All Outputs (8)

Exploring the use and perception of shared bikes for commuting and business travel on the urban fringe (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Calvert, T., Bartle, C., & Parkhurst, G. (2021, July). Exploring the use and perception of shared bikes for commuting and business travel on the urban fringe. Presented at 53rd Annual UTSG conference, Loughborough UK

Globally, bike-share schemes are in a state of flux; 1,977 public schemes are currently operating but another 835 have closed (Meddin et al., 2021), as new ‘fifth generation’ schemes (typically dockless) compete with each other and squeeze the more m... Read More about Exploring the use and perception of shared bikes for commuting and business travel on the urban fringe.

The many assumptions about self‐driving cars – Where are we heading and who is in the driving seat? (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Parkhurst, G., & Lyons, G. (2018, July). The many assumptions about self‐driving cars – Where are we heading and who is in the driving seat?. Paper presented at 16th Annual Transport Practitioners' Meeting, Oxford, England

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?.

Public attitudes to road pricing: Exploring the role of older age, pro-sociality, social norms and trust (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Nikitas, A., Avineri, E., & Parkhurst, G. (2016, January). Public attitudes to road pricing: Exploring the role of older age, pro-sociality, social norms and trust. Paper presented at Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting, Washington, USA

Understanding the socio-psychological mechanisms that determine the public acceptability of road pricing could be a key for its implementation in urban environments where this is a viable scenario. Studying the attitudes of older people is of particu... Read More about Public attitudes to road pricing: Exploring the role of older age, pro-sociality, social norms and trust.

Car clubs in new developments (2016)
Report
Melia, S., & Parkhurst, G. (2016). Car clubs in new developments

This report provides a review of good practice and the experiences of key local authorities in implementing car free and low car developments over the ten-year period 2003-2014. It found that car clubs are more likely to be successfully established... Read More about Car clubs in new developments.

The Bristol method: How to reduce traffic and its impacts (2015)
Other
Barnes, J., Crawshaw, S., Parkhurst, G., Toy, J., Robinson, B., Ricci, M., …Davis, A. (2015). The Bristol method: How to reduce traffic and its impacts. Bristol

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.

Rees Jeffreys Road Fund study: Major roads for the future - Identifying network users and their characteristics (2015)
Report
Clayton, W., Calvert, T., Parkin, J., & Parkhurst, G. (2015). Rees Jeffreys Road Fund study: Major roads for the future - Identifying network users and their characteristics

The Rees Jeffreys Road Fund (RJRF) has commissioned an ambitious two-year study of major roads in England with a horizon of 2040. There are seven topics of interest, and the first topic of interest has two tasks, one of which (Task 1B) is to identify... Read More about Rees Jeffreys Road Fund study: Major roads for the future - Identifying network users and their characteristics.

Independent analytical review for a road user satisfaction survey (2015)
Report
Parkhurst, G., Jain, J., Clayton, W., Calvert, T., Phillips, A., & Blyth, B. (2015). Independent analytical review for a road user satisfaction survey

Following the 2011 publication of the Cook Report (Cook, 2011) which examined the English highway network in terms of its effective management, value for money and level of innovation, the government set about a programme of regulatory reform (Depart... Read More about Independent analytical review for a road user satisfaction survey.

User experience of the Milton Park bike-share scheme report of survey
Report
Calvert, T., Bartle, C., & Parkhurst, G. User experience of the Milton Park bike-share scheme report of survey. Innovate UK

In February 2020, six electric bikes (e-bikes) were added to the Milton Park fleet of 18 ‘conventional’ shared bikes, with funding from the MultiCAV project. The scheme is operated by Bainton Bikes of Oxford using Donkey Republic software, and brande... Read More about User experience of the Milton Park bike-share scheme report of survey.