University of Sydney Business School: Recent submissions
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Quasi-dynamic network loading: Adding queuing and spillback to static traffic assignment
Published 2012-02-01For many years, static traffic assignment models have been widely applied in transport planning studies and will continue to be an important tool for strategic policy decisions. As is well known, in the traditional approach, ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Development of a kilometre-based rewards system to encourage safer driving practices
Published 2010-09-01There is growing interest in using kilometre-based financial mechanisms to encourage safer driving practices and reduce accident claims. The rationale behind such an approach is that in addition to driver characteristics ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Heterogeneous truck routing policies with tour routing time restriction
Published 2010-03-01We study a heterogeneous full-truckload vehicle routing problem based on the case of a trucking company in Malaysia, where trucks originate from a depot and are dispatched to various parts of the service area. Each order ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Assessing the wider economy impacts of transport infrastructure investment with an illustrative application to the north-west rail link project in Sydney, Australia
Published 2012-03-01This paper identifies the employment agglomeration impact of transport investments through a measure of change in effective employment density, using new empirical estimates of the elasticity of productivity with respect ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
What if petrol increased to $10 per litre? Implications on travel behaviour and public transport demand
Published 2008-09-01Petrol prices are increasing at a formidable rate. In July 2007 unleaded regular petrol in the typical Australian capital city was about $A1.20/litre and 12 months later the price was over $A1.60/litre. Pundits predict ...Open AccessWorking Paper