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Travel patterns in ?smart? townsshow potential for traffic reduction
Residents in Darlington,Peterborough and Worcester have a realistic alternative forabout 40-50% of their local car trips, according to recent research.With DfTfunding, these towns are now introducing extensive packages of ?soft? measures toencourage people to choose more sustainable travel options
Achieving safer school travel in the UK
This paper summarises the current UK approach to improving child road safety,
focusing particularly on measures to enhance the safety of the school journey. It
highlights the importance of a safe road environment, and a number of different ways
in which this can be achieved, including engineering measures, often introduced via
partnership work between local authorities, schools, the police, the local community,
parents and children. It also reports on supporting measures, such as on-road child
pedestrian and cycle training, which are becoming an increasingly common part of
school activity
Smarter choices and telecoms – the evidence
In May 2004, a research report entitled ‘Smarter Choices’ was published in conjunction
with the new White Paper on the ‘The Future of Transport’. The study
looked at ten transport measures, including telework, teleconferencing and home
shopping. The study suggested that, within ten years, and within a supportive
context, a ‘high-intensity scenario’ of implementing these measures could reduce
national traffic levels by 11%, with greater effects in certain circumstances, including,
for example, a 21% reduction in urban peak traffic.
This paper concentrates on telework and teleconferencing. Taken together, these
represented about 37% of the potential national traffic reduction identified. The
study also showed that telework and teleconferencing were often associated with
other benefits, including financial savings for employers and a better work–life
balance for employees. Hence, increasing their use could have a range of positive
effects.
Some critics have argued that encouraging organisations to adopt telework or teleconferencing
leads to more dispersed lifestyles and business activities, thereby
increasing travel not reducing it. Whilst this is logically possible, current evidence
does not support this. Moreover, a key issue is the context in which these activities
are encouraged. For example, the effect of promoting them in a context where road
and air travel are priced to reflect environmental impacts is likely to be significantly
different to the effect of promoting them in a context of an expansion of cheap,
long-distance travel.
The Smarter Choices research suggests that, where employers are encouraged to
promote telework or teleconferencing as part of a package with explicit objectives
to reduce travel, significant traffic reductions can be achieved
Adolf Reinach: An Intellectual Biography
The essay provides an account of the development of Reinach’s philosophy of “Sachverhalte” (states of affairs) and on problems in the philosophy of law, leading up to his discovery of the theory of speech acts in 1913. Reinach’s relations to Edmund Husserl and to the Munich phenomenologists are also dealt with
Subjective information visualizations
Information Visualizations (InfoViz) are systems that require high levels of cognitive processing. They
revolve around the notion of decoding and interpreting visual patterns in order to achieve certain
goals. We argue that purely designing for the visual will not allow for optimum experiences since there
is more to InfoViz than just the visual. Interaction is a key to achieving higher levels of knowledge. In
this position paper we present a different perspective on the underlying meaning of interaction, where
we describe it as incorporating both the visual and the physical activities. By physical activities we
mean the physical actions upon the physical input device/s. We argue that interaction is the key
element for supporting users’ subjective experiences hence these experiences should first be
understood. All the discussions in this paper are based upon on going work in the field of visualizing
the literature knowledge domain (LKDViz)
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