Tuesday, 7 July 2015

Disruption project 'takeover' at Annual Transport Pratitioners Meeting

On Wednesday 1st July, Tim organised a co-ordinated set of 4 presentations and a workshop around the Disruptio project (www.disruptionproject.net) at the PTRC 2015 Annual Transport Practitioners Meeting.

The presentations consisted of:

·         David Williams on his PhD work on “Defining and delivering sustainable transport: who has the power to change the way we travel?”

·         Jillian Anable and Tom Budd’s work from Aberdeen University(presented by Tim) on “Responses and adaptability to disrupted travel patterns – a questionnaire study”

·         Noel Cass and James Faulconbridge’s work from Lancaster University on “Spatial, temporal and social factors in everyday mobility and modal choice – 3 years of ethnographic studies”
and

·         Greg Marsden and Jeremy Shires from Leeds University on “Disruption as it happens - a selection of responsive case studies”.

 

Tim, Caroline Mullen and Greg also ran a workshop on “‘Flexi-mobility’ – Re-thinking Everyday Travel Patterns” (see www.fleximobility.solutions)

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Dr Tim Chatterton

Senior Research Fellow
Air Quality Management Resource Centre
Faculty of Environment and Technology
University of the West of England
Frenchay Campus
Bristol
BS16 1QY

Tel: 0117 328 2929
Fax: 0117 328 3360
Email:
Tim.Chatterton@uwe.ac.uk