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CALL FOR PAPERS RETHINKING URBAN INCLUSION: SPACES, MOBILISATIONS, INTERVENTIONS to be held in Coimbra, Portugal, 28-30 June 2012 With almost half the world's population living in cities, questioning the urban dimension of social inclusion and exclusion is imperative. Urban inclusion is increasingly influenced - and often constrained - by intertwined processes of economic globalization, state re-articulation, polarization and diversification of (local) populations and the political practices they add to the city. Educational, health and environmental inequalities, segregation, unemployment, lack of political participation, discrimination and the inability to deal with different forms of participation are all phenomena of exclusion with a local dimension but a multi-scalar nature. At the same time, acting towards social inclusion is developed around ideas, knowledge(s), experiences, resources and capacities which are (dis)located across an array of arenas and distributed among different actors. While traditional concepts and practices of urban inclusion centered on institutions and top-down decision-making seem inadequate to tackle this complexity, new ones are often in their infancy and may be in tension with more established policies. Contesting the centrality of the state and market pervasiveness, a new variety of counter-hegemonic positions and projects, and alternative visions of urban democracy and justice that inform bottom-up and participatory approaches to urban inclusion, have become popular in the Global South, while their transposition to cities in the Global North have met resistance or hardly gone beyond theorization.  The Conference aims to understand and ultimately rethink social inclusion at the urban scale, as the product of broader dynamics and the interaction of different actors and languages. How can we trace, define, and challenge the new subtle forms of social and territorial exclusion, trying to reinvent urban in

The Automotive Industry In An Era Of Eco-Austerity Creating an Industry as if the Planet Mattered Peter E. Wells Peter E. Wells, Cardiff University, UK 2010 224 pp Hardback 978 1 84844 967 1 2012 Paperback 978 1 84980 623 7 Hardback £68.00 on-line price £61.20 Paperback £25.00 on-line price £20.00 Qty This book is also available as an ebook  978 1 84980 720 3 from - www.EBSCOhost.com www.myilibrary www.ebooks.com www.ebookscorporation.com www.dawsonera.com www.ebrary.com/corp/ Description 'A splendid analysis of how an automotive industry based on mass production has become an alien in our time - where diversity and personalised products and services have become the norm. Peter Wells presents an intriguing analysis of how the automotive industry can find ways forward and re-invent itself. A must read for all interested in sustainable mobility, as well as strategists in the automotive industry.' - Arnold Tukker, TNO Built Environment and Geosciences, The Netherlands Contents Contents: Preface: The Era of Eco-Austerity 1. The Automotive Industry in Crisis: Economic and Environmental Failure 2. Diversity and the Industrial Ecology Metaphor 3. Contemporary Global Diversity and Cultures of Automobility 4. Emergent Diversity in the Global Automotive Industry: The Policy Agenda 5. Alternative Business Models as the Basis of a New Industrial Ecology of the Automobile 6. Enablers and Limiters of Change 7. Conclusions Bibliography Index Further information 'A splendid analysis of how an automotive industry based on mass production has become an alien in our time - where diversity and personalised products and services have become the norm. Peter Wells presents an intriguing analysis of how the automotive industry can find ways forward and re-invent itself. A must read for all interested in sustainable mobility, as well as strategists in the automotive industry.' - Arnold Tukker, TNO Built Environment and Geosciences, The Netherlands 'The Automotive

The Institute for Sensible Transport is made up of transport, public health, land use planning and energy specialists. Our staff have the skills and experience to provide expert advice and develop effective strategies and action plans in response to: rising transport emissions transport energy constraints congestion and health issues related to unnecessary car use Our combined experience working in local government, academia and large energy firms provide us with the diverse range of skills necessary to tackle some of the major emerging policy challenges arising from transport and land use patterns. Download a short bio of our Director, Elliot Fishman

