Responsible local governments recognize the need to be sensitive to the local environmental implications of decisions taken in the course of developing strategies to ensure the efficient use of scarce resources. Rather ...

The imposition of organising and simplifying structures is basic to understanding. Myths tacitly provide an alluring simplification. Telling simple but powerful stories, they point to specific cures. Those cures depend ...

This paper revises the findings of the Productivity of Australian Railways study released by ITS in 1992. The findings were released as Research Report ITS-RR-92-1, as Working Paper ITS-WP-92-7 and as a paper published ...

Road rage is a form of aggressive behaviour by drivers on roadways. The paper addresses two questions: firstly, to what extent is road rage related to driver perceptions, characteristics and background? Secondly, how ...

The aim of this paper is to take a closer look at some of the challenges facing governments who would like to support public transport if the case for its contribution to urban sustainability is proven. This paper ...

This paper investigates the home to work trip characteristics following the Gulf crisis and the huge influx of Gulf returnees (mainly from Kuwait). These characteristics are measured through specifying and estimating three ...

The Fourth International Conference on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transporti, held 10-12 July 1995 in Rotorua, New Zealand, provided a forum for presentation and debate on the latest developments in the ...

This is a renewed interest in intercity and long-distance rail services in many countries, with both new high-speed rail services and improvements to conventional rail under review. The current study reports on an ...