Measuring Motorists’ Choice Behaviour and Responses to Long-Term Changes in Transport Conditions.

This paper reports on the Gnding from an in-depth survey into the choice of travel mode by a small group of respondents in Nottingham. The purpose of this study was to identify the range of factors which affect current choice of travel mode and to develop a survey method which lead to better observation and predictions of future travel choice decisions under worsening conditions for car travel or improving conditions for public transport. The first section of the paper describes the background to the project. Section 2 describes the rationale and features of the survey method used in the study. Section 3 outlines the survey design. Section 4 discusses the findings from the survey and discusses the policy relevance of the findings. Section 5 discusses the implications of the work for the design of larger stated preference and revealed preference surveys

Towards the Sustainable University.

noAll universities have the capacity to embrace, embed or ignore sustainable development. Looking across the sector and reflecting on the past seven years and my own institutional experiences, the key finding is that change for campus and curriculum-based sustainability is clearly possible but unpredictable. For many years my own institution (University of Bradford) struggled to make progress in a number of key aspects of `campus greening¿ including recycling, green build, energy management, green travel, fair trade etc. It employed its first environmental manager as recently as 2003. Up until 2007, education for sustainable development (ESD) was largely found in one small academic department. Now, as this paper describes, it is a central feature of the learning and teaching strategy for the university and an overall institutional objective

Breathing SPACE – a practical approach to the breathless patient.

Breathlessness is a common symptom which may have multiple causes in any one individual and causes which may change over time. Breathlessness campaigns encourage people to see their GP if they are unduly breathless. Members of the London Respiratory Network collaborated to develop a tool which would encourage a holistic approach to breathlessness, which was applicable both at the time of diagnosis and during ongoing management. This has led to the development of the aide memoire “Breathing SPACE” which encompasses 5 key themes – Smoking, Pulmonary disease, Anxiety/psychosocial factors, Cardiac disease and Exercise/fitness. A particular concern was to ensure that high value interventions (smoking cessation and exercise interventions) are prioritised across the life-course and throughout the course of disease management. The approach is relevant both to well people and in those with an underling diagnosis or diagnoses. The inclusion of anxiety draws attention to the importance of mental health issues. Parity of esteem requires the physical health problems of people with mental illness to be addressed. The SPACE mnemonic also addresses the problem of underdiagnosis of heart disease in people with lung disease and vice versa, as well as the systematic undertreatment of these conditions where they do co-occur