https://hdl.handle.net/2123/17752 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:13:47 GMT 2026-06-13T16:13:47Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19156 Getting Planes off the Ground: Key Concepts and Issues in Airport Capacity Planning and Management Raguraman, K. Thu, 01 Jul 1999 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19156 1999-07-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19154 Regaining the Fundamentals Stone, Alastair Transport policy and planning has relatively few but important fundamentals. Research has focused on marginal issues and not fundamentals. The paper reviews physical fundamentals, moves through economic and financial, then institutional arrangements, policy-making fundamentals, and finally takes a look into the future. Along the way conclusions are drawn that physical constraints narrow choice greatly; that the problem with growth as an objective is mainly in it’s definition as GDP; that pricing is under-utilised; and that the use of transport as a tax base will become unacceptable. A review of decision-making fundamentals points to a need to change institutional arrangements to better reflect the trade-off between technological scale, creditworthiness and responsiveness to demand, and to counter balance the current power of supply institutions. Finally a new organisational model is proposed that meets the criteria of the framework of the fundamentals discussed in the paper. The model is called a Community Infrastructure Corporation, and works by placing control of supply primarily in the hands of those demanding service. Mon, 01 Feb 1999 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19154 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19158 Suitability of Fuel Efficiency as a Criterion in Passenger Vehicle Classification: An Investigation of the Classification Capability of Decision Tree Approach Ton, Tu T.; Wang, Baojin Sat, 01 May 1999 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19158 1999-05-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19164 "Simulated Consulting": A Win-Win Experience in Transport Engineering Education Rose, Geoff Students undertaking a final year elective subject in Transportation Planning at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, were given the opportunity to work on a practical project for which there was an interested outside ‘client’. From the student’s perspective, this was essentially a ‘simulated’ consulting project which focussed on transport planning issues faced by the City of Port Phillip, an inner metropolitan municipality in Melbourne. The overall experience, from everybody’s perspective, proved to be so positive that the model for the project will be used in the course in future years. This paper has been written to inform other engineering educators of how the project was implemented and to highlight some of the educational issues which this type of experience raised. Of particular interest to educators are issues associated with the functioning of some of the student groups in the project and the opportunities provided by projects of this nature to establish strong industry links. Mon, 01 Nov 1999 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19164 1999-11-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19160 Modelling Urban Freight: What Works, What Doesn't Work? Taylor, Samantha Y; Button, Kenneth J There are now numerous models that seek to explain urban freight patterns. Many of these models are for short-term policy but others are used for long-term planning. This paper looks at the alternative approaches that are being used for planning based modelling. Some places, such as Portland Oregon, use a relatively pragmatic approach, other cities have adopted more academic approaches. The former have particular advantages in terms of data requirements. Much depends upon the nature of the overall policies being reviewed and these differ considerably between cities. In Europe for example, there is a tendency to focus on 'public' distribution centres at the outskirts of cities. Thu, 01 Jul 1999 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19160 1999-07-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19159 A Survey Method for Cycle Networks – a Swiss Example Richardson, A.J. Wed, 01 Sep 1999 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19159 1999-09-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19162 Improving Dynamic Travel Time Estimates for Melbourne’s Drive Time System Paterson, Darryn; Rose, Geoff; Bean, Steve Vic Roads Drive Time is an operational ITS system that dynamically calculates travel times on Melbourne freeways and conveys them to motorists in real time on roadside Changeable Message Signs. While the system has gained acceptance from users, it has a tendency to predict low and high travel times in the lead up to and decline from peak periods respectively. This paper presents a new algorithm for predicting freeway travel times based on work commissioned by Vic Roads. The new algorithm has the ability to be used in any traffic situation between any two points. It also has the ability to account for the relative speeds and densities of vehicles within the traffic stream. Calibration and field testing of the enhanced algorithm has indicated that substantial improvements in travel time prediction can be achieved when compared to the existing system. Mon, 01 Nov 1999 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19162 1999-11-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19033 Understanding Travel Behaviour: Some Appealing Research Directions Hensher, David A. This paper presents one researchers perception of selective emphases in the body of travel behaviour research which have had and/or may in the future have a non-marginal impact on the way that research activity is undertaken. Some of the contributions are well established and have moved from state of the art to state of practice; other efforts are relatively new and maturing in their role as paradigms of thought. The contributions can broadly be grouped into four classes of research: decision paradigms, in particular the interpretation of the choice process within a broad activity framework, and the recognition that agents making decisions do not always operate in a perfectly competitive market; releasing the analytical formalism of the choice/decision process from the restrictive IIA paradigm of the great majority of applied travel choice modelling - moving to nested structures, free variance and correlation among alternatives, random taste weights, accommodating unobserved heterogeneity and mixed 'logits'; combining sources of preference and choice data, including joint analysis of market and experimental choice data, interfaces between attitudinal and behavioural data, and generalising valuation to valuation functions; and advances in the study of the dynamics of traveller behaviour, especially the timing of change and its importance in establishing hurdle dates for forecasting traffic and revenue for infrastructure projects. Fri, 01 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19033 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19042 Conjoint Preference Elicitation Methods in the Broader Context of Random Utility Theory Preference Elicitation Methods Hensher, David A.; Louviere, Jordan J.; Swait, Joffre Mon, 01 Mar 1999 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19042 1999-03-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19045 Modelling Road Safety Trends and Predicting Road Fatalities in Australia Wang, Baojin; Hensher, David A.; Ton, Tu T. Mon, 01 Mar 1999 