Outputs (33)

This is beyond a joke (2021)
Journal Article

This opinon piece reflects a critical assessment of the (ab)use of pavements (walkways) by owners of motorised vehicles.

The future of work beyond the pandemic (2021)
Journal Article

On 21 October 2021 the PTRC Fireside Chat Series returned after a summer break. Continuing with its overall focus upon the transport implications of the pandemic, attention turned to consider whether or not we should be expecting a ‘big return’ to th... Read More about The future of work beyond the pandemic.

Social divisions in energy justice in the transport sector: personal car ownership and use (2021)
Book Chapter

The chapter addresses issues of fairness and justice of energy resource allocations in the personal travel domain with a specific focus on individual car use. We first discuss different theoretical approaches to moving beyond identifying inequalities... Read More about Social divisions in energy justice in the transport sector: personal car ownership and use.

Towards an equitable transport system in Kuwait: Understanding the social and cultural context of transport accessibility (2021)
Report

This study used a mixed method approach to build a comprehensive analysis of the current accessibility landscape in Kuwait. The first component examines the spatial equality of access to the public transport system across Kuwaiti and non-Kuwaiti resi... Read More about Towards an equitable transport system in Kuwait: Understanding the social and cultural context of transport accessibility.

Code, culture and concrete: Self-driving vehicles and the rules of the road (2021)
Journal Article

Behaviour on the road is ordered by a range of norms, rules, laws, and infrastructures. The introduction of self-driving vehicles onto the road opens a debate about the rules that should govern their actions and how these should be integrated with, o... Read More about Code, culture and concrete: Self-driving vehicles and the rules of the road.

Urban networks and autonomous vehicles (2021)
Book Chapter

All vehicles need routes, and infrastructure provision is therefore of prime importance. Autonomous vehicles will have to interact with humans as pedestrians, cyclists (on conventional and e-bikes) and other human scale mobility including wheel-chair... Read More about Urban networks and autonomous vehicles.

Views of professional stakeholders on readiness for a safe road system in Nepal; an exploratory qualitative study (2021)
Journal Article

Road traffic injuries in Nepal are increasing despite being largely preventable. Little evidence exists regarding the barriers and facilitators to a safer road system. This study aimed to explore the perspectives of professionals whose jobs had the p... Read More about Views of professional stakeholders on readiness for a safe road system in Nepal; an exploratory qualitative study.

Coevolution of the regulatory and legal framework to enable CAVs to use the highway (2021)
Book Chapter

Road safety and heavy goods vehicle driving in LMICs: Qualitative evidence from Nepal (2021)
Journal Article

Background: Heavy goods vehicle drivers are an influential driving population in Nepal, with over 90% of goods in the country are transported by road. Due to the time spent on the road, drivers have long periods of exposure to the risk of crash invol... Read More about Road safety and heavy goods vehicle driving in LMICs: Qualitative evidence from Nepal.

Changing work and work-related travel and the impact of Covid-19 (2021)
Journal Article

The nature of work was undergoing dramatic change before the pandemic as the digital age continued to transform all sectors of society. In this paper we describe pre-pandemic trends in types of work, the workforce and working arrangements in the UK.... Read More about Changing work and work-related travel and the impact of Covid-19.

Literature review on the impacts of infrastructure on quality of life (2021)
Report

Targeting global environmental challenges by the means of novel multimodal transport: Concept of operations (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Novel modes of transport form the basis of environmentally friendly and economically efficient transport system of the future. This paper introduces the feasibility study of a Dock to Dock (D2D) use case, combining aspects of route development and in... Read More about Targeting global environmental challenges by the means of novel multimodal transport: Concept of operations.

Travel transitions: How transport planners and policy makers can respond to shifting mobility trends (2021)
Report

Travel behaviour has evolved in unexpected ways in urbanised areas in the early 21st century. This report examines how significant breaks with past trends happened - and why these shifts were not foreseen. The Covid-19 pandemic adds to uncertainty ab... Read More about Travel transitions: How transport planners and policy makers can respond to shifting mobility trends.

Scenario planning for transport practitioners (2021)
Journal Article

Scenario planning helps in contemplating how the future may develop and can be especially important when needing to make sense of uncertainty – something now pertinent to the transport sector. Accordingly, scenario planning is moving from the periphe... Read More about Scenario planning for transport practitioners.

Who uses e-bikes in the UK and why? (2021)
Journal Article

This article reports on the findings of a survey of 2,092 users and potential users of e-bikes in the UK. It analysed their characteristics, their motivations, journey purposes and the barriers they perceive to the wider use of e-bikes. It compared... Read More about Who uses e-bikes in the UK and why?.

How to improve the walking realm in a car-oriented city? (Dis)agreements between professionals (2021)
Journal Article

Purpose: Urban environments and transport systems can enable and encourage walking, and therefore play a key role in climate action, public health, equity of access, and population wellbeing. The question, especially in cities that have been dominate... Read More about How to improve the walking realm in a car-oriented city? (Dis)agreements between professionals.

Chatting round the fireside - transport tales from the pandemic (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

On 23 April 2020, one month after the UK Prime Minister announced a national lockdown in response to COVID-19, PTRC hosted an online Fireside Chat to address the implications for transport of the pandemic. At a point when working (full-time) from hom... Read More about Chatting round the fireside - transport tales from the pandemic.

Exploring the use and perception of shared bikes for commuting and business travel on the urban fringe (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

After the revolution? (2021)
Digital Artefact

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Glenn Lyons has jointly organised and has chaired a Fireside Chat series of events with PTRC, examining the transport implications of the pandemic. Fireside Chat #10 on 27 May 2021 was titled "International perspectives... Read More about After the revolution?.

Technology and travel (2021)
Book Chapter

This book chapter explores our undertanding of the complex relationship between technology and travel and the digital age continues to unfold.