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Narratives in Transport Research
Published 2021Social science disciplines are increasingly using narratives as means to develop theory and tools for real world applications. The aim of this review of literature is to show, from an interdisciplinary perspective, how ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Navigating the Crossroads: Addressing Transport Poverty and Social Equity in South Africa
Published 2024-12-06Transport poverty in South Africa is influenced by historical contexts, urban sprawl, and inadequate transport policies. The reliance on informal micro-transit services exacerbates financial burdens on low-income households. ...Open AccessConference paper -
The Need For Regulatory And Ownership Change In The RoadPassenger Sector – The Cases Of Barbados And Sri Lanka
Published 2005-01-01Changes to the ownership and regulatory regimes in developed countries have been well explored by many authors, but a hitherto less studied aspect is the need for change in the developing world. This paper reviews one ...Open AccessConference paper -
Needs Assessment for Major Transport Infrastructure Investment
Published 1998-07-01Transportation infrastructure projects, like any investment, are ultimately accepted or rejected on a number of risk criteria. A most notable one is the revenue stream from the users of the facility. If the investment is ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A network science approach to analysing manufacturing sector supply chain networks: Insights on topology
Published 2016-11-01Due to the increasingly complex nature of the modern supply chain networks (SCNs), a recent research trend has focussed on modelling SCNs as complex adaptive systems. Despite the substantial number of studies devoted to ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Networks alliances as strategy: A case study of an SME in an emerging economy
Published 2011-08-01This study adopts a qualitative approach to examine key factors to build successful network alliances in emerging economies. A market leader firm in the retail optical industry in China was used in this study. Data from ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A New Approach to Accessibility – Perceived accessibility versus objectively measured accessibility in daily travel
Published 2017-01-01Accessibility has conventionally been measured and evaluated ignoring the user-perspective in favor for focus on travel time and distance to a number of pre-determined destinations. Acknowledging this gap, we recently ...Open AccessConference paper -
New Concessions Of Urban Railway Systems In Spain
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A new planning system for NSW: Comments and review of green paper
Published 2013-04-01The comments and review of the NSW Planning Green Paper in this paper use the perspective of a development economist such as from the World Bank. This contrasts with the Green Paper’s legalistic point of view. The paper ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
New Regulatory Framework For Urban Passenger Transport in Ghanian Cities
Published 2009-01-01The Ghana Urban Transport Project (GUTP) takes place in Accra and Kumasi, the largest cities. GUTP has three key components: (i) institutional development and capacity building, including a new Urban Passenger Transport ...Open AccessConference paper -
New Technology and Travel Surveys: The Way Forward
Published 2004-04-01Traditional survey methods are fast reaching their “use by” dates. It is much harder for researchers to contact households through the telephone as a result of call screening and answering machine devices. In relation to ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A Nexus or Not? A First Examination of Cost-of-Living Concern, Neighbourhood Perceptions, Active Travel, and Wellbeing in Cities
Published 2024-11-15This paper represents an important first step in the literature, to look at potential links between cost-of-living stress and the perceptions of local neighbourhoods, under the hypothesis that greater pressure about housing ...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 -
No car lanes or bus lanes: which gives public transport the better priority? An evaluation of priority lanes in Tyne and Wear
Published 2011-02-01Bus priority covers a wide range of measures intended to speed up the progress of buses and avoid congestion, especially in urban areas. The implementation of No Car Lanes as a method of allocating space on the highway ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Non-attendance and dual processing of common-metric attributes in choice analysis: A latent class specification
Published 2009-05-01There is a growing literature that promotes the presence of process heterogeneity in the way that individuals evaluate packages of attributes in real or hypothetical markets and make choices. A centerpiece of current ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The North West Rail Link: Winners and losers in the locality of the north west area
Published 2012-12-01The appraisal of large scale transport infrastructure projects by governments tends to focus on the costs and benefits to society as a whole or to broad communities affected by the project. In so doing, it is often believed ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Not too late to learn from the Sydney Olympics experience: Opportunities offered by multimodality in current transport policy
Published 2014-11-01Sydney is the Australian city that attracts the most global attention with its beautiful harbour, its iconic attractions of the harbour bridge and opera house. Tourists may leave Sydney with a complimentary view of Sydney’s ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Notes from a Small Island: The Continuing Evolution of the Local Bus Industry in the British Isles
Published 2024-12-05This paper reviews recent developments in the local bus industry in the United Kingdom and three crown dependencies (Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey). The industry is well-known for the deregulation implemented in the ...Open AccessConference paper