The Only Hope for Reducing Traffic Eric Jaffe Oct 19, 2011 34 Comments Reuters Share Print Email In 1962, transportation researcher Anthony Downs suggested that U.S. cities suffered from a fundamental law of highway congestion: "This Law states that on urban commuter expressways, peak-hour traffic congestion rises to meet maximum capacity." What was the case half a century ago remains true today. Except worse. In a research paper published in this month's American Economic Review, a pair of economists from the University of Toronto confirm the fundamental law of highway congestion, but argue it doesn't go far enough. By analyzing traffic data and road capacity in U.S. cities from 1983 to 2003, they also provide evidence for a fundamental law of road congestion - one that extends beyond interstate highways to include a "broad class of major urban roads." In other words, no matter how many lanes of road you build in and around American cities, you can't stop cars from jamming them up. Despite the claims of highway advocates like the American Road and Transportation Builders Association, urban congestion can't be addressed by increasing road capacity. That's always been a tough fact for people to accept; as Lewis Mumford wrote back in the New Yorker back 1955: "People, it seems, find it hard to believe that the cure for congestion is not more facilities for congestion." The next logical solution is to increase public transportation capacity, but the Toronto researchers found "no evidence" that this impacts road congestion either. There is such an enormous latent demand for road space, they believe, that whenever a driver shifts onto public transportation, another one quickly grabs the open lane. That leaves just one solution to the traffic problem plaguing American cities: congestion pricing. "We cannot think of any other solution," says Gilles Duranton, the paper's co-author. "As soon as you manage to create space on the roa

Heddon, D. (2012) Turning 40: 40 turns. Walking & friendship. Performance Research, 17 (2). ISSN 1352-8165 (In Press) Heddon, D., and Kelly, A. (2010) Distance dramaturgy. Performance Research, 20 (2). pp. 214-220. ISSN 1352-8165 (doi:10.1080/10486801003682427) Lorimer, H., and Wylie, J. (2010) LOOP (a geography). Performance Research, 15 (4). pp. 4-11. ISSN 1352-8165 (In Press) Heddon, D., and Turner , C. (2010) Walking women: interviews with artists on the move. Performance Research, 15 (4). pp. 14-22. ISSN 1352-8165 (doi:10.1080/13528165.2010.539873) Heddon, D. (2010) The horizon of sound: soliciting the earwitness. Performance Research, 15 (3). pp. 36-42. ISSN 1352-8165 (doi:10.1080/13528165.2010.527200) Gough, K. (2008) Girls interrupted: gendered spectres. Atlantic drag. Performance Research, 13 (4). pp. 115-126. ISSN 1352-8165 (doi:10.1080/13528160902875705) Donald, M. (2007) Tracing tramlines: site-responsive interventions at Glasgow's Tramway. Performance Research, 12 (2). pp. 5-9. ISSN 1352-8165 (doi:10.1080/13528160701554485) Heddon, D. (2002) Following in the footsteps... Performance Research, 7 (4). ISSN 1352-8165 Heddon, D. (2002) Performing the archive: following in the footsteps. Performance Research, 7 (4). pp. 64-77. ISSN 1352-8165

he 4th Annual Australian Cycling Conference - Cities for Cycling December 15th 2011 The Australian Cycling Conference aims to develop the quality of cycling research, planning and infrastructure provision in Australasia. Each year the Conference brings together policy makers, practitioners, community organisations and researchers to further knowledge of cycling and to advance expertise in creating cycle-friendly cities and societies. The Conference, held in Adelaide on 16 and 17 January 2012, is also Australia's most affordable and inclusive cycling conference with the two day conference costing only $290. Program information and registration details are available online at Australian Cycling Conference.

