Browsing ITLS Working Papers 2013 by title
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Accounting for travel time variability in the optimal pricing of cars and buses
Published 2013-03-01This paper addresses the problem of optimal pricing of both cars and buses in a multimodal transport corridor including externalities of congestion, bus crowding and travel time variability. A social welfare maximisation ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Comparing two processing routines for GPS traces: Lessons learnt
Published 2013-09-01This paper describes what may be one of the first side-by-side tests of two alternative software products for processing GPS traces into trips, and discusses some lessons learnt from the comparisons. For GPS to be useful ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Confidence intervals of willingness-‐to-‐pay for random coefficient logit models
Published 2013-01-01Random coefficient logit (RCL) models containing random parameters are increasingly used for modelling travel choices. Willingness-to-pay (WTP) measures, such as the value of travel time savings (VTTS) are, in the case of ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Contractual approach to optimising risk sharing: A quantitative study of the multidimensional nature of risk in private provision of road infrastructure
Published 2013-04-01In 2009 and 2010, we conducted an international survey to identify the extent to which risk-sharing in tollroad projects procured under the public-private-partnership (PPP) method and the structures of PPP concession ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Demand for taxi services: New elasticity evidence for a neglected mode
Published 2013-10-01This paper investigates the factors that influence the choice of, and hence demand for taxis services, a relatively neglected mode in the urban travel task. Given the importance of positioning preferences for taxi services ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Direct and cross elasticities for freight distribution access charges
Published 2013-02-01The interest in reform of road user charges for freight distribution in many countries continues unabated, linked to a desire to improve economic efficiency as well as recognition of the declining revenue base from traditional ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
An empirical assessment of the feasibility of battery electric vehicles for day-to-day driving
Published 2013-08-01Driven by sustainability objectives, Australia like many nations in the developed world, is considering the option of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) as an alternative to conventional internal combustion engine vehicles ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Estimation of stochastic scale with best-worst data
Published 2013-07-01Recently there has been a steady stream of literature advocating the best-worst response mechanism, where respondents are asked to sequentially choose the best and worst alternatives in a choice set, resulting in a partial ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Evaluating and improving software for identifying trips, occupancy, mode and purpose from GPS traces.
Published 2013-11-01Over the past several years, the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at the University of Sydney has been developing software to process GPS traces and impute the trip ends, modes of travel, occupancy, and trip ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Freeway drivers’ willingness to pay for speeding fines
Published 2013-02-01Taiwanese drivers, like most drivers, often exceed the legal speed limit and expose themselves to the risk of a fine. Given the propensity to exceed the legal speed limit is common in many counties, it is of interest to ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A future in manufacturing: Major issues to be resolved by Australia Pty Ltd
Published 2013-05-01When asked for a view for the prospects for the Australian automotive industry’s survival while addressing the Australian British Chamber of Commerce in Melbourne, 11 April 2013, Jac Nasser, current chairman of BHP-Billiton ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
How much does new transport infrastructure add to land values? Evidence from the bus rapid transit system in Sydney, Australia
Published 2013-09-01This paper examines the impact of a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system on residential housing prices in Sydney, Australia. A quasi experimental approach and a hedonic regression model are employed to identify the housing price ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The impact of terminal re-organisation on belly-hold freight operation chains at airports
Published 2013-07-01While it is widely acknowledged that airport re-organisation from destination to dedicated airline group terminals makes passenger travel more seamless, more efficient and also more profitable for both airlines and airports, ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The impacts of production base relocation on port cluster competition: The case of the Pearl River Delta region
Published 2013-10-01Due to increases in labor and operational costs within the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region, many manufacturing firms are relocating their plants to inland provinces in China. The existence of significant intra- and inter-port ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Interpreting discrete choice models based on best-worst data: A matter of framing
Published 2013-11-01Best worst choice response tasks have become increasingly popular as a means of increasing the amount of information captured from respondents undertaking stated preference experiments. In analysis, best worst data is often ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Investigating the impacts of introducing emission trading scheme to shipping industry
Published 2013-05-01Although international shipping is the most energy efficient means of transportation in terms of unit CO2 emission per tone-mile cargo shipped, due to enormous cargo volume and continuous growth, it still contributes a ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A model for the simultaneous inference of attribute nonattendance and taste heterogeneity
Published 2013-03-01An extensive literature has recognised that when travel choices are made, only a subset of the attributes of the choice alternatives may be considered or attended to by each decision maker. This paper introduces the random ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A new planning system for NSW: Comments and review of green paper
Published 2013-04-01The comments and review of the NSW Planning Green Paper in this paper use the perspective of a development economist such as from the World Bank. This contrasts with the Green Paper’s legalistic point of view. The paper ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Requirements for traffic assignment models for strategic transport planning: A critical assessment
Published 2013-08-01Transport planning models are used all over the world to assist in the decision making regarding investments in infrastructure and transport services. Traffic assignment is one of the key components of transport models, ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Returns to scale in the electricity supply sector, imperfect competition, and efficiency of climate change policies
Published 2013-06-01Climate change policies often contain the dual objectives of trying to reduce the level of CO2 emissions from the use of fossil-fuels while at the same time encouraging the use of renewable energy. In the area of electricity ...Open AccessWorking Paper