Implementing smartphone enabled collaborative travel: Routes to success in the tourism domain.

Smartphone technology can help identify current and anticipate future patterns of behaviour and, with its social networking capabilities, allow users to imagine and organise collaborative travel opportunities, such as lift share. This has led to the development of collaborative apps designed to enable activities like lift sharing. Such apps require new norms of behaviour to establish a user base and research has yet to address the socio-cultural barriers to both the use of this technology to organise travel and the sharing of personal space that collaborative travel entails. This paper reports the findings of a study which designed, built and tested a collaborative travel app in the tourism domain. Data derived from exploratory interviews, post-trial interviews and a questionnaire reveal that user age and extent of mobile engagement play a less significant role than expected, while other aspects of the social exchange, notably social tie strength, trust and obligations play a more marked role. A conceptual framework and discussion of strategies to address these barriers provides insight into appropriate contexts and routes for implementation of collaborative travel apps

A participatory system dynamics model to investigate sustainable urban water management in Ebbsfleet Garden City

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the DOI in this recordGrowing urban populations, changes in rainfall patterns and ageing infrastructure represent significant challenges for urban water management (UWM). There is a critical need for research into how cities should adapt to become resilient to these impacts under uncertain futures. UWM challenges in the Ebbsfleet Garden City (UK) were investigated via a participatory process and potential sustainable solutions were explored using a System Dynamics Model (SDM). Collaborative development of the SDM by the Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance developed stakeholders’ understanding of future UWM options and enabled a structured exploration of interdependencies within the current UWM system. Discussion by stakeholders resulted in a focus on potable water use and the development of the 2 SDM to investigate how residential potable water consumption in the Ebbsfleet Garden City might be reduced through a range of interventions, e.g., socio-environmental and economic policy incentives. The SDM approach supports decision-making at a strategic, system-wide level, and facilitates exploration of the long-term consequences of alternative strategies, particularly those that are difficult to include in quantitative models. While an SDM can be developed by experts alone, building it collaboratively allows the process to benefit from local knowledge, resulting in a collective learning process and increased potential for adoption.Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC

Archaeological Survey of Mineral Extraction Sites around the Thames Estuary

The Archaeological Survey of Mineral Extraction Sites around the Thames Estuary project was undertaken by Essex County Council and funded through the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund as disbursed by English Heritage. The first phase of the project took place in 2003 - 2004 to establish up to date information on the historic environment in extant and former mineral extraction sites on both sides of the Thames estuary in Kent and Essex. The study was focussed particularly on Pleistocene Geology / Palaeolithic Archaeology and Industrial Archaeology. The outputs of this Phase I Study comprised a series of GIS layers containing information on the specialist studies and assessment report

Stour Basin Palaeolithic Project

The Stour Basin Palaeolithic Project, funded by English Heritage, took place between February 2013 and March 2015. Its main concern was to improve curation of the Palaeolithic historic environment in the potentially important Stour Basin area, which is also an area of high development pressure. The project carried out a major enhancement of the HER in the project area and produced a broad predictive model that identified and characterised areas of Palaeolithic potential. It has also developed a Toolkit for use of Kent's curators. It also carried out some fieldwork that improved understanding of the Palaeolithic resource in the project area. A staircase of buried terrace deposits was shown to be present in the Chislet area northeast of Canterbury, and robust dating evidence was obtained from one level which can be extrapolated back to tie in with the terrace staircase at Canterbury, some levels of which have produced abundant Palaeolithic remains. It was also confirmed that some plateau brickearth outcrops are considerable earlier than late Devensian, and thus have higher potential than hitherto widely presumed. This latter result has wider ramifications for mapped brickearth deposits beyond the project area

Extensive Urban Survey - Kent

Kent is one of the most populous counties in England and yet has historically contained few major centres. For most of its history, the pattern of settlement in the country has instead been a dispersed one with a large number of small towns and villages accommodating the majority of the population. These small towns have served a number of different functions as markets, civil and religious centres and drivers for trade, industry and communications. Today, the small towns of Kent retain their importance within the County and continue to experience processes of growth, change and development

Kent structure plan 1980 review: report of survey

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Kent structure plan: 1981 alterations Housing requirements and land supply

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Royal naval base Chatham studies Vol. 2 Medway urban area study

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Tilbury/Gravesendferry Survey report

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