ITLS Working Papers 1996: Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The Importance of Organisational Commitment in Managing Change in the Bus Industry in Australia
Published 1996-11-01In Australia there is a continuing trend in the transport sector towards corporatisation, privatisation, competitive regulation (ie tendering) and deregulation. With the implementation of the 1990 Passenger Transport Act ...Open AccessWorking Paper