ITLS Working Papers 2012: Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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