Outputs (53)

Tackling loneliness with transport fund: Engaging young people with community rail - Evaluation report (2023)
Report

This report presents the evaluation approach and results of the project Engaging Young People with Community Rail, funded by the Department for Transport’s Tackling Loneliness with Transport Fund . The project engaged with young people aged 15-24... Read More about Tackling loneliness with transport fund: Engaging young people with community rail - Evaluation report.

Loneliness: What it is, how it affects young people, how it can be tackled, and the role of transport (2023)
Report

This report is a summary of the evidence on loneliness, looking in particular at how loneliness can be defined, how it affects the population and specifically children and young people, what type of interventions can successfully tackle loneliness an... Read More about Loneliness: What it is, how it affects young people, how it can be tackled, and the role of transport.

UWE Priority side road study focus group report (2023)
Report

The Road Safety Trust awarded the Centre for Transport and Society at the University of the West of England, Bristol a grant to undertake research to understand which design factors influence the efficacy and safety of side road crossings in the UK,... Read More about UWE Priority side road study focus group report.

Design development of side road crossings for pedestrians and cyclists: Final Report v2.1 (2023)
Report

The Road Safety Trust awarded the Centre for Transport and Society at the University of the West of England, Bristol a grant to undertake research relating to the provision of Marked Priority for people walking and cycling across the side road at giv... Read More about Design development of side road crossings for pedestrians and cyclists: Final Report v2.1.

Literature review on the impacts of infrastructure on quality of life (2021)
Report

How should automated vehicles (AVs) interpret the rules of the road? A critical analysis of public expectations of interactions between AVs and road users (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Debates on how automated vehicles (AVs) would navigate the environment and behave while mixing with traffic have so far focused on technological capabilities and remained confined in expert circles, with very little dialogue with the public about the... Read More about How should automated vehicles (AVs) interpret the rules of the road? A critical analysis of public expectations of interactions between AVs and road users.

Getting Research into Practice (GRIP): Supporting development of local healthy planning practices (2021)
Report

Public engagement in transport planning (2021)
Book Chapter

In the last few decades, public engagement in transport planning has become an increasingly important feature of public policy and governance in most democratic societies across the globe. It is about involving the public and other stakeholders in de... Read More about Public engagement in transport planning.

Urban mobility, social inclusion and participation: A qualitative study in Palermo, Italy (2020)
Book Chapter

The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the connection between social inclusion and urban mobility, focusing on the role of sharing mobility and to what extent it might be a favourable tool for social inclusion, particularly for disadvantaged group... Read More about Urban mobility, social inclusion and participation: A qualitative study in Palermo, Italy.

Mobilità, accessibilità ed esclusione sociale giovanile in una periferia della città di Bristol, Regno Unito (2020)
Journal Article

The Role of Transport in Supporting a Healthy Future for Young People (2019)
Report

The Health Foundation commissioned Sustrans and the University of the West of England to ‘assess the role of transport in supporting young people to develop and transition to an independent healthy future’. This report focuses on the transport availa... Read More about The Role of Transport in Supporting a Healthy Future for Young People.

Young people’s travel – What’s changed and why? Review and analysis (2018)
Report

Young adults in Great Britain and other countries are driving less now than young adults did in the early 1990s. The Department for Transport (DfT) commissioned the Centre for Transport and Society (UWE, Bristol) and the Transport Studies Unit (Unive... Read More about Young people’s travel – What’s changed and why? Review and analysis.

Multi-stakeholder collaboration in urban freight consolidation schemes: Drivers and barriers to implementation (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 The Author(s). Published by VGTU Press. Due to the motivations of climate change, the health impacts of poor air quality, and the importance of cities for economic growth, transport policy at all levels of governance places emphasis on reducin... Read More about Multi-stakeholder collaboration in urban freight consolidation schemes: Drivers and barriers to implementation.

Autonomous vehicle interactions in the urban street environment: A research agenda (2017)
Journal Article

© ICE Publishing 2018. All rights reserved. The Venturer project is trialling an autonomous vehicle (AV) in the context of use on urban roads. This paper summarises a literature review undertaken to assist in developing a research agenda for the tria... Read More about Autonomous vehicle interactions in the urban street environment: A research agenda.

Days out by train in the West of England final project report (2017)
Report

This report provides an overview of the project Days Out by Train and its headline results

Young age, mobility and social inclusion in a disadvantaged urban periphery in England (2016)
Book Chapter

With this chapter I seek to address this gap and enhance the academic literature on young people’s and young adults’ physical mobility, with particular reference to the transport and social inclusion debate and from an intergenerational and lifecours... Read More about Young age, mobility and social inclusion in a disadvantaged urban periphery in England.

The EVIDENCE project: Measure no.3 - Urban freight (2016)
Journal Article

Evidence project Measure review on Urban Freight

The EVIDENCE project: Measure no.21 - Bike sharing (2016)
Journal Article

Evidence project Measure review on Bike Sharing

Unfamiliar fuel: How the UK public views the infrastructure required to supply hydrogen for road transport (2016)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2016, Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. In 2007, under contract to the UK Department for Transport, we engaged with the public about the infrastructure to supply hydrogen for transport. We combined a quota-sample survey of 1003 across th... Read More about Unfamiliar fuel: How the UK public views the infrastructure required to supply hydrogen for road transport.

