Browsing ITLS Working Papers 2017 by title
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Airline Horizontal Mergers and Productivity: Empirical Evidence from a Natural Experiment in China
Published 2017-05-01The identification of possible efficiency gains is a core issue in the analysis of mergers. However, empirical studies are generally subject to bias caused by merger endogeneity. In the early 2000s, the Chinese government ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Assessment of the Hunter Valley Coal Export Supply Chain
Published 2017-03-01We develop a decision support tool that assesses the throughput of a coal export supply chain for a given level of demand. The tool can be used to rapidly evaluate a number of infrastructures for several future demand ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Barriers and facilitators of integration between buses with a higher level of service and rail: An Australian case study
Published 2017-08-01The debate as to whether investment should be made in bus based or rail based rapid transit systems continues within the academic literature with entrenched arguments on both sides. Within Australia, the debate has become ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Choice Modelling With Time-varying Attributes, With an Application to Train Crowding
Published 2017-07-01This study is concerned with the treatment of time-varying attributes (TVAs) in discrete choice models, where the attributes are some measure of the quality of an alternative that changes over some relevant measure of time. ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Continuous-time general link transmission model with simplified fanning, Part I: Theory and link model formulation
Published 2017-03-01The kinematic wave theory is widely used to simulate traffic flows on road segments. Link transmission models are methods to find a solution to the kinematic wave model, however, their computational efficiency heavily ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Continuous-time general link transmission model with simplified fanning, Part II: Event-based algorithm for networks
Published 2017-03-01In this paper a novel solution algorithm is proposed for solving general first order dynamic network loading (DNL) problems in general transport networks. This solution algorithm supports any smooth non-linear two regime ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Data challenges: more behavioural and (relatively) less statistical – a think piece
Published 2017-06-01The study of traveller behaviour has blossomed into a multi-disciplinary array of theories, methods and data paradigms all aimed at improving our understanding of drivers of passenger and freight movement in time and space. ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Dynamic responses of freight operators to government policies: a latent curve modelling approach
Published 2017-12-01Using a unique dataset collected from Australian (urban) freight operators using an adaptive-dynamic simulation method, firms’ dynamic responses are modelled using latent curve models to investigate firms’ adaptation ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Getting off the greenhouse gas: Public transport’s potential contribution in Australian cities
Published 2017-07-01Australians are one of the world’s highest per capita emitters of greenhouse gases, yet the country’s target for emissions reductions by 2030 remains modest. This paper looks at policy options for Australian cities to ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Heterogeneity in decision processes: Embedding extremeness aversion, risk attitude and perceptual conditioning in multiple heuristics choice making
Published 2017-02-01There is an increasing interest, in the discrete choice modelling literature, in alternative behavioural paradigms that represent ways in which individuals make choices when faced with a choice set of alternatives, under ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
How well does BRT perform in contrast to LRT? An Australian case study using MetroScan_TI
Published 2017-08-01BRT is typically a relatively more popular transport investment in developing countries in contrast to the bias observed increasingly in developed economies towards LRT. While there have been a number of comparative ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Mobility as a Service for the older population: a transport solution to land use changes in essential services?
Published 2017-10-01Land use changes in relation to everyday services are resulting in centralisation of local services from mixed land use town centres to single land use destinations on the edge of cities. Technology advances are disrupting ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Modeling the effects of unilateral and uniform emission regulations under shipping company and port competition
Published 2017-01-01This study develops an integrated model to investigate the economic and environmental effects of a unilateral maritime emission regulation vis-à-vis a uniform maritime emission regulation. The proposed model explicitly ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A radical reappraisal of transport and land market basics
Published 2017-10-01The current foundation narrative of land transport service established in 1960s, focused on projections of existing demand, equilibrium models, and projects with feasibility based on the value of time savings exceeding ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Risky Weighting in Discrete Choice
Published 2017-05-01This paper presents a new approach to discrete choice analysis for risky prospects. Conventional discrete choice analysis focuses on riskless prospects and does not deal with the scenario where the alternatives that the ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Shipping network design in a growth market: The case of Indonesia
Published 2017-04-01This paper investigates the design issues of a shipping network when cargo demand increases rapidly. A gravity-type model for origin-destination (OD) demand estimation is first presented and calibrated based on the current ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Smartphone-based Travel Surveys: A Review
Published 2017-04-01Interest continues to grow in the use of smartphones for travel survey purposes. Their locational and interactive potential combined with their ubiquity and pragmatism as something people are likely to keep with them and ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The South Eastern BRT Network in Brisbane, Australia: How much is added to residential house values as a result of the network effect?
Published 2017-02-01This paper addresses an area of policy much understudied in the literature. It emerged out of investigating the policy needs of governments seeking to find new ways of funding public transport infrastructure. Land rent ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Strategic Management of Integrated Public Transport and its Value in the Air Bus Service Context
Published 2017-01-01While there is a well-developed body of academic literature on how to procure ground transport services and how to integrate those services, there is virtually no literature on how to do this in the context of air services ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Sustainability Analysis under Disruption Risks
Published 2017-11-01Resilience to disruptions and sustainability are both of paramount importance to supply chains. This paper presents a hybrid methodology for the design of a sustainable supply network that performs resiliently in the face ...Open AccessWorking Paper