Part I. Experimental Studies: 2. Experiment in psychology 3. Experiments on perceiving III Experiments on imaging 4-8. Experiments on remembering: (a) The method of description (b) The method of repeated reproduction (c) The method of picture writing (d) The method of serial reproduction (e) The method of serial reproduction picture material 9. Perceiving, recognizing, remembering 10. A theory of remembering 11. Images and their functions 12. Meaning Part II. Remembering as a Study in Social Psychology: 13. Social psychology 14. Social psychology and the matter of recall 15. Social psychology and the manner of recall 16. Conventionalism 17. The notion of a collective unconscious 18. The basis of social recall 19. A summary and some conclusions.

Remembering. A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology, Cambridge (University Press) 1964.

The measurement of meaning

Accessibility evaluation of land-use and transport strategies: review and research directions

Urbanization, resource exploitation, and lifestyle changes have diminished possibilities for human contact with nature in many societies. Concern about the loss has helped motivate research on the health benefits of contact with nature. Reviewing that research here, we focus on nature as represented by aspects of the physical environment relevant to planning, design, and policy measures that serve broad segments of urbanized societies. We discuss difficulties in defining “nature” and reasons for the current expansion of the research field, and we assess available reviews. We then consider research on pathways between nature and health involving air quality, physical activity, social cohesion, and stress reduction. Finally, we discuss methodological issues and priorities for future research. The extant research does describe an array of benefits of contact with nature, and evidence regarding some benefits is strong; however, some findings indicate caution is needed in applying beliefs about those benefits,...

Nature and Health

In the real world, a realistic setting for computer vision or multimedia recognition problems is that we have some classes containing lots of training data and many classes contain a small amount of training data. Therefore, how to use frequent classes to help learning rare classes for which it is harder to collect the training data is an open question. Learning with Shared Information is an emerging topic in machine learning, computer vision and multimedia analysis. There are different level of components that can be shared during concept modeling and machine learning stages, such as sharing generic object parts, sharing attributes, sharing transformations, sharing regularization parameters and sharing training examples, etc. Regarding the specific methods, multi-task learning, transfer learning and deep learning can be seen as using different strategies to share information. These learning with shared information methods are very effective in solving real-world large-scale problems. This special issue aims at gathering the recent advances in learning with shared information methods and their applications in computer vision and multimedia analysis. Both state-of-the-art works, as well as literature reviews, are welcome for submission. Papers addressing interesting real-world computer vision and multimedia applications are especially encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:  • Multi-task learning or transfer learning for large-scale computer vision and multimedia analysis • Deep learning for large-scale computer vision and multimedia analysis • Multi-modal approach for large-scale computer vision and multimedia analysis • Different sharing strategies, e.g., sharing generic object parts, sharing attributes, sharing transformations, sharing regularization parameters and sharing training examples, • Real-world computer vision and multimedia applications based on learning with shared information, e.g., event detection, object recognition, object detection, action recognition, human head pose estimation, object tracking, location-based services, semantic indexing. • New datasets and metrics to evaluate the benefit of the proposed sharing ability for the specific computer vision or multimedia problem. • Survey papers regarding the topic of learning with shared information.  Authors who are unsure whether their planned submission is in scope may contact the guest editors prior to the submission deadline with an abstract, in order to receive feedback.

IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence

With the upcoming implementation of high-speed railway infrastructure in the Netherlands, interest has arisen in the spatial-economic effects this might have. Experiences with high-speed rail outside the Netherlands have shown that effects at a local or regional level can be important, due to relocation of employment within regions and cities. This paper focuses on this issue by presenting the results of discrete choice models for office location choice. Both stated choice data and revealed choice data are used. The discrete location choice models give information on to what extent the introduction of high-speed rail in the Netherlands can change the attractiveness of individual cities within the Randstad area on the one hand and of places within these cities on the other hand. As accessibility is an important concept in this topic, attention is given to the specification of accessibility indicators. Hereby, distinction is made between centrality and connectivity. Centrality refers to the position of a location within the transport network and relative to possible origins and destinations. Potential accessibility indicators based on a spatial interaction model are used to represent centrality. Connectivity refers to how well a location is connected to a transport network. Indicators for connectivity are for example the distance to the nearest railway station or motorway access ramp and also the level-of-service provided, such as the train frequency at a station. Furthermore, the paper focuses on a segmentation of employment that reflects this paperÂ’s purpose of studying the influence of (high-speed) rail on location choices. Whereas accessibility by car is relevant for location choices of all types of office employment, accessibility by rail in general and accessibility by high-speed rail in particular seem important to more distinct groups of office employment.

