The road investment strategy is a victory for ‘predict and provide’ over transport planning
(2015)
Journal Article
Glenn Lyons' Outputs (226)
Future mobility in an ageing society - Where are we heading? (2015)
Journal Article
The demographic profile of UK society is changing as people live longer. Maintaining the wellbeing and quality of life of an ageing society is set to be extremely challenging. To what extent can the state afford to meet a potentially burgeoning deman... Read More about Future mobility in an ageing society - Where are we heading?.
The future of transport (2015)
Journal Article
This document was prepared for Future Agenda 2.0. Future Agenda is billed as the world's largest open foresight initiative (www.futureagenda.org). Future Agenda 2.0, running throughout 2015, encompasses 20 topics looking at key changes in the world b... Read More about The future of transport.
Future demand: How could or should our transport system evolve in order to support mobility in the future? (2014)
Report
New Zealand’s land transport programme has a current expenditure target for the next ten years of $38.7bn including $10bn to change the shape of the road network and improve its quality and capacity. Yet such investment plans are in the face of a cou... Read More about Future demand: How could or should our transport system evolve in order to support mobility in the future?.
Future demand: Summary report (2014)
Report
New Zealanders are driving nearly 30 billion kilometres each year in their cars, vans, utes and SUVs. The road network also carries 70 percent of all of our freight. As a nation we have built and continue to maintain a network of roads to allow us to... Read More about Future demand: Summary report.
Transport's digital age transition (2014)
Journal Article
2014 marks the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web. We have seen some remarkable developments as part of the digital age revolution in the last quarter of a century. These have taken place concurrently with a motor age that is possibly past its prime... Read More about Transport's digital age transition.
All change for next generation transport (2014)
Journal Article
We are in transition between the motor age and the digital age and heading for a very different world.
Understanding strategic road network users’ experiences and need – Wave 2 (2014)
Report
In 2011, the Government called for an independent review, to assess whether they were taking the right approach to managing, operating and enhancing the Strategic Road Network (SRN), which resulted in the Cook Report ‘A Fresh Start for the Strategic... Read More about Understanding strategic road network users’ experiences and need – Wave 2.
Business travel - The social practices surrounding meetings (2013)
Journal Article
A considerable amount of travel domestically and internationally is undertaken by 'briefcase travellers' in the pursuit of business meetings. Such business travel is deemed costly to the economy. This paper examines the potential factors at work in t... Read More about Business travel - The social practices surrounding meetings.
Understanding strategic road network users’ experiences and needs - Wave 1 (2013)
Report
In 2011, the Government called for an independent review to assess whether they were taking the right approach to managing, operating and enhancing the Strategic Road Network (SRN), which resulted in the Cook Report ‘A Fresh Start for the Strategic R... Read More about Understanding strategic road network users’ experiences and needs - Wave 1.
Comparing Rail Passengers' Travel Time Use in Great Britain Between 2004 and 2010 (2013)
Journal Article
This paper provides a unique insight into aspects of stability and change regarding the travel time use of rail passengers in Great Britain between 2004 and 2010. Empirical evidence is presented on how rail passengers spend their time, how worthwhile... Read More about Comparing Rail Passengers' Travel Time Use in Great Britain Between 2004 and 2010.
New technologies for the old: Potential implications of living in later life for travel demand (2013)
Journal Article
Assistive technologies for older people, such as personal tracking devices and community alarms, can facilitate living independently for longer. Where and how older people live will affect patterns of travel associated with their lifestyles and needs... Read More about New technologies for the old: Potential implications of living in later life for travel demand.
Valuation of travel time savings for business travellers (2013)
Report
The motor age and the information age collide (2013)
Journal Article
Its hard to be visionary. Its easy to be too far-fetched in looking to the future. Its even easier to lack imagination. “Computers in the future may weigh no more than one and a half tons” – so goes the popularised version of the quote from Popular M... Read More about The motor age and the information age collide.
Assessing future travel demand: A need to account for non-transport technologies? (2013)
Journal Article
Purpose: Travel is usually not valued in and of itself, but for the activities it allows people to partake in. Therefore, if change occurs in either the activities people perform, or in the means they use to perform them, the demand for travel is lik... Read More about Assessing future travel demand: A need to account for non-transport technologies?.
Should Wikipedia be embraced by the transport profession as an influential source of information on transport issues? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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?.
Future mobility in an ageing society: Where are we heading? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dyslexia and mobility-related social exclusion: The role of travel information provision (2013)
Journal Article
Transport is increasingly recognised as having a significant impact upon quality of life for people with disabilities. The ability to access opportunities, services, social networks and other goods is highly dependent upon the ability to access priva... Read More about Dyslexia and mobility-related social exclusion: The role of travel information provision.
The emergent role of user innovation in reshaping traveler information services (2012)
Book Chapter
Rail passengers' time use and utility assessment (2012)
Journal Article
This paper uses data from Great Britain's National Passenger Survey 2010 to examine the travel time use of rail passengers and their indicative assessment of the utility of that time use. The paper explores the impacts of individuals' sociodemographi... Read More about Rail passengers' time use and utility assessment.