Outputs (235)

Local sustainable transport fund case study evaluation: Strategic employment sites and business parks summary report (2018)
Report

In 2013 the UK Department for Transport commissioned a number of ‘Case Study evaluations’ of the impacts of Local Sustainable Transport Fund (LSTF) investment. One of these was an evaluation of LSTF impacts on Strategic Employment Sites and Business... Read More about Local sustainable transport fund case study evaluation: Strategic employment sites and business parks summary report.

Local sustainable transport fund case study evaluation: Strategic employment sites and business parks West of England final report (2018)
Report

In 2013 the UK Department for Transport commissioned a number of ‘Case Study evaluations’ of the impacts of Local Sustainable Transport Fund (LSTF) investment. One of these was an evaluation of LSTF impacts on Strategic Employment Sites and Business... Read More about Local sustainable transport fund case study evaluation: Strategic employment sites and business parks West of England final report.

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.

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.

Local transport – a view from the summit. Contributions and insights from the first and second Local Transport Summits, Oxford 2016 and Manchester 2017
Report

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.

Cycling beyond your sixties: The role of cycling in later life and how it can be supported and promoted (2017)
Book Chapter

© 2018 by Emerald Publishing Limited. Decision makers and authorities largely ignore cycling when conceptualising and developing programmes to support older mobility and therefore, unsurprisingly, levels of cycling in the United Kingdom are low compa... Read More about Cycling beyond your sixties: The role of cycling in later life and how it can be supported and promoted.

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.

The Bristol-Bath Urban freight Consolidation Centre from the perspective of its users (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 World Conference on Transport Research Society Urban freight consolidation centres are part of the city logistics measures that aim to reduce the negative impacts related to urban freight transport activities, whilst at the same time providing... Read More about The Bristol-Bath Urban freight Consolidation Centre from the perspective of its users.

The commuting and wellbeing study: Understanding the impact of commuting on people’s lives
Report

Subjective wellbeing is about how well people consider their lives are going and is potentially affected by routines of daily life such as commuting. Clear evidence has not been available on the impacts of commuting on subjective wellbeing. This repo... Read More about The commuting and wellbeing study: Understanding the impact of commuting on people’s lives.

Investigating last food mile deliveries: A case study approach to identify needs of food delivery demand (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Drawing on the results of a survey carried out in Cagliari (Italy), the paper provides an analysis of the characteristics of food deliveries in urban areas aimed at understanding the needs and expectations of receivers of last mile deliveries... Read More about Investigating last food mile deliveries: A case study approach to identify needs of food delivery demand.

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.

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

Days out by train in the West of England final project report (2017)
Report

This report provides an overview of the project Days Out by Train and its headline results

Summary of outcomes of the cycling demonstration towns and Cycling City and Towns Programmes (2017)
Report

The Cycling Demonstration Towns (CDT) programme ran from October 2005 to March 2011, and involved six medium-sized towns, with populations of between 65,000 and 245,000 people. The partly concurrent Cycling City and Towns (CCT) programme ran from Jul... Read More about Summary of outcomes of the cycling demonstration towns and Cycling City and Towns Programmes.

New appraisal values of travel time saving and reliability in Great Britain (2019)
Journal Article

© 2017, The Author(s). This paper provides an overview of the study ‘Provision of market research for value of time savings and reliability’ undertaken by the Arup/ITS Leeds/Accent consortium for the UK Department for Transport (DfT). The paper summa... Read More about New appraisal values of travel time saving and reliability in Great Britain.

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.

An experimental customer satisfaction index to evaluate the performance of city logistics services (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) Press. Freight transport in urban areas entails benefits (i.e. free access to goods when needed), but also negative externalities (environmental, social and transportation impacts). In response to... Read More about An experimental customer satisfaction index to evaluate the performance of city logistics services.

Walking and cycling on shared-use paths: The user perspective (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, ICE Publishing: All rights reserved. Shared-use paths are those used by pedestrians and cyclists, either designed for them to mix freely within the space (unsegregated) or with the space allocated to each group by surface markings and signage... Read More about Walking and cycling on shared-use paths: The user perspective.