ITLS Working Papers 2021: Recent submissions
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Riding the Storm: Humanising Our Response to Induced Global Warming
Published 2021Climate change is a complex challenge. Addressing it successfully requires a mindset that draws directly from the heart of what makes us human. Our moral responsibilities to each other, future generations and the planet ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Unlocking Public Procurement as a Tool for Place-Based Industrial Strategy
Published 2021The Global Financial Crisis and, more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the perils of industrial atrophy and spatial inequality rampant within advanced economies. Despite growing interest in lifting economic ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Major urban transport expenditure initiatives: where are the returns likely to be strongest and how significant is social exclusion in making the case?
Published 2021This paper explores whether the benefits from major urban transport spending increases are likely to differ greatly, depending on whether that spending prioritises light rail, a mode with growing interest and several new ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Relationship between commuting and non-commuting travel activity under the growing incidence of working from home and people’s attitudes towards COVID-19
Published 2021The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the way we live and travel, possibly for many years to come. The ‘New Normal’ seems to be one that is best associated with living with COVID-19 rather that ‘after COVID-19’. After a year ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Can MaaS change users’ travel behaviour to deliver commercial and societal outcomes?
Published 2021Mobility as a Service, or MaaS, is a relatively new business model that aims to disrupt the passenger transport industry by integrating existing mobility services into an intuitive smartphone app that allows everyday ...Open AccessWorking Paper