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19045 1999-03-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19047 Parking Demand and Responsiveness to Supply, Pricing and Location in the Sydney Central Business District Hensher, David A.; King, Jenny Thu, 01 Apr 1999 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19047 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19055 Are More Profiles Better than Less? Searching for Parsimony and Relevance in Stated Choice Experiments Stopher, Peter; Hensher, David A. Tue, 01 Jun 1999 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19055 1999-06-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19054 Measuring Service Quality and Evaluating its Influence on the Cost of Service Provision Prioni, Paola; Hensher, David A. Tue, 01 Jun 1999 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19054 1999-06-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19056 The Missing Link in Contract Performance Assessment: The Integration of a Service Quality Index into a Competitive Tendering Regime Hensher, David A.; Prioni, Paola Over the last two decades the bus industry in many countries has been involved in a process of economic deregulation, competitive regulation and privatisation. Among the different policy practices designed to increase competition, competitive tendering represents a widespread policy intervention. Although there is extensive acceptance of competitive tendering, the focus has been on cost efficiency and cost effectiveness designed to identify the mix of inputs used to produce a given level of output at the lowest cost, where output is produced services (eg vehicle kilometres) on the efficiency measure and consumed services (eg passenger kilometres) on the effectiveness measure. Regulators have been singularly unsuccessful in developing a robust specification of service quality levels, and have come into criticism that the focus of economic reform has concentrated too much on saving money at the expense of preservation and enhancement of service levels. The definition of service level has tended to ignore the quality of service, limiting the specification of a predetermined level of service to simple physical measures such as vehicle kilometres and passengers carried. In this paper we develop a method of filling in the missing link in the specification of contract performance - service effectiveness - which measures the effectiveness of a service in satisfying passengers. Thu, 01 Jul 1999 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19056 1999-07-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19037 How are Urban Bus Fleets Performing in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions? The Australian Experience King, Jenny; Hensher, David A. The transport sector is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Although the bus operator is a small player in the emissions stakes, the entire life cycle emissions from the manufacture of buses and diesel fuel is a significant contributor to CO2.The consequences of the move from manual to automatic buses is that we are seeing a noticeable increase in emissions, even though automatic transmissions are themselves becoming increasingly more environmentally friendly. This paper reviews the evidence in Australia based on a 1998 survey of over 1400 buses. The challenge is to find ways of reducing CO2 emissions of automatic buses as they replace manual buses in similar operational contexts without increasing the amount of emissions. Fri, 01 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19037 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19039 Valuation of Environmental Impacts of Transportation Projects: The Challenge of Self-Interest Proximity Daniels, Rhonda; Hensher, David A. Notable progress has been made in valuing non-monetary benefits of transportation projects such as travel time savings, but we are struggling to identify monetary values at the individual project level for many environmental attributes such as changes in open space, noise, air quality, greenhouse gas emissions and amenity. The difficulty may be aligned to the idea of attribute proximity to the self-interest paradigm. The empirical findings presented here, based on stated choice experiments, suggest that environmental attributes that are distant in selfinterest proximity such as open space are unlikely to be appropriately valued when mixed in a trade-off with attributes close in self-interest proximity such as travel time or reductions in local traffic unless noticeable gains in self-interest attributes accompany desirable levels of attributes defining environmental impacts. This finding has important implications for the design of empirical studies using stated choice methods for valuation. Mon, 01 Feb 1999 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19039 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19041 Specification and Estimation of Nested Logit Models Hensher, David A.; Greene, William H. The nested logit model is currently the preferred extension to the simple multinomial logit discrete choice model. The appeal of the nested logit model is its ability to accommodate differential degrees of interdependence (i.e. similarity) between subsets of alternatives in a choice set. The received literature displays a frequent lack of attention to the very precise form that a nested logit model must take to ensure that the resulting model is invariant to normalisation of scale and is consistent with utility maximisation. Some recent papers by Koppelman and Wen (1998a, 1998b) and Hunt (1998) have addressed some aspects of this issue, but some important points remain somewhat ambiguous. When utility function parameters have different implicit scales, imposing equality restrictions on common attributes associated with different alternatives (i.e. making them generic) can distort these differences in scale. Model scale parameters are then ‘forced’ to take up the real differences that should be handled via the utility function parameters. With many variations in model specification appearing in the literature, comparisons become difficult, if not impossible, without clear statements of the precise form of the nested logit model. There are a number of approaches to achieving this, with some or all of them available as options in commercially available software packages. This note seeks to clarify the issue, and to establish the points of similarity and dissimilarity of the different formulations that appear in the literature. Mon, 01 Feb 1999 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19041 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19050 Evolution and Revolution: the Changing Focus of Regulation of the World’s Railways Waters II, William G.; Hensher, David A. This paper provides an overview and perspective on the regulatory changes sweeping through the world’s railways. The review concentrates on railways in the relatively wealthy countries, primarily because they are the vanguard, where a century or more of management practice and government controls are undergoing change. The paper begins with comments on the nature of rail technology and markets, the implications for government and public policy direction, and forces of change which have pushed railways internally and externally into new organizational and regulatory structures, most of which are still evolving. The latter part of the paper comments more specifically on changes taking place in several countries. Thu, 01 Apr 1999 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/19050 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z