Registration now extended!
SYMPOSIUM ON TRAVEL TIME USE, VALUE AND EXPERIENCE
Wednesday 15 June 2011: 9.30 - 17.30
University of the West of England, Bristol (Frenchay Campus)
Hosted by UWE's Centre for Transport and Society, this one day symposium builds on research over the last decade about the use of travel time and the passenger experience. It aims to provoke discussion and broaden understanding between disciplines in this developing field.
Speakers and presentation titles:
* Hugh Gunn: Economically Productive Travel Time - Implications for Forecasting and Appraisal
* Dick Ettema: The effect of activities on the move on travel satisfaction of public transport commuters
* Thomas Buhler: Resistances to injunctions to daily mobility behaviour change in metropolitan Lyon. Automobile travel time use in question
* Glenn Lyons: Rail travel time use in 2010 and implications for transport strategy
* Stéphanie Vincent-Geslin: The intense commuters; A mixed analysis of the daily travel times
* Matthew Caygill: New trains, New gains? The predicted effects of substantial journey time reductions on individual long distance travel behaviour
* Sarah Norgate: If St. Augustine Had Had an iPhone: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives on Antecedents of Travel Time Use
* Maik Hömke: Is travelling a time loss?
* Amy Webber: Extending the gift of travel time? Driver and passenger journey experience, and the possibilities of community transport
* Dhan Zunino Singh: Commuting underground: ordinary and extraordinary spatial stories in Buenos Aires' Underground Railways
* Tim Schwanen: Mobility and independence in later life.
Please see the Symposium website for abstracts and full programme.
Website: http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/et/pa/Symposiumontraveltimeuse
Registration is now open until Friday 10th June at
https://store.uwe.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=902&modid=1&compid=1
Who should attend
* Academic researchers and research students
* Local government transport policy makers
* Transport consultants
* Transport providers
Cost
* £25.00
* £15.00 concessionary or student
Enquiries to: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
Dr Juliet Jain
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Transport and Society
Department of Planning and Architecture
University of the West of England, Bristol
Frenchay Campus
Coldharbour Lane
BRISTOL BS16 1QY
Phone: + 44 (0)117 32 83304
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Web: www.transport.uwe.ac.uk
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