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Hanly, A G, NX202873
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Item: [2016.0049.22477] "Hanly, A G, NX202873
Changing travel behaviour
No full textTSU:
The Transport Studies Unit, established
since 1973 at Oxford University, was
awarded the status of a designated
research centre of the ESRC from 1994 to
2004. The research programme, initially
focussed on traffic growth and the
development of dynamic methodologies,
was launched at a Linacre Lecture in
Oxford which attracted much press
attention for its comments on induced
traffic. The Unit transferred to University
College London in January 1996. After a
successful mid-term review, the second
five year programme focussed on the
process of behavioural change and
appraisal tools.
ESRC funding and designation came to an
end in September 2004 with an
exceptionally well-attended final event in
London on ‘Changing Travel Behaviour’,
which constituted a suitably unifying
theme bringing together a large proportion
of the Unit’s research projects.
Appreciations were given by many of the
leading stakeholders in transport policy
and research, with an audience of over 400
academics and practitioners.
Shortly after, the ESRC Transport Studies
Unit disbanded as an entity. The seven
researchers who had carried out the
programme are now continuing their
activities at six different locations in three
countries, though maintaining contact and
continuing to disseminate and extend the
results of the ten years work. Transport
research of course continues at both
Oxford University (TSU in the School of
Geography) and UCL (CTS in the
Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering).
The ambiguity of ‘changing’:
The phrase ‘changing travel behaviour’ is
ambiguous – changing as a description of
what actually happens, and changing as an
active intent by public or private agencies.
The twin underlying propositions are that
travel behaviour does change, and by
understanding this travel behaviour can be
changed.
There is a third, implied statement, that
travel behaviour should be changed. This
goes beyond the research programme. All
three statements are controversial, but the
controversies are resolved by different
methods, from empirical and theoretical
analysis to public debate. All three
underpin the need to understand the
processes of behavioural change, and to
incorporate this understanding in the tools
for appraising both transport investment
and – as became apparent during the
period of the research – other transport
policies as well.
The logical structure used for this report
(in part developed retrospectively in the
course of planning for the TSU final
event) has five parts: (1) establish the
nature of the changes in travel behaviour
that have actually happened; (2) consider
the specific effects of two of the most
important general influences, namely
income, and demographic forces; (3)
2
consider the evidence on the effect of
transport policy, including both
investment and non-investment initiatives.
Those studied include new opportunities
such as park-and-ride, increases and
reductions in road capacity, increases and
reductions in public transport fares and
motoring costs, the effects of soft
measures such as travel plans and
information provision; (4) consider some
theoretical and practical understanding of
the nature of changes in behaviour; (5) discuss the policy implications of the wor
Health, Place and Hanly: modelling accessibility to hospitals in Ireland
No full textThe Irish Government is currently engaged in considerations about a proposed
reorganisation of acute hospital services. The proposals in the 'Hanly' Report
recommend the creation of new classifications of Major, General and Local
Hospitals. This paper looked at how these proposals might affect geographical
accessibility to Irish acute hospitals and modelled it within a GIS framework.
