Outputs (29)

Information impacts on route choice and learning behavior in a congested network (2011)
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Every traveler makes route choices in an uncertain environment that includes random disruptions to the traffic system such as incidents, bad weather, and random behavior of fellow travelers. The premise underlying the development of advanced traveler... Read More about Information impacts on route choice and learning behavior in a congested network.

The role of ICTs in everyday mobile lives (2011)
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Information and communications technologies (ICTs) are permeating modern lifestyles, shaping and colouring the undertaking of activities and travel. This article reports on a qualitative diary and interview study that explored the ways in which ICTs... Read More about The role of ICTs in everyday mobile lives.

Equine road user safety: Public attitudes, understandings and beliefs from a qualitative study in the United Kingdom (2011)
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Horse riders represent a significant group of vulnerable road user and are involved in a number of accidents and near misses on the road. Despite this horse riders have received little attention both in terms of academic research and transport policy... Read More about Equine road user safety: Public attitudes, understandings and beliefs from a qualitative study in the United Kingdom.

A troublesome transport challenge? Working round the school run (2011)
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Transport policy and practice could be challenged by the future of women's mobility if it means an increasing reliance on the car. The paper examines the contextual relationship between the journey to school/childcare and the journey to work undertak... Read More about A troublesome transport challenge? Working round the school run.

Conceptualizing age-friendly communities (2011)
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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.

The classy coach commute (2011)
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This paper considers a corporate vision for a coach service between Oxford and London in relation to the experiences and observations made by the author through a series of journeys on the same service. The journey is presented as a whole narrative t... Read More about The classy coach commute.

The Mirage of Citizen Engagement in Uncertain Science: Public attitudes towards hydrogen energy (2011)
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© 2011, Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This paper addresses some of the debates about citizen involvement in decisions about science and technological innovation. It describes some of the claims and scientific uncertainties surrounding hydr... Read More about The Mirage of Citizen Engagement in Uncertain Science: Public attitudes towards hydrogen energy.

Improving road transport-related air quality in England through joint working between Environmental Health Officers and Transport Planners (2011)
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In this paper the necessity for effective joint working arrangements between Environmental Health Officers and Transport Planners is demonstrated as a fundamental prerequisite for successful management of traffic-related air quality in English local... Read More about Improving road transport-related air quality in England through joint working between Environmental Health Officers and Transport Planners.

Practices and motivations of travellers making rail-cycle trips (2011)
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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.

Rewarding rush-hour avoidance: A study of commuters' travel behavior (2011)
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Spitsmijden, peak avoidance in Dutch, is the largest systematic effort to date to study, in the field, the potential of rewards as a policy mean for changing commuter behavior. A 13. week field study was organized in The Netherlands with the purpose... Read More about Rewarding rush-hour avoidance: A study of commuters' travel behavior.

Rethinking how to tackle binge drinking using social marketing: A neotribal analysis (2011)
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In this article the authors report on primary research undertaken with young people in a deprived area of northwest England who use regular binge drinking as the lynch pin of their social group. Traditional health messaging approaches have had little... Read More about Rethinking how to tackle binge drinking using social marketing: A neotribal analysis.

The effect of social interactions on travel behaviour: An exploratory study using a laboratory experiment (2011)
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This study demonstrates the use of a laboratory experiment for investigating the effects of social interaction on the dynamics of travellers' choice behaviour. A small-scale exploratory experiment is carried out. Analyses are conducted using statisti... Read More about The effect of social interactions on travel behaviour: An exploratory study using a laboratory experiment.

Modelling the dynamics of bus use in a changing travel environment using panel data (2011)
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Panel data offers the potential to represent the influence on travel choices of changing circumstances, past history and persistent individual differences (unobserved heterogeneity). A four-wave panel survey collected data on the travel choices of re... Read More about Modelling the dynamics of bus use in a changing travel environment using panel data.

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

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

Review of ‘Timmermans, H. (2009) Pedestrian Behaviour: Models, data collection and applications. Emerald Group publishing: Bingley. ISBN 9781848557505’ (2011)
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Lost in translation: Problems in interpreting business attitudes to transport (2011)
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This paper reviews available UK evidence on (private sector) business attitudes to transport. It follows a 2008 review of public attitudes to transport, and provides an important frame of reference for considering business attitudes. Accordingly the... Read More about Lost in translation: Problems in interpreting business attitudes to transport.

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

Grounded: Impacts of and insights from the volcanic ash cloud disruption (2011)
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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?.