Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies: Recent submissions
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Speeding in urban environments: Are the time savings worth the risk?
Published 2015-05-01Perceived time savings by travelling faster is often cited as a motivation for drivers’ speeding behaviour. These time savings, however, come at a cost of significant road injuries and fatalities. While it is known that ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Delays at Freeway roadworks: safety and road user cost considerations
Published 1998-11-01Freeway incidents are events which result in a temporary reduction in the capacity of the facility. Intelligent transport systems developments are primarily concerned with ‘random’ freeway incidents such as breakdowns, ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The demand chain and response management: New directions for operations management?
Published 2008-07-01Supply chain management would appear to be at the end of its lifecycle. Customers of all types are expressing preferences based upon some degree of product-service differentiation and not simply on cost. The growing interest ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Property rights, right to efficiency?
Published 2012-07-01The assignment of property rights to incentivise risk-sharing in a principal-agent relationship is a recurrent theme of contract theory. This paper examines the incentive effects of property rights in a principal-agent ...Open AccessWorking Paper