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Bespoke services for personal travel and goods movement
No full textNew technology with portable location and communication devices allied to real-time information and control/management systems will provide opportunities for a wide range of bespoke services, which will offer real and attractive alternatives to conventional use of the private car. Such services will support travellers in their use of various forms of transport. These will range from conventional public transport with fixed services through to taxi-type operations, depending on the situations of the traveller and the journey. Various forms of collective, flexible and demand responsive services can be envisaged to ‘fill the gap' between conventional public transport and taxis. New automated systems will also have a role to play. Equally, new technology to identify, track, trace, communicate with and optimise vehicles could lead to substantial reductions in urban vehicle travel. In order to achieve these reductions and still meet specific customer requirements effective coordination of customer needs and service provision is required. This could include online guidance and routing; the mapping of re-fuelling needs of electric/hybrid delivery vehicles with priority access; and the use of unattended collection/delivery points. This paper focuses on issues emerging from a multidisciplinary literature review, which assesses past, current and potential future bespoke transport services. The review draws on domestic and international experience to determine common characteristics and understanding learned from the operation of such services to identify issues and characteristics that should be considered in potential future applications.<br/
Experiences and lessons from conducting an emergency survey of motorists during the UK fuel crisis.
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Local travel: Number five in a series of eight reports from the transport visions network
No full textThe role of lift sharing in future urban mobility
No full textThe ability of the private car to provide flexible, attractive and cost-effective personal travel is gradually being eroded, particularly in urban areas. Contributing factors are the increasing levels of congestion and enforcement, limited and increasingly expensive parking, and controls / charging on road use. Also, local authority targets such as those relating to the environment and road traffic reduction are constraining the use of cars in urban areas. In this context, the role of the car in future mobility may change and lift sharing offers the prospect of enabling more efficient usage by reducing single occupant car trips. This paper discusses research undertaken through the FUTURES project (Future Urban Technologies: Undertaking Research to Enhance Sustainability) to enhance understanding of the current practice and future potential of lift sharing in the UK. Current evidence relating to the benefits and impacts of lift sharing is limited. However, the presence of the UK’s principal lift sharing service provider, Liftshare.com Ltd, amongst the project’s stakeholders has enabled the research team to access previously unavailable data on the practice of lift sharing in the UK. In 2006, some 37,000 new subscribers joined Liftshare.com and this paper reports on the analysis of this 2006 membership database to identify common characteristics amongst lift sharers. The main variables analysed were journey purpose, type, distance and frequency, as well as age and gender of the subscriber. The paper then summarises key findings to emerge from this analysis before identifying some future research options
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