The potential impact of autonomous vehicles on transport systems and society: A review and future prospects (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are generating high-profile policy interest due to the potential for ‘disruptive’ influence on transport systems and wider society. The paper places AV technology in a historical context, through an annotated timeline of dev... Read More about The potential impact of autonomous vehicles on transport systems and society: A review and future prospects.

Understanding the socioeconomic adoption scenarios for autonomous vehicles: A literature review (2016)
Report

There is great and growing interest in autonomous vehicles (AVs), both in relation to rapid technological developments and the trialling of these developments, and the potential for their far reaching impacts on transport systems and society. The pre... Read More about Understanding the socioeconomic adoption scenarios for autonomous vehicles: A literature review.

Understanding interactions between autonomous vehicles and other road users: A literature review (2016)
Report

This review draws on literature relating to the interactions of vehicles with other vehicles, interactions between vehicles and infrastructure, and interactions between autonomous vehicles and cyclists and autonomous vehicles and pedestrians. The ava... Read More about Understanding interactions between autonomous vehicles and other road users: A literature review.

Transport policy and social inclusion (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 by the authors; licensee Cogitatio (Lisbon, Portugal). ‘Transport-related Social inclusion’ is a specific naming of the complex set of interrelationships within which accessibility plays an important role in whether a citizen achieves the leve... Read More about Transport policy and social inclusion.

The Bristol method: How to reduce traffic and its impacts (2015)
Other

THE BRISTOL METHOD The Bristol Method is a knowledge-transfer programme aimed at helping people in other cities understand and apply the lessons that Bristol has learned in becoming a more sustainable city, not just in 2015 but in the last decade.... Read More about The Bristol method: How to reduce traffic and its impacts.

Where to park? A behavioral comparison of bus Park & Ride and city center car park usage in Bath, UK (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Integrating car parking facilities with public transport in Park and Ride (P&R) facilities has the potential to shorten car trips, contributing to more sustainable mobility. There is an on-going debate about the actual effects of P&R on the transport... Read More about Where to park? A behavioral comparison of bus Park & Ride and city center car park usage in Bath, UK.

Bike sharing: A review of evidence on impacts and processes of implementation and operation (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Despite the popularity of bike sharing, there is a lack of evidence on existing schemes and whether they achieved their objectives. This paper is concerned with identifying and critically interpreting the available evidence on bi... Read More about Bike sharing: A review of evidence on impacts and processes of implementation and operation.

Reduced Urban traffic and emissions within Urban consolidation centre schemes: The case of Bristol (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2014 The Authors. Urban freight consolidation centres (UFCCs) can provide a significant contribution to reducing the negative impacts of freight transport to city centres whilst at the same time providing a more seamless, higher-value logistics exp... Read More about Reduced Urban traffic and emissions within Urban consolidation centre schemes: The case of Bristol.

Where to park? A behavioural comparison of bus Park and Ride and city centre car park usage in Bath, UK (2014)
Journal Article

Integrating car parking facilities with public transport in Park and Ride (P&R) facilities has the potential to shorten car trips, contributing to more sustainable mobility. There is an ongoing debate about the actual effects of P&R on the transport... Read More about Where to park? A behavioural comparison of bus Park and Ride and city centre car park usage in Bath, UK.

Qualitative insights into the effect on travel behavior of joining a carshare (2013)
Journal Article

Carsharing organizations (carshares) provide collectively available vehicles that can be booked for exclusive use on a pay-as-you-go basis. Previous research has shown that two groups join carshares: (a) accessors, who do not have a car when they joi... Read More about Qualitative insights into the effect on travel behavior of joining a carshare.

Bike sharing: A contribution to sustainable mobility or a luxury we can’t afford? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The paper focuses on a particular form of ‘shared mobility’ that has become increasingly popular in recent years: bike sharing. The term ‘bike sharing’ refers to unattended short-term cycle hire offering residents and visitors a non-motorised, active... Read More about Bike sharing: A contribution to sustainable mobility or a luxury we can’t afford?.

Bike sharing: Affordable convenience or unaffordable luxury? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Deliberation over new hydrogen energy technologies: Evidence from two Citizens Panels in the UK (2013)
Journal Article

Hydrogen energy and hydrogen energy technologies are still largely at the experimental and demonstration project stages. If the hydrogen is produced sustainably from renewable sources, it may be a potential means of reducing carbon dioxide emissions... Read More about Deliberation over new hydrogen energy technologies: Evidence from two Citizens Panels in the UK.

Rapidly diffusing innovation: Whether the history of the Internet points the way for hydrogen energy (2012)
Journal Article

This paper identifies conditions for the rapid diffusion of what may be part of the solution for global sustainable energy - hydrogen - by drawing a comparison with the contemporary history of the Internet. The Cold War drove the take-off of the Inte... Read More about Rapidly diffusing innovation: Whether the history of the Internet points the way for hydrogen energy.

