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Social Aspects of Transport
Research into the social aspects of transport considers the impacts of transport planning, policy and implementation decisions on society. It was established as a theme for the activities of TRI over a decade ago as a consequence of targeted funding by the scottish higher Education Funding council.
From this base, TRI has actively promoted a social science perspective in Transport Studies both in and outwith Scotland. A major product of this relationship has been the Transport and Society book series published by Ashgate Publications.
Research has been undertaken with the Mitsubish Research Institute on the design of roadside facilities in Kenya and Pakistan to incorporate the social aspects of transport provision. We have worked with the World Bank on gender and rural infrastructure and with the Department for Transport on social exclusion, ethnicity and road user charging.
Research has also been undertaken with UN-Habitat on sustainable transport. Over the past decade TRI has been involved in researching the psychology of travel behaviour and major contributions to this field have been made.
Associated Publications
Fraser, R., Carreno, M. (2011, October). Improving the safety of school travel via bus warning signage in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Paper presented at European Transport Conference 2011, Glasgow.
Suhl, K., Carreno, M. (2011). CAN TRANSPORT RELATED SOCIAL EXCLUSION BE MEASURED?. In: Cygas, D., Froehner, K. (Eds.) The 8th International Conference on Environmental Engineering (8th ICEE) – Selected Papers (8th ed.). (pp. 1001–1008). Vilnius, Lithuania: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Press “Technika” 2011.
