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The 15th International Conference on Competition and Ownership of Land Passenger Transport (Thredbo 15)
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Accessibility and Social Welfare: A study of the City of Johannesburg
Published 2017-01-01Within the corpus of accessibility measures is the Net Wage After Commute which describes the potential wage earnable less the transport costs incurred to commute to work from a particular location. This paper explores the ...Open AccessConference paper -
Accessibility and Uncertainty: the Option Value of Public Transport
Published 2017-01-01Are there option values of public transport services? A few studies have tried to answer this question through various stated preference methods but the question is so far unanswered. In this paper we set out to present ...Open AccessConference paper -
An analysis on institutional preparedness to bus route tendering in the context of a fragmented liberalized market: case study of Harare, Zimbabwe
Published 2017-01-01In many cities of the developed world, the previously public owned and subsidized bus operators which provided services with minimal exposure to competition have been deregulated. Literature suggests that deregulation ...Open AccessConference paper -
Bikes on Buses: A Melbourne Case Study
Published 2017-01-01This paper study presents a case study exemplar of how voluntary professional association's (VPA's) can contribute towards the achievement of societal goals like improving public health, reducing the rate of growth of ...Open AccessConference paper -
A Broader Perspective on Social Outcomes in Transport
Published 2017-01-01While the importance of including the interface between transport and the social environment has been acknowledged in the past few decades, application of this remains limited in transport policy and project evaluations. ...Open AccessConference paper -
Commercial Services in German local public transport
Published 2017-01-01Since 1996 German local public transport by road has been organised as a hybrid regime which allows for prioritised market-initiated services as well as contracted public services initiated by competent authorities. In ...Open AccessConference paper -
Competition and substitution between public transport modes
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Competition and substitution between public transport modes
Published 2017-01-01The management and understanding of modal split between public transport (PT) modes is of interest for numerous reasons. It may, for example, be desirable to stimulate passengers to switch from crowded buses and over to ...Open AccessConference paper -
Competitive Tendering and Other Forms of Contracting‐Out: Session B: Rail and Public Transport
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Coopetition between commercial and subsidized railway services – the case of the greater Stockholm region
Published 2017-01-01An important ingredient of the deregulation of the Swedish railway system is the increased involvement of public actors on the local and regional level in the provision of railway services. The subsidized local and regional ...Conference paper -
Cross-cultural contrasts of preferences for Bus Rapid Transit and Light Rail Transit
Published 2017-01-01Bus rapid transit (BRT) appears to be relatively unpopular in developed economies despite its appeal in delivering high quality services, usually at a fraction of light rail transit (LRT) costs. This is often linked to an ...Open AccessConference paper -
Current trends and innovations affecting the potential for a widespread adoption of electric buses - A comparative case study of 22 cities in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe
Published 2017-01-01Electric buses have environmental, economic, and health benefits, which many cities want to achieve by transitioning their fleets. However, the actual worldwide electric bus adoption is geographically uneven and limited ...Open AccessConference paper -
Digital public transport in an era of sharing and collaborative mobility
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Do Direct Awards Lead to Better Public Transport?
Published 2017-01-01The best public transport with regard to patronage numbers operates in Switzerland: Zurich and Bern, for instance, achieve a public transport demand that is several times higher than in other European cities of their size. ...Conference paper -
Effects of road pricing – some suggestions based upon experience from urban areas like Stockholm
Published 2017-01-01In this paper, we list the experiences of road congestion regulation using a road price system in Stockholm, Sweden. We add findings of a quantitative regulation system in Oslo, Norway when the road authorities closed ...Open AccessConference paper -
Emerging transport technologies and the modal efficiency framework: A case for mobility as a service (MaaS)
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Emerging transport technologies and the modal efficiency framework: A case for mobility as a service (MaaS)
Published 2017-01-01The land passenger transport sector lies on the cusp of a major transformation, guided by collaborative consumption, next generation vehicles, demographic change and digital technologies. Whilst there is widespread enthusiasm ...Open AccessConference paper -
Experts’ inventory and rating of core performance indicators and organisational features in public transport: a global Delphi survey
Published 2017-01-01Discussions involving the connection between organisational form and performance in public transport systems take place for over a century and remain at the top of the agenda in the sector. These analyses indicate that ...Open AccessConference paper