All Outputs (19)

Separateness in the home: From home-ness to work-ness in a post-covid environment (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

COVID-19 brought unprecedented restrictive lockdown measures across the globe. This ‘enforced togetherness’ brought transformative changes in how homes were used and inhabited. The home was tested to its limits and the use of its spaces renegotiated,... Read More about Separateness in the home: From home-ness to work-ness in a post-covid environment.

Research Handbook on Flood Risk Management (2024)
Book

Pushing the boundaries of flood risk management research, this comprehensive Research Handbook presents pragmatic insights into all areas relating to flood risk. Through its use of dynamic and people-centred paradigms, it explores urban flood managem... Read More about Research Handbook on Flood Risk Management.

Amphibious architecture: A biomimetic design approach to flood resilience (2024)
Journal Article

Amphibious buildings use the buoyancy principle in the design of their foundation systems to mitigate flood impact. In some cases, amphibious buildings are fitted with mechanical systems that further aid the buoyancy element to temporarily raise the... Read More about Amphibious architecture: A biomimetic design approach to flood resilience.

Grounding Technologies: The creative use of mundane and emerging technologies for place-based, just climate action (2023)
Report

Putting people and place at the heart of our work, Grounding Technologies explores how everyday, emergent and mundane technologies can support community-centred climate action. Such ambitions were achieved through a programme of public calls that... Read More about Grounding Technologies: The creative use of mundane and emerging technologies for place-based, just climate action.

Foresight through developing shared mental models: The case of Triple Access Planning (2023)
Journal Article

Planning for the future involves making sense of the present and examining possible changes in key factors that can influence the future. Actors rely upon mental models of the system that planning addresses: their simplified interpretations of the ma... Read More about Foresight through developing shared mental models: The case of Triple Access Planning.

Public perceptions of rainwater harvesting (RWH): Comparing users and non-users of RWH systems (2023)
Journal Article

The UK’s abundant municipal water supply has resulted in slow progress with the uptake of rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems within the home. Research has indicated that exploring public preferences for domestic RWH are necessary for increasing deman... Read More about Public perceptions of rainwater harvesting (RWH): Comparing users and non-users of RWH systems.

I’m 95.4% confident you’ll like this (2023)
Journal Article

This short viewpoint article draws attention to, and expresses frustration over, the phenomenon of false precision. False precision abounds within (and beyond) the transport sector. It seems many find it irresistable to present numbers with far more... Read More about I’m 95.4% confident you’ll like this.

Urban building energy modelling and generative design - an integration for energy-optimised urban design: A systematic review (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Global warming is having a significant impact on urban living conditions and putting pressure on finite resources. The built environment, particularly in urban areas, is a major contributor to this problem, highlighting the need for sustainable urban... Read More about Urban building energy modelling and generative design - an integration for energy-optimised urban design: A systematic review.

Hopeful futures for creative innovation (2023)
Report

Hopeful futures for creative innovation: Lessons learnt (2023)
Report

Future of mobility (2023)
Journal Article

This article offers a personal perspective on the future of mobility, drawing upon the author's 30-year career in the transport sector.

Public preference of flood-resilient housing technologies in Nigeria: A case study of Kogi State (2023)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore flood-prone area residents' preferences of flood-resilient housing technologies (HTs), to understand the factors influencing their choices. Flood-resilient HTs can reduce damage and disruption at a hou... Read More about Public preference of flood-resilient housing technologies in Nigeria: A case study of Kogi State.

Prioritising critical attributes for the management of materials procurement and construction waste (2023)
Journal Article

Construction and demolition waste constitutes the largest municipal solid waste (MSW) globally with environmental concerns. However, waste management is not considered a priority objective in construction compared to time and cost. Therefore, constru... Read More about Prioritising critical attributes for the management of materials procurement and construction waste.

Seeing the road ahead (2023)
Journal Article

This article considers the changing place of roads in supporting society and the future prospects for roadspace in the context of rethinking connectivity and accessibility in society. It stems from the author's role as a member of the Wales Roads Rev... Read More about Seeing the road ahead.

Freight: The final frontier (2022)
Journal Article

On 14 July 2022 the 13th event in the PTRC Fireside Chat Series took place. With a panel of experts, this addressed the future of freight. This short article is the author's abridged writeup of that event.

It’s time to act on pavement misuse (2022)
Journal Article

This short commentary article offers a critical assessment of the mistreatment of pavements (walkways) in the UK in the face of continued (ab)use of the pavement for parking motorised vehicles.

The transport decarbonisation puzzle (2021)
Journal Article

This article is an abridged version of the author's assessment of the UK Government's Transport Decarbonisation Plan

Public transport and the future of mobility (2021)
Book Chapter

Across the chapters in this Handbook, the breadth and diversity encompassed under the label ‘public transport’ is apparent. The book’s contents also reflect a number of significant dynamics. The future of public transport may well be characterised ve... Read More about Public transport and the future of mobility.

Planning for connected autonomous vehicles (2019)
Report

Connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are increasingly in the news, and speculation about their role in a future mobility system is widespread. Transport authorities face the task of determining what part they should play in this unfolding story. T... Read More about Planning for connected autonomous vehicles.