Browsing ITLS Working Papers 2002 by title
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Exploring the Use of Passive GPS Devices to Measure Travel
Published 2002-01-01Global Positioning System devices are emerging as a potential means to collect improved data on the spatial aspects of personal travel. In many applications, the GPS device is coupled with a Personal Data Assistant of some ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A Latent Class Model for Discrete Choice Analysis: Contrasts with Mixed Logit
Published 2002-09-01The multinomial logit model (MNL) has for many years provided the fundamental platform for the analysis of discrete choice. The basic model’s several shortcomings, most notably its inherent assumption of independence from ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Leadership and HR Focus in TQM Research in Australia: An Assessment and Agenda
Published 2002-02-01Empirical studies indicate that only a handful of the soft TQM elements contribute to organisational performance. The elements of soft TQM, such as executive commitment, loyalty, teamwork and empowerment, training and ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The Mixed Logit Model: The State of Practice
Published 2002-01-01The mixed logit model is considered to be the most promising state of the art discrete choice model currently available. Increasingly researchers and practitioners are estimating mixed logit models of various degrees of ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Performance-Based Quality Contracts for the Bus Sector: Delivering Social and Commercial Value for Money
Published 2002-09-01Reform of the bus sector has been occurring in many countries. One matter central to these reform initiatives is the establishment of a value for money (VM) regime to ensure that operators deliver to the market the best ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Performance-Based Quality Contracts in Bus Service Provision
Published 2002-06-01Institutional reform of the bus sector is a topical discussion item in a number of countries at present. A specific focus is on ensuring a value for money (VM) regime to identify the benefits to society associated with ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Relationships Between Soft TQM, Hard TQM, and Organisational Performance
Published 2002-06-01Many empirical studies have demonstrated that only a handful of soft total quality management (TQM) elements contribute to organisational performance while elements of hard TQM have no relationship with performance. Despite ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Simulated Household Travel Survey Data: Synthetic Data in Australia
Published 2002-08-01method has been developed to synthesize household travel survey data from a combination of Census and national transport survey data sources. The procedure, described in other papers, involves creating distributions of ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A Spatial and Statistical Approach for Imputing Origin-Destination Matrices from Household Travel Survey Data: A Sydney Case Study
Published 2002-10-01A Household Travel Survey (HTS) is a valuable instrument for collecting data suitable for studying the travel behaviour of a sample of households in a specific geographical context. One important output from the trip data ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The Theory of Constraints’ Thinking Process Approach to Developing Growth Strategies in Supply Chain
Published 2002-05-01Many attempts have been made to study factors influencing the performance of supply chains. These studies are generally quantitative and involve rigorous statistical analyses. This paper describes an application of a system ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Understanding Underlying Constraints Affecting Decision-Making by Morning Car Commuters
Published 2002-08-01In New Zealand as elsewhere, there is an increasing interest in alleviating congestion on the road transport network to improve economic productivity, reduce pollution, and to use the transport network more effectively. ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Urban Public Transport Delivery in Australia: Issues and Challenges in Retaining and Growing Patronage
Published 2002-10-01Urban public transport continues to be a high priority social obligation of governments throughout the world. In some jurisdictions it is the prime responsibility of national governments, while in other localities it is a ...Open AccessWorking Paper