Browsing ITLS Working Papers 2012 by author "Hensher, David A."
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Assessing the wider economy impacts of transport infrastructure investment with an illustrative application to the north-west rail link project in Sydney, Australia
Hensher, David A.; Truong, Truong P.; Mulley, Corinne; Ellison, RichardPublished 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 -
Cost impacts to motorists of discounted registration fees in the presence of distance-based charges and implications for government revenue
Hensher, David A.; Mulley, CorinnePublished 2012-10-01The call for a congestion charge is getting louder and more frequent in many countries as major metropolitan areas experience increasing levels of road congestion. Although reform of road pricing is almost certain to occur ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Crowding in public transport: A review of objective and subjective measures
Li, Zheng; Hensher, David A.Published 2012-09-01In order to capture the user benefits associated with reduced crowding from improved public transport (converted to dollars via willingness to pay estimates), it is necessary to identify the relevant dimensions of crowding ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Inferring attribute non-attendance from stated choice data: Implications for willingness to pay estimates and a warning for stated choice experiment design
Hensher, David A.; Rose, John M.; Greene, William H.Published 2012-02-01There is a growing interest in traveller behaviour research to explore alternative information processing strategies (often referred to as heuristics or rules) adopted by individuals when assessing packages of attributes ...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
Truong, Truong P.; Hensher, David A.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 -
Making use of respondent reported processing information to understand attribute importance: A latent variable scaling approach
Hess, Stephane; Hensher, David A.Published 2012-01-01In recent years we have seen an explosion of research seeking to understand the role that rules and heuristics might play in improving the predictive capability of discrete choice models, as well as delivering willingness ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The North West Rail Link: Winners and losers in the locality of the north west area
Clifton, Geoffrey T.; Mulley, Corinne; Hensher, David A.Published 2012-12-01The appraisal of large scale transport infrastructure projects by governments tends to focus on the costs and benefits to society as a whole or to broad communities affected by the project. In so doing, it is often believed ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Property rights, right to efficiency?
Chung, Demi; Hensher, David A.; Rose, JohnPublished 2012-07-01The assignment of property rights to incentivise risk-sharing in a principal-agent relationship is a recurrent theme of contract theory. This paper examines the incentive effects of property rights in a principal-agent ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Understanding buy in for risky prospects: Incorporating degree of belief into the ex ante assessment of support for alternative road pricing schemes
Hensher, David A.; Rose, John M.; Collins, Andrew T.Published 2012-10-01This paper investigates support for road pricing reform within the framework of a referendum voting choice model. Central to this task is how to identify ex ante support for specific road pricing schemes, such that the ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
What type of road pricing scheme might appeal to politicians? Gaining the citizen vote by staging reform
Hensher, David A.; Bliemer, Michiel C. J.Published 2012-11-01The greatest hurdle facing road pricing reform is political commitment. With rare exception, efforts to introduce significant reform in road pricing aimed at raising sufficient revenue to ensure that road investment and ...Open AccessWorking Paper
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