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The Five Attribute Performance Assessment (FAPA) model to evaluate the performance of an urban consolidation centre (2021)
Journal Article

Nowadays, local authorities are not completely aware of the advantages of city logistics measures, as they usually do not have a quantitative estimation of their related benefits. One of the most popular city logistics schemes is probably the Urban C... Read More about The Five Attribute Performance Assessment (FAPA) model to evaluate the performance of an urban consolidation centre.

Decarbonising road freight: Is truck automation and platooning an opportunity? (2021)
Journal Article

Governments, industry and academia are paying high attention to autonomous vehicles and platooning, due to their high potential to transform public and private transport and reduce carbon emissions generated by road transport. The road freight sector... Read More about Decarbonising road freight: Is truck automation and platooning an opportunity?.

A study of users' preferences after a brief exposure in a Shared Autonomous Vehicle (SAV) (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Shared Autonomous Vehicles are expected to significantly change transport and mobility, improving road safety, environmental impact and traffic efficiency. However, the successful implementation of a SAV mobility service strongly depends on public ac... Read More about A study of users' preferences after a brief exposure in a Shared Autonomous Vehicle (SAV).

Roads Runways and Resistance - from the Newbury Bypass to Extinction Rebellion (2021)
Book

From the anti-roads protests of the 1990s to HS2 and Extinction Rebellion, conflict and protest have shaped the politics of transport. In 1989, Margaret Thatcher's government announced 'the biggest road-building programme since the Romans.' This is t... Read More about Roads Runways and Resistance - from the Newbury Bypass to Extinction Rebellion.

Electric Mobility (2021)
Book Chapter

The article begins in questioning whether the electric mobility (EM) revolution amounts to a “sociotechnical transition” or merely a technological substitution. It reviews the origins of transport sector electrification in the 19th century, identifyi... Read More about Electric Mobility.

Technology enabled data for sustainable transport policy (2021)
Book Chapter

The explosive growth of New and Emerging Data Forms (NEDF) has enabled profound new insights into human behavior, especially related to mobility. NEDF are facilitated by technologies such as smartphones, sensor networks and distributed computing arch... Read More about Technology enabled data for sustainable transport policy.

Turning points in car ownership over the life course: Contributions from biographical interviews and panel data (2020)
Book Chapter

There is still much to learn about why people make major changes to their personal mobility. It is challenging to identify the points in time when people make major changes in their personal mobility and the circumstances in which such changes take p... Read More about Turning points in car ownership over the life course: Contributions from biographical interviews and panel data.

Don't forget walking: Taking steps out of the pandemic (2020)
Digital Artefact

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Glenn Lyons has jointly organised and has chaired a Fireside Chat series of events with PTRC, examining the transport implications of the pandemic. Fireside Chat #5 on 17 September 2020 was titled "And don't forget walki... Read More about Don't forget walking: Taking steps out of the pandemic.

Public transport use and health status in later life: Which relationship? (2020)
Journal Article

In many developed countries, ageing trends have called for mobility policies oriented to active travels for older adults, preventing some diseases. As a result, in the transport and health literature, the elderly's psycho-physical health is growingly... Read More about Public transport use and health status in later life: Which relationship?.

Between abundance and constraints: The natural resource equation of Asia’s diverging, higher-income city models (2020)
Journal Article

This paper investigates how natural resource conditions impact the physical development of cities and how, once built, the urban spatial structure leads to different patterns of resource use. The point of departure for this research is the common “re... Read More about Between abundance and constraints: The natural resource equation of Asia’s diverging, higher-income city models.

Mobility impact and well-being in later life: A multidisciplinary systematic review (2020)
Journal Article

In modern societies, the understanding of how active mobility affects the elderly's psycho-physical well-being is crucial to design ageing-friendly transport measures. From a multidisciplinary perspective, this systematic review points out the mobili... Read More about Mobility impact and well-being in later life: A multidisciplinary systematic review.

A qualitative study of the accessibility of a typical UK town cycle network to disabled cyclists (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd Introduction: Cycling offers significant benefits for disabled people in the form of independent mobility and improved management of chronic health conditions, such as heart disease, diabetes and obesity through increased physical... Read More about A qualitative study of the accessibility of a typical UK town cycle network to disabled cyclists.

Putting users at the centre of MaaS (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The rapid emergence of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) into the transport sector’s lexicon has brought with it an air of expectation that suggests a future mobility revolution. The authors take an action-oriented approach putting MaaS theory into practi... Read More about Putting users at the centre of MaaS.

Anticipating urban travel transitions and new mobility behaviours. Discussion Paper prepared for ITF Working Group on Urban Travel Transitions in light of Covid-19 (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper

There have been large discrepancies between forecasts of travel demand and outcomes in industrialised countries in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. The paper identifies how we can better anticipate travel transitions to inform expe... Read More about Anticipating urban travel transitions and new mobility behaviours. Discussion Paper prepared for ITF Working Group on Urban Travel Transitions in light of Covid-19.

Elderly mobility under the microscope: A multidisciplinary perspective (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Mobility in later life is a key determinant in modern societies dealing with ageing population. Despite being studied in medicine, sociology and transport, this topic displayed findings which have been exploited within each discipline. Potential spil... Read More about Elderly mobility under the microscope: A multidisciplinary perspective.

Public transport: Social distancing without socially excluding (2020)
Digital Artefact

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Glenn Lyons has jointly organised and has chaired a Fireside Chat series of events with PTRC examining the transport implications of the pandemic. Fireside Chat #2 on 18 June 2020 was titled "Social distancing – the deat... Read More about Public transport: Social distancing without socially excluding.

The potential for automation to transform urban deliveries: Drivers, barriers and policy priorities (2020)
Book Chapter

Urban freight transport is crucial to ensuring the economic vitality of a city. However, significant negative ‘externalities’ arise from freight flows in urban areas. Current solutions to reduce the impact of freight transport in urban areas aim at r... Read More about The potential for automation to transform urban deliveries: Drivers, barriers and policy priorities.

Open access transport models: A leverage point in sustainable transport planning (2020)
Journal Article

A large and growing body of evidence suggests fundamental changes are needed in transport systems, to tackle issues such as air pollution, physical inactivity and climate change. Transport models can play a major role in tackling these issues through... Read More about Open access transport models: A leverage point in sustainable transport planning.

Segmenting travellers based on day-to-day variability in work-related travel behaviour (2020)
Journal Article

Travel needs for commute and business trips are complex and choices are not made based on the characteristics of individual trips, but instead based on the needs over weeks and months. For example, the cost per trip of commuting by bus varies dependi... Read More about Segmenting travellers based on day-to-day variability in work-related travel behaviour.

A constructive role for social science in the development of automated vehicles (2020)
Journal Article

Automated vehicles (AVs) have the potential to cause profound shifts across a wide range of areas of human life, including economic structures, land use, lifestyles and personal well-being. Most current social science on AVs is narrowly framed. Resea... Read More about A constructive role for social science in the development of automated vehicles.