Browsing ITLS Working Papers 2023 by title
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An Alternative Scoring Approach for Best-Worst Scaling (BWS)
Published 2023-08-10The paper proposes an alternative scoring approach for the Best-Worst scaling (BWS) Object Case to capture both preference heterogeneity and experimental design differences to improve the prediction accuracy at the individual ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
An autoregressive spatial stochastic frontier analysis for quantifying the sales efficiency of the electric vehicle market: An application to 88 pilot cities in China
Published 2023-04-12This paper proposes the use of an autoregressive spatial stochastic frontier model to measure the sales efficiency of the electric vehicle (EV) market in 88 Chinese cities for the period 2016 to 2021. In contrast to previous ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Barriers towards enhancing mobility through MaaS in a Regional and Rural context: insights from suppliers and organisers
Published 2023-11-02This study explores the potential of a mobility framework for MaaS in a regional and rural context. In-depth interviews of stakeholders, including Non-Transport Providers and Transport Providers, were conducted in three ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A data-driven conceptual framework for understanding the nature of hazards in railway accidents
Published 2023-06-07Hazards threaten railway safety by their potential to trigger railway accidents. Whilst there are a considerable number of prior works investigating railway hazards, few offer a holistic view of hazards across jurisdictions ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Development and Application of a State-wide Transport Model System in Australia
Published 2023-09-14This paper develops a regional travel demand model system, called R-Tresis, with the capability to predict expected changes in public transport patronage under service scenarios up to 2056. Taking 2016 as the base year, ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The Digital Freight Forwarder and the Incumbent: A Predictive Framework to Examine Disruptive Potentials of Digital Platforms
Published 2023-06-21Digital platforms play an increasing role in the logistics industry. In this space, new start-ups have been challenging the traditional logistics providers with new business models. It is, however, not clear whether these ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Evaluating Travel Behavior Resilience across Urban and Rural Areas during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Contributions of Vaccination and Epidemiological Indicators
Published 2023-08-22The COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted travel behavior across diverse socio-economic areas, with a significant impact on transportation systems, public health, and the economy. As countries both recover and plan for ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Exploring stability in travel attitudes: Evidence from a repeated cross-sectional study in Sydney, Australia
Published 2023Many travel behaviour studies focus on the interaction between attitudes and travel behaviour, but in doing so have used a multitude of attitude measurements. These studies often use surveys where respondents are asked to ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The Greening of the passenger car might not deliver such positive sustainability news – so what do we have to do?
Published 2023-03-23As we promote the need to reduce emissions at the tailpipe for cars, trucks, and buses, we may be neglecting the full story on what this might mean for achieving a broad set of sustainability goals. While not denying the ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The impact of the pandemic on logistics and supply chain digitalization
Published 2022The coronavirus pandemic led to supply chain disruptions resulting in adverse economic impacts on global supply chains. Nationwide lockdowns in countries that play key roles in global manufacturing restricted freight ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Improving Transportation Project Evaluation by Recognizing the Role of Spatial Scale and Context in Measuring Non-User Economic Benefits
Published 2023-07-13The usefulness of transportation project evaluation depends on the completeness of its benefit measures. Since transportation networks are intrinsically spatial, transportation improvement projects have spatial access and ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A latent-based segmentation framework for the investigation of charging behaviour of electric vehicle users
Published 2023-10-19Electrification of transport is deemed by many countries worldwide as one of the key strategies to mitigate C02 emissions, yet the availability of reliable public charging infrastructure systems represents a potential ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Learning from the Evidence: Insights for Regulating E-scooters
Published 2023-11-02As a trending mobility choice, e-scooters have become popular in many cities. Many authorities have initiated shared e-scooter trial schemes to assess the feasibility of the vehicles prior to enacting official legalisation. ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
No Accounting for Government: Applying Corporate Governance Principles to Elected Officials
Published 2023-03-15To address the agency problem, corporate governance legislation has placed stringent requirements on the behaviour of individuals appointed to company boardrooms and senior management positions. In contrast, there is an ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A novel mobility consumption theory for road user charging
Published 2023-07-11Building on the analogy between electrical energy and mobility, we propose a novel mobility consumption theory based on the idea of the required reserved space headway of vehicles while driving. In this theory, mobility ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Parking Preferences of Tourists in Sun Moon Lake National Scenic Area, Taiwan
Published 2023-12-19Sun Moon Lake is a famous tourist attraction in Taiwan and abroad. However, as Sun Moon Lake is surrounded by mountains and has limited land to develop, traffic congestion around the lake area is commonplace during peak ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
RecoMap - a semi-automated tool for analysing railway accident recommendations across jurisdictions and over time
Published 2023-06-07To maintain a safer railway operational environment, recommendations are proposed by independent investigators after accidents. Despite a considerable number of (sometimes similar) recommendations made across jurisdictions, ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Slow recognition of seminal papers and fast growth of author connectivity in economics
Published 2023-02-06A bird’s-eye view of the economics literature and its temporal evolution during the last three decades is provided by analysing titles, abstracts, keywords, reference lists and author affiliations of nearly 204,000 economics ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Travel Decision Making Under Uncertainty and Road Traffic Behavior: The Multifold Role of Ambiguity Attitude
Published 2023-04-18To aggregate commuters’ mode choices to traffic behavior in the presence of travel time uncertainty, we develop a dynamic traffic simulation in terms of an agent-based model, which consists of two sub-models, the mode ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Travel time reliability, urban form, decision making under uncertainty and smart urban development
Published 2023-05-22Within a land use-transportation interaction model, this study embeds a behavioral framework which accommodates travel decision making under uncertainty into a spatial general equilibrium model to understand the interplay ...Open AccessWorking Paper