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In Britain and elsewhere road safety professionals are increasingly considering approaches to improving safety based on reducing danger at source and promoting equity and accessibility for non-motorised road users. Road safety work has often traditionally been seen to focus overwhelmingly on...
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The Department of Transport's recently launched National Cycling Strategy has the aim of doubling the number of cycle trips by 2002 with a further doubling by 2012. The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution recommended a quadrupling of cycle trips to 10% of all journeys by 2005. Given the...
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There is now an increased understanding of the need to design urban transport and land-use systems to be more sustainable, and of the policies which are needed to achieve this. However, work by the European Conference of Ministers of Transport has highlighted the institutional, acceptability,...
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In contrast to urban areas, very little quantitative work has been done on the demand for rural cycling infrastructure and the willingness of users to pay for such infrastructure. Furthermore there is little evidence on the demand for or value of walking infrastructure in either urban or rural...
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This paper reports on a comparative study of the consultation processes used in traffic calming schemes in four British urban areas. The research used evidence from opinion surveys of local residents and interviews with council officers, councillors and community activists to draw conclusions...
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Transport policies to increase active and sustainable travel in Britain have focused mainly on persuading people of the health benefits of walking and cycling for short trips, and have assumed that if people can be persuaded that more active travel has personal benefits then behavioural change...
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This paper reports research on the valuations of public transport time relative to car travel time and on the valuations of the walk time, wait time and service headway associated with public transport use. The results are derived from a meta-analysis of a very large data set of British...
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This paper reports on key findings from a collaborative study whose objective was to produce an up-to-date guidance manual on the factors affecting the demand for public transport for use by public transport operators and planning authorities, and for academics and other researchers. Whilst a...
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It has been suggested that speed limiters will have the most impact on vehicle speeds and hence road safety in general. Whilst it is technically feasible to develop a functional speed control system, it may be more difficult to design a system that drivers actually wish to use. It is essential...
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