Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies: Recent submissions
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The challenge of obtaining ground truth for GPS processing
Published 2015-03-01The increasing use of GPS as a substitute or complement to conventional travel surveys has brought with it an increasing need for a reliable source of ground truth, i.e., information on the actual travel in which each ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Comparing two processing routines for GPS traces: Lessons learnt
Published 2013-09-01This paper describes what may be one of the first side-by-side tests of two alternative software products for processing GPS traces into trips, and discusses some lessons learnt from the comparisons. For GPS to be useful ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Accounting for travel time variability in the optimal pricing of cars and buses
Published 2013-03-01This paper addresses the problem of optimal pricing of both cars and buses in a multimodal transport corridor including externalities of congestion, bus crowding and travel time variability. A social welfare maximisation ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Forecasting Tourism Travel on Rural Roads
Published 1993-08-01The tourism sector is heavily reliant on the rural road system and it is not uncommon for the road and tourism authorities to receive submissions documenting perceived shortcomings of particular roads. This paper considers ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
SELLING TRAVEL AS PART OF A PACKAGE. IMPLICATIONS FOR TRANSPORT RESEARCH.
Published 1992-01-01The selling of long-distance travel as a package has its origins in the latter half of the last century and the practice has been instrumental in turning travel into a consumer item. Packaging is found to be significant ...Open AccessWorking Paper