Browsing ITLS Working Papers 2011 by publication year
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A correction framework for improving the robustness of motor vehicle registration data
Published 2011-01-01An important key to reducing the environmental impact of motor vehicles is to identify those in-services vehicles which are likely to excessively contribute to air pollution. Such an assessment is dependent on quantifying ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Embedding risk attitudes in a scheduling model: Application to the study of commuting departure time
Published 2011-01-01Traditionally, the value of travel time savings (VTTS) and the value of reliability (or reduced variability) are estimated within a linear utility functional form, which assumes risk-neutral attitudes for decision makers. ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Travel time expenditures and travel time budgets - Preliminary findings
Published 2011-02-01There has been discussion now for four decades on the issue of whether or not people around the world have a constant traveltime budget. Most of the research into travel-time budgets has used large aggregate data sets and ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
No car lanes or bus lanes: which gives public transport the better priority? An evaluation of priority lanes in Tyne and Wear
Published 2011-02-01Bus priority covers a wide range of measures intended to speed up the progress of buses and avoid congestion, especially in urban areas. The implementation of No Car Lanes as a method of allocating space on the highway ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Travel time competitiveness of cycling in Sydney
Published 2011-03-01A key issue for both sustainable transport and public health is the viability of cycling as a genuine alternative to the car, particularly for short trips. This paper considers this issue by assessing hypothetically the ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Analysing speeding behaviour: A multilevel modelling approach
Published 2011-03-01This paper examines the variability in speeding for 147 motorists over a five-week period using data collected from Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. A multilevel modelling approach is employed to decompose ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Evaluation of GPS device properties for a possible use in future household travel surveys
Published 2011-04-01This paper describes a series of tests undertaken to determine the potential usefulness of a specific passive, portable GPS device for use in household travel surveys. The tests were undertaken to provide a more complete ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Consistently inconsistent: The role of certainty, acceptability and scale in automobile choice
Published 2011-04-01The way in which respondents behave in stated preference experiments is of interest to many practitioners in the field of choice modelling. This paper draws together three increasingly prevalent concepts in the literature; ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Towards a simplified payment formula as a reference point for bus contract negotiation or assessment
Published 2011-05-01The burgeoning commitment to contracting the delivery of bus services through competitive tendering or negotiated performance-based contracts has been accompanied by as many contract payments schemes as there are contracts. ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A proposal for accessibility planning in NSW: Research and policy issues
Published 2011-05-01Accessibility planning is a framework and process to use accessibility indicators as a basis for transport planning. The structured approach assesses actual accessibility at different spatial levels against indicators to ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The spatial distribution of parking policy and usage: A case study of Melbourne, Australia
Published 2011-06-01Few cities have a Metropolitan wide parking policy. More often than not the planning of parking is undertaken by decentralised urban local governments with broad central guideline on parking supply rates. The provision of ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The impact of environmental attitudes on responses to emissions charging and vehicle choice
Published 2011-06-01While there has been extensive literature on the concept of congestion there have been very few studies that explore road pricing as a function of vehicle emissions. A growing global focus on environmental concerns, in ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Systems Economics: Essay 1 - Definition of the economic product
Published 2011-06-01This essay is the first in a series labelled Systems Economics, that re-examines some fundamental economic concepts using a systems approach with an objective to help guide advice on institutional arrangements for economic ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Does the choice model method and/or the data matter?
Published 2011-07-01The opportunity to have seven data sets associated with a stated choice experiment that are very similar in content and design is rare, and provides an opportunity to look in detail at the empirical evidence within and ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The logistics implications of emerging business models
Published 2011-07-01The network structure has expanded the nature of organisational economics from a limited perspective, based upon economies of scale (within which the firm became volume oriented striving to achieve its minimum cost/volume ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The importance of completeness and clarity in air transport contracts in remote regions in Europe and Australia
Published 2011-08-01As a result of the recent financial crisis and in times of government austerity, clear contracts are of immense importance to transport authorities in order to achieve value for money when procuring air transport services. ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Networks alliances as strategy: A case study of an SME in an emerging economy
Published 2011-08-01This study adopts a qualitative approach to examine key factors to build successful network alliances in emerging economies. A market leader firm in the retail optical industry in China was used in this study. Data from ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Environmental and social taxes: Reforming road pricing in Australia
Published 2011-09-01Pricing of road use, both in Australia and elsewhere, has long been recognised as an area where current arrangements are economically inefficient but also politically very difficult to change. The 2011 Australian Tax Forum ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Analysis of a financial incentive to encourage safer driving practices
Published 2011-09-01This paper reports on the behavioural response of motorists to a variable rate charging scheme designed to encourage safer driving practices and reduce exposure to crash-risk – specifically kilometres driven, night-time ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A comparison of algorithms for generating efficient choice experiments
Published 2011-10-01Stated 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