R W Vickerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1091103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R W Vickerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | R W |
| FAMILY NAME | Vickerman |
| SIGNATURE | VICKERMAN R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Transport Infrastructure and Region Building in the European Community
Policy Review Section
In this Policy Review Section, Ian Holliday and Roger Vickerman of the University of Kent examine the regional impact of the Channel Tunnel in the context of the different political and administrative systems prevailing within Britain and France. Eurotunnel, the company which is licensed by the French and British governments to build and operate the Tunnel, has no government finance or guarantees and hence the public authorities have no direct co…
The Channel Tunnel: Consequences for Regional Growth and Development
VICKERMAN R. W. (1987) The Channel Tunnel: consequences for regional growth and development, Reg. Studies 21, 187–197. The building of a Channel Tunnel has been heralded as having a major impact on the neighbouring regions of Kent and Nord-Pas de Calais, and also on other British regions, both through short-run impacts of construction and in the longer run through changes in accessibility and competitiveness. This paper makes a preliminary assess…
Urban Economics
Leisure and Social Change: Some Experiences of a Programme of Research in the United Kingdom
The upsurge of interest in Leisure research in the 1960s and 1970s led in the U.K. to the establishment in 1978 of a joint Panel on Recreation and Leisure Research funded jointly by the Sports Council and the Social Science Research Council. This Panel was to have a five-year life in which it was to formulate a programme of research, commission specific research projects within that programme and to monitor and improve on communications between i…
On Output Measurement and Benefit Evaluation in Leisure
The paper argues that many cost-benefit studies in the leisure sector fail to identify correctly the output of recreational facilities and hence become cost-effectiveness rather than true cost-benefit studies. Building on some research on the benefits of urban sports centres conducted for the U.K. Sports Council the paper argues the need to distinguish between intermediate and final outputs. Traditional means of measuring outputs through measurin…
The Conceptualisation of Output and Cost-Benefit Evaluation for Leisure Facilities
Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses have become widely used tools for the justification of leisure-related expenditures, but are based on a number of inadequate assumptions. The narrow conceptualisations both of outputs and of inputs, and an oversimplified production function linking them are the main problems. Participation is usually assumed to provide an adequate measure of output or benefit accruing to the participant, but it is a me…
Urban and Regional Change, Migration and Commuting — The Dynamics of Workplace, Residence and Transport Choice
A key factor in the spatial structure of metropolitan areas is the relationship between workplace and residential location. This is particularly critical in any attempt to model the changes in structure which result from intra-metropolitan moves of employment and households. This paper attempts to provide a more satisfactory framework for understanding the dynamics of these changes. Empirical evidence is presented for the London region based on b…
The contribution of economics to the study of leisure: A review
The paper reviews aspects of the scope of the economist's interest in, and contribution to, the study of leisure. No attempt is made to provide a full and comprehensive guide to all leisure-related work with an economic content but rather to assess the main concerns of the economist, the current state of the art in tackling each of these concerns, and the main dimensions of future developments of relevance to those interested in leisure
Evaluating Urban Parks and Recreation
The new leisure society
The Evaluation of Urban Change: Equilibrium and Adaptive Approaches
The paper is concerned with the problem of providing a basis for the evaluation of major changes in urban infrastructure. Recent developments in general equilibrium modelling of urban systems have tackled these interdependencies between sectors which cause problems in the use of traditional partial equilibrium approaches. However, while such models offer valuable insights into the working and dynamic development of urban systems their use in asse…
The Economics of Leisure and Recreation
Accessibility, Attraction, and Potential: A Review of Some Concepts and Their Use in Determining Mobility
Some confusion seems to have developed over the relationship between accessibility and travel patterns. Various concepts of attraction, accessibility, and potential are examined with the object of reaching a more satisfactory definition. Multivariate analysis of data relating to an urban area suggests that the influences of conventional accessibility indices are concealed by collinear socioeconomic variations; when these are separated there is a …
The Evaluation of Benefits from Recreational Projects
A Demand Model for Leisure Travel
The nature of leisure travel is examined and a new approach to demand modelling is suggested that incorporates attraction and accessibility factors into a disaggregated trip generation model which is mode specific. Some experimental empirical estimation of a version of the model yields worthwhile results, and suggests lines for further research and development
The Channel Tunnel: Consequences for Regional Growth and Development
VICKERMAN R. W. (1987) The Channel Tunnel: consequences for regional growth and development, Reg. Studies 21, 187–197. The building of a Channel Tunnel has been heralded as having a major impact on the neighbouring regions of Kent and Nord-Pas de Calais, and also on other British regions, both through short-run impacts of construction and in the longer run through changes in accessibility and competitiveness. This paper makes a preliminary assess…
Transport Infrastructure and Region Building in the European Community
Urban and Regional Change, Migration and Commuting — The Dynamics of Workplace, Residence and Transport Choice
A key factor in the spatial structure of metropolitan areas is the relationship between workplace and residential location. This is particularly critical in any attempt to model the changes in structure which result from intra-metropolitan moves of employment and households. This paper attempts to provide a more satisfactory framework for understanding the dynamics of these changes. Empirical evidence is presented for the London region based on b…
