Stated choice (SC) methods are now a widely accepted data paradigm in the study of behavioural response of agents (be they individuals, households, or other organizations). Their popularity since the pioneering contributions ...

The past thirty years has seen a growing interest in the development of statistical methods to model choices made by individual agents. The dominant method to emerge, discrete choice modelling, has been applied to a ...

Populations of post-industrial nations are aging. With a growing number of people living well into their 80’s and maintaining active lives, the transportation system will have to start focussing more closely on understanding ...

Assessing the running times of bus services has traditionally been a difficult and expensive task for the majority of bus operators in Australia, and in other parts of the world. Up until recently, travel times have been ...

In February 2002, the Institute of Transport Studies (ITS), The University of Sydney, initiated a study to investigate world class logistics (WCL) practices in Australia. This research is part of the wider WCL study ...

Travel behaviour modification, also called TravelSmart®, Indimark® and Travel Blending®, has been offered as a solution to the dependence of urban populations on the car. Travel behaviour modification is a voluntary ...

There are many empirical studies on the estimation of values of travel time savings (VTTS), with varying degrees of rigour and relevance, mostly based on the observation that travellers are prepared to spend money to ...

The introduction of contract regimes for the provision of bus services such as competitive tendering and performance-based contracts is usually premised on a prior assumption that the size of the physical contract area ...

The paper provides a theoretical framework for analysing the effects of public infrastructure provision on private sector productivity using the example of a transport network. Public infrastructure such as a transport ...

For some little while now, the flavour of the month in transport policy seems to have been to set goals for massive relative increases in public transport ridership, reduction of car use, all resulting in a hoped-for ...