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Addressing transport disadvantages in regional and rural areas through integrated mobility services
Xi, Haoning; Nelson, John D.; Mulley, Corinne; Hensher, David A.; Ho, Chinh Q.; Balbontin, CamilaPublished 2024-03-14This paper explores mobility barriers and the impact of transport disadvantage on vulnerable individuals (e.g., the elderly, disabled, and low-income) in regional and rural areas, including the limited transport options, ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Advanced modelling of commuter choice model and work from home during COVID-19 restrictions in Australia
Balbontin, Camila; Hensher, David A; Beck, Matthew JPublished 2022The decision to work from home (WFH) or to commute during COVID-19 is having a major structural impact on individuals' travel, work and lifestyle. There are many possible factors influencing this non-marginal change, some ...Article -
Are respondents aware of the process strategies used in decision-making? Modelling business location decisions using multiple stated process strategies
Balbontin, Camila; Hensher, David A.Published 2019-09-01Discrete choice studies are increasingly used in urban planning to understand preferences and to make informed decisions based on its outcomes. Traditional discrete choice modelling approaches have evolved in a setting in ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Barriers towards enhancing mobility through MaaS in a Regional and Rural context: insights from suppliers and organisers
Xi, Haoning; Nelson, John D.; Mulley, Corinne; Hensher, David A.; Ho, Chinh Q.; Balbontin, CamilaPublished 2023-11-02This study explores the potential of a mobility framework for MaaS in a regional and rural context. In-depth interviews of stakeholders, including Non-Transport Providers and Transport Providers, were conducted in three ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Barriers towards enhancing mobility through MaaS in a Regional and Rural context: insights from suppliers and organisers
Xi, Haoning; Nelson, John D.; Mulley, Corinne; Hensher, David A.; Ho, Chinh Q.; Balbontin, CamilaPublished 2024-05-16This study explores the potential of a mobility framework for MaaS in a regional and rural context. In-depth interviews of stakeholders, including Non-Transport Providers and Transport Providers, were conducted in three ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Commuting mode choice and work from home in the later stages of COVID-19: Consolidating a future focussed prediction tool to inform transport and land use planning.
Hensher, David A.; Balbontin, Camila; Beck, Matthew J.; Wei, EdwardPublished 2024-01-18As COVID-19 slowly dissipated after 30 months since March 2020, working from home (WFH) continues to be popular, with support from notable numbers of employees and employers. With growing evidence that we have either ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Comparative Assessment of Zero Emission Electric and Hydrogen Buses in Australia
Hensher, David A.; Wei, Edward; Balbontin, CamilaPublished 2021The pace of electrification for public transit bus fleets is accelerating internationally. Clear targets have been established by transport policymakers to achieve a zero-emission bus target as early as 2030 in some ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
COVID-19 and its influence on the propensity to Work from Home between March 2020 and June 2021
Hensher, David A.; Beck, Matthew J.; Balbontin, CamilaPublished 2024-09-05The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the world of work. With growing support and preference revelation from both employees and employers, we might anticipate a settling in of working from home around one ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Do preferences for BRT and LRT change as a voter, citizen, tax payer, or self- interested resident?
Balbontin, Camila; Hensher, David A.; Ho, Chinh; Mulley, CorinnePublished 2018-05-01Interest in modal preferences remains a topic of high interest as governments make infrastructure decisions that often favour one mode over the other. An informative input into the infrastructure selection process should ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Experience as a conditioning effect on choice – Does it matter whether it is exogenous or endogenous?
Hensher, David A.; Balbontin, Camila; Greene, William H.Published 2019-07-01Hensher and Ho (2017) proposed a way to condition the utility of each alternative in a choice set on experience with the alternatives accumulated over previous periods. The paper found that the overall statistical performance ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Firm-specific and location-specific drivers of business location and relocation decisions
Balbontin, Camila; Hensher, David A.Published 2018-06-01Decisions made by businesses on where to locate or relocate are typically given less consideration than residential location in integrated transport and land use modelling systems. This is surprising given the important ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Heterogeneity in decision processes: Embedding extremeness aversion, risk attitude and perceptual conditioning in multiple heuristics choice making
Hensher, David A.; Balbontin, Camila; Collins, Andrew T.Published 2017-02-01There is an increasing interest, in the discrete choice modelling literature, in alternative behavioural paradigms that represent ways in which individuals make choices when faced with a choice set of alternatives, under ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
How can we identify the different components affecting residential property values before and after the announcement, construction and operation of transport projects? A case study in Sydney, Australia
Balbontin, Camila; Mulley, CorinnePublished 2020-01-01New public transport projects are expensive and long lived and their financing often is a challenge. As a result, cities are often concerned to understand the economic impacts induced by these new public transport projects, ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
How to better represent preferences in choice models: the contributions to preference heterogeneity attributable to the presence of process heterogeneity
Balbontin, Camila; Hensher, David A.; Collins, Andrew T.Published 2018-09-01Discrete choice studies, with rare exception, assume that agents act as if sources of observed utility are captured through a linear in parameters and additive in attributes (LPAA) form, with some interactions. A growing ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Identifying main drivers for students and staff members’ mode choice or to work/study from home or attend University campus: A case study in Australia
Balbontin, Camila; Nelson, John D.; Hensher, David A.; Beck, Matthew J.Published 2024-05-16Universities are major trip attractors and generators in large cities, and they have a significant influence on the transport network particularly in high-density areas. The trips to and from university campuses are made ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The impact of COVID-19 on cost outlays for car and public transport commuting - The case of the Greater Sydney Metropolitan Area after three months of restrictions
Hensher, David A.; Wei, Edward; Beck, MatthewJ.; Balbontin, CamilaPublished 2021This paper estimates the short-term reduction in money and time costs associated with a reduction in car and public transport commuting activity in the Greater Sydney Metropolitan Area (GSMA) during a period of the COVID-19 ...Article -
Impact of COVID-19 on the number of days working from home and commuting travel: A cross-cultural comparison between Australia, South America and South Africa
Balbontin, Camila; Hensher, David A.; Beck, Matthew J.; Giesen, Ricardo; Basnak, Paul; Vallejo-Borda, Jose Agustin; Venter, ChristoffelPublished 2021The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we go about our daily lives in ways that are unlikely to return to the pre-COVID-19 levels. A key feature of the COVID-19 era is likely to be a rethink of the way we work and the ...Article -
The Impact of Working from Home on Modal Commuting Choice Response during COVID-19: Implications for Two Metropolitan Areas in Australia
Hensher, David A.; Balbontin, Camila; Beck, Matthew J.; Wei, EdwardPublished 2022The need to recognise and account for the influence of working from home on commuting activity has never been so real as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Not only does this change the performance of the transport network, ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The influence of working from home on the number of commuting and non-commuting trips by workers during 2020 and 2021 pre- and post-lockdown in Australia
Balbontin, Camila; Hensher, David A.; Beck, Matthew J.Published 2022-08-31Since the start of 2020, we have seen major changes in the way communities operate. Mobility behaviour has been drastically impacted by work from home (WFH) and by lockdowns and restrictions in different jurisdictions. ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Information for travelling: Awareness and usage of the various sources of information available to public transport users in NSW
Mulley, Corinne; Clifton, Geoffrey Tilden; Balbontin, Camila; Ma, LiangPublished 2016-07-01Public transport authorities and service providers place great emphasis on information provision to travellers both before and during travel. Information provided prior to travel has included brochures, printed timetables, ...Open AccessWorking Paper
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