LANGUAGE OPEN CONFERENCE SYSTEMS Conference Help USER You are logged in as... ihering My Profile Log Out CONFERENCE CONTENT Search Conference Information » Overview » Track Policies » Program » Presentations » Conference Schedule » Accommodation » Organizers and Partners » Timeline Browse By Conference By Author By Title FONT SIZE     INFORMATION For Readers For Authors HOME ABOUT USER HOME SEARCH ARCHIVE ANNOUNCEMENTS Home > Thirty Years after "Distinction" > Thirty Years After "Distinction" > Presentations and Authors Presentations and Authors Last name A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z All Track:   Cultural legitimacy and its metamorphoses (erudite vs. popular, omnivore vs. univore, etc.) Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose: Shifting Substance and Steadfast Structure in the Genesis of Lifestyles in the UK ABSTRACT PDF UNTITLED Will Atkinson L'Habitus et le changement de goût. Le cas du « petit personnel » travaillant sur des lieux d'exposition d'art légitime ABSTRACT Pascal Benvenuti Sociologie génétique des dispositions à l'éclectisme éclairé pour lire la littérature de jeunesse (4-8 ans) ABSTRACT PDF bonnery stephane Photography and the Body: representing class in news photographs ABSTRACT UNTITLED John Myles Capital Tastes. The Distinction in the Communication Age ABSTRACT PDF Antonio Di Stefano Emerging forms of cultural capital ABSTRACT PDF SLIDESHOW Annick Prieur, Mike Savage Perceptions of cultural hierarchies in present-day Dutch society ABSTRACT SLIDESHOW Marcel van den Haak Luttes de légitimité culturelle au sein d'une pratique illégitime. Le cas de la chasse ABSTRACT Héloïse Fradkine The challenge to go beyond Distinction, French teachers' cultural practices from 1970 to 2010 ABSTRACT SLIDESHOW Géraldine Farges Symbolic investment as contextualization. An experiment on the effects of modalities of presentation on the appreciation of artistic artefacts. ABSTRACT PDF

A socio-technical analysis of low-carbon transitions: introducing the multi-level perspective into transport studies Frank W. Geels, SPRU, Science and Technology Policy Research, Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QE, United Kingdom Available online 16 February 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2012.01.021, How to Cite or Link Using DOI Permissions & Reprints View full text Purchase -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract Climate change and deep cuts in CO2 emissions require transitions to new kinds of transport systems. To understand the dynamics of these transitions, this paper introduces a socio-technical approach which goes beyond technology fix or behaviour change. Systemic transitions entail co-evolution and multi-dimensional interactions between industry, technology, markets, policy, culture and civil society. A multi-level perspective (MLP) is presented as a heuristic framework to analyze these interactions. The paper aims to introduce the MLP into transport studies and to show its usefulness through an application to the auto-mobility system in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. This application aims to assess the drivers, barriers and possible pathways for low-carbon transitions.

This article analyzes the variation in bike commuting in large American cities, with a focus on assessing the influence of bike paths and lanes, which have been the main approach to increasing cycling in the USA. To examine the role of cycling facilities, we used a newly assembled dataset on the length of bike lanes and paths in 2008 collected directly from 90 of the 100 largest U.S. cities. Pearson's correlation, bivariate quartile analysis, and two different types of regressions were used to measure the relationship between cycling levels and bikeways, as well as other explanatory and control variables. Ordinary Least Squares and Binary Logit Proportions regressions confirm that cities with a greater supply of bike paths and lanes have significantly higher bike commute rates-even when controlling for land use, climate, socioeconomic factors, gasoline prices, public transport supply, and cycling safety. Standard tests indicate that the models are a good fit, with R 2 ranging between 0.60 and 0.65. Computed coefficients have the expected signs for all variables in the various regression models, but not all are statistically significant. Estimated elasticities indicate that both off-street paths and on-street lanes have a similar positive association with bike commute rates in U.S. cities. Our results are consistent with previous research on the importance of separate cycling facilities and provide additional information about the potentially different role of paths vs. lanes. Our analysis also revealed that cities with safer cycling, lower auto ownership, more students, less sprawl, and higher gasoline prices had more cycling to work. By comparison, annual precipitation, the number of cold and hot days, and public transport supply were not statistically significant predictors of bike commuting in large cities.

