Browsing ITLS Working Papers 2025 by title
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Are users ready to accept fully flexible walking in on-demand mobility?
Published 2025-03-14On-demand ride pooling benefits from updating its routing decisions in real-time as new information becomes available, as well as from optimising the pickup and drop off (PUDO) points to avoid long detours. Both features ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Combining Participatory Budget and Cost Benefit Analysis: A hybrid project evaluation framework
Published 2025-07-23This paper introduces a novel hybrid methodology proposes integrating Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) with Participatory Budgeting (PB) to enhance public sector decision-making. To highlight the approach, we assume that CBA ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A comparative analysis of the drivers and outcomes of work, location and commuting choices of the office only, hybrid, and home/other location only workers
Published 2025-05-27Hybrid work in an office and non-office locations on the same or different days, has become a mainstream work pattern in addition to only working in the office or working from home (WFH). This paper compares the three work ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Estimating gasoline demand under electric vehicle adoption: A spatial model for Brazil
Published 2024We investigate gasoline demand growth in Brazil over a 16-year period, assessing its response to electric vehicle (EV) adoption and taxation measures. Using a spatial-based econometric model with data from 2006 to 2021 ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Exploring community public budget preferences for transport electrification: Evidence from a contingent budget allocation study in New South Wales, Australia
Published 2025-07-04The allocation of funds to different functions of government reflets political priorities that often-run counter to public expectations. In this paper, we adopt a contingent allocation method survey task that requires ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Factor-Analytic Specifications of Mixed Logit
Published 2024-12-02Factor-analytic specifications of mixed logit are especially useful in representing patterns of preference heterogeneity. The latent variables of factor-analytic specifications represent unobserved sources of heterogeneity ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A habit persistence model of multiple discrete/continuous demand for evaluating charging behaviour of Australian electric vehicle owners
Published 2025-08-05This paper introduces a novel habit persistence model of discrete/continuous demand that allows the joint evaluation of the spatial (i.e., location) and temporal (i.e., time of day) dimensions of the charging decision-making ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Healthy ageing and active travel: Identifying age-related barriers to walking and cycling
Published 2025-08-18In a period of increasing mobility technologies, sustainable transport options, and healthy ageing concerns it is timely to better understand the barriers to active travel, particularly for older adults. Drawing from a ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
How poor land use planning has created an unfixable problem for transport: a case study of the City of Johannesburg
Published 2025-05-30Rapid urbanisation and apartheid‐era land-use legacies leave many South Africans captive to long, costly, and unsafe commutes. Yet rigorous evidence on how township residents value transport attributes is scarce. This study ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The influence of flexi-time and flexi-place work on online ordering expenditure
Published 2025In recent years we have seen a tsunami of change in both the way in which work is performed by location, when, and the quantum of hours, which is now seen as flexi-place and flexitime, together with the growth annually in ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Introducing Money into the Framework of a General Equilibrium Model
Published 2025-09-29Money is an important factor in economic activities but in a general equilibrium framework the concept of money seems to be absent. In fact money is often considered only as a ‘veil’ in hiding real economic activities, and ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Introducing the Time Factor into the Economic Framework of a Static General Equilibrium Model
Published 2025-05-06Time is an important ‘factor’ or ‘input’ into many economic activities, but up to now, the issue of time valuation has been considered mostly in a partial equilibrium framework such as in the context of travel time savings ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Low Cost Flat Public Fare Policy: Induced Demand, Mode Switching and Policy Beneficiaries
Published 2025-05-29This study analyses six waves of cross-sectional survey data collected both before and after the introduction of a $0.50 flat fare structure across all public transport modes operating within Queensland Australia. The ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The MaaS Blueprint for Regional Towns and Rural Hinterlands
Published 2025-02-07This Blueprint document presents a vision for how transport services in rural and regional areas in the NSW context could be better organised to meet the needs of residents and visitors. The Blueprint features a mobility ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Managing Paradoxical Trade-Offs: Sustainability and Diversification Strategies of Supply Managers
Published 2025-04-28This paper investigates how practicing supply managers evaluate the paradoxical trade-offs of environmental and social sustainability relative to cost and supply diversification. Although sustainable business practices are ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Measuring Public Transport Accessibility – A Review and Future Directions
Published 2024-12-18Achieving sustainable transport targets in the context of population growth requires a significant shift from private vehicle use to public transport (PT). To enable this transition, PT services must provide accessible and ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A multi-task Transformer with mixture-of-experts for personalized periodic predictions of individual travel behavior in multimodal public transport
Published 2025Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) platforms are reshaping urban mobility by integrating multiple travel modes into seamless, user-centric systems. However, designing dynamic MaaS bundles that adapt to user-specific preferences, ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Nothing gained from overcrowding: a general population equilibrium
Published 2025Following two centuries of rapid population growth, fertility rates in developed economies have declined below replacement levels. This raises an important demographic question concerning the drivers of future fertility ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Personal e-scooter ownership and use: Perspectives from New Zealand
Published 2025-08-20In common with much of the world, e-scooters have emerged onto the urban landscape in New Zealand, promising both a practical and greener form of personal mobility. While focus has primarily been around managing ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Profiling future passenger transport initiatives that garner community support as a guide to identify the growing role of active and micro-mobility modes: a MDCEV model
Published 2025-05-05This paper examines the factors influencing the adoption and frequency of use of sustainable transport modes including walking, cycling, electric bicycles, electric vehicles, and public transport, for different trip purposes. ...Open AccessWorking Paper