Browsing ITLS Working Papers 2012 by publication year
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Making use of respondent reported processing information to understand attribute importance: A latent variable scaling approach
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 -
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 -
Inferring attribute non-attendance from stated choice data: Implications for willingness to pay estimates and a warning for stated choice experiment design
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 -
Accessibility and residual land value uplift: Identifying spatial variations in the accessibility impacts of a bus transitway
Published 2012-03-01New public transport investment offers the potential to improve accessibility for existing and new users of the public transport network. Transport infrastructure provides land value uplift following improvements in ...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 -
Examining estimator bias and efficiency for pseudo panel data: A Monte Carlo simulation approach
Published 2012-04-01Pseudo panel data have been increasingly applied in empirical research as an alternative approach to a longitudinal analysis when genuine panel data are unavailable. However, conventional techniques are typically used to ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The relationship between brand trust, online customer reviews and willingness to purchase
Published 2012-04-01This research investigates how online customer reviews, a particular form of electronic word of mouth (eWOM), affect consumer decision-making (willingness to purchase) during a first time purchase of services or products. ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Downs-Thomson paradox and public transit capacity choice in the laboratory
Published 2012-05-01The aim of this paper is to study empirically the Downs- Thomson (DT) Paradox, a situation where additional road capacity can cause an increase in total travel cost for users that are to choose between Private Car and ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
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 -
Transport improvement, agglomeration effect and urban productivity: The case of Chinese cities
Published 2012-06-01Improvement in the transport sector will increase accessibility to economic activities, which in turn benefit urban productivity by enabling agglomeration economies. This paper aims to establish the link between agglomeration ...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 -
Success factors between suppliers and customers in service outsourcing activities
Published 2012-07-01This study examines the relationship between outsourcing motives, supplier-customer relationship and perceived value in non-core service outsourcing. That is, key factors responsible for supplier-customer relationship which ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Property rights, right to efficiency?
Published 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 -
Snowball effect and traffic equilibrium in a market entry game: A laboratory experiment
Published 2012-08-01The Market Entry Game (Selten & Guth, 1982; Gary-Bobo, 1990) is a coordination game where average cost of entry increase linearly. Following the suggestion of Anderson et al. (2008) and empirical evidence in transport ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Multiple purposes at single destination: A key to a better understanding of the relationship between tour complexity and mode choice
Published 2012-08-01This paper investigates the nature of tours undertaken by public transport and car. Using a new approach to the typology of tours, which takes into account not only the number but also the spatial distribution of activities ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Efficient procurement of public air services - Lessons learned from European transport authorities' perspectives
Published 2012-09-01This paper aims to derive lessons and best practices from the different European experiences by viewing issues from a public transport authority perspective. The heart of this paper is a survey of European air service ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Crowding in public transport: A review of objective and subjective measures
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 -
Cost impacts to motorists of discounted registration fees in the presence of distance-based charges and implications for government revenue
Published 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 -
Understanding buy in for risky prospects: Incorporating degree of belief into the ex ante assessment of support for alternative road pricing schemes
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