Browsing Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies by title
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Factors behind recent patronage trends in Britain and their implications for future policy
Published 2007-01-01Open AccessConference paper -
Factors influencing the patronage of flexible transport in urban and rural areas. A case study in NSW, Australia
Published 2023Since 1990, gradual changes have been observed in the implementation of flexible transport service (FTS) schemes. A growing body of evidence suggests FTS are highly supportive for specific groups, like people with disabilities ...Article -
Factors of successful implementation and diffusion of services based on autonomous vehicles: users’ acceptance and operators’ profitability
Published 2020The use of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is becoming more and more likely as they offer promising solutions to improve urban mobility. They have the potential to reduce energy consumption and traffic jams. As a result, they ...Open AccessConference paper -
Factors that comprise driver boredom and their relationships to preferred driving speed and demographic variables
Published 2010-05-01Driver boredom is an area of driver behaviour that has received limited attention. This study explores the factor structure underlying driver boredom and investigates age and gender differences in the experience of driver ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Factors that comprise driver boredom and their relationships to preferred driving speed and demographic variables.
Published 2009-08-01Driver boredom is an area of driver behaviour that has received limited attention. This study explores the factor structure underlying driver boredom and investigates age and gender differences in the experience of driver ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The Feasibility of the Road and Park Pricing to Support the Transport Policies
Published 2001-01-01Open AccessConference paper -
Fifteen years of competition in local public transport, Stockholm Sweden
Published 2005-01-01Open AccessConference paper -
Financial implications of specifying service quality in public transport service contracts with a large captive user base – the case of South Africa
Published 2017-01-01Improved service quality is increasingly acknowledged as critical for increased patronage of public transport services. However, in markets characterised by large proportions of captive public transport users, typically ...Open AccessConference paper -
Firm-specific and location-specific drivers of business location and relocation decisions
Published 2018-06-01Decisions made by businesses on where to locate or relocate are typically given less consideration than residential location in integrated transport and land use modelling systems. This is surprising given the important ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Flexibility in contract design - is that possible?
Published 2020Public procurement is widely used in order to incorporate competition into public services. Competition in procurement often leads to efficiency but the process can also raise some problems. While providing the procurement ...Open AccessConference paper -
Forecasting Aircraft Movements: An Unavoidable Case of Uncertainty
Published 1998-08-01Forecasting long-term aircraft movements for airport and air traffic control master planning has become more challenging in an era of deregulation and privatised airports. The demand for air travel has become more responsive ...Open AccessWorking 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 ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Forecasting Tourism Travel on Rural Roads
Published 1993-08-01The tourism sector is heavily reliant on the rural road system and it is not uncommon for the road and tourism authorities to receive submissions documenting perceived shortcomings of particular roads. This paper considers ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Formalising the jeepney industry in the Philippines – a confirmatory thematic analysis of key transitionary issues
Published 2020Jeepneys are paratransit vehicles which constitute the bulk of urban transport in many cities in the Philippines. There are around 179,000 jeepneys of which 90% are fifteen years or older. However, this is not without so ...Open AccessConference paper -
A Framework Approach To Developing Public Transport Contracting Regimes
Published 2007-01-01Open AccessConference paper -
A framework for strategic decision-making and performance among Chinese managers
Published 2009-07-01This study develops an integrative model that explains the relationship between Chinese culture, managers’ strategic decision making (SDM) processes, and organizational performance. 1200 participants were randomly selected ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A framework for transport planning in Australia: With special reference to UK Eddington transport study
Published 2010-04-01The Commonwealth (Infrastructure Australia (IA)) is putting growing pressure on the States to improve infrastructure planning and particularly planning for transport services. Given the Commonwealth of Australia’s domination ...Open AccessWorking 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 ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Franchise A Live and Let Live Option for Public Transport Undertakings in India
Published 1999-01-01Passenger road transport in India has thus far been predominantly under the domain of the public sector. The Road Transport Corporations Act, 1950, paved the way for the upsurge of nationalised bus transport in India. In ...Open AccessConference paper