Refining shear strength characteristic value using experience by David Baxter, Neil Dixon, Paul Fleming, Ken Cromwell

“…Such refinement relies upon a quantification of previous knowledge: mean values, trends, variations and distributions of data are required, and in this paper a dataset for undrained shear strength of London Clay is presented and applied to case study examples. …”
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A spatial analysis of demand patterns on a bicycle sharing scheme: Evidence from London by Craig Morton, Scott Kelley, Fredrik Monsuur, Tianwen Hui

“…This paper investigates the spatial demand for bikesharing through the application of a series of trip generation models for the London Bicycle Sharing Scheme (LBSS). The production of trips from and the arrival of trips at scheme stations are evaluated in reference to how they connect with features of the built environment, demographics of the resident and workplace populations, and attributes of the scheme's structure. …”
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Appraising the market for bicycle sharing schemes: Perceived service quality, satisfaction, and behavioural intention in London by Craig Morton

“…The research reported in this paper provides guidance on this issue through a case study appraisal of the experiences that existing members have with the London Bicycle Sharing Scheme. This appraisal focuses on how the quality of service is perceived by members, their overall level of satisfaction with the scheme, their behavioural intentions toward renewing their memberships, and their willingness to recommend the scheme to others. …”
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Ryanair’s impact on airline market share from the London area airports: a time series analysis. by David Pitfield

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RDE vehicle emissions improvements assessed on a London route by Jamie Parnell, Mark Peckham, Byron Mason, Edward Winward

“…In addition, the particular events during the drive which produce (sometimes very short duration) spikes of NOx are analysed in terms of the engine and aftertreatment reasons for the tailpipe “event”. …”
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Verdi in Victorian London (PDF) by Massimo Zicari

“…Over the final three decades of the nineteenth century, moreover, London’s musical milieu underwent changes of great magnitude, shifting the manner in which Verdi was conceptualized and making room for the powerful influence of Wagner. …”
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Verdi in Victorian London (XML) by Massimo Zicari

“…Over the final three decades of the nineteenth century, moreover, London’s musical milieu underwent changes of great magnitude, shifting the manner in which Verdi was conceptualized and making room for the powerful influence of Wagner. …”
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Anti-social behaviour in London: setting the context for the London Anti-Social Behaviour Strategy by Andrew Millie, Jessica Jacobson, Mike Hough, Anna Paraskevopoulou

“…The overall aim of the research was to inform, and set the context for, the development of the London Anti-Social Behaviour Strategy. The strategy is being produced by 11 cross- London agencies with shared responsibilities for tackling ASB, and establishes a regional framework for action on ASB.…”
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Dialogue with the Emperor Qin's Warriors catalogue by John Atkin, Pick Keobandith

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Keeping the service running: Examining working relationships and workload of London bus network iBus controllers by Sally Maynard, Karl Miller, Ashleigh Filtness

“…Bus controllers are an essential part of the London bus network. Although the bus driver is the individual directly in control of the vehicle, inputs from both the controller and driver influence operations. …”
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A Minimum Income Standard for London 2020 by Matt Padley, Abigail Davis, Claire Shepherd, Juliet Stone

“…This latest research looking at what is needed for a decent living standard in London focused on households with children. Groups of parents in Inner and Outer London discussed and detailed what these households need in order to have a minimum socially acceptable standard of living in 2020. …”
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Sharing common ground: an examination of factors that facilitate inter-organisational innovation activity at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park inclusive innovation district, London, UK. by Fiona Meeks

“…We examined the relational and innovation experiences of a sample of heterogeneous organisations located at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park innovation district in London, United Kingdom. Using qualitative network methods, we examined what types of interorganisational relationships and networks formed, what knowledge was created or shared, and what facilitated innovation activity at a micro level. …”
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Street crime in London: deterrence, disruption and displacement by Kathryn Curran, Michael Dale, Mark Edmunds, Mike Hough, Andrew Millie, Melissa Wagstaff

“…It pays particular attention to how these offences can displace into other forms of crime or shift across time or place. It was precisely these issues which led the Government Office for London ultimately to commission this study in order to understand the nature of street crime across the London region.…”
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The heritage language and graphic landscape of London’s Chinatown by Robert G. Harland, Angelina Pan, Alison Barnes

“…This paper investigates the visibility of "heritage language" through the lens of graphic heritage within the distinctive ethnic enclave of London's Chinatown. Located in the City of Westminster, Chinese identity is officially designated on street nameplates that demarcate geographic boundaries and depict a shift in the cultural influence of this migrant community. …”
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Gender, new creativity and Carnatic music in London by Jasmine Hornabrook

