ITLS Working Papers 2012: Recent submissions
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The North West Rail Link: Winners and losers in the locality of the north west area
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 -
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 -
A global perspective on pallet life-cycle management practices and a research agenda
Published 2012-11-01The purpose of this paper is to understand the complexity of pallet life cycle management practices in the context of resource scarcity, rising costs and different regulatory environments. The paper integrates a detailed ...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 -
A cost-based maritime container assignment model and port choice
Published 2012-12-01A recently proposed frequency-based maritime container assignment model (Bell et al, 2011) seeks an assignment of full and empty containers to paths that minimises expected container travel time, whereas containers are in ...Open AccessWorking Paper