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Dr Ian Bailey Transport research interests: |
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Professor Mark Brayshay Travel and transport research interests: |
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Richard Burningham Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership Officer |
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Dr Federico Caprotti Transport research interests:
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Research Assistant in the Socio-economic Research and Intelligence Observatory (SERIO) |
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Dr Zoe James Travel and transport research interests: |
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Professor Gayle Letherby Transport research interests: |
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Geoff Andrews Geoff's research is entitled The Implications of Free Senior Citizens' Bus Travel for the Sustainability Contribution of Bus Networks. In essence it seeks to assess the impact of the Government's decision that from April 2008 all senior citizens gained an entitlement to free bus travel anywhere in England, with the liability falling on the local authority in which the trip begins. The research will critically explore the effects of the recently implemented policy in terms of resource and environmental costs; evaluate the benefits to the over 60s of the concessionary pass and finally, deepen our understanding of the changes in trip frequency and modal choice as a result of the policy. An overarching question of interest is likely long term sustainability of the scheme and the potential implications for bus market regulation.. |
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David Dawson The project investigates the potential impact of sea level rise on coastal infrastructure, specifically the Dawlish-Teignmouth stretch of the London to Penzance railway line. Research focuses on sea level change in the late Holocene in south west England (reconstructing late Holocene relative land/sea-level movements using quantitative methods of sea-level reconstruction); archival records of sea wall overtopping events and their impacts; and predicting the future frequency of overtopping events on the Dawlish-Teignmouth stretch of railway and estimating their likely impacts. |
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This ESRC funded project is a study of socio-cultural and educational factors affecting the employment mobility of Chinese seafaring officers. It involves 12 months' participant observation at China’s largest Maritime University, Dalian; some of this period is being spent in Mandarin language study and Maritime English Action Research. The latter involves a collaborative project with Dalian’s International Maritime Conventions Research Centre in the development of teaching materials and assisting staff to reflect on their teaching practices in light of the International Maritime Organisation’s model course for Maritime English. The final data collection phase will involve following-up the graduate class of 2008 through email correspondence and ship visits to monitor their integration into the global maritime labour market. |
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Andrew Seedhouse The project is a critical analysis of the Government’s Community Rail Policy. It focuses on the disagregation of community rail pilot schemes throughout the UK in the context of the national franchising process, and reviews the cross cutting nature of community rail in relation to core national policy areas of accessibility, sustainable tourism, and the rural economy. The project will specialise on the determination of core factors in engaging third sector support to recommend best practise throughout the UK. The project is sponsored by the Department for Transport. |
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Mathias Wilde Lack of accessibility in rural areas is often seen only as a rural transport problem, and the assumption is made that better implementation of transport solutions can eliminate poor level of access. In reality, however, poor accessibility results from a far wider range of factors, including availability of time, location of housing and services, social exclusion, financial disadvantage and physical disability. In all, factors constraining access can be categorised into five groups: transport, spatial, temporal, social and individual. Against this background, the aim of this project is to understand the extent to which of each of these groups of factors influences accessibility to life opportunities in rural areas, with a special focus on the impact of the transport system. Further info: (Transport and Spatial Planning Institute homepage) |
