Browsing ITLS Working Papers 2010 by publication year
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Metropolitan bus service contracts (MBSC): Thoughts on the next round
Published 2010-01-01This paper revisits a number of themes that have played a crucial role in the debate on alternative contracting regimes for the provision and bus and coach services. We have selected seven crucial issues to reflect on: (i) ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Search based internet surveys: Airline stated choice
Published 2010-01-01Stated preference (SP) experiments are becoming an increasingly popular survey methodology for investigating air travel choice behaviour. Nevertheless, some evidence suggests that SP experiments do not mirror decisions in ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
What does it cost to travel in Sydney? Spatial and equity contrasts across the metropolitan region
Published 2010-02-01There is a strong belief, often perceptual, that residents in the outer suburbs of Sydney are at a transport disadvantage in terms of the generalised cost of daily travel in absolute terms, and in relation to the percentage ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Passenger transport in the UK 1920–1950: The drive for ‘co-ordination’ of transport modes
Published 2010-02-01The development of the railway system transformed travel opportunities for people in the nineteenth century. The technological change dominating personal travel in the twentieth century was the development of the internal ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Heterogeneous truck routing policies with tour routing time restriction
Published 2010-03-01We study a heterogeneous full-truckload vehicle routing problem based on the case of a trucking company in Malaysia, where trucks originate from a depot and are dispatched to various parts of the service area. Each order ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Willingness to pay for travel time reliability in passenger transport: A review and some new empirical evidence
Published 2010-03-01This paper reviews and critiques the modelling frameworks and empirical measurement paradigms used to obtain willingness to pay (WTP) for improved travel time reliability, suggesting new directions for ongoing research. ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The accuracy of proxy responses in a stated choice setting
Published 2010-04-01Data is typically gathered from an individual respondent who represents the group or the household. This individual is often identified as the “primary decision maker” and is often asked to provide responses as a proxy for ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A framework for transport planning in Australia: With special reference to UK Eddington transport study
Published 2010-04-01The Commonwealth (Infrastructure Australia (IA)) is putting growing pressure on the States to improve infrastructure planning and particularly planning for transport services. Given the Commonwealth of Australia’s domination ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Missing and inaccurate information from travel surveys: Pilot results
Published 2010-04-01During the implementation of a major regional household travel survey, known as the Victorian Integrated Survey of Travel and Activity 2007 (VISTA07) in Victoria, Australia, a pilot survey was undertaken using GPS to ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Factors that comprise driver boredom and their relationships to preferred driving speed and demographic variables
Published 2010-05-01Driver 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 -
The logistics implications of the emerging business model
Published 2010-05-01In what may eventually be called the fastest recovery from a recession in modern business we should be considering the lessons emerging from the 2008/9 financial crisis which witnessed the demise of corporate giants and ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Short sea shipping: Lessons for or from Australia?
Published 2010-06-01Over the past decade, there has been a substantial volume of research on short sea shipping and related national maritime transport regulation. In spite of significant support for the policy of growing the volume of short ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Results of an evaluation of TravelSmart in South Australia
Published 2010-06-01Beginning in 2005, an evaluation was undertaken of a TravelSmart intervention in South Australia. The evaluation was undertaken using a panel of households, members of which were asked to carry GPS devices with them for a ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Social exclusion and the value of mobility
Published 2010-07-01This paper investigates factors likely to increase a person’s risk of social exclusion, drawing on survey data specifically framed for this purpose. We use a generalised ordered logit model that accounts for observed and ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Interactive stated choice surveys: A study of air travel behaviour
Published 2010-07-01Stated preference (SP) experiments are becoming an increasingly popular survey methodology for investigating air travel choice behaviour. Nevertheless, some evidence suggests that SP experiments do not mirror decisions in ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
CASH OR PREPAY? MOTIVATIONS FOR PASSENGER PAYMENT
Published 2010-08-01Against a backdrop of an increasing trend towards prepay-only bus services in Sydney, Forest Coach Lines (Forest), a private bus operator operating services in Northern Sydney, has been surprised that uptake of their prepay ...Open AccessOther -
Does scale heterogeneity across individuals matter?
Published 2010-08-01There is growing interest in establishing a mechanism to account for scale heterogeneity across individuals (essentially the variance of a variance term or the standard deviation of utility over different choice situations), ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Literature review of induced travel
Published 2010-08-01Induced travel is the increase in travel attributable to transportation projects that increase capacity. This paper reviews the causes and impacts of induced travel. It discusses some of the debates in the literature around ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Development of a kilometre-based rewards system to encourage safer driving practices
Published 2010-09-01There is growing interest in using kilometre-based financial mechanisms to encourage safer driving practices and reduce accident claims. The rationale behind such an approach is that in addition to driver characteristics ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Accounting for differences in modelled estimates of RP, SP and RP/SP direct petrol price elasticities for car mode choice: A warning
Published 2010-09-01Using a sample of 245 direct petrol price elasticities of car travel collected from 52 published mode choice studies, a random coefficient regression model is estimated to account for heterogeneity in the influence of the ...Open AccessWorking Paper