The fourth tube strike is scheduled on 28th - 29th November. In the span of 8 months since I started commuting in London, there has been three series of 24-hour strikes: 6 September, 3 October, 2 November; all mostly because of job cuts. Travel chaos is still expected although TfL are putting on extra buses and boats, deploying extra staff and volunteers to give alternative travel options and assist passengers information, and curtailing some roadworks....
Friday, November 26, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
With the release of the "Increasing Passenger Rail Capacity" report by the Committee of Public Accounts appointed by the House of Commons, the issue is trending again for the past few days. This report should be read together with the earlier report by the Department for Transport, UK. More on this report:BBC News: Commuters 'priced off' overcrowded rail routesBBC News: Unacceptable train overcrowding to get worse, MPs sayThe Telegraph: Rail chaos:...
Friday, October 29, 2010
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
We have had a paper accepted for the Urban Transport 2011 Conference, June 6-8, 2011 at University of Pisa, Italy. The conference is organised by University of Pisa and Wessex Institute of Technology, UK.Modelling the spillover effects of rail passenger crowdingon individual well being and organisational behaviourThe challenge of rail passenger crowding has not been fully addressed in the scientific literature. This paper describes a study which...
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
The Star: ETP and MRT networkPEMANDU: Expert: MRT should be managed by a single bodyThe NST: RM36b proposed MRT on trackThe NST: Transport operators all for high-speed rail linkThe Star: KL-S'pore high-speed rail link project may come backThe Star: Gamuda, MMC shares up on Govt’s development planThe Star: Government urged to speedily implement major projectsThe Edge: Dialog, Gamuda, GentingM, Glomac, SunwayThe Business Times: M'sia identifies major...
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Long-distance commuting is still the norm in spite of progress in flexible workingDavid Woods, 25 August 2010According to research from Regus, 20% of commuters travel for longer than 90 minutes every day on their way to work. Although the average commute length is 25 minutes, one in ten commuters travel more than an hour to and from the place of work. Cars are by far the most popular form of commuter transport (64%).For 66% of UK workers those long...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
All,For those in Malaysia, especially in Kuala Lumpur, you might have read or heard about the new MRT proposals that will, to large extent, affect public transportation in KL. TRANSIT is currently conducting a rapid survey to get a broad and initial feedback on the rail network that can best cater for the needs of the Klang Valley. Please read their critical evaluation on this issue here: Have your say and take the poll he...
Friday, June 25, 2010
The Age: Commuters defend against the attack of the space invaders - Jared Thomas's researchPhysorg: Public transport behaviours explainedDiscoveryNews: Public Transportation Passengers Avoid Getting SocialAKT: How We Choose Who To Sit Next ToFast Company: Is Public Transportation Too Public?Daily Mail: Two years, £500,000 and 178 pages to tell us that we want our trains to be on time and uncrowded - Davis Associates' researchThe Evening Standard:...
From Weight Loss ResourcesAccording to new research, our daily commute to work could be adding inches to our waistlines as we seek comfort in high-fat snacks such as crisps and chocolate. The study, carried out by market analyst Datamonitor, discovered that in Britain we spend more money on snacks than any other country in Europe – on average £204...
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Abstract accepted by the 25th PsyPAG Conference 2010 for oral presentation. PsyPAG is a national organisation for all psychology postgraduates and is funded by the Research Board of the British Psychological Society. The conference will be conducted from 21st to 23rd July 2010 at Sheffield University and Sheffield Hallam University.Commuting stress:...
Friday, May 28, 2010
Source: Portland State University * Access Magazine * Accident Analysis and Prevention * Annals of Regional Science * Computers, Environment and Urban Systems * Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering * European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research * European Transport * Growth and Change * IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems * International Journal of Logistics Management...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
The Malay Mail: SPAD - Super transport serviceBERNAMA: SPAD Expected To Be Implemented In September - MuhyiddinBERNAMA: EFFICIENT PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION KEY TO NATION'S GROWTH, SAYS SYED HAMIDOffice of The Prime Minister: PERLANTIKAN PENGERUSI SURUHANJAYA PENGANGKUTAN AWAM DARAT (SPAD)The Star: SPAD tasked with public transport service dutiesThe Star: Syed Hamid Albar is head of public transport commissionThe Star: Syed Hamid gets SPAD jobThe Star:...
Monday, May 24, 2010
Trope, Y., Liberman, N., & Wakslak, C. (2007). Construal Levels and Psychological Distance: Effects on Representation, Prediction, Evaluation, and Behavior. JOURNAL OF CONSUMER PSYCHOLOGY, 17(2), 83–95.Psychological distance. Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles (2nd ed.).Liberman, Nira; Trope, Yaacov; Stephan, Elena Kruglanski, Arie W. (Ed); Higgins, E. Tory (Ed). (2007). Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles (2nd ed.)....
21-22 May 2010Institute of Social PsychologyLondon School of Economics (LSE)Conference WebsiteRandom notes:ALCESTE analysisStatistical textual analysis was conducted with specific scientific software (ALCESTE, University of Toulouse, France). Statistical Textual Analysis is grounded on lexicometrics. The basic hypothesis is that language levels and...
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Automotive manufacturers tap into the enormous China Market devoting close to Half the Region's automotive advertising spendPress release in Bahasa Melayu29 May 2007Kuala LumpurAs economies continue to thrive hand in hand with consumers’ propensity to spend, the race to drive car ownership is on, according to a 2006 Media Index study published by The...
Friday, April 30, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Pete Davis and Dr Russ Marshall From 'The Ergonomist', July 2009The use of public transport can be a stressful experience, especially if you’re making a journey for the first time. There are so many uncertainties such as knowing which bus or train to take, the location of bus stops or platforms, the time the bus or train leaves; whether you have enough money; whether connections will be made in time; and so on. Uncertainties cover every element of...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Vincenzina Santoro | Wednesday, 3 February 2010Monaco to Mongolia: population density and prosperityStop the World -- I Want to Get Off” was the title of a hit Broadway play some years ago. Today, getting people off the planet is what the United Nations population control crowd would like to do in order to “save” it. After the failed Copenhagen climate...
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Science NOWby Dave Mosher on April 7, 2010Push, shout, or politely excuse yourself all you want, but those slowpokes in your way just won't budge. A new study shows a long-neglected reason why: Up to 70% of people in crowds socially glue themselves into groups of two or more, slowing down traffic. What's worse, as crowds gets denser, groups bend into anti-aerodynamic shapes that exacerbate the problem. The study may be a boon to urban planners.Crowd...
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Bupa investigative news - 16 January 2003written by Rachel Newcombe, Bupa health news reporterDaily commuting can prove an unpleasant chore for some people, especially when trains are delayed and overcrowded. Recent reports suggest the strain of regular journeys can have an effect on one's health, causing some people to suffer dangerous levels of stress. But is this really the case, is there anything that can be done to overcome it or is it out of...
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