Public Attitude to Traffic Restraint Measures in CBD Area

This paper summarises the program of work carried out at TRRL up to 1971 on traffic restraint treated as a policy for transport planning. The special techniques required were developed and are described here. The theoretical framework within which local traffic effects can be treated at a strategic level is developed using marginal cost road pricing as an example, and the necessarily stringent pricing establishing the convergence, stability, and repeatability of the results is described for a practical algorithm which can readily be used in other transport planning program systems. The application of these techniques to analyse the comparative effects of different traffic restraint policies, and the variations on the techniques required to handle several groups of travellers who react differently to restraint measures, are the subject of companion papers to appear later in this journal.

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Information and Communication Technologies: assessing public attitude and local government resolve

Public Policy and Administration ◽

10.1177/095207670001500303 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 20-31

Author(s):

K. Isaac-Henry ◽

Chris Barnes

Keyword(s):

Local Government ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Public Attitude ◽

Information And Communication

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The Nature and Role of Science Kits in Affecting Change in Public Attitude Toward Understanding of Science

Communicating Science to the Public ◽

10.1007/978-94-017-9097-0_4 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 47-62 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Daniel L. Dickerson ◽

Craig O. Stewart ◽

Stephanie Hathcock ◽

William McConnell

Keyword(s):

Public Attitude ◽

Science Kits ◽

Understanding Of Science

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Corpus-based analysis of the collocational profiles of the terms denoting the mentally challenged

Linguistik Online ◽

10.13092/lo.81.3647 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 81 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Liana Markelova

Keyword(s):

Public Perception ◽

American English ◽

Public Attitude ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Web Pages ◽

Gradual Change ◽

Web Based ◽

English Speaking ◽

The Difference ◽

Semantic Prosody

The present study aims to trace the evolution of public attitude towards the mentally challenged by means of the corpus-based analysis. The raw data comes from the two of the BYU corpora: Global Web-Based English (GloWbE) and Corpus of Historical American English (COHA). The former is comprised of 1.8 million web pages from 20 English-speaking countries (Davies/Fuchs 2015: 1) and provides an opportunity to research at a cross-cultural level, whereas the latter, containing 400 million words from more than 100,000 texts ranging from the 1810s to the 2000s (Davies 2012: 121), allows to carry on a diachronic research on the issue. To identify the difference in attitudes the collocational profiles of the terms denoting the mentally challenged were created. Having analysed them in terms of their semantic prosody one might conclude that there are certain semantic shifts that occurred due to the modern usage preferences and gradual change in public perception of everything strange, unusual and unique.

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Investigation report on public attitude towards carpet smoking ban in ten cities of China

Tobacco Induced Diseases ◽

10.18332/tid/84462 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Dayi Hu ◽

Yulian Gao

Keyword(s):

Public Attitude ◽

Smoking Ban ◽

Investigation Report

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Are Photographs Worth More Than a Thousand Words? Examining the Effects of Photographic–Textual and Textual-Only Frames on Public Attitude Toward Nuclear Energy and Nanotechnology

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly ◽

10.1177/1077699017741090 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 95 (4) ◽

pp. 948-970 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Edmund W. J. Lee ◽

Shirley S. Ho

Keyword(s):

Risk Perception ◽

Visual Attention ◽

Eye Tracking ◽

Nuclear Energy ◽

Public Support ◽

Public Attitude ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Tracking Data ◽

Subject Design ◽

The Impact

This study examines the impact of photographic–textual and risk–benefit frames on the level of visual attention, risk perception, and public support for nuclear energy and nanotechnology in Singapore. Using a 2 (photographic–textual vs. textual-only frames) × 2 (risk vs. benefit frames) × 2 (nuclear energy vs. nanotechnology) between-subject design with eye-tracking data, the results showed that photographic–textual frames elicited more attention and did have partial amplification effect. However, this was observable only in the context of nuclear energy, where public support was lowest when participants were exposed to risk frames accompanied by photographs. Implications for theory and practice were discussed.

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