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Effects of installing a marked crosswalk on road crossing behaviour and perceptions of the environment.

Journal Article
Havard, C., & Willis, A. (2012)
Effects of installing a marked crosswalk on road crossing behaviour and perceptions of the environment. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 15, 249-260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2011.12.007
A two-pronged study was conducted to investigate (a) pedestrians’ road-crossing behaviour and (b) perceptions of the walking environment, both before and after the installatio...

Pokemon gaming causes pedestrians to run a red light: An observational study of crossing behaviours at a signalised intersection in Taipei City

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Chen, P., Saleh, W., & Pai, C. (2018)
Pokemon gaming causes pedestrians to run a red light: An observational study of crossing behaviours at a signalised intersection in Taipei City. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 55, 380-388. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2018.03.011
Since the launch of the smartphone game “Pokemon Go”, the worldwide craze has led to numerous traffic crashes and injuries resulting from falling or tripping. This paper inves...

First steps towards cross-national transfer in integrating mobility management and land use planning in the EU and Switzerland

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Rye, T., Welsch, J., Plevnik, A., & Tommasi, R. D. (2011)
First steps towards cross-national transfer in integrating mobility management and land use planning in the EU and Switzerland. Transport Policy, 18, 533-543. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2010.10.008
This paper is based on research carried out in an EU Framework project, concerning the better integration of mobility management (MM) with land use planning. The objective of ...

Visual gaze behaviour of adults and older adults at a pedestrian crossing.

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Egan, C. D., Willis, A., Ness, H. & Stradling, S. G. (2007)
Visual gaze behaviour of adults and older adults at a pedestrian crossing. Perception. 37, 149. ISSN 0301-0066
Underdeveloped visual search strategies may be a contributing factor to children's involvement in pedestrian accidents. Although laboratory-based research suggests that the ab...

The effects of a distractor on the visual gaze behaviour of children at signalized road crossings

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Egan, C. D., Willis, A., & Wincenciak, J. (2009)
The effects of a distractor on the visual gaze behaviour of children at signalized road crossings. Journal of Vision, 9(8), https://doi.org/10.1167/9.8.371
Children are over-represented in pedestrian injuries. This may be explained, at least in part, by poorer attentional mechanisms at the roadside compared with skilled adults. W...

Visual gaze behaviour of children and adult pedestrians at a signalized road crossings.

Journal Article
Egan, C. D., Willis, A., Ness, H. & Stradling, S. G. (2007)
Visual gaze behaviour of children and adult pedestrians at a signalized road crossings. Perception. 37, 149. ISSN 0301-0066
Underdeveloped visual search strategies may be a contributing factor to children's involvement in pedestrian accidents. Although laboratory-based research suggests that the ab...

Energetic, environmental and economic performance of electric vehicles: Experimental evaluation

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Muneer, T., Milligan, R., Smith, I., Doyle, A., Pozuelo, M., & Knez, M. (2015)
Energetic, environmental and economic performance of electric vehicles: Experimental evaluation. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 35, 40-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2014.11.015
Fuelled by a rapidly rising human global population, an increasing demand for freedom to travel and the affordability made possible by modern manufacturing there has been an e...

Performance, importance and user disgruntlement: a six-step method for measuring satisfaction with travel modes.

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Stradling, S. G., Anable, J. & Carreno, M. (2007)
Performance, importance and user disgruntlement: a six-step method for measuring satisfaction with travel modes. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 41, 98-106. doi:10.1016/j.tra.2006.05.013. ISSN 0965-8564
The technique described in this paper builds on work in the customer service literature on the measurement of customer dissatisfaction to develop a new way of combining measur...

Modelling the effects of transport policy levers on fuel efficiency and national fuel consumption.

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Kirby, H., Hutton, B., McQuaid, R. W., Raeside, R. & Zhang, X. (1999)
Modelling the effects of transport policy levers on fuel efficiency and national fuel consumption. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. 5, 265-282. doi:10.1016/S1361-9209(99)00037-1. ISSN 1361-9209
The paper provides an overview of the main features of a Vehicle Market Model (VMM) which estimates changes to vehicle stock/kilometrage, fuel consumed and CO2 emitted. It is ...

Optimising time-varying network flows by low-revenue tolling under dynamic user equilibrium.

Journal Article
Stewart, K., & Ge, Y. (2014)
Optimising time-varying network flows by low-revenue tolling under dynamic user equilibrium. European journal of transport and infrastructure research, 14, 30-45
This paper presents a dynamic congestion charging framework that includes a dynamic user equilibrium (DUE) network model to optimize a tolling scheme, whose objective(s) may b...