ITLS Working Papers 2015: Recent submissions
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Travel behaviour in the context of parcel pickups
Published 2015-07-01The last decade has seen a rapid growth in business to consumer parcel deliveries, driven to a large extent by a corresponding growth in online shopping. However, the ‘last mile’ of parcel distribution, which involves the ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Using contracted assets to undertake non‐contracted services as a way to improve cost efficiency under negotiated or tendered bus contracts
Published 2015-07-01Public transit (bus) operators in many jurisdictions throughout the world currently deliver regular public transport (RPT) services under a negotiated contract, typically between five and 10 years, with re-negotiation ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Speeding in urban environments: Are the time savings worth the risk?
Published 2015-05-01Perceived time savings by travelling faster is often cited as a motivation for drivers’ speeding behaviour. These time savings, however, come at a cost of significant road injuries and fatalities. While it is known that ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The challenge of obtaining ground truth for GPS processing
Published 2015-03-01The increasing use of GPS as a substitute or complement to conventional travel surveys has brought with it an increasing need for a reliable source of ground truth, i.e., information on the actual travel in which each ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Working while travelling: what are implications for the value of travel time savings in the economic appraisal of transport projects?
Published 2015-12-01In the current practice of the economic appraisal of transport projects, the value of travel time savings (VTTS) for business trips is derived from the Cost Saving Approach (CSA) whereby travel time savings were valued at ...Open AccessWorking Paper