Outputs (71)

Bristol advisory committee on climate change: One City climate strategy progress review - February 2023 (2023)
Report

This report from the Bristol Advisory Committee on Climate Change (BACCC) reviews citywide progress on tackling the climate crisis and concludes that, although there is some positive progress, the city is still way off meeting its 2030 carbon neutra... Read More about Bristol advisory committee on climate change: One City climate strategy progress review - February 2023.

Scooter stories: User and non-user experiences of a shared E-Scooter trial (2023)
Journal Article

E-scooters are the fastest-growing form of micro-mobility, riding a wave of popularity in recent years; in may cities, they have sparked something akin to an urban personal mobility revolution. Despite their popularity, e-scooters raise several chall... Read More about Scooter stories: User and non-user experiences of a shared E-Scooter trial.

Becoming an electric car owner – User experience and the EV community (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter is a review and discussion of the experience of becoming an Electric Vehicle (EV) owner, with a focus on the importance of online EV communities on social media platforms in providing informal support to new owners during the transition... Read More about Becoming an electric car owner – User experience and the EV community.

Electrifying Mobility: Realising a Sustainable Future for the Car (2022)
Book

Transport is responsible for a growing share of global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, emerging as an economic sector for which technical solutions have shown limited benefits and a shift to electric mobility is seen as an essential... Read More about Electrifying Mobility: Realising a Sustainable Future for the Car.

The electric car as a component of future sustainable mobility (2022)
Book Chapter

The chapter draws on the key findings from across the previous chapters in this book with a view to reaching a synthesis which responds to the key question that motivated the book: ‘to what extent does a shift to electric automobility suggest a susta... Read More about The electric car as a component of future sustainable mobility.

E-scooter experiences: Conflicts and opportunities in urban space (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

E-scooter experiences: Conflicts and opportunities in urban space (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

E-scooters are the fastest-growing form of micro-mobility. E-scooters have seen a wave of popularity in recent years; in many cities they have sparked something akin to an urban personal mobility revolution. Despite their popularity, e-scooters raise... Read More about E-scooter experiences: Conflicts and opportunities in urban space.

Bristol Advisory Committee on Climate Change. Annual report year 2 (2022)
Report

Annual report on year one - Bristol Advisory Committee on Climate Change (2020)
Report

Exactly one year following its establishment, the Bristol Advisory Committee on Climate Change (BACCC) has published the Annual Report on Year One to review its first year of operations and key contributions to Bristol’s response to the climate emerg... Read More about Annual report on year one - Bristol Advisory Committee on Climate Change.

Autonomous vehicles: Who will use them, and will they share? (2020)
Journal Article

The advent of road transport automation is suggested to be one of four key technological transitions that could amount to a major transformation in mobility practices. Specifically, fully Automated Vehicles (AVs) might replace the current private car... Read More about Autonomous vehicles: Who will use them, and will they share?.

The Journey Experience (2019)
Book Chapter

Autonomous vehicles: Who will use them, and will they share? (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The advent of road transport automation has been identified as one of four key technological transitions that could eventually amount to a major transformation in mobility practices (Parkhurst and Seedhouse, 2019). Specifically, fully Automated Vehic... Read More about Autonomous vehicles: Who will use them, and will they share?.

Analysis of the passengers’ experience and travel time use on board urban buses. The case of Brescia (2018)
Journal Article

Providing users of the public transport with a satisfactory service is necessary to discourage the use of private transport modes. In addition to ensuring high performance in terms of accessibility, usability and availability of the service, in recen... Read More about Analysis of the passengers’ experience and travel time use on board urban buses. The case of Brescia.

The ‘digital glimpse’ as imagining home (2018)
Journal Article

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper proposes the concept of the ‘digital glimpse’, which develops the existing framing of imaginative travel. Here it articulates the experiences of mobile workers digitally conne... Read More about The ‘digital glimpse’ as imagining home.

Continuously connected customer (2018)
Report

The Continuously Connected Customer research was the first in-depth evaluation of free WiFi in a real-world setting within the UK. This document summarises four key messages and what they mean next for the rail industry.

