Browsing ITLS Working Papers 1997 by publication year
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Australian Commutersí Attitudes and Behaviour Concerning Abatement Policies and Personal Involvement
Published 1997-01-01Public interest in the environment is building as we gain information about the deterioration in air quality and the potential threat of global warming. This research addresses the dichotomy between an individual’s behavior ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Intelligent Transport Systems - A New Era in Telematics Technology
Published 1997-01-01Urban road traffic congestion problems which accounts to some substantial loss to the economy can only be reduced if the interaction between vehicles, infrastructure and transport management can be handled in a more efficient ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Reducing Car Travel Through an ‘Individual Action’ Programme
Published 1997-01-01This paper outlines a new approach to reducing car use in order to address environmental concerns. The individual action programme, known as travel blending, aims to encourage individuals to choose a mixture, or blend, of ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Productivity of Australian Container Terminals: Some Critical Issues
Published 1997-01-01Terminals: a Review which was prepared for the Western Australian Department of Transport and which was completed in April 1996. The Department was concerned at the continuing low levels of stevedoring productivity at ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Reforming Ports: Issues in the Privatisation Debate
Published 1997-02-01Privatisation and corporatisation strategies are part of an ongoing microeconomic reform program aimed at commercialising and raising efficiency in the public sector. Within this ethos, ownership and efficiency are perceived ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Asian Hub/Feeder Nets: The Dynamics of Restructuring
Published 1997-02-01In less than 25 years containerisation has restructured the way in which regional Asia handles its manufactured and break-bulk cargoes. In 1972 the commissioning of the purpose-built container terminals in Hong Kong and ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Establishing Fare Elasticity Regimes for Urban Passenger Transport: Time- Based Fares for Concession and Non-Concession Markets Segmented by Trip Length
Published 1997-02-01The missing ingredient in many operational studies of public transport patronage prediction is a matrix of direct and cross fare elasticities which relate to specific fare classes within a choice set of fare class ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Establishing A Fare Elasticity Regime for Urban Passenger Transport: Non- Concession Commuters
Published 1997-03-01The missing ingredient in many operational studies of public transport patronage prediction is a matrix of direct and cross fare elasticities which relate to specific fare classes within a choice set of fare class ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Combining Sources of Preference Data: The Case of the Lurking l‘s
Published 1997-04-01This paper brings together several research streams and concepts that have been evolving in random utility choice theory: first, it reviews the literature on stated preference (SP) elicitation methods and introduces the ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Liberalising Airline Competition in India: Relevant Lessons from the Australian Experience
Published 1997-04-01As the commercial airline industry developed during the 1940's and 1950's, there was universal acceptance of the need to control entry, to regulate fares and to encourage airlines to cross-subsidise unprofitable services. ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The Future of Exclusive Busways: The Brazilian Experience
Published 1997-05-01This paper examines the operation of urban bus transport systems based upon exclusive bus roadways (busways) in three cities in Brazil. The historic, economic, political, regulatory and operating context for these services ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Markets, Government And Environmental Policy Issues For Public Transit
Published 1997-05-01This paper considers the wider transport policy implications of bus deregulation, especially the links with environmental objectives. The major themes are the role of markets in creating opportunities through incentives ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Developments in the Aviation Industry in Australia and Asia - Implications for Australian Tourism
Published 1997-06-01The Asia-Pacific region is expected to be the main region of growth in airline travel for at least the next two decades. According to the forecasts, China will become one of the largest domestic airline markets in the world ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Evaluating Minimum Service Levels for Bus Services - Using Geographical Information Systems
Published 1997-06-01Under the New South Wales Passenger Transport Act 1990, each commercial contract for providing a bus service must stipulate a scale of minimum service levels. It is a means for the Government to ensure that all the residents ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Open Skies” in India - Is it succeeding
Published 1997-07-01With a “middle class” of 200 million people in a large country where travel between the major population centres by surface transport can be arduous, India has a potentially large domestic airline market. In the post-World ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Imposing Symmetry On A Complete Matrix Of Commuter Travel Elasticities
Published 1997-08-01Travel price and time elasticities are increasingly being derived from discrete choice models of the multinomial or nested logit form. These elasticities are then applied to obtain predictions of changes in travel demand ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Interpreting Commercial Vehicle Survey Data
Published 1997-09-01Analytical rigour in statistical analysis is often taken for granted. Although every effort may be made in the initial phases, there may be several factors which influence the resulting accuracy of data. This paper describes ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Attitude and Travel Behaviour Change Using Survey Feedback: Insight from Dutch and Australian Experience
Published 1997-10-01Travel demand management (TDM) addresses the problems of energy consumption and pollution associated with increased motor vehicle use through strategies focused on improving asset utilisation, physical restraint, pricing, ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Proceedings of CAITR’97 - The 19th Conference of the Australian Institutes of Transport Research
Published 1997-11-01This working paper contains the collected papers presented at the 19th Conference of the Australian Institutes of Transport Research hosted by the Institute of Transport Studies Monash University between 24th and 26th ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Technology Application for Freight Data Collection
Published 1997-11-01This paper looks at the application of GPS, GIS, wireless communication networks and Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) technology to freight data collection. The Transport Research Centre (in Melbourne) is undertaking a ...Open AccessWorking Paper