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Implementing Road User Charging: The Lessons Learnt from Hong Kong, Cambridge and Central London (2005)
Journal Article
Ison, S. G., & Rye, T. (2005). Implementing Road User Charging: The Lessons Learnt from Hong Kong, Cambridge and Central London. Transport Reviews, 25(4), 451-465. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144164042000335788

Road user charging has long been advocated as a means of dealing with congestion in urban areas. Numerous schemes have been proposed but have advanced little beyond the drawing board. This paper draws on the experiences of two such road user charging... Read More about Implementing Road User Charging: The Lessons Learnt from Hong Kong, Cambridge and Central London.

Implementing a wireless network of PDAs in a hospital setting (2005)
Journal Article
Turner, P., Milne, G., Kubitscheck, M., Penman, I., & Turner, S. (2005). Implementing a wireless network of PDAs in a hospital setting. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 9, 209-217. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-004-0322-7

This paper discusses the introduction of a wireless network of personal digital assistants into a specialist unit of a hospital in Edinburgh. All of the technology has been used ‘off-the-shelf’ and ‘out-of-the-box’. While we are able to report that t... Read More about Implementing a wireless network of PDAs in a hospital setting.

Implications of congestion charging for departure time choice: Work and non-work schedule flexibility (2005)
Journal Article
Saleh, W., & Farrell, S. (2005). Implications of congestion charging for departure time choice: Work and non-work schedule flexibility. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 39(7-9), 773-791. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2005.02.016

The objective of this paper is to investigate the potential impacts of implementing variable congestion charging on the peak spreading of departure time choices, taking into account levels of scheduling flexibility of individuals. In particular, this... Read More about Implications of congestion charging for departure time choice: Work and non-work schedule flexibility.

A time-varying risk premium in the term structure of bulk shipping freight rates. (2005)
Journal Article
Adland, R., & Cullinane, K. (2005). A time-varying risk premium in the term structure of bulk shipping freight rates. Journal of Transport, Economics and Policy, 39, 191-208

This paper presents a simple argument, based on logic and maritime economic theory alone, for rejecting the applicability of the expectations theory in bulk shipping freight markets. It is shown that the risk premium must be time varying and must, in... Read More about A time-varying risk premium in the term structure of bulk shipping freight rates..

Overcoming barriers to the implementation of car parking charges at UK workplaces (2005)
Journal Article
Rye, T., & Ison, S. G. (2005). Overcoming barriers to the implementation of car parking charges at UK workplaces. Transport Policy, 12(1), 57-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2004.11.002

Charging employees to park at their places of work is a transport policy measure advocated by the UK government as a means of reducing car commuting and hence achieving the twin objectives of reducing congestion and combating environmental degradatio... Read More about Overcoming barriers to the implementation of car parking charges at UK workplaces.

Road user charging: technically optimal or publicly acceptable? (2005)
Thesis
Farrell, S. R. Road user charging: technically optimal or publicly acceptable?. (Thesis). Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2290886

The thesis reports the outcome of three main investigations. The first investigated the technical issues involved in how commuter’s departure time and mode choice might be affected by road user charging. The second investigated the public’s preferenc... Read More about Road user charging: technically optimal or publicly acceptable?.

Critical analysis and error determination of locating-finding techniques in GSM. (2005)
Journal Article
Buchanan, W. J., Raja, A., & Munoz, J. (2005). Critical analysis and error determination of locating-finding techniques in GSM. International Journal of Mobile Communications, 3, 165-182. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMC.2005.005905

GPS is a well-established technique for location-finding, but mobile phone-based methods are generally less expensive to implement, and can give reasonable accuracies. These techniques can thus be useful to network operators in providing services bas... Read More about Critical analysis and error determination of locating-finding techniques in GSM..

Demonstrating "Design to Market" for ITS services. (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, N., Gannon, J., Salim, V., & Wigan, M. (2004, October). Demonstrating "Design to Market" for ITS services. Presented at 11th World Congress on ITS

Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) that lead to more efficient and effective road travel, offer the best potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the short term. However, for this potential to be realized, widespread adoption of ITS is nee... Read More about Demonstrating "Design to Market" for ITS services..

Human movement behaviour in urban spaces: Implications for the design and modelling of effective pedestrian environments. (2004)
Journal Article
Willis, A., Gjersoe, N., Havard, C., Kerridge, J., & Kukla, R. (2004). Human movement behaviour in urban spaces: Implications for the design and modelling of effective pedestrian environments. Environment and planning. B, Planning & design, 31(6), 805-828. https://doi.org/10.1068/b3060

Despite a burgeoning research effort directed at the design and modelling of effective urban spaces for pedestrians, remarkably little is known about how pedestrians actually negotiate urban spaces. This paper reports the results of a video-based obs... Read More about Human movement behaviour in urban spaces: Implications for the design and modelling of effective pedestrian environments..