“…Their creative projects shift from an aesthetic that was responsive to colonialism in India to highlight female creativity and hybridity in decolonizing processes. …”
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Improving the safety of London buses through design by Jo Barnes, Laurie Brown, Andrew Morris

“…Five years-worth of police collision data were analyzed in total The data identified that bus accidents in the London area resulting in reported bus passenger injuries had increased during a five-year period, rising from a 31% share of the total STATS19 bus accidents in 2012 to 44% in 2016 Department for Transport, 2017). …”
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The potential for further changes to the personal taxation regime to encourage modal shift. Final report for Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, London, June by Stephen Potter, Marcus P. Enoch, Tom Rye, Colin Black

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A technical report on the calculation of a minimum London Weighting by Matt Padley

“…This technical report builds on the analysis and methodology set out by Hirsch (2016) in the report London Weighting and London costs – a fresh approach?. …”
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Living on different incomes in London: can public consensus identify a 'riches line'? by Abigail Davis, Katharina Hecht, Tania Burchardt, Ian Gough, Donald Hirsch, Karen Rowlingson, Kate Summers

“…The project identified a shared idea of different living standards that ranged from a minimum socially acceptable level as defined by MIS (with the acknowledgement that many in London are below this) up to a category unanimously labelled by groups as the ‘super rich’. …”
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Contributory factors to sleepiness amongst London bus drivers by Karl Miller, Ashleigh Filtness, Anna Anund, Sally Maynard, Fran Pilkington-Cheney

“…What is certain is that bus drivers have the potential to suffer from sleepiness as they are shift workers. The current research used a large online survey to investigate sleepiness amongst London bus drivers. …”
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Bus driver fatigue: a qualitative study of drivers in London by Sally Maynard, Ashleigh Filtness, Karl Miller, Fran Pilkington-Cheney

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Eliza Orme’s Ambitions: Politics and the Law in Victorian London (PDF) by Leslie Howsam

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The effect of the London congestion charge on road casualties: an intervention analysis by Robert B. Noland, Mohammed Quddus, Washington Y. Ochieng

“…An intervention analysis was conducted to investigate the effect of the congestion charge on traffic casualties for motorists, pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists, both within the charging zone and in areas of London outside the zone. This was done for killed and serious injuries (known as KSI in British terminology) and for slight injuries to examine whether there were any shifts in severity outcomes. …”
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Event brand consistency at the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games by James Andrew Kenyon, Argyro Elisavet Manoli, Guillaume S.P. Bodet

“…With that in mind then, the aim of this study was to investigate the brand consistency of ‘the sports world’s most powerful brand’, the Olympic brand (Seguin & O’Reilly, 2008, p.62), and specifically, that of the London 2012 Olympic Games.…”
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Predicting the use of sugar and caffeine as countermeasures to sleepiness in London bus drivers by Fran Pilkington-Cheney, Ashleigh Filtness, Cheryl Haslam, Karl Miller

“…Sleepiness is a significant workplace safety hazard and prevalent in shift workers including bus drivers. Several aspects of professional driving can result in shortened sleep and increased sleepiness, which has the potential to result in workplace injuries, incidents and crashes. …”
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Exploring sleepiness and stress among London bus drivers: An on-road observational study by Karl Miller, Ashleigh Filtness, Anna Anund, Fran Pilkington-Cheney, Sally Maynard, Anna Sjörs Dahlman

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Decision-making and the trajectories of young Europeans in the London region: the planners, the dreamers, and the accidental migrants by Saara Koikkalainen, Aija Lulle, Russell King, Carmen Leon-Himmelstine, Aleksandra Szkudlarek

“…This paper focuses on the intra-EU movement of young adults from Finland, Poland, and Spain who have settled, short- or long-term, in London and its wider region. …”
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Implementing road user charging : the lessons learnt from Hong Kong, Cambridge and Central London by Stephen Ison, Tom Rye

“…This paper draws on the experiences of two such road user charging schemes, namely Electronic Road Pricing in Hong Kong, China, and Congestion Metering in the city of Cambridge, UK, and it seeks to make comparisons with the way implementation of congestion charging in Central London, UK, has been undertaken. …”
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A pre-evaluation of British public opinion on the London 2012 Olympics based on sport participation types by Guillaume Bodet, Jennifer Coleman

“…In order to evaluate people‟s perceptions of London 2012, we used Social Representation Theory (Moscovici, 1984), as social representations characterise a form of socially elaborated and shared knowledge, with practical consequences which contribute to the construction of a common reality among social groups.…”
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