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/117571/1/ERSA2005_308.pdf

High-speed rail's impact on the location of office employment within the Dutch Randstad area

Cycling is environmentally friendly, cheap, beneficial to health and requires relatively little space. Because of all these advantages, many governments are attempting to encourage cycling in general and bicycle commuting in particular. Although many factors have been found to influence bicycle commuting, little attention has been paid to the effect of the specifically work-related factors. This paper aims to investigate which work-related factors – such as working hours, the type of clothing worn and the opinions of colleagues – affect whether a worker is a part-time, full-time or non-cyclist. An internet survey was conducted in the Netherlands. By estimating a multinomial logit model, several factors were found to increase the probability of being a full-time or part-time cyclist. The likelihood of being a full-time cyclist is greater if a bicycle is needed during working hours, if colleagues expect one to commute by bicycle, and if a worker has a permanent or temporary contract rather than being temporary personnel from another company. The likelihood of being a full-time cyclist is smaller if the worker needs to transport heavy or bulky objects and if a car is available for commuting. The probability of being a part-time cyclist is greater if the worker needs a bicycle while at work or does not always have a car available for commuting. The probability is smaller if they always need to transport objects to work and if a private or leased car is needed during working hours. The results can be used to stimulate bicycle commuting more effectively.

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Impact of Work-Related Factors on Levels of Bicycle Commuting

This insightful book discusses the use of Cost–Benefit Analysis (CBA) for transport policy options from an ethical perspective. Each detailed chapter deals with issues such as: the use and ethical aspects of CBA in transport, social exclusion, the environment and long term sustainability, safety, ethics of research and modelling transport. It summarizes ethics-based critics on CBA and discusses their relevance for accessibility, the environment and safety. In addition it explores ethical dilemmas of doing CBAs and CBA related research. The book concludes with possible avenues for further exploring the links between transport and ethics.

Transport and Ethics

This paper reviews a number of quantitative empirical studies on public acceptance of hydrogen technologies in transport (published before May 2008) and provides a reflection on their use of terminology and theory. Looking at the terminology, we argue that the selected papers suffer from a lack of coherence and consistency in their usage of terminology. For example, terms like acceptance and perception have been assigned different meanings across studies. This limits the wider understanding of the results for hydrogen technology acceptance. Based on findings in other acceptability and acceptance research, we suggest ways to increase the consistency of terminology on acceptance and knowledge-related terms. In addition to these terminology-related issues, we show that the majority of reviewed studies lack a firm foundation in relevant theoretical frameworks, such as a broader theoretical framework that incorporates attitude and association measurements. This severely limits a thorough understanding of the issue of acceptance as well as the wider implications of empirical findings. We discuss in depth several avenues for improvement, by referring to available theories in the field of social psychology. Specifically, we show that application of the theory of planned behaviour and dual-processing theories, as well as findings on the influence of 1 Published in: Geerlings, H., Shiftan, Y. & Stead, D. (eds.). (2012) Transition towards Sustainable Mobility: The Role of Instruments, Individuals and Institutions. Ashgate: Surrey, UK. Accepted Author Manuscript

Public acceptance of hydrogen technologies in transport: A review of and reflection on empirical studies

This paper presents car drivers’ preferences for alternative fuels, based on choices observed in a small-scale stated choice experiment. Respondents were requested to choose between a hypothetical alternative fuel vehicle that varied in seven attributes and a comparable petrol-fuel car. The model estimated from these observations indicated that all utility changes were in expected directions, which gives face validity to the model. The results suggest that especially the fuel price, the availability of alternative fuel, measured as the detour to reach a refueling station, and the range of the vehicle most heavily determined the car drivers’ purchase behavior. The model is illustrated by predicting car drivers’ choices for hydrogen-fueled vehicles, under simplified scenarios.

Bert van Wee

Papers

High-speed rail's impact on the location of office employment within the Dutch Randstad area

Impact of Work-Related Factors on Levels of Bicycle Commuting

Transport and Ethics

Public acceptance of hydrogen technologies in transport: A review of and reflection on empirical studies

Car Drivers’ Stated Choices for Hydrogen Cars: Evidence from a Small-Scale Experiment