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View article: A Pareto-Optimal Carbon Allowance Policy – Balancing Emission Reduction and Commuter Benefits in Urban Transportation Systems
A Pareto-Optimal Carbon Allowance Policy – Balancing Emission Reduction and Commuter Benefits in Urban Transportation Systems Open
This paper explores the impact of the personal carbon allowance (PCA) policy on a bi-modal transportation system, examining travel mode shifts, congestion patterns and policy effectiveness. The optimal carbon allowance quantity and the pol…
View article: (Re-)locating ‘place’ in energy demand: Implications for research and policy
(Re-)locating ‘place’ in energy demand: Implications for research and policy Open
View article: Transport governance system response during the COVID-19 pandemic: The allure of a ‘new normal’ and its implications for tackling the polycrisis
Transport governance system response during the COVID-19 pandemic: The allure of a ‘new normal’ and its implications for tackling the polycrisis Open
This paper examines how the UK transport governance system responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and what this reveals about its capacity for transformative change amid broader societal challenges, or the “polycrisis.” Drawing on a unique lon…
View article: The battle for kerbside space: An evaluation of the competition between car-hailing and bus services
The battle for kerbside space: An evaluation of the competition between car-hailing and bus services Open
View article: Achieving deep transport energy demand reductions in the United Kingdom
Achieving deep transport energy demand reductions in the United Kingdom Open
View article: Planning to fail? How science can respond to reduced climate mitigation ambition
Planning to fail? How science can respond to reduced climate mitigation ambition Open
The prospect of remaining within 1.5C of planetary warming relies on developed economies tracking increasingly steep and challenging emission reduction pathways. This paper explores how the UK is now proactively planning to miss its target…
View article: How much storage do we need in a fully electrified future? A critical review of the assumptions on which this question depends
How much storage do we need in a fully electrified future? A critical review of the assumptions on which this question depends Open
‘How much storage do we need in a fully electrified future?’ On the face of it, this is a perfectly sensible technical question that needs to be answered if energy systems are to be decarbonised and if climate change goals are to be met. I…
View article: A just transition or just a transition? The understanding and relevance of fairness in planning for a decarbonised transport system
A just transition or just a transition? The understanding and relevance of fairness in planning for a decarbonised transport system Open
The slow progress on reducing carbon emissions from transport means that, in many economies, it is the highest emitting sector. To comply with agreed carbon budgets, a complete transformation of the energy sources used and a shift in how a…
View article: Tightly Bound, Loosely Interpreted: Meta-Governance and Local Institutional Adaptation in the Implementation of the Smart Cities Mission India
Tightly Bound, Loosely Interpreted: Meta-Governance and Local Institutional Adaptation in the Implementation of the Smart Cities Mission India Open
This paper explores the implementation of the Indian Government’s Smart Cities Mission in four cities. The Mission was to be delivered through a tightly specified governance form, known as a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), although its func…
View article: The role of funding in the ‘performative decarbonisation’ of transport in England
The role of funding in the ‘performative decarbonisation’ of transport in England Open
The scale of the decarbonisation challenge and the short timeframes over which action is required demand urgent action. This paper is set within the surface transport sector, now the largest sector of emissions with the slowest pace of cha…
View article: Lessons from highway management reforms in a less developed province in China
Lessons from highway management reforms in a less developed province in China Open
This article describes how national imaginaries of market reforms designed to accommodate fast-growing Chinese regions, collide with embedded formal and informal governance practices in less developed provinces. Whilst much of the literatu…
View article: Steering Smart Mobility Services: Lessons from Seattle, Greater Manchester and Stockholm
Steering Smart Mobility Services: Lessons from Seattle, Greater Manchester and Stockholm Open
This paper explores how three cities (Seattle, Greater Manchester and Stockholm) have approached the governance of smart mobility services in the early stages of their introduction. The research finds that cities have limited steering capa…
View article: Deep Cuts: Achieving Transport Energy Demand Reductions for Climate and Health Co-Benefits
Deep Cuts: Achieving Transport Energy Demand Reductions for Climate and Health Co-Benefits Open
View article: Analysing multilevel governance dynamics in India: exercising hierarchy through the Smart Cities Mission
Analysing multilevel governance dynamics in India: exercising hierarchy through the Smart Cities Mission Open
This paper provides a theoretically informed empirical analysis of how Narendra Modiâ��s claim of â��more governance, less governmentâ�� is felt in practice in India. It does so through a qualitative case study of the Smart Cities Mission …
View article: Energy demand reduction options for meeting national zero-emission targets in the United Kingdom
Energy demand reduction options for meeting national zero-emission targets in the United Kingdom Open
In recent years, global studies have attempted to understand the contribution that energy demand reduction could make to climate mitigation efforts. Here we develop a bottom-up, whole-system framework that comprehensively estimates the pot…
