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Financial anatomy of E4 Helsinki-Lahti shadow toll PPP-project (2013)
Journal Article
Leviäkangas, P., Wigan, M., & Haapasalo, H. (2013). Financial anatomy of E4 Helsinki-Lahti shadow toll PPP-project. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 3(2), 165-180. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-04-2012-0017

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the returns to the investors and the state in private finance of road infrastructure. It uses an empirical case of the E4 Helsinki-Lahti road, which was built in 1995-1999 in Finland as the first... Read More about Financial anatomy of E4 Helsinki-Lahti shadow toll PPP-project.

The kinematic features of motorcycles in congested urban networks (2012)
Journal Article
Lee, T., Polak, J. W., Bell, M. G. H., & Wigan, M. (2012). The kinematic features of motorcycles in congested urban networks. Accident analysis and prevention, 49, 203-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2011.04.002

The aim of this paper is to compare the kinematic features of motorcycles with those of passenger cars in urban traffic. The hypothesis that motorcycles’ capability to swerve in urban traffic contributes to their seemingly assertive behaviour is exam... Read More about The kinematic features of motorcycles in congested urban networks.

Contestability, democracy and trust in the anti-terror age (2012)
Journal Article
Wigan, M. (2012). Contestability, democracy and trust in the anti-terror age. IEEE technology & society magazine, 31, 26-32. https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2012.2185730

Checks and balances in government are always difficult to resolve, and as both societal and governmental complexity have increased, the degree to which expertise and policy reside within government has declined. The rise of evidence-based approaches... Read More about Contestability, democracy and trust in the anti-terror age.

Process validation of urban freight and logistics models (2012)
Journal Article
Donnelly, R., Thompson, R. G., & Wigan, M. (2012). Process validation of urban freight and logistics models. Procedia, social and behavioral sciences, 39, 400-408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.03.117

A number of innovative modelling approaches for the analysis of urban freight demand and its impact upon the built environment and transport infrastructure have been proposed over the past several years. These range from new and more robust synthetic... Read More about Process validation of urban freight and logistics models.

A stochastic-based performance prediction model of road network pavement maintenance (2012)
Journal Article
Mandiartha, P., Duffield, C. F., Thompson, R. G., & Wigan, M. (2012). A stochastic-based performance prediction model of road network pavement maintenance. Road and Transport Research Journal, 21, 34-52

This paper presents details of the development and implementation of a stochastic-based performance-prediction model using the Markov chains method for road network pavement maintenance. As well as the difficulty in the process of developing the tran... Read More about A stochastic-based performance prediction model of road network pavement maintenance.

You are where you have been: the privacy implications of location and tracking technologies (2011)
Journal Article
Clarke, R., & Wigan, M. (2011). You are where you have been: the privacy implications of location and tracking technologies. Journal of Location Based Services, 5, 138-155. https://doi.org/10.1080/17489725.2011.637969

A decade ago, technologies that could provide information about the location of a motor vehicle, or a computer, or a person, were in their infancy. A wide range of tools are now in use and in prospect, which threaten to strip away another layer of th... Read More about You are where you have been: the privacy implications of location and tracking technologies.

Enhancing community participation in Metropolitan strategic transport planning through shared analysis (2011)
Journal Article
Sunter, P., & Wigan, M. (2011). Enhancing community participation in Metropolitan strategic transport planning through shared analysis. Road and Transport Research Journal, 20, 24-35

This paper assesses and explores the existing potential for new approaches to software and data, such as the open source movement, to contribute to more open and contestable strategic land-use and transport planning processes. Issues with the current... Read More about Enhancing community participation in Metropolitan strategic transport planning through shared analysis.

The role of contestable processes in advancing sustainability in transport and planning (2011)
Journal Article
Wigan, M. (2011). The role of contestable processes in advancing sustainability in transport and planning. Road and Transport Research Journal, 20, 32-40

Sustainable transport requires not only solid evidence to support policy and practice, but also to allow this to be examined with a high degree of transparency. Not all technical reports have the supporting evidence (or indeed models) made readily av... Read More about The role of contestable processes in advancing sustainability in transport and planning.

Owning identity-one or many-do we have a choice? (2010)
Journal Article
Wigan, M. (2010). Owning identity-one or many-do we have a choice?. IEEE technology & society magazine, 29, 33-38. https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2010.937026

The rapid growth of databases, biometrics, and RFID has led to an environment where identity-related technologies are approaching a critical mass as a potential means of controlling the population. The essential aspects of these diverse technical adv... Read More about Owning identity-one or many-do we have a choice?.

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.

The modelling of motorcycle ownership and usage: a UK study (2007)
Journal Article
Burge, P., Fox, J., Kouvenhoeven, M., Rohr, C., & Wigan, M. (2007). The modelling of motorcycle ownership and usage: a UK study. Transportation research record, 59-68. https://doi.org/10.3141/2031-08

This paper presents work, undertaken for the UK Department for Transport, to help determine how policy could affect motorcycle usage. There are two important choices that determine potential motorcycle use: the decision to own a motorcycle, and conti... Read More about The modelling of motorcycle ownership and usage: a UK study.

How do you decide when to repeat transport surveys? (2007)
Journal Article
Wigan, M., Smith, N., & Timmis, B. (2007). How do you decide when to repeat transport surveys?. Australasian Transport Research Forum, 1-23

Sustainable transport requires a perspective that extends beyond the present and beyond the transport system itself. To view sustainability properly requires more sophisticated models than we currently employ, and more data than we currently collect.... Read More about How do you decide when to repeat transport surveys?.

Integrating information about complex systems: role of metadata in the acceptability of results from models. (2007)
Journal Article
Westlake, A., & Wigan, M. (2007). Integrating information about complex systems: role of metadata in the acceptability of results from models. Transportation research record, 1972, 60-68. https://doi.org/10.3141/1972-10

Opus is a project funded by the European Union Statistical Agency (Eurostat). The project is developing a methodology for the coherent and consistent integration of information from multiple sources about complex systems (based on Bayesian statistica... Read More about Integrating information about complex systems: role of metadata in the acceptability of results from models..

What's wrong with freight models and what should we do about it? (2006)
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 transportation analysts that they all need a careful overhaul. In this paper the range... Read More about What's wrong with freight models and what should we do about it?.

Social impacts of transport surveillance. (2006)
Journal Article
Wigan, M., & Clarke, R. A. (2006). Social impacts of transport surveillance. Prometheus, 24(4), 389-404. https://doi.org/10.1080/08109020601029961

The transport sector is a natural focal point for surveillance measures to combat the threat of terrorism. It is also a complex environment that offers many examples of the social impacts of contemporary surveillance. Surveillance needs to be assesse... Read More about Social impacts of transport surveillance..