Steve Melia
Steve Melia – Senior Lecturer, University of West of England , founder member Car Free UK.
Steve Melia has recently been appointed as Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, following completion of his PhD into the potential for carfree development in the UK. He is coordinator of Carfree UK, an organisation he helped to found in 2005, and has recently led their recent initiative to create a wider carfree movement starting in London. He was a parliamentary candidate in 1997 and has also written as a freelance journalist over several years. During the course of his PhD he cycled over 5,000 miles across Europe, visiting cities with carfree areas and sustainable transport practices, from which he has written several articles in Local Transport Today, Cycle magazine and others (see: www.stevemelia.co.uk). He represented Carfree UK in meetings with the Department for Transport and TCPA which led to the references to carfree development in the Eco-towns transport worksheet and Menu of Options for Eco-towns and Growth Points.
Steve Melia is speaking in the session The Agile City: Local Ties versus Global Reach
