University of Sydney Business School: Recent submissions
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The Sensitivity of the Valuation of Travel Time Savings to the Specification of Unobserved Effects
Published 2000-07-01The behavioural value of travel time savings (VTTS) remains a controversial data item in the evaluation of transport projects. Over the last 40 years we have seen numerous empirical studies seeking to enrich our understanding ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Transport and Economic Growth
Published 2000-07-01There is a perceived wisdom that transport provision (especially of roads) is an essential pre-requisite for economic growth which has tended to justify a “predict and provide“ approach to the provision of roads. The ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The Valuation of Travel Time Savings for Urban Car Drivers: Evaluating Alternative Model Specifications
Published 2000-03-01The empirical valuation of travel time savings is a derivative of the ratio of parameter estimates in a discrete choice model. The most common formulation (multinomial logit) imposes strong restrictions on the profile of ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Transport planning, markets and government: challenges for the future
Published 1992-03-01Open AccessWorking Paper -
Safety and productivity in the long distance trucking industry
Published 1992-01-01Media attention to truck safety in recent years has highlighted the lack of scientific evidence on the real causes of heavy vehicle crashes. The paper examines the hypothesis that the underlying causes of unsafe on-road ...Open AccessWorking Paper