Autopia Game August 16,2011: Announcing a new version of Autopia called Autobahn! Autobahn is the vehicle producer portion of Autopia with a new interfacce. It is designed for smaller groups and shorter play times. Learn about Autobahn here. Autopia is a multi-player interactive game designed to improve the understanding of how a long range alternative fuel and vehicle transition will take place. To learn about the game click here. Sign up to be notified of Autopia Games. The Autopia game is the dissertation project of Joel Bremson at the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis. See some Autopia game screen shots here. For an introduction to Autopia click here. For info on the class I taught at UC Davis in Spring 2011 see here. This is a tutorial (in progress) I'm writing on using mock objects for python unit testing. It's Django specific, but will work for any sort of python testing. My CV. My Resume. Joel Bremson - 2011 - jbremson@ucdavis.edu

onceptualising joint knowledge production in regional climate change adaptation projects: success conditions and levers for action Dries Heggera, ,  [Author Vitae], Machiel Lamersb, c [Author Vitae], Annemarie Van Zeijl-Rozemab [Author Vitae], Carel Dieperinka [Author Vitae] a Environmental Governance, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development and Innovation, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80115, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands b International Centre for Integrated Assessment and Sustainable Development (ICIS), Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands c Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 8130, 6700 EW Wageningen, The Netherlands Available online 20 February 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2012.01.002, How to Cite or Link Using DOI Permissions & Reprints View full text Purchase Abstract Matching supply and demand for knowledge in the fields of global change and sustainability is a daunting task. Science and public policy differ in their timeframes, epistemologies, objectives, process-cycles and criteria for judging the quality of knowledge, while global change and sustainability issues involve value pluralities and large uncertainties. In literature and in practice, it is argued that joint knowledge production in projects through collaboration between (and within) science and policy serves as a means to bridge the gap between the two domains. However, an assessment framework for analysing the merits and limitations of such projects, identifying good practices and enabling adaptive management as well as social learning had not yet been developed. This paper aims to develop such a framework. We portray joint knowledge production projects as policy arrangements in which the degree of success depends on the actors involved, contents of dominant discourses, presence of rules and the availability of resources. Literature was discussed to specify these four dimensions into seven success conditions for j

Economics of Transportation Journal of the ITEA Editors Mogens Fosgerau, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Erik Verhoef, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands    Aims and Scope Economics of Transportation  publishes  scholarly  papers  that  make  important  contributions  to  transportation economics. The journal also publishes papers that   * research the interaction between transportation and other economic activities;  * seek to promote cross‐fertilization with other fields of economics including labor, trade,  urban economics, and industrial organization;  * and substantive papers on timely policy issues relating to transportation.  The  journal  welcomes  both  theoretical  and  applied  papers.  Papers  are  welcome  regardless  of  the  originating  discipline  provided  they  contribute  to  the  goals  of  the  journal.  Economics of Transportation  aims  to  uphold  the  highest  standards  of  scientific  originality  and  quality.     Economics of Transportation will  be  launched  with  one  volume  of  two  issues  in  2012,  and  will  publish four issues per volume thereafter.  Economics of Transportation is the official journal of the International Transportation  Economics Association (ITEA).     Instructions to Authors Full instructions to authors and an online submission site will be available shortly.   This  information  and  other  developments  of  the  journal  will  be  announced  on  the  Elsevier  Transportation  portal  (www.elsevier.com/transportation).  Alternatively,  send  an  email  to  Rhianna Jones, Elsevier Marketing Communications Manager, at rh.jones@elsevier.com, who  will let you know when more information is available.    In the meantime, prospective authors are encouraged to contact the Editors directly via email:  * Mogens Fosgerau ­ mf@transport.dtu.dk * Erik Verhoef  ­ e.t.verhoef@vu.nl  