Autonomous vehicles: Willingness-to-pay and willingness-to-share (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The advent of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) is suggested to represent a significant step in the move towards Mobility as a Service (MaaS) networks, in which private vehicle ownership is largely replaced by fleets of on-demand AVs as a part of a broader,... Read More about Autonomous vehicles: Willingness-to-pay and willingness-to-share.

Bridging the gap: A case study of a partnership approach to skills development through student engagement in bristol’s green capital year (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. HEIs are well placed to engage with local communities, and can connect students with organisations through several pathways, such as volunteering opportunitie... Read More about Bridging the gap: A case study of a partnership approach to skills development through student engagement in bristol’s green capital year.

Autonomous vehicle interactions in the urban street environment: A research agenda (2017)
Journal Article

© 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.

Connected by rail: A study of internet use on the train (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The UK government expects all GB passenger train operators to provide free internet to passengers with new train franchises obliged to provide a minimum standard of free WiFi to all. By 2018 90% of rail passengers will have access to free WiFi. The M... Read More about Connected by rail: A study of internet use on the train.

Barriers to a better Bristol: Diagnosing city strategic sustainability challenges using systems, co-production and interdisciplinary approaches (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As European Green Capital 2015 and one of the Rockefeller 100 Resilient Cities, Bristol can legitimately claim to be on the “frontline” of urban sustainability, continually challenging itself to transform into a place where citizens and organisations... Read More about Barriers to a better Bristol: Diagnosing city strategic sustainability challenges using systems, co-production and interdisciplinary approaches.

Barriers to a better Bristol: Diagnosing city strategic challenges using systems, co-production and interdisciplinary approaches (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As European Green Capital 2015 and one of the Rockefeller 100 Resilient Cities, Bristol can legitimately claim to be on the “frontline” of urban sustainability, continually challenging itself to transform into a place where citizens and organisations... Read More about Barriers to a better Bristol: Diagnosing city strategic challenges using systems, co-production and interdisciplinary approaches.

Cycling and disability: A call for further research (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Cycling can offer health benefits, and these benefits are relevant for disabled people. Few disabled people cycle, and disability is under-researched in cycling studies. This paper (i) reviews current research into disabled cycling, and provid... Read More about Cycling and disability: A call for further research.

Engaging students in the city: Inter-institutional approaches to skills and engaged learning (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Engaging Students in the City: inter-institutional approaches to skills and engaged learning

Present whilst absent: Home and the business tourist gaze (2017)
Journal Article

© 2016 This paper reflects on business travel as a contemporary form of mobility and how it relates to family life. Through qualitative research with business travellers, insights are gained into the role digital technology plays in enabling connecti... Read More about Present whilst absent: Home and the business tourist gaze.

Student capital: Broadening the appeal of sustainability engagement (2017)
Journal Article

The biggest sustainability impact of any university is its graduates, who typically will have 60 years of life (and planetary impact) post-graduation1. Across the world, universities have direct access to millions of bright and capable young people,... Read More about Student capital: Broadening the appeal of sustainability engagement.

Green Capital Student Capital: The role of students in city transformation (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The biggest single sustainability impact of any University is its graduates. How do we support students to learn to tread more lightly in the lifetime ahead of them? How do we mobilise student creativity to transform us and our city?

Business travellers' connections to home: ICTs supporting work-life balance (2016)
Journal Article

This paper examines the role of information communication technology in enabling connections to home for work related travellers. Although digital connectivity for work related tasks are well researched, the use of digital technology for home communi... Read More about Business travellers' connections to home: ICTs supporting work-life balance.

Student Capital: The role of students in city transformation (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Student Capital is a huge and unique collaborative project aimed at creating, promoting, and celebrating student sustainability engagement at Bristol’s two universities – The University of the West of England, Bristol, and the University of Bristol.... Read More about Student Capital: The role of students in city transformation.

Student Capital: The role of students in city transformation (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Student Capital is a huge and unique collaborative project aimed at creating, promoting, and celebrating student sustainability engagement at Bristol’s two universities – The University of the West of England, Bristol, and the University of Bristol.... Read More about Student Capital: The role of students in city transformation.

