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Improving the safety of school travel via bus warning signage in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fraser, R., & Carreno, M. (2011, October). Improving the safety of school travel via bus warning signage in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Paper presented at European Transport Conference 2011

Following two fatal accidents involving local school children who were alighting school buses in September 2008, Aberdeenshires local authority has progressed a number of demonstration projects that sought to improve the safety of home-to-school tran... Read More about Improving the safety of school travel via bus warning signage in Aberdeenshire, Scotland..

A frequency-based maritime container assignment model (2011)
Journal Article
Bell, M. G. H., Angeloudis, P., Liu, X., Fonzone, A., & Hosseinloo, S. H. (2011). A frequency-based maritime container assignment model. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 45, 1152-1161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2011.04.002

This paper transfers the classic frequency-based transit assignment method of Spiess and Florian to containers demonstrating its promise as the basis for a global maritimecontainerassignmentmodel. In this model, containers are carried by shipping lin... Read More about A frequency-based maritime container assignment model.

Developing a competitive strategy for the port of Qingdao: an application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process to ports in Bohai Bay (2011)
Journal Article
Lv, Y. C., Cullinane, K., & Lu, P. (2011). Developing a competitive strategy for the port of Qingdao: an application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process to ports in Bohai Bay. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 97-98, 659-663. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.97-98.659

Container handling in the ports of the Bohai Bay region is analyzed from the perspective of the competitiveness of the Port of Qingdao. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method is applied to this problem based on the main factors affecting the com... Read More about Developing a competitive strategy for the port of Qingdao: an application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process to ports in Bohai Bay.

Driving economic growth with an integrated maritime policy (2011)
Journal Article
Baird, A. (2011). Driving economic growth with an integrated maritime policy. Scottish transport review, 5-6

Alf Baird shows that maritime transport is sometimes ignored and unusually for a peripheral EU nation, Scotland has no maritime Trans European Transport Network initiative. It will be hard for Scotland to grow its exports without an integrated mariti... Read More about Driving economic growth with an integrated maritime policy.

Travel mode choice. (2011)
Book Chapter
Stradling, S. G. (2011). Travel mode choice. In B. E. Porter (Ed.), Handbook of Traffic Psychology. Academic Press

An Analysis of Potential Solutions for Improving Interconnectivity of Passenger Networks. INTERCONNECT Deliverable 3.1 (2011)
Report
Bonsall, P., Abrantes, P., Bak, M., Bielefeldt, C., Borkowski, P., Maffii, S., Mandel, B., Matthews, B., Shires, J., Pawlowska, B., Schnell, O., & de Stasio, C. (2011). An Analysis of Potential Solutions for Improving Interconnectivity of Passenger Networks. INTERCONNECT Deliverable 3.1. Edinburgh: Trasnport Research Institute

An Analysis of Potential Solutions for Improving Interconnectivity of Passenger Networks.

Dry ports, port centric logistics and offshore logistics hubs: strategies to overcome double peripherality. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Monios, J., & Wilmsmeier, G. (2011, April). Dry ports, port centric logistics and offshore logistics hubs: strategies to overcome double peripherality. Paper presented at Associationof American Georaphers Annual Meeting

Scotland's low accessibility is reflected in the limited share of Scottish unitised freight traffic coming through Scottish ports. This paper will consider site development strategies to overcome Scotland's double peripherality (i.e. both physically... Read More about Dry ports, port centric logistics and offshore logistics hubs: strategies to overcome double peripherality..

Using the land-use planning process to secure travel plans: an assessment of progress in England to date (2011)
Journal Article
Rye, T., Green, C., Young, E., & Ison, S. G. (2011). Using the land-use planning process to secure travel plans: an assessment of progress in England to date. Journal of Transport Geography, 19, 235-243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2010.05.002

A travel plan is a package of measures implemented by an organisation to encourage people who travel to/from that organisation to do so by means other than driving alone by private car. This paper advances two principal arguments: firstly, that the p... Read More about Using the land-use planning process to secure travel plans: an assessment of progress in England to date.

Young novice drivers and the development of somatic markers for risk on the road. (2011)
Book Chapter
Kinnear, N. A. D., & Stradling, S. G. (2011). Young novice drivers and the development of somatic markers for risk on the road. In D. A. Hennessy (Ed.), Traffic Psychology: An International Perspective (69-85). Nova Science Publishers

The novice driver problem is a worldwide trend that, in the UK, involves one in five newly licensed drivers being crash involved in their first year of driving (Maycock and Forsyth, 1997). Research suggests that both age and inexperience are major fa... Read More about Young novice drivers and the development of somatic markers for risk on the road..

Development of air transport industry in the Asia-Pacific region. (2011)
Journal Article
Cullinane, K., Firth, M., Fung, M. K. Y., Gong, S. X. H., Law, J. S., & Zhang, A. (2011). Development of air transport industry in the Asia-Pacific region. Pacific Economic Review, 16, 42-46. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0106.2010.00533.x

The volume of air passengers and cargo in the Asia-Pacific region has grown significantly over the past decade due to the strong impetus of economic growth as well as trade and economic integration at both the regional and global levels. Although pub... Read More about Development of air transport industry in the Asia-Pacific region..

Sustainable transport solution for a medium-sized town in Turkey—A case study. (2011)
Journal Article
Muneer, T., Celik, A. N., & Caliskan, N. (2011). Sustainable transport solution for a medium-sized town in Turkey—A case study. Sustainable Cities and Society SCC, 1, 29-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2010.08.004

The United Nations projects that 60% of the world's population will be living in urban areas by 2030. Cities account for 2% of the world's area but 75% of the world's energy consumption. For over a century, the automobile has offered affordable freed... Read More about Sustainable transport solution for a medium-sized town in Turkey—A case study..