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Internet: Investigating new technology's evolving role, nature and effects on transport

Lyons, Glenn

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Glenn Lyons Glenn.Lyons@uwe.ac.uk
Professor of Future Mobility



Abstract

In the space of only a few years the Internet has emerged as a mainstream communications medium providing a growing proportion of the population with virtual access to goods, people, opportunities and services. Against a backdrop of highlighting how teleshopping and teleworking alongside traveller information services are advancing as a consequence of the Internet, this paper suggests that the Internet and the virtual mobility it affords must in due course be explicitly addressed within an integrated transport policy. The paper explores the relationships between use of information and communications technology and personal travel highlighting the importance of social issues in gauging whether or not a net positive effect in terms of travel demand and tripmaking can arise from increasing use of the Internet. Suggestions for a policy approach are also made. © 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Lyons, G. (2002). Internet: Investigating new technology's evolving role, nature and effects on transport. Transport Policy, 9(4), 335-346. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0967-070X%2802%2900023-9

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Oct 1, 2002
Deposit Date Jul 15, 2010
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Transport Policy
Print ISSN 0967-070X
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 9
Issue 4
Pages 335-346
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/S0967-070X%2802%2900023-9
Keywords internet, travel demand, teleservices, teleshopping, teleworking
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1076316
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0967-070X(02)00023-9

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