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Virtual reality reduces anxiety and pain in acute hospital palliative care: Service evaluation (2023)
Journal Article
Burridge, N., Sillence, A., Teape, L., Clark, B., Bruce, E., Armoogum, J., …Etkind, S. (in press). Virtual reality reduces anxiety and pain in acute hospital palliative care: Service evaluation. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care, https://doi.org/10.1136/spcare-2023-004572

Objectives: Virtual reality (VR) might improve symptom management, but there is limited evidence regarding VR in palliative care. We evaluated the feasibility of VR and impact on anxiety and pain for patients in a hospital palliative care consultatio... Read More about Virtual reality reduces anxiety and pain in acute hospital palliative care: Service evaluation.

Turning points in car ownership over the life course: Contributions from biographical interviews and panel data (2020)
Book Chapter
Chatterjee, K., & Clark, B. (2020). Turning points in car ownership over the life course: Contributions from biographical interviews and panel data. In Mobility and Travel Behaviour Across the Life Course (17-32). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789907810

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.

Access to transport and life opportunities (2019)
Report
Chatterjee, K., Clark, B., Nguyen, A., Wishart, R., Gallop, K., Smith, N., & Tipping, S. (2019). Access to transport and life opportunities. Department for Transport

This report presents the findings from a study conducted by NatCen and the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), commissioned by the Department for Transport (DfT) to investigate how access to transport affects the life opportunities and w... Read More about Access to transport and life opportunities.

Commuting and wellbeing: A critical overview of the literature with implications for policy and future research (2019)
Journal Article
Chatterjee, K., Chng, S., Clark, B., Davis, A., De Vos, J., Ettema, D., …Reardon, L. (2020). Commuting and wellbeing: A critical overview of the literature with implications for policy and future research. Transport Reviews, 40(1), 5-34. https://doi.org/10.1080/01441647.2019.1649317

© 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This review provides a critical overview of what has been learnt about commuting’s impact on subjective wellbeing (SWB). It is structured around a con... Read More about Commuting and wellbeing: A critical overview of the literature with implications for policy and future research.

How commuting affects subjective wellbeing (2019)
Journal Article
Clark, B., Chatterjee, K., Martin, A., & Davis, A. (2020). How commuting affects subjective wellbeing. Transportation, 47(6), 2777–2805. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-019-09983-9

Commuting between home and work is routinely performed by workers and any wellbeing impacts of commuting will consequently affect a large proportion of the population. This paper presents findings from analyses of the impact of commuting (time and mo... Read More about How commuting affects subjective wellbeing.

New Technology and Automation in Freight Transport and Handling Systems (2019)
Other
Paddeu, D., Calvert, T., Clark, B., & Parkhurst, G. (2019). New Technology and Automation in Freight Transport and Handling Systems. London, UK

This is an evidence review that examines the trends in manufacturing and global supply chains, looking at the international trade, technology and users, and how these may change between now and 2040. The review has been commissioned by the Government... Read More about New Technology and Automation in Freight Transport and Handling Systems.

What happens to travel behaviour when the right to park is removed? (2018)
Journal Article
Melia, S., & Clark, B. (2018). What happens to travel behaviour when the right to park is removed?. Transport Policy, 72, 242-247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2018.07.002

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd What happens to travel behaviour when the right to park at a destination is removed? This question, fundamental to travel demand management and land-use planning, has only been partially addressed in the literature so far. The imp... Read More about What happens to travel behaviour when the right to park is removed?.

Young people’s travel – What’s changed and why? Review and analysis (2018)
Report
Chatterjee, K., Goodwin, P., Schwanen, T., Clark, B., Jain, J., Melia, S., …Stokes, G. (2018). Young people’s travel – What’s changed and why? Review and analysis. Bristol: Department for Transport

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.

Autonomous vehicle interactions in the urban street environment: A research agenda (2017)
Journal Article
Parkin, J., Clark, B., Clayton, W., Ricci, M., & Parkhurst, G. (2018). Autonomous vehicle interactions in the urban street environment: A research agenda. Proceedings of the ICE - Municipal Engineer, 171(1), 15-25. https://doi.org/10.1680/jmuen.16.00062

© 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.

What happens to travel behaviour when parking is removed? (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Melia, S., & Clark, B. (2017, January). What happens to travel behaviour when parking is removed?. Paper presented at 49th University Transport Studies Group Conference, Dublin, Eire

What happens to travel behaviour when the right to park is removed? This controversial question, fundamental to travel demand management and land-use planning, has only been partially addressed by the literature so far. The impacts on travel to the... Read More about What happens to travel behaviour when parking is removed?.