Policy Review Section
In this Policy Review Section, Ian Holliday and Roger Vickerman of the University of Kent examine the regional impact of the Channel Tunnel in the context of the different political and administrative systems prevailing within Britain and France. Eurotunnel, the company which is licensed by the French and British governments to build and operate the Tunnel, has no government finance or guarantees and hence the public authorities have no direct co…
The new leisure society
A Demand Model for Leisure Travel
The nature of leisure travel is examined and a new approach to demand modelling is suggested that incorporates attraction and accessibility factors into a disaggregated trip generation model which is mode specific. Some experimental empirical estimation of a version of the model yields worthwhile results, and suggests lines for further research and development
The Evaluation of Benefits from Recreational Projects
Accessibility, Attraction, and Potential: A Review of Some Concepts and Their Use in Determining Mobility
Some confusion seems to have developed over the relationship between accessibility and travel patterns. Various concepts of attraction, accessibility, and potential are examined with the object of reaching a more satisfactory definition. Multivariate analysis of data relating to an urban area suggests that the influences of conventional accessibility indices are concealed by collinear socioeconomic variations; when these are separated there is a …
The Evaluation of Benefits from Recreational Projects
A Demand Model for Leisure Travel
The nature of leisure travel is examined and a new approach to demand modelling is suggested that incorporates attraction and accessibility factors into a disaggregated trip generation model which is mode specific. Some experimental empirical estimation of a version of the model yields worthwhile results, and suggests lines for further research and development
The Economics of Leisure and Recreation
The Evaluation of Urban Change: Equilibrium and Adaptive Approaches
The paper is concerned with the problem of providing a basis for the evaluation of major changes in urban infrastructure. Recent developments in general equilibrium modelling of urban systems have tackled these interdependencies between sectors which cause problems in the use of traditional partial equilibrium approaches. However, while such models offer valuable insights into the working and dynamic development of urban systems their use in asse…
The new leisure society
The contribution of economics to the study of leisure: A review
The paper reviews aspects of the scope of the economist's interest in, and contribution to, the study of leisure. No attempt is made to provide a full and comprehensive guide to all leisure-related work with an economic content but rather to assess the main concerns of the economist, the current state of the art in tackling each of these concerns, and the main dimensions of future developments of relevance to those interested in leisure
Evaluating Urban Parks and Recreation
Urban and Regional Change, Migration and Commuting — The Dynamics of Workplace, Residence and Transport Choice
A key factor in the spatial structure of metropolitan areas is the relationship between workplace and residential location. This is particularly critical in any attempt to model the changes in structure which result from intra-metropolitan moves of employment and households. This paper attempts to provide a more satisfactory framework for understanding the dynamics of these changes. Empirical evidence is presented for the London region based on b…
Leisure and Social Change: Some Experiences of a Programme of Research in the United Kingdom
The upsurge of interest in Leisure research in the 1960s and 1970s led in the U.K. to the establishment in 1978 of a joint Panel on Recreation and Leisure Research funded jointly by the Sports Council and the Social Science Research Council. This Panel was to have a five-year life in which it was to formulate a programme of research, commission specific research projects within that programme and to monitor and improve on communications between i…
On Output Measurement and Benefit Evaluation in Leisure
The paper argues that many cost-benefit studies in the leisure sector fail to identify correctly the output of recreational facilities and hence become cost-effectiveness rather than true cost-benefit studies. Building on some research on the benefits of urban sports centres conducted for the U.K. Sports Council the paper argues the need to distinguish between intermediate and final outputs. Traditional means of measuring outputs through measurin…
The Conceptualisation of Output and Cost-Benefit Evaluation for Leisure Facilities
Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses have become widely used tools for the justification of leisure-related expenditures, but are based on a number of inadequate assumptions. The narrow conceptualisations both of outputs and of inputs, and an oversimplified production function linking them are the main problems. Participation is usually assumed to provide an adequate measure of output or benefit accruing to the participant, but it is a me…
Urban Economics
The Channel Tunnel: Consequences for Regional Growth and Development
VICKERMAN R. W. (1987) The Channel Tunnel: consequences for regional growth and development, Reg. Studies 21, 187–197. The building of a Channel Tunnel has been heralded as having a major impact on the neighbouring regions of Kent and Nord-Pas de Calais, and also on other British regions, both through short-run impacts of construction and in the longer run through changes in accessibility and competitiveness. This paper makes a preliminary assess…
Policy Review Section
In this Policy Review Section, Ian Holliday and Roger Vickerman of the University of Kent examine the regional impact of the Channel Tunnel in the context of the different political and administrative systems prevailing within Britain and France. Eurotunnel, the company which is licensed by the French and British governments to build and operate the Tunnel, has no government finance or guarantees and hence the public authorities have no direct co…
Transport Infrastructure and Region Building in the European Community
Economics (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Recreation (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Housing Market and Economics (4 works)