All Outputs (61)

Chatting round the fireside - transport tales from the pandemic (2021)
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On 23 April 2020, one month after the UK Prime Minister announced a national lockdown in response to COVID-19, PTRC hosted an online Fireside Chat to address the implications for transport of the pandemic. At a point when working (full-time) from hom... Read More about Chatting round the fireside - transport tales from the pandemic.

Putting users at the centre of MaaS (2020)
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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.

Embracing uncertainty and shaping transport for Scotland’s future (2018)
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A growing number of transport bodies are trying to make sense of how to inform and shape policymaking and investment in the face of deep uncertainty. Potentially disruptive transport technologies are only part of a more complex picture of societal ch... Read More about Embracing uncertainty and shaping transport for Scotland’s future.

The many assumptions about self‐driving cars – Where are we heading and who is in the driving seat? (2018)
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Will our future be filled with self-driving cars? If so, when are they due to hit our streets, will they have steering wheels, and will people own them or hail them? There is, we suggest, an ‘emotive enthusiasm’ amongst policymakers and industry play... Read More about The many assumptions about self‐driving cars – Where are we heading and who is in the driving seat?.

Is transport planning fit for purpose? (2018)
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Transport planning to those outside the profession may be invisible or misconstrued, yet for those on the inside we see its significance to each and every person in society. Transport planning is about developing the transport system and its use in a... Read More about Is transport planning fit for purpose?.

Future mobility in an ageing society: Where are we heading? (2013)
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Should Wikipedia be embraced by the transport profession as an influential source of information on transport issues? (2013)
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Like it or not, Wikipedia has become an influential source of information for the public and for professionals on many subjects, including transport. Enter either ‘high speed 2’ or ‘peak car’ (a debate of increasing academic interest) into Google and... Read More about Should Wikipedia be embraced by the transport profession as an influential source of information on transport issues?.

Transport and society: 10 insights for the Renaissance (2012)
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Exploring the interactions between life events, neighbourhood choice and car ownership transitions: Insights from a retrospective longitudinal survey (2012)
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A great deal has been written about the factors associated with cross-sectional variations in household car ownership. For example, observing that car ownership levels tend to increase with increasing distance from urban centres. However, much less h... Read More about Exploring the interactions between life events, neighbourhood choice and car ownership transitions: Insights from a retrospective longitudinal survey.

Comparing rail passengers’ travel time use in Great Britain between 2004 and 2010 (2012)
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New technologies for the old: Potential implications for independent living and travel demand (2011)
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The unusual suspects: The impact of non-transport technologies on social practices and travel demand (2011)
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Despite cases in which travel is undertaken purely for its own sake, travel is usually considered to be derived from a need or desire to participate in a wide range of activities – accessing people, goods, services and opportunities. People’s schedul... Read More about The unusual suspects: The impact of non-transport technologies on social practices and travel demand.

The process of household car ownership change: A qualitative analysis of real world accounts (2010)
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Lost in translation: Problems in intepreting business attitudes to transport (2010)
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Opportunities and options for transport policy (2010)
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Business travel: The social practices surrounding meetings (2009)
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Public transport information (non-)use empirically investigated for different trip types (2009)
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Explaining public transport information use through attitude theory (2009)
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Public attitudes to transport: Scrutinising the evidence (2009)
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Exploring the public acceptability of road pricing (2009)
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This paper reports on a major study for the UK Department for Transport that has involved deliberative research to explore how public attitudes (and motivations for such attitudes) towards road pricing influence public acceptability. The research inv... Read More about Exploring the public acceptability of road pricing.