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The 15th International Conference on Competition and Ownership of Land Passenger Transport (Thredbo 15)
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4d’s Of Taxi Fares: A Behavioural Model For The Ict Age
Published 2007-01-01Price influences the behaviour of people. It follows that the quality of a taxi service and the behaviour of the driver depends on the fare structure. This paper finds that the contribution approach to pricing as opposed ...Open AccessConference paper -
Accessibility and Social Welfare: A study of the City of Johannesburg
Published 2017-01-01Within the corpus of accessibility measures is the Net Wage After Commute which describes the potential wage earnable less the transport costs incurred to commute to work from a particular location. This paper explores the ...Open AccessConference paper -
Accessibility and Uncertainty: the Option Value of Public Transport
Published 2017-01-01Are there option values of public transport services? A few studies have tried to answer this question through various stated preference methods but the question is so far unanswered. In this paper we set out to present ...Open AccessConference paper -
Accessibility For All: Effects Of Measures In The Public Transport Field
Published 2007-01-01Open AccessConference paper -
Activity-end access/egress modal choices between stations and campuses located on a hillside
Published 2020This study investigates activity-end access/egress modal choices between railway stations and university campuses where topographical factors play an important role. Four campuses of Kobe University, Kobe, Japan are located ...Open AccessConference paper -
The Advent of Transport Authorities in South Africa
Published 1999-01-01Open AccessConference paper -
All things must pass? Recent changes to competition and ownership in public transport in Great Britain.
Published 2023The publication of the National Bus Strategy in March and the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail in May 2021 suggests an end to the period of deregulation and privatisation that has dominated local buses in Great Britain since ...Open AccessConference paper -
Analysing the interaction between transport demand reduction and urban redesign based on a 15-minute city concept
Published 2024-12-06This study investigates the feasibility of urban design that is based on the ideals of citizens on what travel times, modes and urban densities should be, through the development of a multi- objective optimisation model. ...Open AccessConference paper -
Analysis of the structural characteristics of the station catchment area in Japan
Published 2009-01-01This paper analyses the structural characteristics of station catchment areas in Japan. For the case study, the authors selected a corridor through which three railway companies have parallel operations. The station catchment ...Open AccessConference paper -
An analysis on institutional preparedness to bus route tendering in the context of a fragmented liberalized market: case study of Harare, Zimbabwe
Published 2017-01-01In many cities of the developed world, the previously public owned and subsidized bus operators which provided services with minimal exposure to competition have been deregulated. Literature suggests that deregulation ...Open AccessConference paper -
Anti-Trust, Deregulation and the Identification of Predation
Published 1992-01-01Open AccessConference paper -
Application of an incentive for bus drivers to achieve an improvement in the quality of service
Published 2020Concession contracts of operating companies of the public transport system of Santiago, consider important fines if companies fail to comply with the operating plan, regularity and other operational variables included in ...Open AccessConference paper -
An application of land use, transport, and economy interaction model
Published 2023Governments need to assess the benefits of transport projects to prioritize investments. It is imperative for governments to have tools that can closely estimate the actual benefits and impacts of investments in ...Open AccessConference paper -
Appraisal of Non-commercial Passenger Rail Services in Britain
Published 1999-01-01The appraisal of proposals for adding or withdrawing individual rail services is inevitably complex, because it needs to recognise interdependence both within the rail network and between transport modes, and to account ...Open AccessConference paper -
Area Specific Bicycle Planning
Published 2009-01-01A recent challenge for the majority of Brazilian cities is to cope with the growth of car mobility and to maintain and improve the use and quality of public transport and active transport like cycling. One of the challenges ...Open AccessConference paper -
Argentina: Regulatory Reform In Intercity Bus Transportation - Impacts And Issues
Published 2003-01-01Open AccessConference paper -
Assessing free-fare public transport in Chilean cities through optimization models
Published 2023Many public transport services receive operating subsidies from national, regional, or local Governments, part of which are directed to reducing fares. In recent years, different cities, most of them located in Europe, ...Open AccessConference paper