Planning and delivering successful local transport involves making sense of transport system supply and demand, reflecting user needs as necessary and advising on how wider social, economic and environmental considerations can be taken into account.... Read More about Local transport – a view from the summit. Contributions and insights from the first and second Local Transport Summits, Oxford 2016 and Manchester 2017.
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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.
Bristol urban integrated diagnostics project case study report: MetroBus (2018)
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.
Findings from workshops held with older people considering participating in connected autonomous vehicle trials (2018)
Report
This report contains findings from a series of four workshops held with older people as part of the Flourish project. The workshops were held with potential participants in driverless vehicle trials at UWE. The report details how this group would use... Read More about Findings from workshops held with older people considering participating in connected autonomous vehicle trials.
Sustainable solutions for urban freight transport and logistics: An analysis of urban consolidation centres (2018)
Book Chapter
Despite its key role for the economic vitality of a city, urban freight transport is responsible for negative externalities that affect our lives. In fact, it is a major contributor to climate change and global warming. Also, it causes increasing gas... Read More about Sustainable solutions for urban freight transport and logistics: An analysis of urban consolidation centres.
Identifying road user classes based on repeated trip behaviour using Bluetooth data (2018)
Journal Article
© 2018 The Authors Analysing the repeated trip behaviour of travellers, including trip frequency and intrapersonal variability, can provide insights into traveller needs, flexibility and knowledge of the network, as well as inputs for models includin... Read More about Identifying road user classes based on repeated trip behaviour using Bluetooth data.
Understanding the public acceptability of road pricing and the roles of older age, social norms, pro-social values and trust for urban policy-making: The case of Bristol (2018)
Journal Article
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Cities looking to embark on more sustainable development pathways may need to evaluate the controversial but usually impactful measure of road pricing as a means of reducing their reliance on conventionally fuelled automobiles. Un... Read More about Understanding the public acceptability of road pricing and the roles of older age, social norms, pro-social values and trust for urban policy-making: The case of Bristol.
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.
Epilogue: the new frontiers of behavioral research on the interrelationships between ICT, activities, time use and mobility (2018)
Journal Article
© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. This special issue is a product of the international symposium on “ICT, Activities, Time Use and Travel” that was hosted by Nanjing University from 16 to 18 July 2016. The symposi... Read More about Epilogue: the new frontiers of behavioral research on the interrelationships between ICT, activities, time use and mobility.
Development of a Combined Heat and Power sizing model for higher education buildings in the United Kingdom (2018)
Journal Article
© 2018 Elsevier B.V. The four Higher Education Funding Councils in the United Kingdom want all universities to reduce CO2 emissions by 34% by 2020 compared to a 2005 base. Universities that have installed Combined Heat and Power (CHP) technology are... Read More about Development of a Combined Heat and Power sizing model for higher education buildings in the United Kingdom.
Continuously connected customer: Final project report (2018)
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.
Pedestrianisation and politics: A case study (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Proposals to pedestrianise or close roads to traffic are often controversial. This article analyses the impact of partial pedestrianisation, using a case study conducted in Brighton, UK. Before-and-after studies found a modest traffic reduction withi... Read More about Pedestrianisation and politics: A case study.
Healthy walking: The role of architecture (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Environmental exposure is increasingly recognised as a predictor of human health and psychological wellbeing. In fact, the benefits of nature exposure on psychological wellbeing have received extensive attention from scholars. However, not much atten... Read More about Healthy walking: The role of architecture.
Young people’s travel – What’s changed and why? Review and analysis (2018)
Report
Young adults in Great Britain and other countries are driving less now than young adults did in the early 1990s. The Department for Transport (DfT) commissioned the Centre for Transport and Society (UWE, Bristol) and the Transport Studies Unit (Unive... Read More about Young people’s travel – What’s changed and why? Review and analysis.
Family formation and everyday travel in Britain since c.1850 (2018)
Journal Article
© 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper focuses on the extent to which everyday travel behaviour in Britain changes in relation to family responsibilities, and examines how this has alter... Read More about Family formation and everyday travel in Britain since c.1850.
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.
Are we really any closer to a truly mobile office? How people respond to planned handovers by autonomous vehicles is key (2018)
Journal Article
Article provides an overview of the challenges that exist when automomous vehicles switch to manual control.
Does transport investment really boost economic growth? (2018)
Journal Article
The SACTRA (1999) report on Transport and the Economy found strong theoretical grounds for believing that transport investment could boost national economies but that the empirical evidence was “weak and disputed”. This study asks whether a differen... Read More about Does transport investment really boost economic growth?.
Multi-stakeholder collaboration in urban freight consolidation schemes: Drivers and barriers to implementation (2018)
Journal Article
© 2018 The Author(s). Published by VGTU Press. Due to the motivations of climate change, the health impacts of poor air quality, and the importance of cities for economic growth, transport policy at all levels of governance places emphasis on reducin... Read More about Multi-stakeholder collaboration in urban freight consolidation schemes: Drivers and barriers to implementation.
Book review of O’Flaherty, C. with Hughes, D. (2016) Highways: the location, design, construction and maintenance of road pavements 5th edition. ICE Publishing, London (2017)
Journal Article
Book review of O’Flaherty, C. with Hughes, D. (2016) Highways: the location, design, construction and maintenance of road pavements 5th edition. ICE Publishing, London