Browsing ITLS Working Papers 2003 by title
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Cars, Congestion, Public Transport, and Pricing: A Reality Check
Published 2003-06-01For some little while now, the flavour of the month in transport policy seems to have been to set goals for massive relative increases in public transport ridership, reduction of car use, all resulting in a hoped-for ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Congestion Charging and the Optimal Provision of Public Infrastructure: Theory and Evidence
Published 2003-01-01The paper provides a theoretical framework for analysing the effects of public infrastructure provision on private sector productivity using the example of a transport network. Public infrastructure such as a transport ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Contract Areas and Service Quality Issues in Public Transit Provision: Some Thoughts on the European and Australian Context
Published 2003-02-01The introduction of contract regimes for the provision of bus services such as competitive tendering and performance-based contracts is usually premised on a prior assumption that the size of the physical contract area is ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Environmental Justice Applications in Transport: The International Perspective
Published 2002-10-01This paper focuses on the application of environmental justice principles specifically in the transport context. It begins by giving a background of the environmental justice movement and a definition, and proceeds to ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
GPS Measurement of Travel Times, Driving Cycles, and Congestion
Published 2003-03-01In the past few years, various types of GPS devices have been developed for use in connection with travel surveys of various types. This paper describes an application in Sydney, Australia, in which GPS devices were used ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Measuring Bus Performance using GPS Technology
Published 2003-08-01Assessing the running times of bus services has traditionally been a difficult and expensive task for the majority of bus operators in Australia, and in other parts of the world. Up until recently, travel times have been ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The Mobility and Accessibility Expectations of Seniors in an Aging Population
Published 2003-03-01Populations of post-industrial nations are aging. With a growing number of people living well into their 80’s and maintaining active lives, the transportation system will have to start focussing more closely on understanding ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Modelling Agent Interdependency in Group Decision Making: Methodological Approaches to Interactive Agent Choice Experiments
Published 2003-03-01The past thirty years has seen a growing interest in the development of statistical methods to model choices made by individual agents. The dominant method to emerge, discrete choice modelling, has been applied to a wide ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Models of Organisational and Agency Choices for Passenger and Freight- Related Travel Choices: Notions of Inter-Activity and Influence
Published 2002-11-01The study of traveller behaviour has in the main treated each agent in a decision-network as an independent decision maker conditioned typically (and exogenously) on the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Quality Management in Logistics: A Comparison of Practices between Manufacturing and Retail Companies and Logistics Firms.
Published 2003-06-01In February 2002, the Institute of Transport Studies (ITS), The University of Sydney, initiated a study to investigate world class logistics (WCL) practices in Australia. This research is part of the wider WCL study ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Revealing Differences in Willingness to Pay due to the Dimensionality of Stated Choice Designs: An Initial Assessment
Published 2003-02-01Stated choice (SC) methods are now a widely accepted data paradigm in the study of behavioural response of agents (be they individuals, households, or other organizations). Their popularity since the pioneering contributions ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Road Safety Valuation under a Stated Choice Framework
Published 2003-08-01The value of fatal risk reductions is a vital input for road safety cost-benefit analysis. It has been traditionally estimated by means of contingent valuation in spite of growing criticism surrounding this approach. ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Transnational Corporations, Local Adaptation and Inter- Firm Linkages in Developing Countries: Some Contrasts with Local Enterprises in India.
Published 2003-06-01The issue how transnational corporations (TNC) affiliates adapt locally within emerging markets while sustaining their global competitive advantage has been debated and discussed in international business literature. Even ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
TravelSmart: A Critical Appraisal
Published 2003-06-01Travel behaviour modification, also called TravelSmart®, Indimark® and Travel Blending®, has been offered as a solution to the dependence of urban populations on the car. Travel behaviour modification is a voluntary programme ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Using Classical Inference Methods to reveal individual-specific parameter estimates to avoid the potential complexities of WTP derived from population moments
Published 2003-10-01nference estimation methods for logit models with Bayesian methods and suggested that the latter are more appealing on grounds of relative simplicity in estimation and in producing individual observation parameter estimates ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Using values of travel time savings for toll roads: Avoiding some common errors.
Published 2003-01-01There are many empirical studies on the estimation of values of travel time savings (VTTS), with varying degrees of rigour and relevance, mostly based on the observation that travellers are prepared to spend money to save ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Valuing Noise Level Reductions in a Residential Location Context
Published 2003-08-01The noise levels measured in metropolitan streets are on many occasions over the norms but the consequences of this as a health hazard are only starting to be questioned; this is obviously worse in the large cities of the ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Wearable GPS device as a data collection method for travel research
Published 2003-02-01Global Positioning System (GPS) devices are emerging as a potential means to collect improved data on the spatial aspects of personal travel. This paper builds on earlier work by Stopher and others on the use of passive ...Open AccessWorking Paper