ITLS Working Papers 2013: Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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