The School of Civil Engineering and Surveying

Profile

Academic qualifications

• Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, University of Portsmouth
• PhD, University of Strathclyde
• MSc Transport Planning & Traffic Engineering
• BEng Civil Engineering

Teaching

• Transportation Engineering
• Professional Development 1

Research

• Land Use Transport Interaction (LUTI) modelling
• Travel behaviour models
• Sustainable urban forms

Other academic duties

• Industrial Placements Coordinator
• Industrial Liaison Contact
• Employability Ambassador
• Learning and Teaching Coordinator

Selected publications

1. Woods, L., and Ferguson, N., (2013). The Influence of Urban Form on Car Travel Following Residential Re-location: A current and retrospective study in Scottish urban areas. Journal of Transport and Land Use. Under review.
2. Collins, A., Cox, A., Ferguson, N., Woods, L., (2013). Mileage, fuel economy and vehicle choice by households: Some survey evidence. The Energy Journal. Under review.
3. Broadstock, D., Collins, A., Cox, A., Ferguson, N., Woods, L., (2013). Moral pressure, private vehicles, vehicle attributes, urban form, multiple vehicle ownership. Transportation Research (A). Under review.
4. Woods, L., and Andrade, K., (2013). Cycling and Cyclist Traffic Accidents in Japan and Great Britain.  World Conference on Transportation Research, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. May, 2013.
5. Woods, L., Andrade, K., Airinioti, M. (2012). Cycling in British and Japanese Urban Areas: A Case Study of Divergent Trends. Planning Research Conference, Brighton, April, 2012.
6. Cox, A., Collins, A., Woods, L., and Ferguson, N., (2011). A household level environmental Kuznets curve? Some recent evidence on transport emissions and income. Economics Letters.
7. Teeling, C., and Woods, L., (eds) (2011). TraCit. Transport Carbon IntenCities: An advice guide. Power Interreg Programme, ISBN: 9781861376244.
8. Andrade, K., and Woods, L., (2011). Cycling within urban areas: the cases of England and Japan. European Transport Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K. October, 2011.
9. Andrade, K., Kagaya, S., Woods, L., (2011). Cycling in Japan and Great Britain: A Preliminary Discussion. European Regional Science Association Congress. Barcelona, Spain. August, 2011.
10. Woods, L., and Ferguson, N. S., (2010a). Urban Form as a Travel Demand Management Tool: Can it create more sustainable travel in Glasgow and Edinburgh? The fifth annual symposium on Travel Demand Management, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K. 26th-28th October, 2010.
11. Ferguson, N. S., Woods, L., (2010), Travel and Mobility. Dimensions of the Sustainable City No. 2, pp. 53-74, Springer, Netherlands.
12. Woods, L., and Ferguson, N. S., (2010). Can the planning system create more sustainable patterns of mobility in Glasgow? Planning Research Conference, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, Essex, U.K. 7th-9th April, 2010.
13. Bagaeen, S., and Woods, L., (2008). Sustainability in the city region: toward a new way of thinking, planning and managing in Glasgow (Sostenibilidad en la region urbana: construyendo enscenarios para el dessarrollo sostenibile en Glasgow). Schoonjans, Y., et al. (eds.) Readings on Sustainability and Heritage ‐ architecture and urban culture in Latin America and Europe, Brussels, 2008 (ISBN: 9789081323819), pp.167‐193 (English and Spanish).
14. Ferguson, N. S., and Woods, L., (2007). Investigating the relationship between residential location and activity participation. Planning Research Conference, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K. 10th-12th April, 2007.
15. Woods, L., Ferguson, N. S., and Wall, R., (2007). The Influence of Residential Built Form on Household Travel Behaviour: An analysis using retrospective panel data. Planning Research Conference, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K. 10th-12th April, 2007.
16. Woods, L., and Ferguson, N. S., (2006b). How ‘life history’ influences current household travel behaviour. Fourth Annual Meeting of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility. Paris. 28th September - 1st October, 2006.
17. Frey, H. W., Ferguson, N. S., Bagaeen, S. G., and Woods, L., (2006). Suburbs reconsidered: form, mobility and sustainability. Built Environment, 32(3), 250-266.
18. Woods, L., and Ferguson, N. S., (2006a). A multilevel analysis of travel behaviour and accessibility. 38th Annual UTSG Conference, Dublin. 4-6th January, 2006.