Browsing ITLS Working Papers 2008 by publication year
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Assessing systematic sources of variation in public transport elasticities: Some comparative warnings
Published 2008-01-01There is an extensive and continually growing body of empirical evidence on the sensitivity of potential and actual users of public transport to fare and service levels. The sources of the evidence are disparate in terms ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Managing congestion – Are we willing to pay the price?
Published 2008-01-01A number of authors have written on the topic of congestion, both pointing out that it is not necessarily wholly undesirable, and also that it may not be susceptible to being reduced, let alone eliminated. Nevertheless, ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Revealing the extent of process heterogeneity in choice analysis: An empirical assessment
Published 2008-01-01Choice analysts increasingly use a mix of revealed preference and stated choice data paradigms to identify preferences of samples of individuals that are used to infer behavioural response and willingness to pay for specific ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Emerging business models
Published 2008-04-01Magretta (2002) suggests, using the example of American Express in the nineteenth century, that: " a successful business model represents a better way than the existing alternatives. It may offer more value to a discrete ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Should reference alternatives in pivot design SC surveys be treated differently?
Published 2008-04-01Analysts are increasingly making use of pivot style Stated Choice (SC) data in the estimation of choice models. These datasets often contain a reference alternative whose attributes remain invariant across replications for ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Bus rapid transit systems: A comparative assessment
Published 2008-04-01There is renewed interest in many developing and developed countries in finding ways of providing efficient and effective public transport that does not come with a high price tag. An increasing number of nations are asking ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The value chain approach imposes increased expectations on logistics management
Published 2008-04-01As business organisations move toward network structures, and virtual models replace vertical organisations (or begin to become part of them), it is time to consider the role of logistics management in light of these ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Deducing mode and purpose from GPS data
Published 2008-04-01Over the past several years, there has been increasing interest in the use of Global Position System (GPS) devices as a means to measure people’s travel. These devices have been used quite widely to check the validity of ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Efficient stated choice experiments for estimating nested logit models
Published 2008-06-01The allocation of combinations of attribute levels to choice situations in stated choice (SC) experiments can have a significant influence upon the resulting study outputs once data is collected. Recently, a small but ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
An annual time use model for vacation travel
Published 2008-06-01Vacation travel constitutes about 25% of all long-distance travel, and about 80% of this vacation travel is undertaken using the automobile. This paper contributes to the vacation travel literature by examining how households ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Construction of experimental designs for mixed logit models allowing for correlation across choice observations
Published 2008-06-01In each stated choice (SC) survey, there is an underlying experimental design from which the hypothetical choice situations are determined. These designs are constructed by the analyst, with several different ways of ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Public private partnerships: A procurement device to manage public sector debt
Published 2008-06-01Australian governments are amongst the leading advocates of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) as a public procurement policy. After two decades of experience, it is timely to evaluate the effectiveness of the policy. At ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Ordered choices and heterogeneity in attribute processing
Published 2008-07-01A growing number of empirical studies involve the assessment of influences on a choice amongst ordered discrete alternatives. Ordered logit and probit models are well known, including extensions to accommodate random ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Cash flow management and strategic responses that create corporate value: Some observations
Published 2008-07-01The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which cash flow management, the value of the organisation, and strategic decision making are correlated. A cash flow model is proposed based upon four levels of strategy ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The demand chain and response management: New directions for operations management?
Published 2008-07-01Supply chain management would appear to be at the end of its lifecycle. Customers of all types are expressing preferences based upon some degree of product-service differentiation and not simply on cost. The growing interest ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Regional airports and opportunities for low cost carriers in Australia
Published 2008-07-01Australia is vitally dependent on aviation services for delivering passenger accessibility to many rural and remote locations. The majority of airports in Australia are regional airports. There are real opportunities for ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Commercial vehicle tour data collection using passive GPS technology: Issues and potential applications
Published 2008-07-01In mid-2006 a GPS survey of commercial vehicles was piloted in Melbourne, Australia to support a major update of freight data and modelling capabilities in the metropolitan region. This survey marked the first of its kind ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Response management: Strategic and operational considerations
Published 2008-08-01The 21st century is well underway and already the future is becoming clear. The opportunities confronting business organisations include; new high added-value product-services, new business models, new approaches to ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
What if petrol increased to $10 per litre? Implications on travel behaviour and public transport demand
Published 2008-09-01Petrol prices are increasing at a formidable rate. In July 2007 unleaded regular petrol in the typical Australian capital city was about $A1.20/litre and 12 months later the price was over $A1.60/litre. Pundits predict ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Aggregation of common-metric attributes in preference revelation in choice experiments and implications for willingness to pay
Published 2008-09-01There is a growing literature that promotes the notion of process heterogeneity in the way that individuals evaluate packages of attributes in real or hypothetical markets and make choices. Empirical evidence suggests that ...Open AccessWorking Paper