Evaluation of the change in parking policy on Frenchay campus (2016)
Report
Melia, S., & Clark, B. (2016). Evaluation of the change in parking policy on Frenchay campus

In 2013 UWE implemented a radical change in parking policy at Frenchay campus, removing the right to park from undergraduates living in an ‘Exclusion Zone’ (with a few exceptions) covering the areas where most students live. The change was applied t... Read More about Evaluation of the change in parking policy on Frenchay campus.

Commute mode choice dynamics: Accounting for day-to-day variability in longer term change (2016)
Journal Article
Chatterjee, K., Clark, B., & Bartle, C. (2016). Commute mode choice dynamics: Accounting for day-to-day variability in longer term change. European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, 16(4), 713-734

It is of interest to transport policy makers to know whether interventions promoting sustainable transport modes can produce long-term changes in commute mode choices. Recent evidence has shown that a significant minority of commuters are variable in... Read More about Commute mode choice dynamics: Accounting for day-to-day variability in longer term change.

Understanding the process that gives rise to household car ownership level changes (2016)
Journal Article
Clark, B., Lyons, G., & Chatterjee, K. (2016). Understanding the process that gives rise to household car ownership level changes. Journal of Transport Geography, 55, 110-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2016.07.009

© 2016 The Authors Quantitative studies have revealed that changes to the number of cars owned by households are more likely to occur at the time of life events. However, causal explanations of such relationships are either absent or lacking evidence... Read More about Understanding the process that gives rise to household car ownership level changes.

Changes to commute mode: The role of life events, spatial context and environmental attitude (2016)
Journal Article
Clark, B., Chatterjee, K., & Melia, S. (2016). Changes to commute mode: The role of life events, spatial context and environmental attitude. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 89, 89-105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2016.05.005

© 2016 The Authors. It has been suggested that commuting behaviours become habitual and that changes to commute mode are more likely at the time of major life events. However, evidence to support this has so far been limited to analyses of small-scal... Read More about Changes to commute mode: The role of life events, spatial context and environmental attitude.

The EVIDENCE project: Measure no.13 - New public transport systems and networks (2016)
Journal Article
Clark, B. (2016). The EVIDENCE project: Measure no.13 - New public transport systems and networks. World Transport Policy and Practice, 22(1/2), 121-132

Key messages: • Light rail (LRT) and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems can increase passenger carrying capacity, increase use of public transport, and deliver land use strategies; e.g. regenerating former industrial areas, intensification around tra... Read More about The EVIDENCE project: Measure no.13 - New public transport systems and networks.

The EVIDENCE project: Measure no.16 - Traffic management and control (2016)
Journal Article
Clark, B. (2016). The EVIDENCE project: Measure no.16 - Traffic management and control. World Transport Policy and Practice, 22(1/2), 152-161

Key messages: • Urban Traffic Control systems (UTC) can be expected to improve network efficiency by reducing delays to vehicles. This can have additional benefits in reducing fuel use and emissions (although evidence here is limited). • Econom... Read More about The EVIDENCE project: Measure no.16 - Traffic management and control.

The EVIDENCE project: Measure no.5 - Roadspace re-allocation (2016)
Journal Article
Clark, B. (2016). The EVIDENCE project: Measure no.5 - Roadspace re-allocation. World Transport Policy and Practice, 22(1/2), 47-55

Key messages: • Schemes in which general traffic lanes are re-allocated to alternative uses can be expected to reduce traffic volumes, improve journey times for the modes given additional priority (e.g. bicycles or buses), increase the use of non-... Read More about The EVIDENCE project: Measure no.5 - Roadspace re-allocation.

Flood resilience on the railways – solutions, appraisal and decision-making (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Clark, B., Parkin, J., Everard, M., Quinn, N., & Parkhurst, G. (2016, January). Flood resilience on the railways – solutions, appraisal and decision-making. Paper presented at 48th Universities' Transport Studies Group Conference, Bristol, UK

The welfare costs of weather related disruption on the transport network have been estimated to be between £100m and £520m per day of disruption in England. This paper presents a case study of a mainline railway cutting and tunnel, which is situated... Read More about Flood resilience on the railways – solutions, appraisal and decision-making.

The potential impact of autonomous vehicles on transport systems and society: A review and future prospects (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Clark, B., Parkhurst, G., & Ricci, M. (2016, January). The potential impact of autonomous vehicles on transport systems and society: A review and future prospects. Paper presented at 48th Universities' Transport Studies Group Conference, Bristol, UK

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.