Browsing ITLS Working Papers 2021 by publication year
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What does the Quantum of Working from Home do to the Value of Commuting Time used in Transport Appraisal?
Published 2021The need to recognise and account for the influence of working from home on commuting activity has never been so real as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Given a recognition that WFH activity during the pandemic has ...Working Paper -
Unlocking Public Procurement as a Tool for Place-Based Industrial Strategy
Published 2021The Global Financial Crisis and, more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the perils of industrial atrophy and spatial inequality rampant within advanced economies. Despite growing interest in lifting economic ...Working Paper -
Comparative Assessment of Zero Emission Electric and Hydrogen Buses in Australia
Published 2021The pace of electrification for public transit bus fleets is accelerating internationally. Clear targets have been established by transport policymakers to achieve a zero-emission bus target as early as 2030 in some ...Working Paper -
Forecasting Automobile Gasoline Demand in Australia Using Machine Learning-based Regression
Published 2021We use a variant of machine learning (ML) to forecast Australia’s automobile gasoline demand within an autoregressive and structural model. By comparing the outputs of the various model specifications, we find that training ...Working Paper -
Riding the Storm: Humanising Our Response to Induced Global Warming
Published 2021Climate change is a complex challenge. Addressing it successfully requires a mindset that draws directly from the heart of what makes us human. Our moral responsibilities to each other, future generations and the planet ...Working Paper -
A review of rail transport system vulnerability analysis: past progress and future directions
Published 2021Analysis of the vulnerability of rail transport systems has received considerable attention in the literature over several decades. Since economic development is usually associated with increasing demand for railway transport ...Working Paper -
Relationship between commuting and non-commuting travel activity under the growing incidence of working from home and people’s attitudes towards COVID-19
Published 2021The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the way we live and travel, possibly for many years to come. The ‘New Normal’ seems to be one that is best associated with living with COVID-19 rather that ‘after COVID-19’. After a year ...Working Paper -
Mobility as a Service and private car use: evidence from the Sydney MaaS trial
Published 2021Australia’s first Mobility as a Service (MaaS) trial commenced in April 2019 in Sydney, running for two years. The objective of the trial is at least twofold – to assess interest in various MaaS subscription plans through ...Working Paper -
Major urban transport expenditure initiatives: where are the returns likely to be strongest and how significant is social exclusion in making the case?
Published 2021This paper explores whether the benefits from major urban transport spending increases are likely to differ greatly, depending on whether that spending prioritises light rail, a mode with growing interest and several new ...Working Paper -
Can MaaS change users’ travel behaviour to deliver commercial and societal outcomes?
Published 2021Mobility as a Service, or MaaS, is a relatively new business model that aims to disrupt the passenger transport industry by integrating existing mobility services into an intuitive smartphone app that allows everyday ...Working Paper -
Battery Electric Vehicles in Cities: Measurement of some impacts on traffic and government revenue recovery
Published 2021We are told that electric vehicles, cars in particular, will be good for the environment. But what exactly might this mean? It is true that end use emissions will be significantly reduced when we move from fossil fuels to ...Working Paper -
A Framework to Model and Compare Rest Break Policies in Logistics Industry
Published 2021Carriers and postal companies are under increasing pressure to reduce their operating costs and increase efficiency. One way to reduce costs is to improve the utilisation of drivers’ working hours by employing more efficient ...Working Paper -
Working from Home in Australia in 2020: Positives, Negatives and the Potential for Future Benefits to Transport and Society
Published 2021The year 2020 has been marked by the most extraordinary event we have witnessed since World War II. While other health threats and geographical disasters have occurred, none have been on the global scale of COVID-19. ...Working Paper -
Place-based disadvantage, social exclusion and the value of mobility
Published 2021Connections between mobility and social exclusion have been of research and policy interest for some years, a high value being estimated for additional trips by those at risk of mobility-related exclusion. Those values ...Working Paper -
Narratives in Transport Research
Published 2021Social science disciplines are increasingly using narratives as means to develop theory and tools for real world applications. The aim of this review of literature is to show, from an interdisciplinary perspective, how ...Working Paper -
“Messaging” and Public Transport in the COVID-19 environment
Published 2021-01-15Getting the message right has been an important task for public transport operators as the sector seeks to recover from the drastic fall in patronage occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic. Coming out of any lockdown or periods ...Working Paper -
Why industrial location matters again in a low-carbon economy
Published 2021-02-02Reductions in freight transportation costs have favoured agglomeration and radically decreased the requirement for production activities to take place adjacent to natural resources. As the world transitions towards energy ...Working Paper -
Hypothetical bias in stated choice experiments: Part I. Integrative synthesis of empirical evidence and conceptualisation of external validity
Published 2021-02-15The notion of hypothetical bias (HB) constitutes, arguably, the most fundamental issue in relation to the use of hypothetical survey methods. Whether or to what extent choices of survey participants and subsequent inferred ...Working Paper -
Hypothetical bias in stated choice experiments: Part II. Macro-scale analysis of literature and effectiveness of bias mitigation methods
Published 2021-02-26This paper reviews methods of hypothetical bias (HB) mitigation in choice experiments (CEs). It presents a bibliometric analysis and summary of empirical evidence of their effectiveness. The paper follows the review of ...Working Paper -
Multimodal Transportation Plans: Empirical Evidence on Uptake, Usage and Behavioural Implications from the Augsburg MaaS Trial
Published 2021-03-04The integration of shared mobility modes with public transportation to provide ‘mobility as a service’ (MaaS) in a sustainable way has received substantial attention from transportation scholars, practitioners and policymakers. ...Working Paper