Browsing ITLS Working Papers 2009 by title
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Attribute processing, heuristics, and preference construction in choice analysis
Published 2009-04-01It has long been recognized that humans draw from a large pool of processing aids to help manage the everyday challenges of life. It is not uncommon to observe individual’s adopting simplifying strategies when faced with ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Commentary on the report to COAG by Infrastructure Australia
Published 2009-03-01In December 2008, Infrastructure Australia issued a Report to the Council of Australian Governments, http://www.infrastructureaustralia.gov.au/files/A_Report_to_the_Council_of_Austra lian_Governments.pdf that establishes ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Constant elasticity of substitution (CES) production function can greatly overestimate the economic costs of climate policies.
Published 2009-07-01In this paper, we look at a modification to the conventional constant-elasticity-of-substitution (CES) production function to arrive at a more general specification which can allow for varying, or ‘flexible’ elasticity of ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Costing value chain relationships: A challenge for strategic cost management and value chain management
Published 2009-03-01The global business environment is changing rapidly. Among the many changes are a number of challenges; one important change being the increase in inter-organisational relationship management and the challenge being – how ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Discrete location planning
Published 2009-03-01Two new models for discrete location planning under static competition are introduced. The empirical context is an enterprise that is planning to set up a number of stores in various locations. The probability that a ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The emergence of interactions as strategic entities in value chain networks
Published 2009-04-01Purpose: The article analyses the interactions that are engaged in when specialist organisations collaborate in value chain networks. It aims to bridge the gap between existing theory and emerging practices and identify a ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Estimating the willingness-to-pay and value of risk reduction for car occupants in the road environment
Published 2009-02-01In recent years there has been a re-focus on the valuation of a statistical life (VSL) from the ex post or human capital method to an ex ante willingness to pay approach. This is in part a recognition that we may have been ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
European aviation liberalization: A view from afar
Published 2009-09-01This paper traces the development of Australia’s aviation relationship with European countries and shows how new European air carriers have entered and exited the market. The traffic rights available and the emergence of ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Factors that comprise driver boredom and their relationships to preferred driving speed and demographic variables.
Published 2009-08-01Driver boredom is an area of driver behaviour that has received limited attention. This study explores the factor structure underlying driver boredom and investigates age and gender differences in the experience of driver ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A framework for strategic decision-making and performance among Chinese managers
Published 2009-07-01This study develops an integrative model that explains the relationship between Chinese culture, managers’ strategic decision making (SDM) processes, and organizational performance. 1200 participants were randomly selected ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Hypothetical bias, choice experiments and willingness to pay
Published 2009-01-01There is growing interest in establishing the extent of differences in willingness to pay (WTP) for attributes, such as travel time savings, that are derived from real market settings and hypothetical (to varying degrees) ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Incorporating model uncertainty into the generation of efficient stated choice experiments: A model averaging approach
Published 2009-04-01Stated choice (SC) studies typically rely on the use of an underlying experimental design to construct the hypothetical choice situations shown to respondents. These designs are constructed by the analyst, with several ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The influence of organizational subcultures in health organizations
Published 2009-08-01This study investigates the mediating role of organizational subculture and its antecedents of organizational commitment namely leadership, culture and job satisfaction. Structural equation analysis is used to examine our ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Is ‘Compact City’ a sensible planning approach? Empirical evidence of cross perceptions of travel attitudes in British settlements
Published 2009-08-01This paper will present empirically based evidence from the UK in respect of the impact of neighbourhood design on travel behaviour using a case-study approach. The case-study is based on the metropolitan area of Tyne and ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Non-attendance and dual processing of common-metric attributes in choice analysis: A latent class specification
Published 2009-05-01There is a growing literature that promotes the presence of process heterogeneity in the way that individuals evaluate packages of attributes in real or hypothetical markets and make choices. A centerpiece of current ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Observed efficiency of a d-optimal design in an interactive agency choice experiment
Published 2009-04-01There have been a number of recent calls within the choice literature to examine the role of social interactions upon preference formation. McFadden (2001a,b) recently stated that this area should be a high priority research ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Ordered choices and heterogeneity in attribute processing
Published 2009-01-01A 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 -
Petrol consumption and emissions from automobiles: Can policies make a difference?
Published 2009-05-01The use of fossil fuels in transportation has increasingly become an important topic as a result of growing concerns over global warming. Automobile petrol demand has been of particular interest to researchers and policy ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Road transport and climate change: Stepping off the greenhouse gas
Published 2009-09-01Transport is Australia’s third largest and second fastest growing source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The road transport sector makes up 88 percent of total transport emissions and the projected emissions increase ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A strategic-level modelling tool for evaluating air quality and greenhouse gas mitigation strategies for urban road freight in Sydney
Published 2009-03-01This paper details the development of a strategic-level modelling tool to evaluate the impacts of air quality and greenhouse gas mitigation strategies for urban freight. The model, known as STEAR-F (Strategic Tool for the ...Open AccessWorking Paper