Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies: Recent submissions
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The impacts of production base relocation on port cluster competition: The case of the Pearl River Delta region
Published 2013-10-01Due to increases in labor and operational costs within the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region, many manufacturing firms are relocating their plants to inland provinces in China. The existence of significant intra- and inter-port ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Power and the illusion of control: Do individual’s correctly anticipate how much influence they have within a household choice?
Published 2015-09-01Choices of groups remain one of the lesser studied behaviours in the choice literature. This continues to be an oversight as many choices are made at a household or even social level. In particular, studies that seek to ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Random regret minimisation and random utility maximisation in the presence of preference heterogeneity: An empirical contrast
Published 2015-04-01Random regret minimisation (RRM) interpretations of discrete choices are growing in popularity as a complementary modelling paradigm to random utility maximisation (RUM). While behaviourally very appealing in the sense of ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Willingness to accept longer commutes for better salaries: understanding the differences within and between couples
Published 2014-09-01This paper reports on an analysis aiming to understand differences across individual people in their willingness to accept increased commuting time in return for higher salary, using Hierarchical Bayes (HB) analysis of a ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Work Design, Flexible Work Arrangements and Travel Behaviour: Policy Implications
Published 1998-04-01This paper examines the assumptions of work design and its impact on how work is conceived and designed, the important linkages to travel behaviour to and from work and subsequent impacts on traffic mix in urban areas. ...Open AccessWorking Paper