Outputs (733)

Triggers for changes in cycling: The role of life events and modifications to the external environment (2013)
Journal Article

There is surprising little research that directly investigates the reasons why people change their cycling behaviour. This paper presents findings from in-depth interviews that sought to understand the circumstances and factors that influenced people... Read More about Triggers for changes in cycling: The role of life events and modifications to the external environment.

West of England Sustainable Travel (WEST) baseline and year one (2012/13) annual outcomes monitoring report
Report

The Local Sustainable Transport Fund was launched in January 2011 with the four West of England unitary authorities (Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol City, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Councils) being awarded nearly £30 million by th... Read More about West of England Sustainable Travel (WEST) baseline and year one (2012/13) annual outcomes monitoring report.

Qualitative insights into the effect on travel behavior of joining a carshare (2013)
Journal Article

Carsharing organizations (carshares) provide collectively available vehicles that can be booked for exclusive use on a pay-as-you-go basis. Previous research has shown that two groups join carshares: (a) accessors, who do not have a car when they joi... Read More about Qualitative insights into the effect on travel behavior of joining a carshare.

Online information-sharing: A qualitative analysis of community, trust and social influence amongst commuter cyclists in the UK (2013)
Journal Article

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 Online information-sharing: A qualitative analysis of community, trust and social influence amongst commuter cyclists in the UK.

Activity fragmentation, ICT, and travel: Unraveling interrelationships with structural equation models (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Future mobility in an ageing society: Where are we heading? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Attitudes, Perceptions and Concerns of Pedestrians and Vulnerable Road Users to Shared Space: A Case Study from the UK (2013)
Journal Article

The concept of shared space is increasingly being incorporated into urban areas in the UK, promoting a major change in the way streets are designed. Shared space is a design feature that aims to encourage pedestrians, cyclists and drivers to share th... Read More about The Attitudes, Perceptions and Concerns of Pedestrians and Vulnerable Road Users to Shared Space: A Case Study from the UK.

Conceptual model to explain turning points in travel behavior: Application to bicycle use (2012)
Journal Article

Existing knowledge on cycling behavior, as with travel behavior in general, is based mainly on cross-sectional studies. It is questionable how much can be learned about the reasons for behavioral change from such studies. A major investment program t... Read More about Conceptual model to explain turning points in travel behavior: Application to bicycle use.

The impact of travel information's accuracy on route-choice (2013)
Journal Article

Advanced Travel Information Systems (ATISs) are designed to assist travellers in making better travel choices by providing pre-trip and en-route information such as travel times on the relevant alternatives. Travellers' choices are likely to be sensi... Read More about The impact of travel information's accuracy on route-choice.

Should Wikipedia be embraced by the transport profession as an influential source of information on transport issues? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Like it or not, Wikipedia has become an influential source of information for the public and for professionals on many subjects, including transport. Enter either ‘high speed 2’ or ‘peak car’ (a debate of increasing academic interest) into Google and... Read More about Should Wikipedia be embraced by the transport profession as an influential source of information on transport issues?.

Applying valence framing to enhance the effect of information on transport-related carbon dioxide emissions (2013)
Journal Article

The provision of information about transport-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to the traveler can be seen as an instrument to increase the likelihood of more sustainable choices being made by individuals. However, as transport-related CO2 emiss... Read More about Applying valence framing to enhance the effect of information on transport-related carbon dioxide emissions.

The public relies on Wikipedia, so it's our job to ensure its transport entries are accurate (2013)
Journal Article

Charging versus rewarding: A comparison of road-pricing and rewarding peak avoidance in the Netherlands (2013)
Journal Article

The aim of this paper is to compare two congestion management schemes - road-pricing and peak avoidance rewarding - and their impact on commuter behaviour, based on two studies that were conducted in the Netherlands. The road-pricing study is based o... Read More about Charging versus rewarding: A comparison of road-pricing and rewarding peak avoidance in the Netherlands.

A discussion of the anonymisation of qualitative datasets
Preprint / Working Paper

“Understanding behavioural change: An international perspective on sustainable travel behaviours and their motivations” Selected papers from the 12th world conference on transport research (2013)
Journal Article

Editorial

The rhetoric and realities of integrating air quality into local transport planning process (2012)
Journal Article

Regardless of its intent and purposes, the first decade of the Local Air Quality Management (LAQM) framework had little or no effect in reducing traffic-related air pollution in the UK. Apart from the impact of increased traffic volumes, the major fa... Read More about The rhetoric and realities of integrating air quality into local transport planning process.

Review of ‘Sorensen, A. and Okata, J. (Eds.) (2011) Megacities: urban form, governance and sustainability. Springer: Tokyo. ISBN 978-4-431-99266-0’ (2012)
Journal Article

Care miles - Scenarios workshop report: Examination of future scenarios for the ESRC project 'Technologies and Travel' (2012)
Report

Nudge versus shove: Behavioural economics from the perspective of transport and climate change: Travel demand modelling and design of behaviour change measures (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Bristol to Bath Railway Path User Survey: Walking Route to Whitehall Primary School (2012)
Report

Whitehall Primary School in Easton, Bristol has recently benefitted from improvements to its walking routes as part of the Sustrans Links to Schools Project. One particular aspect of these improvements and a focus of this report are a new informal ze... Read More about Bristol to Bath Railway Path User Survey: Walking Route to Whitehall Primary School.