Travel behaviour and the mobility experience

This theme seeks to understand factors shaping daily travel choices and experience and distribution of wellbeing effects, with a view to influencing future behaviour.

Research projects

• Active travel incentives and behaviour change (2024)
• Supporting the monitoring and evaluation of The Active Way project for B&NES Council (2023)
• Gaol Ferry Bridge (2022)
• Nature and cycling in the west of England (2022)
• Access to transport and life opportunities (2019)
• The continuously connected customer (2019)
• Young people's travel behaviours (2016)
• Commuting and wellbeing (2016)
• Evaluating changes in undergraduate travel (2015)
• Family rituals 2.0 (2013)
• Evaluating the impact of sustainable transport measures in the Bristol North Fringe and Portside (2013)
• Cycle boom - design for lifelong health and wellbeing (2013)
• Life transitions and travel behaviour (2012)
• Choice Rail - Finding the best rail journeys (2012)
• Students' car use and its effect on environmental attitudes (2011)
• Alternatives to personal car use for mobile NHS professionals (2011)
• Rail passengers' travel time use in Great Britain (2010)
• Exploring pedestrians' subjective experience of motor traffic within the road environment (2010)
• Exploring poverty-transport linkages: mobility practices of the urban poor in Ahmedabad (India) (2010)
• Driving hands (2010)
• Walking, cycling and socio-economic status in Scotland: an analysis of statistical data and rapid review of literature (2009)
• Peer review of personalised travel planning in Brighton (2009)
• Bringing smarter choices into multi-modal models (2009)
• Grey and pleasant land? An interdisciplinary exploration of the connectivity of older people in rural civic society (2009)
• CATCH: Climate-friendly travel choice in the city, region and world of tomorrow (2009)
• Applying the life course approach to walking and cycling (2009)
• Traveline market research - scoping study (2008)
• FUTURES: Traveller information services - assessing barriers to their use (2008)
• Exploring the impact of concessionary fares policy in the UK (2008)
• From slow slog to inspired indulgence: enriching the experience of travel by public transport (2008)
• Strategic review of travel information (2007)
• Spreading the word: A social-psychological exploration of word-of-mouth traveller information in the digital age (2007)
• Public understanding of sustainable transport (2007)
• Public attitudes to personal carbon dioxide emissions information (2007)
• Household car ownership decisions - understanding a transition point in travel behaviour (2007)
• Towards reliable mobility (2006)
• The potential contribution of bike-rail integration to sustainable mobility in the South West (2006)
• Rural ageing and mobility (2006)
• Exploring how older people contemplate and experience giving up driving (2006)
• Ex-car owners (2006)
• The daily commute (2006)
• The effect of reference point on stochastic network equilibrium (2005)
• Travel time use in the Information Age (2004)
• The attitudes of young people towards transport in the context of climate change (2004)
• Socio-psychological aspects in the dynamics of travellers' mode choice behaviour (2004)
• Investigating travel behaviour dynamics and their incorporation into transport models (2004)
• FUTURES: Teleworking - trends in and causes of location independent working (2004)
• FUTURES: Navigating the city - supporting the unfamiliar traveller (2004)
• Travel information and dyslexia (2003)
• INTERNET: Investigating new technology's evolving role, nature and effects for transport (2003)
• Travel behaviour change - opportunities arising from residential relocation (2002)
• Evaluation of travel plans SSA programme (2002)