ITLS Working Papers 2013: Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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