Conference Kuhmo Nectar Conference and Summer School on Transportation Economics 2012 We are pleased to announce that the Kuhmo Nectar Conference and Summer School on Transportation Economics: Annual conference of the ITEA will be held in Berlin, Germany June 18-22, 2012. The three-day Summer School is held on June 18-20, just before the Conference. It provides a condensed programme giving an introduction to academic research in transport economics including recent advances. The Summer School program consists of 10 lectures delivered by a faculty comprising a range of the most prominent researchers in transport economics. The aim of the Conference, June 21 - 22, is to promote scientific excellence in the field of transport economics and to provide a forum for stimulating scientific exchange. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, transport investment and funding, congestion pricing, time and risk, agglomeration effects, valuation of intangibles, aviation, competition, privatization etc. There will be awards with cash prizes for outstanding papers. The Conference and the Summer School are organised by DIW Berlin and Technical University of Berlin. The venue for the Summer School is DIW Berlin, the Conference will take place at Quadriga Forum, just a 5 minutes walk from DIW's premises. For general information and abstract submission please visit Kuhmo Nectar 2012 Conference Site.   Please note that being registered for abstract submission does not mean that you are automatically registered for attending the conference. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at: kuhmonectar_support@diw.de. With kind regards, the Kuhmo Nectar Conference and Summer School on Transportation Economics Heike Link, Chair of the Local Organizing Committee Stef Proost , Chair of Scientific Committee Jan Brueckner, Chair of the Summer School Steering Committee Kenneth Small, President of International Transportation Economics Associat

Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and what it Says about Us) Tom Vanderbilt 583 Resenhas Penguin Adult, 06/08/2009 - 416 páginas Why does the other lane always seem to be moving faster? Why are people so different inside their cars than they are outside them? Is traffic a microcosm of society, or does the road make its own rules? Traffic speaks volumes: bringing together people from every walk of life. In this hugely enjoyable, curiosity-filled book, Tom Vanderbilt explains why traffic problems are really people problems. Traffic shows that how we behave walking the streets, on our bikes and in our cars is an astonishing cultural indicator; a living, constantly surprising model, what physicists call 'emergent collective behaviour'. Vanderbilt chauffeurs us through why it's so hard to pay attention in traffic, why women cause more congestion than men, what factors make us more likely to honk our horns amongst a host of eye-opening highway conundrums. This book will change the way you view the world and help you better navigate it.

The psychology of driving: For a long time, I've been interested in the perceptual and attentional aspects of driving. Driving is an extremely demanding activity from a perceptual point of view: drivers have to make rapid decisions on the basis of visual input, such as emerging from a junction without hitting the oncoming traffic. Occasionally failures of detection occur - so-called "looked but failed to see" errors, such as when drivers pull out from a junction into the path of a cyclist or motorcyclist. I'm interested in why these occur, and what can be done to avoid them. You might think that the answer's obvious - that they occur because two-wheelers are hard to see because they are small. However, this is not the explanation. These kinds of accidents usually occur when the motorcyclist or cyclist is close to the emerging vehicle - too close for anyone to take action to redeem the situation. Close-up, physically-small things  produce big images on the retina, so at the time that a driver pulls out in front of a two-wheeler, the latter is casting a pretty big image on the driver's retina, and should therefore be readily detectable. In any case, "look but failed to see" accidents can happen with objectively-conspicuous vehicles too - a few years ago, we investigated accidents in which people drove straight into parked police cars and then claimed not to have seen them! My more recent research is on the effects of using a mobile phone while driving. How does this affect a driver's ability to detect hazards, etc.? Research around the world during the past 15 years or so has consistently shown that hands-free phones are just as bad as hand-held phones as far as driving is concerned. Phones affect driving not so much by making it hard to control the car (although obviously holding a phone doesn't exactly help with steering and using the indicators!) but by taking the driver's attention away from the outside world. Drivers who are using a phone have a restricted bre

