Rail Freight in Great Britain – has privatisation made a noticeable difference?
Presentation / Conference
Cowie, J. (2012, January)
Rail Freight in Great Britain – has privatisation made a noticeable difference?. Presented at 44th Annual Conference of the University Transport Study Group, University of Aberdeen
This paper briefly outlines the main changes brought about by the Railways Act 1993 with regard to the rail freight sector and then examines development of the sector since th...
Promoting Jobs Growth to Benefit Disadvantaged People and Communities – An International Review of Best Practice.
Report
McQuaid, R. W., Fuertes, V., Egdell, V. & Bergmann, A. (2011)
Promoting Jobs Growth to Benefit Disadvantaged People and Communities – An International Review of Best Practice
This report sets out the findings from a study into strategies that link the promotion of investment and the employment of economically inactive groups. The aim is to ascerta...
A century of research on property cycles – a literature review and annotated bibliography.
Conference Proceeding
Jadevicius, A., Sloan, B. & Brown, A. (2010)
A century of research on property cycles – a literature review and annotated bibliography
The existence of cycles in the general business sector, as well as in building and property has grown to have significant importance in the UK, whereas the UK property market ...
A century of research on property cycles – a review of research on major and auxiliary business cycles.
Presentation / Conference
Jadevicius, A., Sloan, B., & Brown, A. (2010, September)
A century of research on property cycles – a review of research on major and auxiliary business cycles. Paper presented at XI BSV International Conference on Valuation and Investment,, Minsk, Belarus
The existence of cycles within economy and its sub-sectors has been studied for a number of years. The importance of cycles has grown to have significant importance in the maj...
Is bigger better? Film success in small countries – the case of Scotland, Ireland and Denmark.
Conference Proceeding
MacPherson, R. (2010)
Is bigger better? Film success in small countries – the case of Scotland, Ireland and Denmark
Small European countries with low levels of film production might be expected to suffer from diseconomies of scale and other structural disadvantages that would tend to produc...
Financial Capability: Evidence Review - Report of the Scottish Government Social Inclusion Division
Report
McQuaid, R. W. & Egdell, V. (2010)
Financial Capability: Evidence Review - Report of the Scottish Government Social Inclusion Division
This report provides a brief overview of current evidence on financial capability as it relates to disadvantage in Scotland.
An analysis of the city centre car parking market:The supply side point of view
Thesis
Ferilli, G. An analysis of the city centre car parking market:The supply side point of view. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3050
Parking plays an important role in mobility, access and the economic development of cities; at the same time, it is a profitable business for both the private and public secto...
What's wrong with freight models and what should we do about it?
Journal Article
Southworth, F., & Wigan, M. (2006)
What's wrong with freight models and what should we do about it?. Transportation research record,
After many years of neglect, freight, freight operations, and commodity flow models are now attracting substantial attention, and there is a wide perception among transportati...
Exploring the relative costs of travelling by train and car. Final report to Virgin Trains and Fishburn Hedges. Final report.
Report
Kirby, H., Carreno, M. & Smyth, A. (2006)
Exploring the relative costs of travelling by train and car. Final report to Virgin Trains and Fishburn Hedges. Final report.
Optimising the container transhipment hub location in northern Europe
Journal Article
Baird, A. J., & Baird, A. (2006)
Optimising the container transhipment hub location in northern Europe. Journal of Transport Geography, 14(3), 195-214. doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2004.12.004
This paper applies a specific research methodology designed to evaluate and compare competing seaport locations within a given region as the optimal site for international con...