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Disruption Costs in Bus Contract Transitions
Published 2016-03-01
This paper investigates the role of assessment criteria in assisting members of the competitive tendering evaluation committee to choose their preferred operator, be it the incumbent or a new operator. In a world where ...
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Working Paper
Resurgence of Demand Responsive Transit services – Insights from BRIDJ trials in Inner West of Sydney, Australia
Published 2019-11-01
This paper outlines the key insights gained from the Demand Responsive Transit (DRT) operations in Inner West Sydney, since its commencement in July 2018. It was identified that DRT can play a number of roles to complement ...
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How much is too much for tolled road users: toll saturation and the implications for car commuting value of travel time savings?
Published 2016-02-01
The current practice of forecasting the demand for new tolled roads typically assumes that car users are prepared to pay a higher toll for a shorter journey, and they will keep doing so as long as the toll cost is not ...
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Willingness to participate in travel surveys: A cross-country and cross- methods comparison
Published 2018-11-01
Travel surveys are the primary source of data that feed into the analysis and modeling of travel behaviour. Numerous studies have found that the survey method, be it pen and paper, online, interview, smartphone app, or ...
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Do preferences for BRT and LRT change as a voter, citizen, tax payer, or self- interested resident?
Published 2018-05-01
Interest 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 ...
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A simplified and practical alternative way to recognise the role of household characteristics in determining an individual’s preferences: the case of automobile choice
Published 2015-05-01
It is common practice in choice modelling to include the socioeconomic characteristics of other members of a household in the utility expressions associated with the preferences of a particular individual. By including ...
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Will bus travellers walk further for a more frequent service? An international study using a stated preference approach
Published 2017-09-01
Network planning of bus services requires addressing the trade-off between frequency and coverage. Traditional network planning has focused on coverage using the rule of thumb that people will walk four hundred meters to ...
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Greening demand chains in urban passenger transport: Emissions saving from complex trip chains
Published 2015-02-01
It is well known that a significant amount to passenger trip activity involves multiple modes, destinations and trip purposes. For example, with multi-worker households, we observe a car commuter taking a child to a child ...
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Random regret minimisation and random utility maximisation in the presence of preference heterogeneity: An empirical contrast
Published 2015-04-01
Random regret minimisation (RRM) interpretations of discrete choices are growing in popularity as a complementary modelling paradigm to random utility maximisation (RUM). While behaviourally very appealing in the sense of ...
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Recognising the irrelevance of statewise–dominated alternatives in defining the composition of a choice set
Published 2014-05-01
This paper is motivated by the primary idea (or curiosity) that the distribution of choice probabilities associated with a set of alternatives defining a given choice set provides strong evidence on the way that agents ...
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