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Understanding bidder behaviour: The case of the Mamelodi contract
Published 2020The South African government has had a nearly 17 year moratorium on new commuter bus contracts. In late 2017, the government lifted this moratorium which enabled the Gauteng Provincial Government to design a service for a ...Open AccessConference paper -
Understanding buy in for risky prospects: Incorporating degree of belief into the ex ante assessment of support for alternative road pricing schemes
Published 2012-10-01This paper investigates support for road pricing reform within the framework of a referendum voting choice model. Central to this task is how to identify ex ante support for specific road pricing schemes, such that the ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Understanding Buy in for Risky Prospects: Incorporating Degree of Belief into the ex ante Assessment of Support for Alternative Road Pricing Schemes
Published 2013-01-01This paper investigates support for road pricing reform within a referendum voting choice model. Central to this is how to identify believable ex-ante support for specific road pricing schemes. Our approach is centred on ...Open AccessArticle -
Understanding Buy in for Risky Prospects: Incorporating Degree of Belief into the ex ante Assessment of Support for Alternative Road Pricing Schemes
Published 2012-01-01This paper investigates support for road pricing reform within the framework of a referendum voting choice model. Central to this task is how to identify ex ante support for specific road pricing schemes, such that the ...Open AccessArticle -
Understanding key drivers of public transport patronage growth - recent South East Queensland
Published 2007-01-01Historically, the lack of modal integration was a key factor limiting public transport patronage growth in South East Queensland (SEQ). In June 2002, the Queensland Government announced a commitment to the introduction of ...Open AccessConference paper -
Understanding mode choice decisions: A study of Australian freight shippers
Published 2011-10-01This research paper examines the Australian domestic freight transport market, focusing on the decision-making process by which cargo interests and their agents make mode choice allocation decisions between land-based ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Understanding Okada and Keke operations in Freetown
Published 2024-12-05Congestion is one of the major challenges to urban mobility in Freetown. A major contributing factor to this challenge is the operation of two and three wheelers (okadas and kekes) who usually ignore traffic rules, congregate ...Open AccessConference paper -
Understanding the potential policy transfer of gamification schemes for behaviour change in public transport and road safety
Published 2023There is a long history in transport of implementing travel demand management (TDM) to manage users' behaviour. Recently, gamified interventions have been proposed as a better way to incentivise users to participate in TDM ...Conference paper -
Understanding the relationship between voting preferences for public transport and perceptions and preferences for bus rapid transit versus light rail
Published 2014-03-01Despite the plea for a rational debate on the role of alternative public transport modes, there is often great resistance to some options on essentially ideological and emotional grounds. The aim of this paper is to ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Understanding the trip and user characteristics of the combined bicycle and transit mode
Published 2017-01-01Several cities around the world are facing mobility related problems such as traffic congestion and air pollution. Although limited individually, the combination of bicycle and transit offers speed and accessibility; by ...Open AccessConference paper -
Understanding Travel Behaviour: Some Appealing Research Directions
Published 1999-01-01This paper presents one researchers perception of selective emphases in the body of travel behaviour research which have had and/or may in the future have a non-marginal impact on the way that research activity is undertaken. ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Understanding Underlying Constraints Affecting Decision-Making by Morning Car Commuters
Published 2002-08-01In New Zealand as elsewhere, there is an increasing interest in alleviating congestion on the road transport network to improve economic productivity, reduce pollution, and to use the transport network more effectively. ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A unified framework for traffic assignment: deriving static and quasi‐dynamic models consistent with general first order dynamic traffic assignment models
Published 2014-04-01This paper presents a theoretical framework to derive static, quasi-dynamic, and semi-dynamic traffic assignment models from a general first order dynamic traffic assignment model. By explicit derivation from a dynamic ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Universal design for people with psychosocial disabilities – The effect of COVID-19
Published 2023We have examined how COVID-19 impacted travel behaviour for people with psychosocial disabilities, identified key barriers when using public transport, and examined how a broad understanding of universal design can be used ...Open AccessConference paper -
Unlocking Public Procurement as a Tool for Place-Based Industrial Strategy
Published 2021The Global Financial Crisis and, more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the perils of industrial atrophy and spatial inequality rampant within advanced economies. Despite growing interest in lifting economic ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Urban Demand Responsive Transport in the Mobility as a Service ecosystem: its role and potential market share
Published 2017-01-01Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is entering the transportation market. MaaS aims at the full integration of the existing transportation services and it offers tailored mobility packages to the user. In MaaS ecosystems, on-demand ...Open AccessConference paper -
Urban Goods Movement and Sydney’s Economy
Published 1996-10-01Freight transport is a key component of the role for roads in the national economy, particularly in urban areas, but our understanding of the urban freight transport system is very limited. Until recently there were minimal ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The urban public transport crisis in Brazil: Two regulatory reform strategies and some questions to the World Bank
Published 2001-01-01Open AccessConference paper