Spatial data in the form of hospital location and size, road network and demographic
distribution of over 65 's were drawn together within the GIS. A weighted
accessibility formula was applied to produce a measure of accessibility
called a Spatial Accessibility Measure based on travel time, hospital size and
population-weighting. This measures was then applied to produce three scenarios
modelled on; a) the existing configuration of services, b) a partial roll-out
and c) a full roll-out of the proposed changes in the 'Hanly' Report. The scenarios
identified those parts of the country, which were potentially likely to
have increased/decreased accessibility to acute hospital services based on the
different scenarios. Residents in the central and western parts of the country
were shown to be most vulnerable, while the impacts of a full roll-out of Hanly
suggests additional potential impacts on some suburban hospitals in the Greater
Dublin area. The work provides a valuable and previously underdeveloped set
of policy-informed spatial outcomes which can be adjusted if or when more
beds are introduced into the Irish health care system in the next five to ten years
Hedging Effectiveness under Conditions of Asymmetry
No full textWe examine whether hedging effectiveness is affected by asymmetry in the return distribution by applying tail specific metrics to compare the hedging effectiveness of short and long hedgers using Oil futures contracts. The metrics used include Lower Partial Moments (LPM), Value at Risk (VaR) and Conditional Value at Risk (CVAR). Comparisons are applied to a number of hedging strategies including OLS and both Symmetric and Asymmetric GARCH models. Our findings show that asymmetry reduces in-sample hedging performance and that there are significant differences in hedging performance between short and long hedgers. Thus, tail specific performance metrics should be applied in evaluating hedging effectiveness. We also find that the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) model provides consistently good performance across different measures of hedging effectiveness and estimation methods irrespective of the characteristics of the underlying distribution.Hedging Performance; Asymmetry; Downside Risk; Value at Risk, Conditional Value at Risk. JEL classification: G10, G12, G15. ____________________________________________________________________ John Cotter, Director of Centre for Financial Markets, Department of Banking and Finance, University College Dublin, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland, tel 353 1 716 8900, e-mail [email protected]. Jim Hanly, School of Accounting and Finance, Dublin Institute of Technology, tel 353 1 402 3180, e-mail [email protected]. The authors would like to thank the participants at the Global Finance Annual Conference for their constructive comments.
Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
Volatility of car ownership, commutingmode and time in the UK
No full textThis paper has two objectives: to examine the volatility of travel behaviour over timeand consider the factors explaining this volatility; and to estimate the factors determiningcar ownership and commuting by car. The analysis is based on observations of individualsand households over a period of up to eleven years obtained from the British HouseholdPanel Survey (BHPS). Changes in car ownership, commuting mode and commuting timeover a period of years for the same individuals/households are examined to determine theextent to which these change from year to year. This volatility of individual behaviour is ameasure of the ease of change or adaptation. If behaviour changes easily, policy measuresare likely to have a stronger and more rapid effect than if there is more resistance tochange. The changes are ?explained? in terms of factors such as moving house, changingjob and employment status. The factors determining car ownership and commuting by carare analysed using a dynamic panel-data models
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The relationship between Bordetella pertussis genotype and clinical severity in Australian children with pertussis
No full textAbstract not availableMichelle Clarke, Peter B. McIntyre, Christopher C. Blyth, Nick Wood, Sophie Octavia, Vitali Sintchenko, Lynne Giles, Helen Quinn, Verity Hill, Gabrielle Hanly, Ruiting Lan, Helen S. Marshal
Association between bile and acid turnover and osteoporosis in postmenopausal women
No full textObjective: The intestinal absorption of vitamin D is linked to bile acid absorption. This link may be abnormal in patients with osteoporosis. The aim of this study was to investigate a possible relation between osteoporosis and bile acid turnover, measured as whole-body Se-75-HCAT retention (WBR), in postmenopausal women.Patients and methods: Whole-body counts were recorded using an uncollimated gamma camera 3 h and 7 days after oral administration of Se-75-homocholic acid taurine (Se-75-HCAT) in 16 women aged 58-85 years with dual-photon X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA)-proven osteoporosis. WBR was expressed as physical decay-corrected counts at 7 days as a percentage of the counts at 3 h.Results: Seven patients had unexplained diarrhoea. Six patients (five with diarrhoea) had WBR less than 19%. There was a significant difference in DEXA t-score between women with and without diarrhoea (P<0.02). There was a significant negative correlation (R s=-0.58; P<0.02) between WBR and alcohol consumption rated on a three-point scale: <1, 2-7 and >7 U/week.Conclusion: Our results indicate an association between osteoporosis and diarrhoea that may be the result of abnormal bile acid turnover. The role of alcohol requires further investigation.<br/
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