ITLS Working Papers: Recent submissions
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Competitive tendering as a contracting mechanism for subsidising transportation: The bus experience
Published 2005-09-01Competitive tendering (CT) is a popular mechanism for the provision of transport services where a major objective is the containment of the cost to government of service provision. Although the primary focus is recognised ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
GPS Surveys and the Internet
Published 2004-07-01ITS has been pioneering the use of GPS to provide more accurate data on where and when people travel, their routes, travel distance, and travel time. GPS provides no information on the number of people travelling together, ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Labour Pooling: Impacts on Capacity Planning
Published 2004-03-01Cross-training workers to perform multi-skilled jobs is one of the modern trends in job design. As companies engage in downsizing, the remaining workforce is expected to do more and different tasks. This paper presents a ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Heteroscedastic Control for Random Coefficients and Error Components in Mixed Logit
Published 2006-03-01Developments in simulation methods, and the computational power that is now available, have enabled open-form discrete choice models such as mixed logit to be estimated with relative ease. The random parameter (RP) form ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Approximation of Bayesian Efficiency in Experimental Choice Designs
Published 2006-06-01This paper compares different types of simulated draws over a range of number of draws in generating Bayesian efficient designs for stated choice studies. The paper examines how closely pseudo Monte Carlo, quasi Monte Carlo ...Open AccessWorking Paper