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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.

Who encourages us to cycle? A novel approach to researching social influence in UK cycling (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Boy racers, Dunkirk spirit and the Pompey bounce: The use of movement and mobility in impression management and identity formation (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Watching, talking, writing diaries and counting: Technologies and travel (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Route choice with real time information: Behavior, learning and modeling (2011)
Book

Coordinating Everyday Life In The Netherlands: A Holistic Quantitative Approach To The Analysis Of Ict-Related And Other Work-Life Balance Strategies (2011)
Journal Article

Due to women's increased participation in the labour force, more and more family-households are now juggling paid labour and care-giving in space and time and do so in many different ways. Much research and policy about how households try to establis... Read More about Coordinating Everyday Life In The Netherlands: A Holistic Quantitative Approach To The Analysis Of Ict-Related And Other Work-Life Balance Strategies.

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.

Review of ‘Timmermans, H. (2009) Pedestrian Behaviour: Models, data collection and applications. Emerald Group publishing: Bingley. ISBN 9781848557505’ (2011)
Journal Article

Grounded: Impacts of and insights from the volcanic ash cloud disruption (2011)
Journal Article

This paper presents the preliminary findings of a survey of over 500 people whose travel was affected. Stranded passengers used various support networks and means of contact. While travel providers were most likely to be able to help, they were less... Read More about Grounded: Impacts of and insights from the volcanic ash cloud disruption.

Older people’s attitudes to road charging: are they distinctive and what are the implications for policy? (2011)
Journal Article

In an ageing society older people have a growing influence on politics in general, and potentially on the acceptability of road charging in particular. They face specific types of risk of transport-related social exclusion which may influence their v... Read More about Older people’s attitudes to road charging: are they distinctive and what are the implications for policy?.

Qualitative research: experiences from the UK (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This workshop is designed to address the what, why, and how of qualitative research (QR). QR methods have the ability to answer questions that quantitative research cannot, illuminating the reasons behind observed behavior, which is increasingly impo... Read More about Qualitative research: experiences from the UK.

Planning cycling networks: Human factors and design processes (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Developing a network for cycle traffic is a complex process, particularly in a dense and heavily motor trafficked city such as London. The London Cycle Network Plus has delivered cycle routes on strategic highways, and local cycling stakeholders have... Read More about Planning cycling networks: Human factors and design processes.

The unusual suspects: The impact of non-transport technologies on social practices and travel demand (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Despite cases in which travel is undertaken purely for its own sake, travel is usually considered to be derived from a need or desire to participate in a wide range of activities – accessing people, goods, services and opportunities. People’s schedul... Read More about The unusual suspects: The impact of non-transport technologies on social practices and travel demand.

The paradox of intensification (2011)
Journal Article

Urban intensification as part of a smart growth strategy can facilitate low-energy transport modes and reduce overall car use, with benefits to the global environment, but evidence suggests the effect will be less than proportional. Hence, in locatio... Read More about The paradox of intensification.

Anything, anywhere, anytime? Developing indicators to assess the spatial and temporal fragmentation of activities (2011)
Journal Article

Developments in transportation and information and communication technologies (ICTs) have facilitated the process labeled activity fragmentation. In this process, the weakened associations between activity, time, and place that ICTs made possible fac... Read More about Anything, anywhere, anytime? Developing indicators to assess the spatial and temporal fragmentation of activities.

The grey escape: How and why are older people really using their free bus pass? (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Since 2008 those aged sixty and above have benefitted from unlimited area-wide free travel by bus after 09:30. The official policy rhetoric supporting implementation of the measure drew significantly upon the need to reduce social exclusion amongst o... Read More about The grey escape: How and why are older people really using their free bus pass?.

Applying behavioural economics in the design of travel information systems (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Providing information about transport-related attributes such as travel time, travel costs or carbon emissions might be seen not only as a service to the public, but as also an instrument to change their travel behaviour. While rational man theory su... Read More about Applying behavioural economics in the design of travel information systems.

Information-sharing, community-building and trust: A case study amongst commuter cyclists (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Research into the use and behavioural effects of travel information has concentrated on top-down information from transport providers, but little is known about the role of informal information, shared through word-of-mouth, in everyday travel behavi... Read More about Information-sharing, community-building and trust: A case study amongst commuter cyclists.

Substituting 'H2 for C' and reducing global inequalities in health (2011)
Journal Article

Life expectancy and health differ greatly between emerging and developed countries and within countries. Global dependence on fossil fuels contributes to health inequalities through air pollution, the geopolitics of scarce resources and probable clim... Read More about Substituting 'H2 for C' and reducing global inequalities in health.

Changing commuters' behavior using rewards: A study of rush-hour avoidance (2011)
Journal Article

In a 13-week field study conducted in The Netherlands, participants were provided with daily rewards - monetary and in-kind, in order to encourage them to avoid driving during the morning rush-hour. Participants could earn a reward (money or credits... Read More about Changing commuters' behavior using rewards: A study of rush-hour avoidance.