ITLS Working Papers: Recent submissions
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The Use of Object-Oriented Programming Approach in Representing Traffic Noise at the Network Level
Published 1998-03-01Existing road traffic noise models for a single noise receiver are developed with reasonably accurate estimating capability. If these traffic noise models can be incorporated into a network model then the resulting system ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Regaining the Fundamentals
Published 1999-02-01Transport policy and planning has relatively few but important fundamentals. Research has focused on marginal issues and not fundamentals. The paper reviews physical fundamentals, moves through economic and financial, then ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Cost efficiency under negotiated performance‐based contracts and benchmarking – Are there gains through competitive tendering in the absence of an incumbent public monopolist?
Published 2014-01-01This paper uses data obtained from numerous sources in Australia to assess the extent to which negotiated performance-based contracts with actionable benchmarking can achieve as good as, or better, improvement in cost ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A lossless spatial aggregation procedure for a class of capacity constrained traffic assignment models incorporating point queues
Published 2015-11-01In this paper two novel spatial aggregation procedures are proposed. A network aggregation procedure based on a travel time delay decomposition method and a zonal aggregation procedure based on a path redistribution scheme. ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Investigating the impacts of introducing emission trading scheme to shipping industry
Published 2013-05-01Although international shipping is the most energy efficient means of transportation in terms of unit CO2 emission per tone-mile cargo shipped, due to enormous cargo volume and continuous growth, it still contributes a ...Open AccessWorking Paper