison
Stephen Ison De Montfort University
Corinne Mulley
Corinne Mulley University of Sydney

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