Montreal
Recruitment in progress
Your city and your health are more connected than you think.
Montreal is undergoing major changes: over 184 km of new bike paths, plans for more green spaces, pedestrianized areas, and major transit projects like the REM or the BRT Pie IX. These investments are designed to reduce traffic congestion and make city life more sustainable. But they could also shape our health and well-being. The potential impact is huge, but there is a lot we still don’t know. Can building better infrastructure actually increase physical activity, well-being, and social connectedness? Does everyone benefit, or are some residents being left out?
Help us learn how to build healthy, happy, and connected cities.
Our team at Université de Montréal is inviting a diverse mix of residents from across the city to help us study neighbourhood changes. Tell us how you experience these changes. Are they making the city a happier and healthier place to be? Participation is easy and an opportunity to add your voice to innovative local research that aims to guide healthy and equitable community design in Montréal and beyond.
Join our study, Montréal!
The Montreal Area is in the midst of major change: more bike paths, more green spaces, more pedestrian areas, and better transit. Can all these changes have an impact on a bigger scale? Will they make the city a happier and healthier place to be?
We’re checking in with thousands of people from the Montreal area to find out, and we want you along for the ride!
Ready for the next round?
If you participated in a previous wave of data collection (in 2018, 2020, or 2022), welcome back! We want to know what’s changed. Sharing your data over time is powerful because it allows us to study cause and effects.
Ready to go? Click below to sign-in to our survey portal with the email you used last time.
What will I do?
Read the consent form
Review the study details and answer a few questions to confirm you are eligible for the study.
Complete a short survey
The online 20-minute survey will cover your transportation habits, health, and neighbourhood. If you don’t have access to a computer or a smartphone, our team can ask you the questions over the phone or in person.
Be entered into a prize draw
You will automatically be entered for a chance to win one of ten $100 gift cards or our grand prize—a $500 gift card—both to a retailer of your choice.
Optional activities
- Refer friends and receive up to $20 in gift cards as a thank you. When your friend and you complete the Health survey (that’s the one after we determine your eligibility), we’ll send you a $10 gift card. You can refer as many people as you like, you’ll receive a maximum of $20 in gift cards for helping us spread the word!
- Join the study’s bonus activities. You can choose to complete an extra survey about the places you visit, download an app to share travel and physical activity data through your mobile phone for 30 days or wear a sensor for 10 days that collects trip and physical intensity data. This part is totally optional. There’s no data plan required. For every extra activity you complete, you will receive a bonus entry for the prize draw.
What are the benefits?
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Contribute data that can help the city make its next planning decisions
- Join thousands of people across Canada who are sharing how changes in their neighbourhood impacts their day-to-day routines and overall health and well-being
- By joining, you will automatically be entered into a prize draw for one of ten $100 gift cards or the grand prize of a $500 gift card, each to a retailer of your choice
- Choose how much data you want to share. Participation is easy and flexible
Who can participate?
We’re looking to hear from all kinds of Montrealers! Tell us how you get around the city. You are eligible if:
- You are an adult (18+)
- You live on the Island of Montréal, Laval, Longueuil, Saint-Lambert or Brossard and don’t plan to move away in the next two years
- You read and understand French or English well enough to complete a 20-minute survey
To get the full picture of who is using and benefiting from neighbourhood changes, our research needs to include as many different voices as possible. We welcome participation from people who have been historically left out of research and city planning, including Indigenous people, people of colour, newcomers, residents living on lower incomes, and persons with disabilities.
If you would like to join the study but face barriers to participating, please contact us.
Need more information?
- Reach out to our study coordinator Marianne at montreal@teaminteract.ca
- Learn more about INTERACT
- Check out our FAQ for participants
Funding and partners: This research is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. We partner with the City of Montréal and the Direction régionale de santé publique to maximize the impact of our work.
What changes are we studying?
Montreal’s climate and resilience policies call for a range of actions for sustainable built environement interventions. Among these major changes, INTERACT will be measuring the impact of
Cycling Infrastructure
Réseau Express Vélo, bike paths, BIXI stations, bike parking, etc.
Transit Infrastructure
The REM, the Pie IX BRT, the blue line metro extension, changes to the bus network.
Changes to Green Spaces
New parks, trees, greened spaces, etc.
Changes to Public Space
Curb extensions, speed limits, public plazas, parklets, etc.
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think their neighbourhood has improved in the past 2 years
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think that the changes in their neighbourhood have boosted their quality of life
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think that low-income people can't afford to stay in their neighbourhood
Questions?
Please contact us at montreal@teaminteract.ca.