(SANDPIT) Sixth Sense Transport (Reducing/re-distributing transport options through a flexible interpretation of time)

我们的生活受固定的时间安排所支配，活动与学校和工作的开始/结束时间、公共交通时间表、设施开放时间和截止日期保持一致。随时随地24小时社会的兴起导致了商品和服务消费的增加，非标准工作时间表的采用(例如轮班)，以及更有活力的活动计划方法，导致了我们许多人感觉到的持续的忙碌的生活节奏。此外，笔记本电脑、智能手机和掌上电脑与“社交网络”的联系已经彻底改变了人们在工作和家庭中交流的时间、地点和方式，软化了“时间”和“空间”，允许社会关系以欣赏朋友和同事在私人时间的相对性为中心。在这种情况下，参与这些活动的出行行为可能非常复杂，比起碳效率更高的替代方案，更倾向于单独乘坐汽车，导致平均出行距离增加，尽管分配给出行的时间相对保持不变。汽车与社会当前的调度模式高度兼容，替代模式通常不被考虑，因为它们的使用需要额外的认知努力，这往往会将它们从决策集中剔除。我们的研究愿景是了解通过创建一种新形式的“交通网络”，在多大程度上可以促进交通习惯和做法的行为改变，基于将社交网络原则扩展到交通用户及其个人车辆。通过开发名为第六感交通(6ST)的创新、开放、可扩展的技术平台，我们将为用户提供新的方式来理解他们自己未来的交通计划与其他人的关系。这种方法可以利用社交网络原理在时间和空间上为潜在的交通选择创造‘可见性’，从而彻底改变旅行行为(无论是人还是物)的决策过程。如果我们能够更好地看到人和物(汽车、公交车、卡车，甚至卡车内的物品)相对于他们当前和未来的时间安排的活动，以及至关重要的是，人和其他“物”可能愿意联系和适应的条件，我们或许能够实现对交通资源的更多机会主义和协作使用，从而减少与交通相关的总体碳排放。6ST将深入理解日益多样化的时间性和空间性如何影响出行方式选择，以及人和事物可能愿意分享某些个人旅行信息的方式。这将通过创新地使用智能手机和标记技术来提供关于活动和可用性的数据馈送，通过一个平台进行监控，该平台将预测连接机会，然后在社交网络中向用户显示这些机会。6st系统的潜在用户如何适应、改变和协作他们的旅行行为的试验，以及平台提供的潜在交通选择的可见性，将在三个特定领域进行：旅游业(与露营地游客社区有关)，小学教育(与儿童接送和收集有关)和城市物流(空间可用性和送货/接送车辆的利用率)。

Our lives are governed by 'fixed' time schedules with activities aligned to school and work start/end times, public transport schedules, facility opening hours and deadlines. The rise of the 'anytime' 24 hour society has led to increased consumption of goods and services, the take-up of non-standard work schedules (e.g., rotating shifts), and a more dynamic approach to activity planning, leading to the constant 'hectic' pace of life many of us feel. Coupled to this is how laptops, smart phones and PDAs, linked to 'social networking' have revolutionized when, where and how people communicate in work and at home, softening 'time' and 'space', allowing social relationships to revolve around the appreciation of the relativity of friends and colleagues in personal time.Under these circumstances, trip making behaviour to engage in these activities can be very complex, favouring single occupancy car use over more carbon efficient alternatives and resulting in mean travel distances increasing despite the time allocated to travel remaining relatively consistent. The car is highly compatible with society's current scheduling patterns and alternative modes are often not considered as their use requires additional cognitive effort which often removes them from the decision making set.Our research vision is to understand the extent to which behavioural change in transport habits and practices can be facilitated through the creation of a new form of 'transport network', based on extending social networking principles to transport users and their individual vehicles. Through the development of an innovative, open, extensible technical platform called 6th Sense Transport (6ST), we will provide users with new ways of understanding the relationships between their own future transport plans and those of others. This approach could revolutionise the process of decision making in travel behaviour (whether it be for the movement of people or things) by using social networking principles to create 'visibility' of potential transport options in time and space. If we are better able to visualise the activity of people and things (cars, buses, lorries, even items within a lorry) relative to their immediate and future time schedules, and crucially, the conditions under which people and other 'things' might be willing to liaise and adapt, we might be able to realise more opportunistic and collaborative uses for transport resources, leading to a reduction in overall transport related carbon emissions. 6ST will provide a deep understanding of how the increasingly multiple forms of temporality and spatiality influence travel mode choices and the ways in which people and 'things' might be willing to share certain personal travel information. This will be achieved through the novel use of smart phone and tagging technology to provide data feeds on activity and availability, monitored through a Platform that will anticipate opportunities for connections that are then made visible to users in the social network.Experiments in how potential users of a 6ST system might adapt, alter and collaborate in their travel behaviour, with the visibility of potential transport options afforded by the Platform, will be undertaken in three specific domains: Tourism (in relation to visitor communities on campsites), Primary Education (in relation to child drop-off and collection) and Urban Logistics (space availability and utilisation on delivery/collection vehicles).