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What is happening? – “Europe, like the rest of the world, is facing an unprecedented public health crisis, quickly spreading across the continent. News channels report regular updates on the number of people who are affected and lost their lives” And so European and national authorities have been having to implement drastic measures to limitContinue reading “Covid-19 in context of Travel and Sustainability”

Interestingly, all of these images I have taken in the city in past years, show a form of transport within them.

youtu.be/Aduo2Te0j8U What the video says about the transport in Amsterdam- Travel in Amsterdam can be straightforward and convenient if you know what you are doing and complete confusion if you don’t. The extensive network of transport is operated by the GVB, it connects the City’s neighbourhoods by Tram, metro, bus and ferry.  There are alsoContinue reading “Using a YouTube video to observe the transport in Amsterdam”

So I found a few things that I had kept from my past trips to Amsterdam. A ripleys believe it or not museum ticket, A drumcode festival map of the NDSM docks where the festival occurred and 2 GVB travel tickets, one from 2018 and the other from 2019. I like to keep little thingsContinue reading “Reflection on my own past experiences to Amsterdam”

We are now unable to have face-to-face contact with each other, which means that we are forced to come up with alternative ways to discuss our plans. Sara, has introduced a live chat link which allows us all as a module group to share concerns and solutions. We have been keeping each other up toContinue reading “All face-to-face teaching stopped for the rest of the semester as “coronavirus continues to move at pace””

We are having to rearrange our research plans to suit the new circumstances, but the original research methods for our data collection was semi-structured interviews, observations and urban tours. The two transport companies we had hoped to interview were GVB and RAi, in which we have previously contacted regarding a meet up. RAÍ has notContinue reading “Change of plan…”

So, this morning the university notified us that the plans to go to Amsterdam aren’t able to go ahead due to the CoVid-19 virus. This news has been unanticipated and very unfortunate, as I was looking forward to getting there and getting started, I feel as if we have been landed in a fairly stickyContinue reading “International Field Trip Cancelled”

In today’s lecture we began with the challenge to utilise any knowledge we had on filming, in attempt to produce a well presented interview clip, taking in turns being the interviewee and interviewee (somewhat a trial and error for when the time comes for doing the real thing in Amsterdam). Our group was straightaway familiarContinue reading “Practice Session on Filming 09/03/2020”

So when looking back at our completed proposal, I felt that we did the following things to advantage our proposal- LITERATURE…I THOUGHT we had a vast range of literature, including articles with a broader outlook on the topic of sustainability in Amsterdam, literature based on research in the field of transport and sustainability accompanied withContinue reading “What I thought the key strengths and weakness were on our proposal, compared to the feedback given to improve it”

As a group we have decided that semi-structured interviews would be suitable in researching the senior management side of the transport systems we will be looking at, as we aim to go into the interviews with a set of questions related to the the topic of sustainability and hope that by asking specific questions itContinue reading “The methods I plan to use in answering my research topic question…”