ITLS Working Papers 2025: Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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