Testing sustainable mobility policies: Lessons learnt in the evaluation of the CIVITAS Renaissance project in Bath (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Ambiguity, complexity and uncertainty surrounding the hazards of hydrogen and public views of emergent risks (2012)
Journal Article

New technologies and emergent risks pose special problems for risk governance and regulation. This paper outlines some of the uncertainties about the hazards of hydrogen energy and examines qualitative evidence from recent deliberative Citizens Panel... Read More about Ambiguity, complexity and uncertainty surrounding the hazards of hydrogen and public views of emergent risks.

Public perceptions and acceptance of hydrogen energy (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Mirage of Citizen Engagement in Uncertain Science: Public attitudes towards hydrogen energy (2011)
Journal Article

© 2011, Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This paper addresses some of the debates about citizen involvement in decisions about science and technological innovation. It describes some of the claims and scientific uncertainties surrounding hydr... Read More about The Mirage of Citizen Engagement in Uncertain Science: Public attitudes towards hydrogen energy.

Substituting 'H2 for C' and reducing global inequalities in health (2011)
Journal Article

Life expectancy and health differ greatly between emerging and developed countries and within countries. Global dependence on fossil fuels contributes to health inequalities through air pollution, the geopolitics of scarce resources and probable clim... Read More about Substituting 'H2 for C' and reducing global inequalities in health.

The limits of upstream engagement in an emergent technology: lay perceptions of hydrogen energy technologies (2011)
Book Chapter

Towards sustainable energy: Are there lessons from the history of the early factory system? (2010)
Journal Article

Development of sustainable energy has been slow. We compare it with a historical example of rapid innovation - the first factory system. The first factory system in the English Derwent Valley mills in the eighteenth century was based not on new techn... Read More about Towards sustainable energy: Are there lessons from the history of the early factory system?.

Engaging the public on paths to sustainable energy: Who has to trust whom? (2010)
Journal Article

The aim is to observe how hydrogen, in its wider meaning as a 'system innovation', is understood by a cross section of the general public in three regions of the UK that have embryonic developments: Teesside, South West Wales and London.Focus groups... Read More about Engaging the public on paths to sustainable energy: Who has to trust whom?.

Hydrogen risks: A critical analysis of expert knowledge and expectations (2010)
Book Chapter

Public attitudes to hydrogen (2010)
Book Chapter

The ‘value-action gap’ in public attitudes towards sustainable energy: The case of hydrogen energy (2010)
Book Chapter

Bottom-up, social innovation for addressing climate change (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Environmental citizenship and public attitudes to hydrogen energy technologies (2008)
Journal Article

Some of the principal arguments in the debate about environmental citizenship are examined with reference to the development of hydrogen energy systems. In particular, qualitative evidence is drawn from a study of public attitudes towards hydrogen en... Read More about Environmental citizenship and public attitudes to hydrogen energy technologies.

What do we know about public perceptions and acceptance of hydrogen? A critical review and new case study evidence (2008)
Journal Article

Interest in hydrogen as a fuel and energy carrier has significantly grown internationally as a response to increasing concerns with environmental and energy security issues, and massive investments in research and demonstration programmes are being m... Read More about What do we know about public perceptions and acceptance of hydrogen? A critical review and new case study evidence.

UWE Continuous side road study
Report

This report summarises research undertaken by the Centre for Transport and Society at the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE) in relation to the provision of continuous footways across side road junctions as a means for providing enhance... Read More about UWE Continuous side road study.

West of England Sustainable Travel (WEST) baseline and year one (2012/13) annual outcomes monitoring report
Report

The Local Sustainable Transport Fund was launched in January 2011 with the four West of England unitary authorities (Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol City, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Councils) being awarded nearly £30 million by th... Read More about West of England Sustainable Travel (WEST) baseline and year one (2012/13) annual outcomes monitoring report.

West of England Sustainable Travel (WEST): Final annual outcomes monitoring report
Report

The Local Sustainable Transport Fund was launched in January 2011 with the four West of England unitary authorities (Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol City, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Councils) being awarded nearly £30 million by th... Read More about West of England Sustainable Travel (WEST): Final annual outcomes monitoring report.

West of England Sustainable Travel (WEST) baseline and years one, two, and three (to 2014/15) annual outcomes monitoring report
Report

The Local Sustainable Transport Fund was launched in January 2011 with the four West of England unitary authorities (Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol City, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Councils) being awarded nearly £30 million by th... Read More about West of England Sustainable Travel (WEST) baseline and years one, two, and three (to 2014/15) annual outcomes monitoring report.

Bottom-up, social innovation for addressing climate change
Preprint / Working Paper

West of England Sustainable Travel (WEST) baseline and years one and two (to 2013/14) annual outcomes monitoring report
Report

The Local Sustainable Transport Fund was launched in January 2011 with the four West of England unitary authorities (Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol City, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Councils) being awarded nearly £30 million by th... Read More about West of England Sustainable Travel (WEST) baseline and years one and two (to 2013/14) annual outcomes monitoring report.