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Environmental and social taxes: reforming road pricing in Australia
Published 2011-01-01Pricing of road use, both in Australia and elsewhere, has long been recognised as an area where current arrangements are economically inefficient but also politically very difficult to change. The 2011 Australian Tax Forum ...Open AccessPost-print -
Understanding Buy in for Risky Prospects: Incorporating Degree of Belief into the ex ante Assessment of Support for Alternative Road Pricing Schemes
Published 2012-01-01This paper investigates support for road pricing reform within the framework of a referendum voting choice model. Central to this task is how to identify ex ante support for specific road pricing schemes, such that the ...Open AccessArticle -
Congestion Charging and Car Use: A Review of Stated Preference and Opinion Studies
Published 2012-01-01This paper reviews 17 published congestion pricing studies with a focus on the dimensions of the stated preference or opinion survey, especially the type of charging regime and the structure of the charge. The effectiveness ...Open AccessArticle -
Embedding Decision Heuristics in Discrete Choice Models: A Review
Published 2012-01-01Contrary to the usual assumption of fixed, well-defined preferences, it is increasingly evident that individuals are likely to approach a choice task using rules and decision heuristics that are dependent on the choice ...Open AccessArticle -
Accommodating Perceptual Conditioning in the Valuation of Expected Travel Time Savings for Cars and Public Transport
Published 2013-01-01Travel time variability (i.e., random variations in travel time) leads to a travel time distribution for a repeated trip from a fixed origin to destination (e.g., from home to work). To represent travel time variability, ...Open AccessArticle -
Understanding Buy in for Risky Prospects: Incorporating Degree of Belief into the ex ante Assessment of Support for Alternative Road Pricing Schemes
Published 2013-01-01This paper investigates support for road pricing reform within a referendum voting choice model. Central to this is how to identify believable ex-ante support for specific road pricing schemes. Our approach is centred on ...Open AccessArticle -
Accounting for Attribute Non-Attendance and Common-Metric Aggregation in a Probabilistic Decision Process Mixed Multinomial Logit Model: A Warning on Potential Confounding
Published 2013-01-01Latent class models offer an alternative perspective to the popular mixed logit form, replacing the continuous distribution with a discrete distribution in which preference heterogeneity is captured by membership of distinct ...Open AccessArticle -
Referendum Voting in Road Pricing Reform: A Review of the Evidence
Published 2013-01-01Voting support for congestion charging has a very recent history with, until now, only two congestion charging schemes approved by a majority in referendum voting (Stockholm and Milan). This paper presents a review of ...Open AccessArticle -
Crowding in public transport systems: effects on users, operation and implications for the estimation of demand
Published 2013-01-01The effects of high passenger density at bus stops, at rail stations, inside buses and trains are diverse. This paper examines the multiple dimensions of passenger crowding related to public transport demand, supply and ...Open AccessArticle -
Crowding in Public Transport: A Review of Objective and Subjective Measures
Published 2013-01-01Crowding in public transport is becoming a growing concern as demand grows at a rate that is outstripping available capacity. To capture the user benefits associated with reduced crowding from improved public transport, ...Open AccessArticle -
Behavioural implications of preferences, risk attitudes and beliefs in modelling risky travel choice with travel time variability
Published 2013-01-01The appropriate interpretation of a behavioural outcome requires allowing for risk attitude and belief of an individual, in addition to identification of preferences. This paper develops an Attribute-Specific Extended ...Open AccessArticle -
Tollroads are only part of the overall trip: the error of our ways in past willingness to pay studies
Published 2014-01-01With rare exception, actual tollroad traffic in many countries has failed to reproduce forecast traffic levels, regardless of whether the assessment is made after an initial year of operation or as long as 10 years after ...Open AccessArticle -
Multimodal pricing and optimal design of urban public transport: the interplay between traffic congestion and bus crowding
Published 2014-01-01The interplay between congestion and crowding externalities in the design of urban bus systems is identified and analysed. A multimodal social welfare maximisation model with spatially disaggregated demand is developed, ...Open AccessArticle -
Linking Discrete Choice to Continuous Demand in a Spatial Computable General Equilibrium Model
Published 2014-01-01Discrete choice (DC) models are often used to describe consumer behaviour at a disaggregate level. At this level, a choice decision is defined in terms of a set of alternatives representing different ‘varieties’ of a ...Open AccessArticle -
Complementing Distance based Charges with Discounted Registration Fees in the Reform of Road User Charges: the Impact for Motorists and Government Revenue
Published 2014-01-01The call for a congestion charge is getting louder and more frequent in many countries as major metropolitan areas experience increasing levels of road congestion. This is often accompanied by a recognition that governments ...Open AccessArticle -
What Type of Road Pricing Scheme might appeal to Politicians? Viewpoints on the Challenge in gaining the citizen and public servant vote by staging reform
Published 2014-01-01The greatest hurdle facing road pricing reform is political commitment. With rare exception, efforts to introduce significant reform in road pricing, aimed at raising sufficient revenue to ensure that road investment and ...Open AccessArticle -
Accounting for travel time variability in the optimal pricing of cars and buses
Published 2014-01-01A number of studies have shown that in addition to the common influences on mode, route and time of day of travel choices such as travel time and cost, travel time variability plays an increasingly important role, especially ...Open AccessArticle -
Attribute processing as a behavioural strategy in choice making
Published 2014-01-01Choice modelling is an increasingly important technique for forecasting and valuation, with applications in fields such as transportation, health and environmental economics. for this reason it has attracted attention from ...Open AccessBook chapter -
A Scoping Inquiry into the Potential Contribution of Subjective Probability Theory, Dempster-Shafer Theory and Possibility Theory in Accommodating Degrees of Belief in Traveller Behaviour Research
Published 2014-01-01There is a small but growing interest in traveller behaviour research on investigating ways to identify and quantify degrees of belief (as subjective probabilities or other propositions) associated with behavioural responses, ...Open AccessArticle -
Contrasts of Relative Advantage Maximisation with Random Utility Maximisation and Regret Minimisation
Published 2015-01-01This paper discusses the theoretical properties and the empirical application of an improved version of the ‘relative advantage maximising’ (RAM) model. This model shares several desirable features of a set of models based ...Open AccessArticle