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Case studies on motorways of the sea in Spain. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Baird, A., & Gese Aperte, X. (2011, October). Case studies on motorways of the sea in Spain. Paper presented at Conference of the International Association of Maritime Economists,

Private equity funds investing in ports. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Baird, A. (2011, October). Private equity funds investing in ports. Paper presented at The 9th Port Performance Research Network (PPRN) Workshop

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..

You are where you’ve been: the privacy implications of location and tracking technologies (2011)
Journal Article
Clarke, R., & Wigan, M. (2011). You are where you’ve been: the privacy implications of location and tracking technologies. Journal of Location Based Services, 5(3-4), 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’ve been: the privacy implications of location and tracking technologies.

A frequency-based maritime container assignment model (2011)
Journal Article
Bell, M. G., Liu, X., Angeloudis, P., Fonzone, A., & Hosseinloo, S. H. (2011). A frequency-based maritime container assignment model. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 45(8), 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.

Scottish integrated maritime policy. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Baird, A. (2011, September). Scottish integrated maritime policy. Paper presented at Conference on Scotland’s Transport Future in a Changing World

Contestability in bus markets – evidence from the British de-regulated market (2011)
Journal Article
Cowie, J. (2012). Contestability in bus markets – evidence from the British de-regulated market. Applied Economics, 44(36), 4777-4785. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2011.564146

Following the 1985 Transport Act in Great Britain, reforms in the provision of bus services continue across Europe and other parts of the world to this day. The British experience, however, remains a key point of study in informing these continuing d... Read More about Contestability in bus markets – evidence from the British de-regulated market.

Arctic shipping highways. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Baird, A. (2011, September). Arctic shipping highways. Paper presented at Orkney International Science Festival

Ships and sailors in the Arctic have traditionally faced fearsome hazards in the bitter winds and freezing waters, but today the ice is in retreat and the Arctic is opening up as a marine highway linking Europe, Asia and North America. Could that mea... Read More about Arctic shipping highways..

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.