Publications

Electrifying railway station parking : enhancing Scotland's sustainable mobility

McGarry Connor, Hunter Lewis, Dixon James, Galloway Stuart

IET Conference Proceedings Vol 2024, pp. 646-652 (2025)

https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2024.2121

Achieving deep transport energy demand reductions in the United Kingdom

Brand Christian, Marsden Greg, Anable Jillian, Dixon James, Barrett John

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Vol 207 (2025)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2024.114941

(Two) wheels on the bus : road user perceptions of a bike bus and how this links to addressing global health challenges

Harrington Deirdre M, Bardid Farid, Cory Katherine, Dixon James, Dodd Sarah, Ferguson Neil, Roberts Jennifer J, Bonner James

Journal of Physical Activity and Health Vol 21, pp. 1382-1390 (2024)

https://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2024-0219

Implementing data-to-deal in transport : addressing the complexities of a multi-stakeholder, multi-policy sector

Quiros-Tortos Jairo, Howells Mark, Dalkmann Holger, Dixon James, Tan Naomi, Jaramillo Marcela

(2024)

Transport-energy modelling in sub-Saharan Africa : innovations and opportunities to support informed policymaking towards equitable, clean access for all

Sturgess David, Mitullah Winnie, Msoni Malindi, Chivunga Joyce, Dzisi Emmanuel, Morrissey Helen, Boateng Festival, Nkurunziza Alphonse, Agbevivi Doris, Kadewa Wilfred, Pierard Elena, Orjuela Mendoza Juan Pablo, Usher Will, Dalkmann Holger, Dixon James

(2024)

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14042944

Introducing a new CCG tool: OSeMobility, the open-source mobilities model

Dixon James, Pierard Elena, Li Tang, Brand Christian, Sivakumar Aruna, Hine John, Dalkmann Holger

Climate Compatible Growth Annual General Meeting (2024)

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Research Interests

• Low-carbon transport
• Modelling and simulation
• Electric vehicles
• Electricity system flexibility
• Distribution system planning & operation
• Energy storage and demand side management

Professional Activities

Transport-energy modelling in sub-Saharan Africa: innovations and opportunities to support informed policymaking towards equitable, clean access for all

Speaker

20/2/2025

How are we decarbonising transport?

Speaker

2/10/2024

European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE) Summer Study 2024

Participant

13/6/2024

Asian Development Bank Asia and the Pacific Transport Forum 2024

Participant

16/5/2024

TEAM-Kenya Launch Event: a transport-energy decision support tool for Kenya

Participant

23/2/2024

Climate Compatible Growth (CCG) annual workshop, Ghana 2024

Participant

2024

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Projects

DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Sturgess, David

Dixon, James (Principal Investigator) Ferguson, Neil (Co-investigator) Sturgess, David (Research Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2028

Climate Compatible Growth (Transport) FY24-25

Dixon, James (Principal Investigator)

01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025

Design HOPES (Healthy Organisations in a Place-based Ecosystem, Scotland)

Rodgers, Paul (Principal Investigator) Dixon, James (Co-investigator) Dragojlovic-Oliveira, Sonja (Co-investigator) Galloway, Stuart (Co-investigator) Inns, Tom (Co-investigator) Tapinos, Efstathios (Co-investigator) Wodehouse, Andrew (Co-investigator) Wright, George (Co-investigator)

Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century. The more we ignore the climate emergency the bigger the impact will be on health and the need for care with poor environmental health contributing to major diseases, including cardiac problems, asthma and cancer. Many of the actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change and improve environmental sustainability also have positive health benefits; the Lancet Commission has described tackling climate change as "the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century". The challenges faced present an incredible opportunity to do things differently - to take a design-led approach in designing and making through high-reward demonstrator projects to help transform the health ecosystem. Through wider public engagement we aim to advance societal understanding of design's impact, and the opportunities, barriers, behaviour changes and tools needed to transition to a green approach. This research will unite a wide range of disciplines, research organisations, regional and local industry, and other public sector stakeholders, with policy-makers. The Design HOPES Green Transition Ecosystem (GTE) Hub will sustain a phased long-term investment to embed design-led innovation, circularity, sustainability and impact for the changing market, across product, service, strategy, policy and social drivers to evolve future design outcomes that matter to the people and planet. Our research is organised around seven core Thematic Workstreams, based on the NHS Scotland Climate Emergency and Sustainability Strategy (2022-2026). Design HOPES will be delivered and managed by interdisciplinary teams with significant expertise in design and making, co-creation, health and social care, with professionals with a sustainability remit, and businesses working in the design economy. Design HOPES encompasses a rich disciplinary mix of knowledge, skills, and expertise from a range of design disciplines (i.e., product, textile, interaction, games, architecture etc.) and other disciplines (computer science, health and wellbeing, geography, engineering, etc.) that will be focused on people and planet (including all living things), from the micro to macro, from root cause to hopeful vision, from the present to the future, and from the personal to the wider system. Design HOPES will design and make things and test them to see how they work, which will help more ideas and things emerge. The Hub will be an inclusive, safe, collaborative space that will bring in multiple and marginalised perspectives and view its projects as one part of a wider movement for transformational change whilst not overlooking existing assets and how we can re-use, nurture and develop these sustainably. Design HOPES aims to be an internationally recognised centre of excellence, promoting and embedding best practice through our collaborative design-led thinking and making approaches to build a more equitable and sustainable health and social care system. We will create new opportunities to support both existing services and new design-led health innovations in collaboration with NHS Boards across Scotland, the Scottish Government, patient and public representatives, health and social care partners, the third sector, academia and industry. Our seven Thematic Workstreams and associated projects will deliver a rich mix of tangible outcomes such as new innovative products, services, and policies (e.g., sustainable theatre consumables, packaging, clothing, waste services, etc.) during the funded period. With award-winning commercialisation and entrepreneurial support from the collaborating universities, we will also look to create new "green' enterprises and businesses. We will achieve this internationally recognised centre of excellence using design-led thinking and making to build a more equitable and sustainable health and social care system.

01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2025

Climate Compatible Growth-FCDO

Dixon, James (Principal Investigator)

01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024

CREDS - Covid Net-Zero Flex

Galloway, Stuart (Principal Investigator) Dixon, James (Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2023

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Power Networks and Smart Grids | Dixon, James

Bell, Keith (Principal Investigator) Booth, Campbell (Co-investigator) Dixon, James (Research Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2015 - 23-Jan-2020

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