by Vance Tan | Sep 5, 2017
This paper presents issues, trade-offs and challenges encountered while developing a UK national transport model as part of a large interdisciplinary project, ITRC MISTRAL. The Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium (ITRC) is a consortium of seven leading UK...
by Vance Tan | Sep 19, 2016
Policy decisions about the UK railway industry often draw on models and frameworks that treat technology and organisational processes as static and unchanging. As a result, policy makers often have limited understanding of how changes in policy will influence...
by Vance Tan | Sep 1, 2016
There has in recent years been an increasing focus in both research and policy on considering infrastructure networks as interdependent systems, rather than as separate interconnected entities. This has resulted from a recognition that the functionality of transport,...
by Vance Tan | Jan 6, 2015
Predict or prophesy? Modelling British transport demand and capacity to 2100. Plenary paper at Universities’ Transport Study Group Annual Conference, London, 5–7 January 2015.
by Vance Tan | Mar 28, 2014
This paper considers the different approaches applied to determine the requirement for additional infrastructure construction for different transport modes in Britain. Transport infrastructure is usually built to meet three main goals. The first of these is to...
