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Social scientists are playing, an increasing part in the work of the Transport and Road Research Laboratory. The Director, Alec Silverleaf, indicates the overall work of TRRL and its impact on soci...al policy-making. Graham Grayson, a psychologist, describes studies of pedestrian behaviour. Steven Town, a sociologist, describes surveys aimed at defining travel problems and patterns of elderly people and schoolchildren. Len Watkins, a civil engineer in charge of a multi-disciplinary team including social scientists, describes two projects aimed at assessing people's reactions to environmental changes resulting from road building schemes. One of these projects is described in detail by an economist, Ray Dawson.
Social scientists are playing, an increasing part in the work of the Transport and Road Research Laboratory. The Director, Alec Silverleaf, indicates the overall work of TRRL and its impact on soci...al policy-making. Graham Grayson, a psychologist, describes studies of pedestrian behaviour. Steven Town, a sociologist, describes surveys aimed at defining travel problems and patterns of elderly people and schoolchildren. Len Watkins, a civil engineer in charge of a multi-disciplinary team including social scientists, describes two projects aimed at assessing people's reactions to environmental changes resulting from road building schemes. One of these projects is described in detail by an economist, Ray Dawson.
| Module code and title: | D101, Making sense of society |
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| Item code: | D101; 29 |
| First transmission date: | 29-05-1975 |
| Published: | 1975 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:18 |
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| Producer: | Charles Pascoe |
| Contributors: | Andrew Learmonth; Alec Silverleaf |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Impact of road building; Pedestrian behaviour studies; Social policy-making; Social science; Transport and Road Research Laboratory; Travel problems/patterns |
| Footage description: | Learmonth introduces the programme from the Transport and Road Research Laboratory TRRL offices. Silverleaf describes the overall aims and activities of the TRRL. He looks at the role that social scientists can play. Grayson looks at his recent research into child pedestrian behaviour. He describes three basic approaches. Firstly dealing with accidents in Hampshire. The second involves analysis of time-lapse photograph sequences. Grayson shows how this is used. The third method involves experiments with children. Shots of these experiments. Town outlines his work and some of the projects he has been concerned with - such as the mobility of the elderly and how children travel to school. He discusses how the team works. Watkins, in front of a display board, introduces the Environment Division. Dawson looks at the technique of environment simulation, how it is used, its advantages and disadvantages. Shots of couple in simulator. Sequence shows couple being interviewed on aspects of the environment simulator. Dawson continues with some results from the simulator, and how results can be checked. Watkins discusses another research technique for assessing reaction to road improvements. This involves film superimpositions - shots of. Silverleaf concludes by discussing the hoped for impact of their work. Learmonth sums up. Shots of traffic in Parliament Square. Credits. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/71999 |
| Production number: | 00525_2181 |
| Videofinder number: | 1687 |
| Available to public: | no |
