Changing Urban Spaces: Mobile Phones on Trains

Berry, Marsha; Hamilton, Margaret

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“…For the latter, the authors suggest that use of mobile technologies is to alleviate boredom or privatise the public space (see also Mokhtarian et al (2015) regarding ameliorating a negative journey experience through listening to radio/music). Schwieterman et al (2013) highlight substantial increases in mobile technology use on passenger transport in the US: up 25% for commuter trains and 18% in intercity trains over the period 2012. Berry and Hamilton (2010 note that the noise related to mobile technology on trains may increase environmental stress (see also Bissell (2008Bissell ( , 2014 for examination of commuter stress), but argue the smart phone may also offer opportunities for people to manage being in a public space.…”

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Changing times – A decade of empirical insight into the experience of rail passengers in Great Britain

Lyons

Jain

Weir

2016

Journal of Transport Geography

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In the last decade the number of rail passenger journeys in Great Britain has increased by half and car trips per person are down by a tenth. Meanwhile there has been significant growth in internet use and ownership of smartphones. Travel patterns are changing in tandem with adoption of digital age innovations. At a time when Britain is also poised to invest tens of billions of pounds in high speed rail, this paper examines how the experience of rail Historically, transport analysis has stemmed from the premise that travel is a derived demand -people are undertaking journeys at a cost to them (in terms of time and money in particular)in order to realise benefit from the activities they engage in upon reaching their destinations.Relative costs between different options for travel mode, route and destination have been important considerations in attempts to interpret and model travel behaviour. Treatment of journey experience in such contexts has tended to be in terms of journey comfort, convenience, reliability and safety, alongside time and cost. There has been little interest in accounting for how people's travel time itself is used or valued within transport analysis. This may seem rather surprising given that for England in 2014, the average person spent on average one hour per day travelling (DfT, 2014a). This amounts to a daily resource of 54 million hours for the population of England as a whole -or some 62 million hours for the population of Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).However, in the last ten or so years (stemming from earlier work by Mokhtarian and Growing uncertainty about the future of car travel -In a number of countries with developed economies and mature transport systems, something peculiar has happened over the ten year period -the historic growth in total car travel (total distance travelled) has not continued and car travel per person per year (measured by distance) has in some cases been in decline (Goodwin, 2012; Goodwin and Van Denker, 2013). Attention is now being devoted to better understanding the possible factors contributing to this phenomenon. These include limited road capacity in cities, a trend in urbanisation, fewer young people learning to drive and growing reliance on digital connectivity in society -as well as economic conditions. There is no professional consensus on whether the future trend in car travel will be one of growth, plateau or decline (Lyons and Goodwin, 2014). Alongside this phenomenon (which has been given the shorthand term 'peak car') there is also now much (hyped) consideration of the prospects for a future of the car as a self-driving vehicle. This sits alongside the notion of a 'sharing economy' emerging (Botsman and Rogers, 2010) in which people are more inclined to share the use of resources including vehicles. This might lead to a greater share of car use experience being as a passenger rather than as a driver.In tandem with the developments above, questions designed by the first two authors of this explores what the implications m...

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Changing times – A decade of empirical insight into the experience of rail passengers in Great Britain

Lyons

Jain

Weir

2016

Journal of Transport Geography

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“…Wireless network coverage is also a key step to extend fiber broadband to the public, and the access to Wi-Fi, and more broadly the Internet, is regarded as "the city's fifth major infrastructure" next to water, electricity, gas, and roads [19][20][21]. The impact of wireless city development is significant in many aspects, such as providing mobility values [22], changing travel behaviors [23], altering the perception of community and forming social networks in urban space [24][25][26]. Previous literature found that in wireless cities, transaction costs can be reduced [27] and social well-being of citizens is better off through closer social interactions [22,28,29].…”

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The Making of a Sustainable Wireless City? Mapping Public Wi-Fi Access in Shanghai

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Abstract:In the context of the global information economy, ready access to the Internet is critical to a city's competitiveness, which has prompted a number of cities to launch plans to establish wireless networks. Most literature on the development of wireless cities focuses on cities in Western countries, and few have discussed how Chinese cities have adopted wireless technologies in their urban infrastructure development efforts. This paper examines recent development and spatial distribution of public Wi-Fi access in Shanghai, a leading business hub in China. We mapped Wi-Fi hotspots through the government sponsored "i-Shanghai" project and China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC). We find that while telecommunication providers have been proactively deploying WLAN (wireless local area network, a proxy of public Wi-Fi or wireless access) hotspots in Shanghai, neither government sponsored WLAN hotspots nor facilities established by CMCC could cover the old traditional neighborhoods in the central city and sub-districts in remote rural areas. We also address the development of a more sustainable wireless city in Shanghai with a particular focus on digital divide and social equity issues.

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“…Furthermore, the allocation of the studies shown to just one of these approaches cannot always do them justice in terms of the issues and methods they deal with. (1) Travel time use Flaig, Kill (2004), Lyons, Jain (2007), Jain, Lyons (2008), Tillema, Schwanen (2009), Berry, Hamilton (2010), Lyons, Jain, Susilo (2011), Gripsrud, Hjorthol (2012) Travel time (in public transport) is conceptualized as a potential occasion for other activities, which can be both work and leisurerelated. In addition to activities, it may also be useful as "transition time."…”

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