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2. 1. The Railway Station and The Interregional Traveller - traveller preferences and implications for the planning process

   Author : Cristina Prather Persson; Trafik och väg; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Samhällsvetenskaper; Social sciences; service; location; planning; preferences; railway; station; traveller; Technological sciences; Teknik;

   Abstract : The interregional traveller’s preferences of railway stations, their service provision and location, are of interest in the discussion of station reinvention brought on by the introduction of high speed train traffic. A railway station is created by station as well as societal agents, and can be described as a synthesis of symbolic value, location, traffic, services and stationscape. READ MORE

4. 2. Perceived Accessibility : Capturing the Traveller Perspective

   Author : Katrin Lättman; Margareta Friman; Lars E Olsson; Annika Nordlund; Karlstads universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; perceived accessibility; accessibility scale; transport planning; public transport; social inclusion; social exclusion; Psykologi; Psychology;

   Abstract : The main purpose of this thesis is introducing and proposing perceived accessibility as an important and so far overseen complement to conventional, objective accessibility in sustainable transport. Perceived accessibility is defined as the possibilities and ease of engaging in preferred activities using different transport modes. READ MORE

5. 3. Narrating Gypsies, Telling Travellers : A Sudy of the Relational Self in Four Life Stories

   Author : Martin Shaw; David Mayall; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; life story; relationality; habitus; narration; Gypsy; Traveller; United Kingdom and Northern Ireland; embodied subjectivity; Post- and internal colonialisms; violence s ; self-domination; domination; English language; Engelska språket;

   Abstract : To say that Gypsy and/or Traveller and/or Romany life stories have existed on the periphery of literary studies can be considered an understatement. In this study of the relational self, Narrating Gypsies, Telling Travellers, examines the discursive and structural complexities involved in the practices of writing and speaking in the production process and narrative trajectories of the life stories of Gordon Sylvester Boswell (1970), Nan Joyce (1985), Jimmy Stockins (2000), and Jess Smith (2002 and 2003). READ MORE

6. 4. Researcher, Traveller, Narrator : Studies in Pausanias' Periegesis

   Author : Johanna Akujärvi; Grekiska (antik och bysantinsk); []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Greek history warfare in; Panhellenism; Second Sophistic; second person narrative; homodiegetic narrative; narrator; Pausanias; Periegesis; and reception of ; Greek literature; Grekisk litteratur;

   Abstract : This is a study of the second century AD literary work 'Periegesis Hellados', i.e. description of, or guide to, Greece, written by the otherwise unknown author Pausanias. This is a purely textual study with the whole of the Periegesis as its object. READ MORE

7. 5. Investigating the impacts of ICT-mediated services - The case of public transport traveller information

   Author : Tor Skoglund; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Behavioural change; Intelligent Transport Systems; Travel Planner; Transit; ITS; ICT-mediated traveller information; Public transport; Co-modal Travel Planner; Real-time information system;

   Abstract : Transport is of fundamental importance to modern societies but adjustments are needed to improve the sustainability of the transport systems. Transport of people is an important part of the transport system but also regarding transport of people a shift is necessary from less to more sustainable transport patterns. READ MORE