Browsing ITLS Working Papers 2022 by publication year
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Consumer preferences for innovative and traditional last-mile parcel delivery
Published 2022The purpose of this research is to reveal consumer preferences towards innovative last-mile parcel delivery and more specifically unmanned aerial delivery drones, in comparison to traditional postal delivery (postie) and ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Accounting for the spatial incidence of working from home in an integrated transport and land model system
Published 2022The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a seismic shift in the way in which work is conducted. Remote working or working from home is becoming a centrepiece of the next normal with strong support from both employers and ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Travel with dogs: the need to accommodate “messy trips” in healthy and sustainable transport transitions
Published 2022Private car dependency is widely recognised as problematic: for human health through injury, respiratory illness, declining rates of physical activity and the erosion of the social ties that allow us to flourish, environmentally ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The Impact of Working from Home on Modal Commuting Choice Response during COVID-19: Implications for Two Metropolitan Areas in Australia
Published 2022The 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. Not only does this change the performance of the transport network, ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Working from home, health and wellbeing consequences of a pandemic
Published 2022-02-04Drawing from a survey of 1,165 Sydney (Australia) workers conducted in late 2020, when restrictions from the first COVID-19 wave were easing across Australia, we explore the impact of the pandemic on perceived changes to ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Effects of passing rates on driving behaviour in variable speed limit-controlled highways: Evidence of social pressure from a driving simulator study
Published 2022-03-04Variable message signs on motorways can show dynamically changing speed limits for traffic safety or efficiency reasons. While the effects of variable speed limits have been studied in the literature, the effect of (drivers ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Attitudes towards public transport post Delta Covid-19 lockdowns: identifying user segments and policies to restore confidence
Published 2022-03-04The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the propensity to use public transport, with many countries seeing a decline in patronage to as low as 20% of the pre-pandemic levels. Although public transport use is ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
An investigation of Regional Public Transport Spend in Australia
Published 2022-03-23This report presents the outcome of an investigation of the regional public transport spend in each state of Australia. Deriving reliable figures for comparison was a key objective and the core metric used is government ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
TDM measures for Education Precincts – past progress and future prospects
Published 2022-04-01Travel Demand Management (TDM) initiatives are widely applied by transport planners to establish and enable appropriate use of critical transport infrastructure. This paper considers the specific case of TDM in an education ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Co-Modality for Sydney’s Ferries
Published 2022-05-31Logistics issues arising from the last mile delivery of goods in an urban environment are plentiful. Co-modality, whereby the movement of freight and passengers are integrated on the same public transport mode, can mitigate ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The Impact that COVID-19 and working from home has had on the amount of main location office space retained and the future use of rented satellite offices
Published 2022-06-09Despite the extensive amount of research on the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on significant changes in the location at which work takes place, especially working from home (WFH), there is very little systematic ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
How the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the landscape of transportation research: An integrative scoping review and roadmap for future research
Published 2022-06-27In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, scholars across all domains of science and engineering mobilised their efforts to address its far-reaching societal problems. Transportation researchers were no exemption. With mobility ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Oceanian Perspectives on Transport Pricing and Financing of roads and public transport
Published 2022-07-27This chapter provides an overview of pricing and funding initiatives in recent years in Oceania, with a focus mainly on Australia and to a limited extent, New Zealand. With a focus on land based road and public transport, ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A Comparative Assessment of Zero and Low Emission Strategies for the Australian Truck Fleet
Published 2022-07-28Various strategies worldwide have been introduced to cut emissions and pollutants in freight distribution, such as a low emission strategy mainly supported by low carbon fuel standards, shifting road freight to rail, and ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Light commercial vehicles destination choice: Understanding preferences relative to the number of stops and tour-based trip type
Published 2022-07-28Freight delivery modelling has made significant progress in the past few decades. In this study we propose to use an aggregate multi-step approach to gain a better understanding of the tour-based trips of light commercial ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Evidence from GTFS-R that Bus Priority Lanes reduce Marginal Delay
Published 2022-08-22Bus priority measures such as bus lanes have been widely deployed in order to improve bus performance and attract ridership. The validation of these expected benefits has usually been done at the aggregate level with ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Quantifying the impact of COVID-19 on travel behavior in different socioeconomic segments
Published 2022-08-24This paper investigates the impact of COVID-19 on travel behavior in different socio-economic segments in the USA using integrated mobile device location data over the period 1 Jan 2020 ~ 20 Apr 2021. A fixed-effect panel ...Open AccessArticle -
The influence of working from home on the number of commuting and non-commuting trips by workers during 2020 and 2021 pre- and post-lockdown in Australia
Published 2022-08-31Since the start of 2020, we have seen major changes in the way communities operate. Mobility behaviour has been drastically impacted by work from home (WFH) and by lockdowns and restrictions in different jurisdictions. ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Time Allocation of Reduced Commuting Time during COVID-19 under Working from Home
Published 2022-11-01The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the amount of weekly commuting activity, with a commensurate increase in remote working, especially from home. The reduction in the amount of commuting time has resulted ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Working from home 22 months on from the beginning of COVID-19: What have we learned for the future provision of transport services?
Published 2022-11-01COVID-19 has delivered an unintended positive consequence through working from home (WFH). While it may be some time until we are able to indicate, with some confidence, the impact that WFH will have on traffic congestion ...Open AccessWorking Paper