Partnerships for ESD: Exploring UWE, Bristol’s integrated approach to engaging audiences in ESD (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Workshop exploring the various engagement strategies used by UWE to encourage whole institution action in support of sustainability

Addressing the needs of disabled cyclists (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

People with a disability have been found to be at increased risk of developing serious health conditions – often linked to obesity as a consequence of a more sedentary life. Cycling has the potential to offer significant health benefits to disabled p... Read More about Addressing the needs of disabled cyclists.

Towards transit-oriented development in city-regions (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Why are the principles of integrated, transit-oriented development important beyond urban boundaries, and how can we apply them?

Consider needs of disabled riders when designing routes (2016)
Journal Article

Cycling by Disabled People deserves more attention in transport policy and design guidance. One in five people experiences some form of disability, and just under two thirds of disabled people have a mobility impairment. People with an impairment exp... Read More about Consider needs of disabled riders when designing routes.

An ideal journey: Making bus travel desirable (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper explores the ways in which people use their travel-time on local buses, and explains how this knowledge can assist with efforts in many ‘auto-centric’ societies to make bus tr... Read More about An ideal journey: Making bus travel desirable.

Cycling and disability: A review (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

People with a disability have been found to be at increased risk of developing serious health conditions – often linked to obesity as a consequence of a more sedentary life. Cycling has the potential to offer significant health benefits to disabled p... Read More about Cycling and disability: A review.

Understanding interactions between autonomous vehicles and other road users: A literature review (2016)
Report

This review draws on literature relating to the interactions of vehicles with other vehicles, interactions between vehicles and infrastructure, and interactions between autonomous vehicles and cyclists and autonomous vehicles and pedestrians. The ava... Read More about Understanding interactions between autonomous vehicles and other road users: A literature review.

Review of the contribution of Green Capital: Student Capital to Bristol’s year as European Green Capital (2016)
Report

• Students in Bristol have given over 100,000 hours of their time to engaging with local organisations and tackling issues of sustainability in the city and wider region. This equates to 56.3 years’ worth of work provided to date, and an economic con... Read More about Review of the contribution of Green Capital: Student Capital to Bristol’s year as European Green Capital.

Green Capital: Student Capital - Interim monitoring and evidence report (2016)
Other

 Students in Bristol have given over 100,000 hours of their time to engaging with local organisations and tackling issues of sustainability in the city and wider region. This equates to 56.3 years’ worth of work provided to date, and an economic con... Read More about Green Capital: Student Capital - Interim monitoring and evidence report.

UWE - Celebrating Bristol Green Capital 2015 activities catalogue (2016)
Report

This catalogue showcases and celebrates examples of the work of the hundreds of UWE staff and students who contributed to Bristol Green Capital 2015.

UWE Celebrating Bristol Green Capital 2015 - Activities portfolio (supporting document for UWE Celebrating Bristol Green Capital 2015 activities catalogue) (2016)
Report

This Activities Portfolio details projects, events and initiatives which represent the work of hundreds of UWE staff and students during Bristol's year as European Green Capital in 2015. It is the working file to accompany the UWE Green Capital 2015... Read More about UWE Celebrating Bristol Green Capital 2015 - Activities portfolio (supporting document for UWE Celebrating Bristol Green Capital 2015 activities catalogue).

Urban energy and transport: Public transport (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentation as a part of the UWE Green Capital Seminar Series.

Where to park? A behavioral comparison of bus Park & Ride and city center car park usage in Bath, UK (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Integrating car parking facilities with public transport in Park and Ride (P&R) facilities has the potential to shorten car trips, contributing to more sustainable mobility. There is an on-going debate about the actual effects of P&R on the transport... Read More about Where to park? A behavioral comparison of bus Park & Ride and city center car park usage in Bath, UK.

The importance of the informal curriculum and academic involvement in supporting sustainability engagement (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A presentation on the importance of the informal curriculum and academic involvement in supporting sustainability engagement given at the Learning from the Sharp End symposium in Bristol during the Bristol Green Capital 2015 year.

