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Getting smart about urban mobility – Aligning the paradigms of smart and sustainable (2016)
Journal Article
Lyons, G. (2018). Getting smart about urban mobility – Aligning the paradigms of smart and sustainable. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 115, 4-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2016.12.001

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd The digital age continues its advance, bringing with it remarkable technological possibilities. Such possibilities are founded upon an increasingly fine-grained electronic connectivity of people, places and objects allied to power... Read More about Getting smart about urban mobility – Aligning the paradigms of smart and sustainable.

Changing times – A decade of empirical insight into the experience of rail passengers in Great Britain (2016)
Journal Article
Lyons, G., Jain, J., & Weir, I. (2016). Changing times – A decade of empirical insight into the experience of rail passengers in Great Britain. Journal of Transport Geography, 57, 94-104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2016.10.003

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd In the last decade the number of rail passenger journeys in Great Britain has increased by half and car trips per person are down by a tenth. Meanwhile there has been significant growth in internet use and ownership of smartphones... Read More about Changing times – A decade of empirical insight into the experience of rail passengers in Great Britain.

Transport analysis in an uncertain world (2016)
Journal Article
Lyons, G. (2016). Transport analysis in an uncertain world. Transport Reviews, 36(5), 553-557. https://doi.org/10.1080/01441647.2016.1194613

This short article reflects upon the task of informing policymaking and investment decisions in times of deep uncertainty, in the face of problems that are more 'wicked' than 'tame' and in the context of ever present biases.

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.

Guidance for transport planning and policymaking in the face of an uncertain future (2016)
Journal Article
Lyons, G., & Davidson, C. (2016). Guidance for transport planning and policymaking in the face of an uncertain future. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 88, 104-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2016.03.012

Uncertainty of outcome is widely recognised as a concern facing decision-makers and their advisors. In a number of spheres of policy, it appears uncertainty has intensified in the face of globalisation, economic instability, climate change, technolog... Read More about Guidance for transport planning and policymaking in the face of an uncertain future.