Outputs (62)

Automobility in transition?: A socio-technical analysis of sustainable transport (2011)
Book

Private cars have become the dominant mode of passenger road transport in developed countries. This book examines the past evolution towards car-based forms of transport: problems associated with it, the success of past and current efforts to deal wi... Read More about Automobility in transition?: A socio-technical analysis of sustainable transport.

The dynamics of regime change: Challenges to the dominance of the private car in the UK (2011)
Book Chapter

Information impacts on route choice and learning behavior in a congested network (2011)
Journal Article

Every traveler makes route choices in an uncertain environment that includes random disruptions to the traffic system such as incidents, bad weather, and random behavior of fellow travelers. The premise underlying the development of advanced traveler... Read More about Information impacts on route choice and learning behavior in a congested network.

New technologies for the old: Potential implications for independent living and travel demand (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The role of ICTs in everyday mobile lives (2011)
Journal Article

Information and communications technologies (ICTs) are permeating modern lifestyles, shaping and colouring the undertaking of activities and travel. This article reports on a qualitative diary and interview study that explored the ways in which ICTs... Read More about The role of ICTs in everyday mobile lives.

Equine road user safety: Public attitudes, understandings and beliefs from a qualitative study in the United Kingdom (2011)
Journal Article

Horse riders represent a significant group of vulnerable road user and are involved in a number of accidents and near misses on the road. Despite this horse riders have received little attention both in terms of academic research and transport policy... Read More about Equine road user safety: Public attitudes, understandings and beliefs from a qualitative study in the United Kingdom.

A troublesome transport challenge? Working round the school run (2011)
Journal Article

Transport policy and practice could be challenged by the future of women's mobility if it means an increasing reliance on the car. The paper examines the contextual relationship between the journey to school/childcare and the journey to work undertak... Read More about A troublesome transport challenge? Working round the school run.

Lose the fags: Community social marketing (2011)
Book Chapter

This case study describes in detail the Lose the Fags social marketing intervention which was managed by Fiona Spotswood (National Social Marketing Centre, now Bristol Social Marketing Centre) and Sarah Clarke (Stockport PCT) as part of the NSMC's Na... Read More about Lose the fags: Community social marketing.

Public perceptions and acceptance of hydrogen energy (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Creating built environments that promote walking and health: Assessing the current state of knowledge (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The principle that the built environment should be supportive of walking is generally accepted and a wide range of interventions have been carried out in recent years with the aim of increasing walking. This paper presents the findings from a study c... Read More about Creating built environments that promote walking and health: Assessing the current state of knowledge.

The Mirage of Citizen Engagement in Uncertain Science: Public attitudes towards hydrogen energy (2011)
Journal Article

© 2011, Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This paper addresses some of the debates about citizen involvement in decisions about science and technological innovation. It describes some of the claims and scientific uncertainties surrounding hydr... Read More about The Mirage of Citizen Engagement in Uncertain Science: Public attitudes towards hydrogen energy.

Conceptualizing age-friendly communities (2011)
Journal Article

On the political and policy front, interest has increased in making communities more "age-friendly", an ongoing trend since the World Health Organization launched its global Age-Friendly Cities project. We conceptualize age-friendly communities by bu... Read More about Conceptualizing age-friendly communities.

The classy coach commute (2011)
Journal Article

This paper considers a corporate vision for a coach service between Oxford and London in relation to the experiences and observations made by the author through a series of journeys on the same service. The journey is presented as a whole narrative t... Read More about The classy coach commute.

Improving road transport-related air quality in England through joint working between Environmental Health Officers and Transport Planners (2011)
Journal Article

In this paper the necessity for effective joint working arrangements between Environmental Health Officers and Transport Planners is demonstrated as a fundamental prerequisite for successful management of traffic-related air quality in English local... Read More about Improving road transport-related air quality in England through joint working between Environmental Health Officers and Transport Planners.

Rewarding rush-hour avoidance: A study of commuters' travel behavior (2011)
Journal Article

Spitsmijden, peak avoidance in Dutch, is the largest systematic effort to date to study, in the field, the potential of rewards as a policy mean for changing commuter behavior. A 13. week field study was organized in The Netherlands with the purpose... Read More about Rewarding rush-hour avoidance: A study of commuters' travel behavior.

Practices and motivations of travellers making rail-cycle trips (2011)
Journal Article

Currently only 2% of British rail passengers choose to cycle to the station, in contrast to 40% in the Netherlands, but the combination of cycling with rail use presents a potentially attractive alternative to car use with carbon reduction and health... Read More about Practices and motivations of travellers making rail-cycle trips.

Behaviour change dynamics in response to rewarding rush-hour avoidance: A qualitative research approach (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Spitsmijden (peak avoidance is Dutch) is a new travel demand measure introduced in the Netherlands. It is based on rewarding frequent car commuters for avoiding the rush-hour, using monetary incentives. Although previous quantitative analyses had rev... Read More about Behaviour change dynamics in response to rewarding rush-hour avoidance: A qualitative research approach.

Rethinking how to tackle binge drinking using social marketing: A neotribal analysis (2011)
Journal Article

In this article the authors report on primary research undertaken with young people in a deprived area of northwest England who use regular binge drinking as the lynch pin of their social group. Traditional health messaging approaches have had little... Read More about Rethinking how to tackle binge drinking using social marketing: A neotribal analysis.

The effect of social interactions on travel behaviour: An exploratory study using a laboratory experiment (2011)
Journal Article

This study demonstrates the use of a laboratory experiment for investigating the effects of social interaction on the dynamics of travellers' choice behaviour. A small-scale exploratory experiment is carried out. Analyses are conducted using statisti... Read More about The effect of social interactions on travel behaviour: An exploratory study using a laboratory experiment.

Modelling the dynamics of bus use in a changing travel environment using panel data (2011)
Journal Article

Panel data offers the potential to represent the influence on travel choices of changing circumstances, past history and persistent individual differences (unobserved heterogeneity). A four-wave panel survey collected data on the travel choices of re... Read More about Modelling the dynamics of bus use in a changing travel environment using panel data.