Family Rituals 2.0 (2015)
Report

The notion of family is broad (and changing) and encompasses a variety of different social structures beyond the classic conception of the nuclear family yet it is a cornerstone of our social worlds. Even as many in ‘Western’ society follow the trend... Read More about Family Rituals 2.0.

The Bristol Method: How to increase public transport use (2015)
Other

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 increase public transport use.

Literature review informing - ‘On train mobile connectivity benefits’ (2015)
Report

The Department of Transport are investigating how on train mobile connectivity is valued by rail passengers, and what the future trajectory of such services should be. This report has been prepared by the Centre for Transport and Society to inform th... Read More about Literature review informing - ‘On train mobile connectivity benefits’.

Independent analytical review for a road user satisfaction survey (2015)
Report

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.

Rees Jeffreys Road Fund study: Major roads for the future - Identifying network users and their characteristics (2015)
Report

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.

Can digital presence reconfigure experiences of absence? (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Family Rituals 2.0 is a project based on the premise that work-related travel is unlikely to disappear in the foreseeable future. Many work roles – from truck drivers to CEOs – involve periods of absence, and often being away overnight. Travel which... Read More about Can digital presence reconfigure experiences of absence?.

Where to park? A behavioural comparison of bus Park and Ride and city centre car park usage in Bath, UK (2014)
Journal Article

Integrating car parking facilities with public transport in Park and Ride (P&R) facilities has the potential to shorten car trips, contributing to more sustainable mobility. There is an ongoing debate about the actual effects of P&R on the transport... Read More about Where to park? A behavioural comparison of bus Park and Ride and city centre car park usage in Bath, UK.

Exploring changes to cycle infrastructure to improve the experience of cycling for families (2013)
Journal Article

Positive changes to the immediate cycling environment can improve the cycling experience through increasing levels of safety, but little is known about how the intrinsic benefits of cycling might be enhanced beyond this. This paper presents research... Read More about Exploring changes to cycle infrastructure to improve the experience of cycling for families.

Researching the passenger experience of bus travel (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Key questions: “What’s actually going on on the bus?” “How might this knowledge be used to improve passengers’ experiences, market the bus, and help bring about important policy outcomes (i.e. help make the bus more attractive)?” There has b... Read More about Researching the passenger experience of bus travel.

Bus Tales: Travel-time use, technologies, and journey experiences on the bus (2012)
Thesis

Recently there has been a growing interest in the ways in which people use their time during travel, and what different types of value (economic or personal) such ‘travel-time activity’ provides. The activities of public transport passengers have bee... Read More about Bus Tales: Travel-time use, technologies, and journey experiences on the bus.

Cycling and behaviour change: Using games to improve the experience for families (2012)
Report

Digital games and media are being harnessed for educational purposes, with some now being used to promote sustainable behaviour. Such approaches exploit current trends in technology use and the popularity of digital gaming to encourage new activities... Read More about Cycling and behaviour change: Using games to improve the experience for families.

Is the bus boring? (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Contemporary research on travel-time use challenges the notion that travel-time is wasted, but is it always a positive experience? Previous studies have suggested that engaging in activity during travel-time increases the utility of a journey, and th... Read More about Is the bus boring?.

NFC smart ticketing – Developing a method for effective field testing (2012)
Report

A feasibility study has been conducted into the concept of providing a ‘South West Testing Service for Radio Frequency Performance of Near Field Communications by Real People in the Real World (Project NFC-Q3)’. The study concluded that the proposal... Read More about NFC smart ticketing – Developing a method for effective field testing.

UWE Our Green City online sustainability course - Public transport
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Our Green City was a six week, free, on-line course run by the University of the West of England, Bristol, during Bristol's year as European Green Capital in 2015. This lecture series will give you an overview of the current environmental and soc... Read More about UWE Our Green City online sustainability course - Public transport.

West of England Sustainable Travel (WEST) baseline and years one, two, and three (to 2014/15) annual outcomes monitoring report
Report

The Local Sustainable Transport Fund was launched in January 2011 with the four West of England unitary authorities (Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol City, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Councils) being awarded nearly £30 million by th... Read More about West of England Sustainable Travel (WEST) baseline and years one, two, and three (to 2014/15) annual outcomes monitoring report.