View article: Sharing airspace with Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): Views of the General Aviation (GA) community
Sharing airspace with Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): Views of the General Aviation (GA) community Open
Operations of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs or drones) are expanding, leading to competition for airspace with other users such as the General Aviation (GA) community, i.e., sports and leisure airspace users, particularly in uncontrolled …
View article: Energy demand reduction options for meeting national zero emission targets
Energy demand reduction options for meeting national zero emission targets Open
Energy Demand Reduction (EDR) refers to lowering the amount of energy required to provide energy services across mobility, shelter, nutrition or the production of goods and services, among others, with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas e…
View article: Public acceptance of the use of drones for logistics: The state of play and moving towards more informed debate
Public acceptance of the use of drones for logistics: The state of play and moving towards more informed debate Open
Policy makers are keen to understand public and stakeholder concerns in relation to the greater deployment of drones within transport systems and studies have sought to quantify public acceptance of drones with common themes including worr…
View article: Pathways to Unsegregated Sharing of Airspace: Views of the Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Industry
Pathways to Unsegregated Sharing of Airspace: Views of the Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Industry Open
The uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV or drone) industry is expanding, offering services such as video/photography, inspection, monitoring, surveying, and logistics. This is leading to competing demands for airspace with existing crewed aircraf…
View article: Mobility during and after the pandemic
Mobility during and after the pandemic Open
Nine months since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, it is startling to reflect on the profound changes to all aspects of daily life which have been necessary. Public policy has responded at a pace not seen for decades, and the …
View article: COVID-19 will have a profound long-term impact on transport policy and travel patterns, but rapid change is less likely
COVID-19 will have a profound long-term impact on transport policy and travel patterns, but rapid change is less likely Open
Greg Marsden and Iain Docherty find that the pandemic has accelerated some transport policy commitments that were already planned, but at a time of huge stress on the government, the potential to deliver radical policy adaptation was limit…
View article: Behind the Targets? The Case for Coherence in a Multi-Scalar Approach to Carbon Action Plans in the Transport Sector
Behind the Targets? The Case for Coherence in a Multi-Scalar Approach to Carbon Action Plans in the Transport Sector Open
The Paris Agreement requires radical action across all policy sectors and at all scales of government. This paper argues that without a clear framework for sectoral budget setting which takes account of interactions across spatial scales, …
View article: Mega-disruptions and policy change: Lessons from the mobility sector in response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK
Mega-disruptions and policy change: Lessons from the mobility sector in response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK Open
View article: Estimates of the Carbon Impacts of Commute Travel Restrictions due to COVID-19 in the UK
Estimates of the Carbon Impacts of Commute Travel Restrictions due to COVID-19 in the UK Open
This paper explores the carbon impacts of the reductions in commute travel which resulted from restrictions placed on the general population in the UK. The article uses anonymised and aggregated mobile data for the period February 2020 to …
View article: Transport, the economy and environmental sustainability post-Covid-19
Transport, the economy and environmental sustainability post-Covid-19 Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought previously unimaginable change to the level of mobility in the economy almost overnight. People who have never before worked from home have had to do so almost immediately, and business travel has stopped …
View article: Public Acceptance of the Use of Drones for Logistics: The State of Play and Moving Towards More Informed Debate
Public Acceptance of the Use of Drones for Logistics: The State of Play and Moving Towards More Informed Debate Open
View article: Data for: Studying disruptive events: innovations in behaviour, opportunities for lower carbon transport policy?
Data for: Studying disruptive events: innovations in behaviour, opportunities for lower carbon transport policy? Open
This is data pertaining to a study of travel disruptions in the UK
View article: Conceptualising Demand
Conceptualising Demand Open
This book addresses fundamental questions about the very idea of demand: how is it constituted, how does it change and how might it be steered? Conceptualising Demand focuses on five core propositions: that demand is derived from social pr…
View article: Work, ICT and travel in multinational corporations: the synthetic work mobility situation
Work, ICT and travel in multinational corporations: the synthetic work mobility situation Open
Theorising the relationships between information communication technology (ICT), travel and work continues to preoccupy researchers interested in multinational corporations (MNCs). One motivation is the desire to understand ways of reducin…
View article: Role of Socially-Equitable Economic Development in Creating Resilient and Sustainable Systems: COVID-19-Related Reflections
Role of Socially-Equitable Economic Development in Creating Resilient and Sustainable Systems: COVID-19-Related Reflections Open
This paper aims to provoke fundamental thinking and action around the value and importance of socially-equitable development to the economic advancement, resilience, and prosperity of communities, as we contend with the 21st Century grand …