Policy shifts pose challenges for the behaviour change wizards

The University of the West of England caused a stir when it established the Centre for Transport & Society (CTS) in 2004. So, ten years on, how have things turned out? The Centre’s founder, Glenn Lyons, and current director, Graham Parkhurst, tell Andrew Forster about the highs and lows, and the challenges posed by austerity and changing Government transport policy

Transport is a people business but in academic transport studies the people are often boiled down to numbers shaping demand curves or  populating transport models. So there was a good deal of excitement in the transport community when, in 2004, the University of the West of England (UWE) in Bristol launched its Centre for Transport & Society (CTS). Here at last was a place that was going to put the social dimension of transport centre stage. It chimed with many of the ideas gaining...

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