West of England Sustainable Travel (WEST) baseline and years one and two (to 2013/14) annual outcomes monitoring report
Report

The Local Sustainable Transport Fund was launched in January 2011 with the four West of England unitary authorities (Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol City, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Councils) being awarded nearly £30 million by th... Read More about West of England Sustainable Travel (WEST) baseline and years one and two (to 2013/14) annual outcomes monitoring report.

Green Capital: Student Capital - Final monitoring report
Report

Students in Bristol have given over 126,000 hours of their time to engaging with local organisations and tackling issues of sustainability in the city and wider region. This equates to 74 years’ worth of work provided to date, and an economic contrib... Read More about Green Capital: Student Capital - Final monitoring report.

Rapid evidence assessment: Liveable and low traffic neighbourhoods
Report

The Bristol Advisory Committee on Climate Change (BACCC) has produced this rapid assessment of policy proposals linked to the theme of 'Low Traffic Neighbourhoods' (LTC) and 'Liveable Neighbourhoods' (LN). LNs became a part of mainstream policy disc... Read More about Rapid evidence assessment: Liveable and low traffic neighbourhoods.

Continuously connected customer: Final project report
Report

This report finalises the research collaboration between Chiltern Railway and the Centre for Transport and Society, University of the West of England (UWE) for the project ‘Continuously Connected Customer’, which was funded by the RSSB through TOC15... Read More about Continuously connected customer: Final project report.

Bristol urban integrated diagnostics project case study report: MetroBus
Other

MetroBus is a major infrastructure project that has brought permanent change to some areas of the Bristol Urban Area. Its objectives as an infrastructure project went beyond the directly-related transport issues of capacity, congestion, and emissions... Read More about Bristol urban integrated diagnostics project case study report: MetroBus.

A discussion of the anonymisation of qualitative datasets
Preprint / Working Paper

West of England Sustainable Travel (WEST) baseline and year one (2012/13) annual outcomes monitoring report
Report

The Local Sustainable Transport Fund was launched in January 2011 with the four West of England unitary authorities (Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol City, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Councils) being awarded nearly £30 million by th... Read More about West of England Sustainable Travel (WEST) baseline and year one (2012/13) annual outcomes monitoring report.

Mapping Park and Ride use in Bath – Comparisons between users and non-users of the service
Report

Mapping Park and Ride use in Bath – Comparisons between users and non-users of the service. A supplementary report containing the full set of statistical analyses used in the journal paper 'Where to park? A behavioural comparison of bus Park and R... Read More about Mapping Park and Ride use in Bath – Comparisons between users and non-users of the service.

Alternative transport scenarios for South East Wales: Building for a sustainable transport future
Report

This report presents an analysis and discussion of current and future alternative transport options in south east Wales. The report considers the current challenges faced as a result of high levels of private vehicle use, and examines alternative tra... Read More about Alternative transport scenarios for South East Wales: Building for a sustainable transport future.

West of England Sustainable Travel (WEST): Final annual outcomes monitoring report
Report

The Local Sustainable Transport Fund was launched in January 2011 with the four West of England unitary authorities (Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol City, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Councils) being awarded nearly £30 million by th... Read More about West of England Sustainable Travel (WEST): Final annual outcomes monitoring report.

Working out what is transferable: How can we engage students in Area Transformation?
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentation given at Annual Conference of Environmental Association of Universities and Colleges (EAUC) 2017: Global Goals, Local Action.

Incorporating the sustainable development goals into institutional business decision making UWE Bristol
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Workshop conducted at Annual Conference of Environmental Association of Universities and Colleges (EAUC) 2017: Global Goals, Local Action.

Green Capital: Student Capital - Final evidence report
Report

Becoming the European Green Capital offers an opportunity for Higher Education (HE) institutions to support their cities in releasing the full potential of the Green Capital accolade, however HE’s involvement in previous Green Capitals has been limit... Read More about Green Capital: Student Capital - Final evidence report.