DR TIM RYLEY
Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies
Transport Studies Group
Department of Civil and Building Engineering
E-mail: T.J.Ryley@lboro.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1509 223422
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
In
May 2010, Dr Ryley was awarded the 3-year EPSRC ‘DRT for DRT: Developing
Relevant Tools for Demand Responsive Transport’ project. A project website, at www.drtfordrt.org.uk, has just been
developed. Also see the recent Press Release: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/service/publicity/news-releases/2010/167_DRT.html.
He will be working on the research project with his Loughborough University
colleagues Dr Marcus Enoch, Dr Mohammed Quddus, Dr Lisa Davison and Dr Chao
Wang.
In
2009, Dr Ryley was a member of research teams that were awarded 3 EPSRC
projects relating to travel behaviour.
He is leading the ‘ABC project’ (http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/H003398/1),
examining airport surface access (with Cranfield University & University of
Leeds) – see the EPSRC Press Release: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2010/Pages/goodbyethegreenway.aspx. This is one of a series of projects
awarded that relate to environmental airport operations. A further environmental airport
operations project, for which I am Co-Investigator, is the ‘Airport Energy Technologies
Network’ (http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/H003150/1). The third project awarded (as
Co-Investigator) is Future
Resilient Transport Networks ‘FUTURENET’ (http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/G060770/1),
a large inter-disciplinary project with a number of academic and stakeholder
partners. It examines the transport
network aspects as one of a series of projects relating to Adaptation and
Resilience to a Changing Climate (ARCC). His role in FUTURENET and the ABC
project relates to travel behaviour; in each project Dr Ryley will manage a
travel behaviour survey of at least 2,000 respondents and incorporate discrete
choice analysis and segmentation methodologies.
PREVIOUS RESEARCH PROJECTS
His three most recent research projects
are summarised below.
1. The ‘Propensity to Fly’ project (November 2006
– April 2009)
Dr Tim Ryley was the Principal Investigator of the 30-month EPSRC
‘Propensity to Fly’ project, which examines individual responses to
low cost air travel in the East Midlands, using stated choice models and
segmentation techniques. Dr Lisa Davison was the Research Associate on
the project. See the project
summary for further information. There was much media interest in the
‘Propensity to Fly’ project findings. For instance see the
following article published in the Guardian (5-10-09): http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/oct/05/british-public-flights-carbon-footprint.
2. The
INDICATOR project (October 2007 – June 2008)
Dr
3. The ‘Public engagement on aviation taxes’ project
(March 2007)
Dr Tim Ryley was the Principal Investigator of the 'Public
engagement on aviation taxes' project, commissioned by the Sustainable
Development Commission. The project, based on four focus groups in Loughborough,
was conducted during March 2007. The overall objective of the
‘Public engagement on aviation taxes’ study was to deepen
understanding of the arguments around the acceptability of current and
potential future aviation taxes.
CURRENT RESEARCHERS
& PHD STUDENTS
Dr Lisa
Davison Research
Associate: DRT for DRT project
Dr Alberto
Zanni Research
Associate: FUTURENET project
Dr Chao
Wang Research
Associate: DRT for DRT project
Robert
Mayer Part-time
PhD student: ‘The
change in air travellers' behaviour due to increasing environmental awareness
and sustainable transport policy and its impact on airline business
models’
Mike
Snelgrove Part-time
PhD student: ‘An
exploration of the potential of customer loyalty to distort airport choice
behaviour’
Tom
Budd Full-time PhD student: ‘Airport surface
access: the impact of low-cost carriers on passenger behaviour in the UK’ (ABC project)
Clare Littleford Full-time PhD student: ‘Energy consumption
behaviour by individuals in office settings’
Fahmida
Khandokar Full-time
PhD student: ‘The role of travel plans at healthcare facilities’
RECENT
PUBLICATIONS
A full list of my publications can be found on the
Ryley, T.J. and Gjersoe,
N. (2006)
‘Newspaper response to the Edinburgh congestion charging
scheme proposals’, Transport Policy 13 (1), pp. 66-73. http://hdl.handle.net/2134/2756
[via
Loughborough University Institutional Repository, accessed 22-8-08]
Ryley, T. J. (2006) Use of non-motorised modes and
life stage: evidence from Edinburgh,
Journal of Transport Geography. Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 367-375.
http://hdl.handle.net/2134/2759 [via
Loughborough University Institutional Repository, accessed 22-8-08]
Ryley,
T.J. (2006) Estimating
cycling demand for the journey to work or study in West Edinburgh, Scotland. Transportation
Research Record, Issue No. 1982, pp 187-193. ISSN: 0361-1981.
Ison, S. and Ryley T.J. (2007) Options for sustainable
mobility. Engineering Sustainability, Proceedings of the
Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). Volume 160, Issue ES1.
pp 27-33.
Parkin, J., Ryley, T.J. and Jones, T. (2007) Chapter
3. Barriers to cycling: an
exploration of quantitative analyses, in Rosen, P., Cox, P. and Horton, D., eds, Cycling and society. Ashgate, Aldershot, Hampshire, UK, pp. 67-82.
[accessed 22-8-08]
Ryley,
T.J. and Davison, L.J. (2008) UK air travel preferences:
Evidence from an East Midlands household survey. Journal of Air Transport Management, 14(1), pp.43-46.
Ryley,
T.J. (2008) The
potential for car drivers to walk for short trips: evidence from West
Edinburgh. Transportation Research - Part A: Policy & Practice, 42 (4),
pp. 620-628.
Ryley,
T.J. (2008)
Encouraging bicycle use in residential neighbourhoods: insights
from Edinburgh, Paper presented at the 5th
Cycling and Society Symposium, University of the West Of England, Bristol,
September 2008. Paper available: PDF
version
Davison,
L.J. and Ryley, T.J. (2009) The relationship between air travel behaviour and the key life
stages of having children and entering retirement. Paper to
be presented at the 12th International Conference on Travel Behaviour
Research, Jaipur, India, 13-18 December 2009.
Davison, L.J. and
Ryley, T.J. (2010) An examination of the discord between air travel and more generic
environmental attitudes and behaviour.
Paper presented at the
89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, 10-14 January 2010.
Hess, S., Ryley,
T.J., Davison, L.J. and Adler, T. (2010) Improving the Quality of Demand Forecasts through
Cross-Nested Logit: A Stated Choice Case Study of
Airport, Airline, and Access Mode Choice.
Paper presented at the 89th Annual Meeting
of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, 10-14 January 2010.
Ryley,
T.J., Davison, L.J., Bristow, A. and
Pridmore, A. (2010) Public engagement on aviation taxes in the United
Kingdom. International
Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 4(2), pp. 112-118.
Davison, L.J., Ryley, T.J., and Snelgrove, M.
(2010) Regional
airports in a competitive market: a case study of Cardiff International
Airport, Journal of Airport Management,
4(2), pp. 178-194 .
Davison,
L.J. and Ryley, T.J. (2010) Tourism destination preferences
of low-cost airline users in the East Midlands, Journal of Transport Geography, 18 (3), pp. 458-465.
Ryley T.J. (2010) A travel behaviour
response to road user charging in the United Kingdom. Transport Special Issue – Road
User Charging, Proceedings of the
Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE).
TEACHING
I currently teach four modules across the undergraduate (UG: BSc
Air Transport Management, BSc Transport & Business Management) and
postgraduate (PG: Transport Policy & Business Management) transport degree
programmes at
UG Part A: Transport Demand and Human Need
UG Part B: Transport and the Environment
UG Part C: Travel Behaviour
PG: Transport Planning
Web-page last updated: October 2010.