In press: Hole, G.J. "Experimental Design". In: Research Methods in Psychology, Fourth Edition, edited by G.M. Breakwell, D.B. Wright and J. A. Smith. London: Sage Publications.   In press: Laurence, S. and Hole, G.J. Identity specific adaptation with composite faces. Visual Cognition.   2011: Laurence, S. and Hole, G. The effect of familiarity on face adaptation. Perception, 40, 450- 463.   2011: Hole, G.J. and George, P.A. Evidence for holistic processing of facial age. Visual Cognition, 19 (5), 585-615.   2011: Hole, G.J. Identity-specific face adaptation effects: evidence for abstractive face representations. Cognition, 119, 216-228.   2011: Briggs, G.F., Hole, G.J., and Land, M.F. Emotionally involving telephone conversations lead to driver error and visual tunnelling. Transportation Research Part F, 14, 313-323.   2010: G. Hole and V.Bourne. "Face Processing: Psychological, Neuropsychological and Applied Perspectives". Oxford: Oxford University Press.   2009: Harrison, G. and Hole, G.J. Evidence for a contact-based explanation of the own-age bias in face recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 16, 264-269.   2009: Bourne, V.J., Vladeanu, M. and Hole, G.J. Lateralised repetition priming for featurally and configurally manipulated familiar faces: evidence for differentially lateralised processing mechanisms. Laterality, 14 (3), 287-299.   2008: G..J. Hole. Predictors of motor vehicle collisions. In: M. Duckworth, T. Iezzi, and W. O'Donohue (eds.) "Motor Vehicle Collisions: Medical, Psychosocial and Legal Consequences". Elsevier.   2007: G.J. Hole. "The Psychology of Driving".Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.   2007: Steede, L. L., Tree, J. J., and Hole, G. J.  I can't recognize your face but I can recognize its movement. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 24, 451-466.   2006: Steede, L.L. and Hole, G.J. Repetition priming and recognition of dynamic and static chimeras. Perception, 35, 1367-1382.   2006: Steede, L. L., Tree, J. J., and Hole, G. J. Diss

Parking Library Case Studies Cities (40 files) These articles look at specific issues in various cities and possible solutions... Demand Management (25 files) Planning can be the Parking Department's most important tool in the constant quest for a measured response to ever-increasing demand. Design and Construction (4 files) Safety, efficiency and ecology inform the planning and design process - and help ensure that construction meets the goals of the community. Parking and Environment (5 files) How can parking contribute to the global push for cleaner and greener life-styles and systems? Parking Characteristics (17 files) What are the current parameters that define parking issues in the local, national and global context? Parking Research (38 files) Research lies at the core of our decision-making...most modern issues are too complex to understand with only anecdotal evidence. Research provides the hard evidence to inform our theories. Parking Technology (19 files) Modern parking theory and practice utilizes a plethora of equipment and software that was non-existent twenty or thirty years ago. What is available and where can it take us? Policy and Administration (30 files) No amount of technology is effective without informed policies; no amount of informed policies are effective without administration and enforcement. WPS Parking Puzzles (18 files) Every year the conferees get together in groups to tackle a practical Parking Puzzle that relates to parking issues in the host city. These are some of the solutions...

An information resource for Victorian local governments When it comes to transport planning, let's not 're-invent the wheels'. This website provides an easy way for local governments to share their documentation on a wide range of local government transport initiatives, from long-term strategies to one-off events. This website also provides quick access to a database of Victorian Government programs and projects that support local governments in their efforts to provide better mobility for their communities. Contact details of State Government staff are provided. (This section is restricted to registered local government

Walki lking as Transport workshop presentations July 22nd 2010 Categorised under: Conference papers Author / Source: VLGA and Victoria Walks Contributor: thinkingtransport VLGA's Transport Program and Victoria Walks, with assistance from the Victorian Department of Transport, ran the Walking as Transport seminar on Wednesday 21 July 2010. The workshop provided local government with a strategic view on walking as a transport mode and its place in a sustainable transport network. Presenters included: Dr Ben Rossiter, Executive Officer, Victoria Walks Inc. Ben Grounds, Transport Strategy Coordinator, City of Darebin Jim Connor, City of Whittlesea Michael Hopkins, Executive Director - Policy and Communications Division, DoT Sameem Moslih, Team Leader - Network Strategies, Road User Services, VicRoads Kristie Howes, Urban Designer - Sustainable and Active Transport Policy Branch, DoT Presentations and handouts from the event are attached below for your viewing and include some highly useful information, developed specifically for local governments. Please note that the presentation from VicRoads on the day is not available below. Follow this link for more on the SmartRoads Network Operating Plans. For further information on the event and any of the presentations, contact the VLGA Local Government Transport Facilitator at gordon@vlga.org.au or on             (03) 9349 7943      .