University of Sydney Business School: Recent submissions
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Regaining the Fundamentals
Published 1999-02-01Transport policy and planning has relatively few but important fundamentals. Research has focused on marginal issues and not fundamentals. The paper reviews physical fundamentals, moves through economic and financial, then ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Cost efficiency under negotiated performance‐based contracts and benchmarking – Are there gains through competitive tendering in the absence of an incumbent public monopolist?
Published 2014-01-01This paper uses data obtained from numerous sources in Australia to assess the extent to which negotiated performance-based contracts with actionable benchmarking can achieve as good as, or better, improvement in cost ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A lossless spatial aggregation procedure for a class of capacity constrained traffic assignment models incorporating point queues
Published 2015-11-01In this paper two novel spatial aggregation procedures are proposed. A network aggregation procedure based on a travel time delay decomposition method and a zonal aggregation procedure based on a path redistribution scheme. ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Investigating the impacts of introducing emission trading scheme to shipping industry
Published 2013-05-01Although international shipping is the most energy efficient means of transportation in terms of unit CO2 emission per tone-mile cargo shipped, due to enormous cargo volume and continuous growth, it still contributes a ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A simplified and practical alternative way to recognise the role of household characteristics in determining an individual’s preferences: the case of automobile choice
Published 2015-05-01It is common practice in choice modelling to include the socioeconomic characteristics of other members of a household in the utility expressions associated with the preferences of a particular individual. By including ...Open AccessWorking Paper