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Variable message signs: are they effective TDM measures? (2009)
Book Chapter
Saleh, W., Walker, C., & Pai, C. W. (2009). Variable message signs: are they effective TDM measures?. In Travel Demand Management and Road User Pricing: Success, Failure and Feasibility (135-150). Ashgate Publishing

This chapter investigates impacts of Variable Message Signs (VMS) on accidents rates and severities on Scottish trunk roads. A before and after analysis of accidents at 14 selected VMS sites in central and north-east Scotland is presented.

Travel demand management and road user pricing : success, failure and feasibility (2009)
Book
Saleh, W., & Sammer, G. (Eds.). (2009). Travel demand management and road user pricing : success, failure and feasibility. Ashgate Publishing

Throughout the world, traffic levels are increasing and, in urban areas, these increasing levels have led to pressures on the road networks which are causing serious economic, environmental and social problems. This book examines the full range of 'p... Read More about Travel demand management and road user pricing : success, failure and feasibility.

A Multiple Viewed Interrelated Ontology Model for Holistic Component Specification and Retrieval (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, C., Liu, X., & Kennedy, J. (2009). A Multiple Viewed Interrelated Ontology Model for Holistic Component Specification and Retrieval. In S. Abrahão, J. Verner, T. Jiang, A. Kiumi, T. Kim, & D. Ślęzak (Eds.), Advances in Software Engineering. ASEA 2

Despite the success that Component-Based Development has achieved so far, component mismatch remains as a major hurdle for wider and smoother component reuse due to the lack of effective and automated approaches to component specification and retriev... Read More about A Multiple Viewed Interrelated Ontology Model for Holistic Component Specification and Retrieval.

Strengthening the Forward Variable Selection Stopping Criterion (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Herrera, L. J., Rubio, G., Pomares, H., Paechter, B., Guillén, A., & Rojas, I. (2009). Strengthening the Forward Variable Selection Stopping Criterion. In Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2009 (215-224). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04277-5_22

Given any modeling problem, variable selection is a preprocess step that selects the most relevant variables with respect to the output variable. Forward selection is the most straightforward strategy for variable selection; its application using the... Read More about Strengthening the Forward Variable Selection Stopping Criterion.

Changing affective content in brand and product attributes (2009)
Journal Article
Abbott, M., Holland, R., Giacomin, J., & Shackleton, J. (2009). Changing affective content in brand and product attributes. Journal of Product and Brand Management, 18(1), 17-26. https://doi.org/10.1108/10610420910933335

Purpose – This paper aims to explore whether consumers' cognitive reactions to a branded product remain stable over time. In many created concepts, entity attributes are such that cognitive reactions to them change in a predictable manner by attract... Read More about Changing affective content in brand and product attributes.

Employee demand for skills development: a research and policy review (2009)
Report
Johnson, S., Sawicki, S., Pearson, C., Lindsay, C., McQuaid, R. W., & Dutton, M. (2009). Employee demand for skills development: a research and policy review

This report presents the results of a detailed review of evidence and policy relating to the factors that influence the engagement of the individual in skills development. It incorporates a broad range of formal and informal learning activities, deli... Read More about Employee demand for skills development: a research and policy review.

Weighting the competitiveness factors for container ports under conflicting interests (2009)
Journal Article
Yeo, G. T., Song, D., Dinwoodie, J., & Roe, M. (2009). Weighting the competitiveness factors for container ports under conflicting interests. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 61, 1249-1257. https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.2009.88

Generally, an evaluation of container port competitiveness is regarded as a multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem which involves various stakeholders with conflicting interests. To solve MCDM problems, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP)... Read More about Weighting the competitiveness factors for container ports under conflicting interests.

Condition monitoring of wooden railway sleepers (2009)
Journal Article
Yella, S., Dougherty, M., & Gupta, N. K. (2009). Condition monitoring of wooden railway sleepers. Transportation Research Part C : Emerging Technologies, 17, 38-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2008.06.002

Wooden railway sleeper inspections in Sweden are currently performed manually by a human operator; such inspections are to large extent based on visual analysis. In this paper a machine vision based approach has been considered to emulate the visual... Read More about Condition monitoring of wooden railway sleepers.

An evaluation of the transport to employment (T2E) scheme in Highland Scotland using social return on investment (SROI) (2009)
Journal Article
Wright, S., Nelson, J. D., Cooper, J. M., & Murphy, S. (2009). An evaluation of the transport to employment (T2E) scheme in Highland Scotland using social return on investment (SROI). Journal of Transport Geography, 17, 457-467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2008.10.006

This paper presents findings from an evaluation of transport to employment (T2E) in rural Highland Scotland. T2E is a centrally co-ordinated shared transport service which provides access to workplace, training and childcare where no alternative tran... Read More about An evaluation of the transport to employment (T2E) scheme in Highland Scotland using social return on investment (SROI).

Transport and surveillance aspects of location based services (2009)
Journal Article
Wigan, M., & Clarke, R. A. (2009). Transport and surveillance aspects of location based services. Transportation research record, 2105, 92-99. https://doi.org/10.3141/2105-12

Transport is a series of movements between locations, and considerable efforts are spent to secure details of such movements for planning and modeling purposes. This paper considers the issues raised when such information is secured too well, as well... Read More about Transport and surveillance aspects of location based services.