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The economics and engineering of bus stops: Spacing, design and congestion
Published 2012-05-01This paper re-considers the problem of choosing the number of bus stops along urban routes, first by estimating the probability of stopping in low demand markets, and second by analysing the interplay between bus stop size, ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A modified product life cycle becomes a useful basis for a new product-service strategy model
Published 2012-06-01The recent financial problems of the 2008/10 GFC and the likelihood of similar events occurring in 2012/13 has ‘spooked’ business and consumer confidence and has resulted in fierce competition in both B2C and in the derived ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Linking discrete choice to continuous demand within the framework of a computable general equilibrium model for the analysis of wider economic impacts of transport investment projects
Published 2012-01-01Discrete choice (DC) models are commonly used as basic building blocks in ‘bottom-up’ models which seek to describe consumer and producer behaviour at a disaggregate level, in contrast to continuous demand (CD) models which ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Quasi-dynamic network loading: Adding queuing and spillback to static traffic assignment
Published 2012-02-01For many years, static traffic assignment models have been widely applied in transport planning studies and will continue to be an important tool for strategic policy decisions. As is well known, in the traditional approach, ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Assessing the wider economy impacts of transport infrastructure investment with an illustrative application to the north-west rail link project in Sydney, Australia
Published 2012-03-01This paper identifies the employment agglomeration impact of transport investments through a measure of change in effective employment density, using new empirical estimates of the elasticity of productivity with respect ...Open AccessWorking Paper