Browsing ITLS Working Papers 2018 by publication year
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Tackling road congestion – what might it look like in the future under a collaborative and connected mobility model?
Published 2018-01-01Traffic congestion continues to be the bane of many metropolitan areas and has exercised the minds of experts for at least the last 60 years. With the advent of smart (intelligent) mobility, aligned with digital disruption ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Determinants of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system revenue and effectiveness – A global benchmarking exercise
Published 2018-01-01Bus rapid transit systems (BRT) have evolved in all shapes and sizes around the world in the last 30 years motivated by providing greater efficiency and value for money than potential alternatives. This paper aims to explore ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
On the stability of preferences and attitudes: a hybrid model of air travel preferences at two different points in time
Published 2018-02-01Many methods have been developed to give transport policy makers better insight into why different choices are made. One such methodology that has been receiving increasing attention is the hybrid choice model, which seeks ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Emerging transport technologies and the modal efficiency framework: A case for mobility as a service (MaaS)
Published 2018-02-01The land passenger transport sector lies on the cusp of a major transformation, guided by collaborative consumption, next generation vehicles, demographic change and digital technologies. Whilst there is widespread enthusiasm ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Commodity interaction in Freight movement models for Greater Sydney
Published 2018-03-01Central to freight movement models is an understanding of where the freight commodities are produced and consumed. An important driver in the production and/or consumption of each commodity is the production and consumption ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Gamification in transport interventions: Another way to improve travel behavioural change
Published 2018-03-01Gamification is dramatically transforming how behaviour change interventions are delivered. The design of gaming products in the field of transport, a field which is perceived as having derived demand, is largely underdeveloped. ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Environmental Costs and Economics Implications of Container Shipping in the Northern Sea Route
Published 2018-04-01The Northern Sea Route (NSR) has tremendous potential for marine shipping between Europe and Asia in terms of savings in transport time and distance. However, the Arctic area is environmentally vulnerable thus there is a ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The impacts of airport activities on regional economy - An empirical analysis of New Zealand
Published 2018-04-01This study investigates the impacts of airport activities on regional economies using annual data on 22 regions and airports in New Zealand from 1996 to 2016. Studying all regions of an island country avoids the sample ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Modeling the Potential for Aviation Liberalization in Central Asia - Market analysis and implications for the Belt and Road initiative
Published 2018-05-01This study analyzes aviation markets in the five land-locked countries in Central Asia. Panel data spanning from 2007 to 2015 are used to estimate airline entry patterns in origin-destination markets. Econometric estimates ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Do preferences for BRT and LRT change as a voter, citizen, tax payer, or self- interested resident?
Published 2018-05-01Interest in modal preferences remains a topic of high interest as governments make infrastructure decisions that often favour one mode over the other. An informative input into the infrastructure selection process should ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Consumer Surplus based Method for Quantifying and Improving the Material Flow Supply Chain Network Robustness
Published 2018-06-01Recent advances in network science has encouraged researchers to adopt a topological view when characterising the robustness of supply chain networks (SCNs). However, topology based characterisations, without considering ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Firm-specific and location-specific drivers of business location and relocation decisions
Published 2018-06-01Decisions made by businesses on where to locate or relocate are typically given less consideration than residential location in integrated transport and land use modelling systems. This is surprising given the important ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
CORPORATE MOBILITY REVIEW; How Business can Shape Mobility
Published 2018-07-01This research is based around months of conversation with business leaders across major sectors of the Australian economy. It constitutes a business-led response to the challenge of mobility which is increasingly constraining ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Generalized multivariate extreme value models for explicit route choice sets
Published 2018-08-01This paper analyses a class of route choice models with closedform probability expressions, namely, Generalized Multivariate Extreme Value (GMEV) models. A large group of these models emerge from different utility formulas ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Steady-state link travel time methods: formulation, derivation, and classification
Published 2018-08-01Travel times are one of the most important outputs of transport planning models and this is unlikely to change in the future. It is therefore paramount that the methods that underpin the construction of travel times are ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Disaggregating the electricity sector in a CGE model to allow competition theory to explain the introduction of new technologies to the sector
Published 2018-09-01The electricity sector in most CGE models is highly aggregate which makes it unsuitable for use in the analysis of the impacts of climate change or energy policies on the sector. A conventional approach is to disaggregate ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
How to better represent preferences in choice models: the contributions to preference heterogeneity attributable to the presence of process heterogeneity
Published 2018-09-01Discrete choice studies, with rare exception, assume that agents act as if sources of observed utility are captured through a linear in parameters and additive in attributes (LPAA) form, with some interactions. A growing ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Creation of unstructured big data from customer service: The case of parcel shipping companies on Twitter
Published 2018-10-01Purpose - Customer service provision is a growing phenomenon on social media and parcel shipping companies have been among the most prominent adopters. This has coincided with greater interest in the development of analysis ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Autonomous Vehicles Down Under: An Empirical Investigation of Consumer Sentiment
Published 2018-10-01Of the many issues surrounding the potential introduction of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs), consumer response remains unclear. The current paper presents an empirical investigation of consumer sentiment towards AVs based on ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Willingness to participate in travel surveys: A cross-country and cross- methods comparison
Published 2018-11-01Travel surveys are the primary source of data that feed into the analysis and modeling of travel behaviour. Numerous studies have found that the survey method, be it pen and paper, online, interview, smartphone app, or ...Open AccessWorking Paper