Outputs (1100)

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?.

Analysing spatial intrapersonal variability of road users using point-to-point sensor data (2021)
Journal Article

The availability of newly emerging forms of data in recent years has provided new opportunities to study spatial intrapersonal variability, namely the variability in an individual’s destination and route choices from day to day. As well as providing... Read More about Analysing spatial intrapersonal variability of road users using point-to-point sensor data.

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.

Will the pandemic help us change course in time? (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 #8 on 25 February 2021 was titled "COVID-19: Friend or foe... Read More about Will the pandemic help us change course in time?.

Long-Distance Travel (2021)
Book Chapter

Long-distance travel has been a relatively overlooked topic in transportation research and policymaking, despite its disproportionate importance in terms of mileage and environmental impact. In this article, we outline the complexities surrounding th... Read More about Long-Distance Travel.

Discovering ‘the sweet spot’ (2021)
Journal Article

Travel demand is derived from a need or desire to access people, jobs, goods, services and opportunities. It is fundamentally access, not transport per se, that underpins economic prosperity and social wellbeing.

We live in the 'Triple Access Syst... Read More about Discovering ‘the sweet spot’.

Public transport and the future of mobility (2021)
Book Chapter

Across the chapters in this Handbook, the breadth and diversity encompassed under the label ‘public transport’ is apparent. The book’s contents also reflect a number of significant dynamics. The future of public transport may well be characterised ve... Read More about Public transport and the future of mobility.

Who is willing to share their AV? Insights about gender differences among seven countries (2021)
Journal Article

The introduction of shared autonomous vehicles into the transport system is suggested to bring significant impacts on traffic conditions, road safety and emissions, as well as overall reshaping travel behaviour. Compared with a private autonomous veh... Read More about Who is willing to share their AV? Insights about gender differences among seven countries.