Browsing ITLS Working Papers 1996 by publication year
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Accessible Buses in a Commercial Environment
Published 1996-02-01This paper considers the operation of accessible urban buses in a commercial environment with particular reference to the provision of services in Wellington, New Zealand. The goal of achieving fully accessible urban public ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Intercity Rail Services: Evaluating Pricing Options
Published 1996-03-01This is a renewed interest in intercity and long-distance rail services in many countries, with both new high-speed rail services and improvements to conventional rail under review. The current study reports on an investigation ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Predicting Demand for High Speed Rail in the Sydney- Canberra Corridor
Published 1996-03-01Accessibility by High Speed Rail (HSR) services between major cities within a nation and across borders is growing in popularity. Currently 15 nations are evaluating new HSR along the lines of the successful systems in ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Designing Transport & Urban Forms for the Australia of the 21st Century
Published 1996-04-01Papers presented at workshop on “Designing Transport & Urban Forms for the Australia of the 21st Century” on Tuesday 30 April 1996 at the Institute of Transport Studies (Sydney), University of Sydney. Four papers critically ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Australian Airports: The Case for Privatisation
Published 1996-05-01Privatisation of the airports of the Federal Airports Corportation has been supported by both sides of Parliament. After reviewing the Labor party policy which established airport privatisation on the national agenda, this ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Changing Ownership Strategies for Australian Ports: Some Emerging Issues
Published 1996-06-01Microeconomic reform has characterised the Australian maritime sector over the last decade or so. Shipping reform, waterfront reform and the current changing ownership strategies of state governments throughout Australia ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Urban Public Transport Futures: Broadening the Policy Debate
Published 1996-06-01The Fourth International Conference on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transporti, held 10-12 July 1995 in Rotorua, New Zealand, provided a forum for presentation and debate on the latest developments in the ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Transport and Environmental Management
Published 1996-07-01The objective of this paper is to highlight the environmental impacts associated with the provision of transport services necessary for the movement of passengers and goods. The management of the transport sector requires ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Extending Valuation to Controlled Value Functions and Non- Uniform Scaling with Generalised Unobserved Variances
Published 1996-07-01A common by-product of discrete choice models is the marginal rate of substitution between two attributes (one usually measured in monetary units). The typical output is a point estimate value. In reality there is a ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Economic Significance of High Speed Rail
Published 1996-09-01The successes of existing high speed rail systems; the Shinkansen in Japan and TGV in France, have been widely reported. This paper presents evidence of the benefits of HSR as reported by studies carried out on the existing ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Comparative Performance of Freeway Automated Incident Detection Algorithms
Published 1996-10-01Common measures of performance of incident detection algorithms are detection rate, false alarm rate and mean time-todetect. These measures are not independent and it is therefore necessary to determine the underlying ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Transport, Traffic & Land Use : changing roles for local government
Published 1996-10-01There are a number of important changes occurring in local government which have the potential to significantly influence the role which this level of government plays through its influence on transport and land use. These ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The Impact of Data Quantity on the Performance of Neural Network Freeway Incident Detection Models
Published 1996-10-01One of the difficulties in the development of artificial neural network (ANN) models is that, unlike statistical modelling where estimates of sample size can be initially computed, the number of samples or observations ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Impact of Data Quality on the Performance of Neural Network Incident Detection Models
Published 1996-10-01One of the challenges in using field data for the development of neural network incident detection models is to be able to train models that can handle the noisy nature of the loop detector data. The noise in the field ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Urban Goods Movement and Sydney’s Economy
Published 1996-10-01Freight transport is a key component of the role for roads in the national economy, particularly in urban areas, but our understanding of the urban freight transport system is very limited. Until recently there were minimal ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Accident Analysis and Investigation: the role of road safety engineering
Published 1996-10-01This paper was presented at a VicRoads Workshop for road safety engineers, held in Geelong on 2-5 June, 1996. It presents an overview of accident analysis and investigation, with particular emphasis on the role which the ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Local Government and its Changing Role in Transport and Land Use Integration
Published 1996-10-01Land use/transport integration is no longer a nice sounding professional platitude. It is a major factor in the challenge of achieving adequate urban infrastructure world-wide. In different countries and different circumstances ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
An ITS Vision for Melbourne’s Southbank Precinct
Published 1996-10-01Melbourne’s Southbank area is achieving prominence as an activity centre because of the variety of cultural, sporting and entertainment opportunities which it provides. This paper outlines opportunities to maximise the ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Analysis of Crash Patterns at Signalised Intersections
Published 1996-10-01The paper reviews the crash patterns evident at signalised intersections in Victoria, and shows that such crashes are of four main types - right through, rear end, adjacent approaches, and pedestrian crashes. Crash patterns ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Activity Modelling of Urban Traffic Movement
Published 1996-10-01Many transport models use unrealistic representation of vehicle trip linkages. This paper presents a model that moves towards incorporating vehicle trip linkages into a framework capable of answering policy questions in a ...Open AccessWorking Paper