ITLS Working Papers 2017: Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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