Working Papers

From 2002 onwards the Key Centre's working papers are available to download from this website. Papers from 1991 to 2001 are available to purchase in hard copy, please email business.itlsinfo@sydney.edu.au for purchase details.

Since 2009 has also published a series of working papers written by the members of the ITLS-Sydney Board of Advice; these may be accessed from the Board of Advice working papers webpage.


ITLS-WP-13-01  Adobe PDF Document
Confidence intervals of willingness-to-pay for random coefficient logit models.
Michiel C.J. Bliemer and John M. Rose
Key words: Willingness-to-pay, confidence intervals, random coefficient logit, Delta method.
ITLS-WP-13-02  Adobe PDF Document
Direct and cross elasticities for freight distribution access charges.
David A. Hensher, Andrew T. Collins, John M. Rose and Nariida C. Smith
Key words: Freight elasticities, access charges, vehicle class, vehicle kilometres, tonne vehicle kilometres, stated choice.
ITLS-WP-13-03  Adobe PDF Document
Sunday drive: Review of automobile ownership, societal and environmental impacts and behavioural change.
Matthew J. Beck
Key words: Automobile, motor vehicle, ownership, choice, environment, society, planning.
ITLS-WP-13-04  Adobe PDF Document
Freeway drivers willingness to pay for speeding fines.
Rong-Chang Jou, David Hensher, Ke-Hong Chena and Pei-Lung Wanga
Key words: Contingent valuation method, willingness to pay, speeding behaviour, spike model.
ITLS-WP-13-05  Adobe PDF Document
A model for the simultaneous inference of attribute nonattendance and taste heterogeneity.
Andrew Collins, John Rose and David Hensher
Key words: Attribute nonattendance, random parameters attribute nonattendance model, latent class model, random parameters logit.
ITLS-WP-13-06  Adobe PDF Document
Accounting for travel time variability in the optimal pricing of cars and buses.
Alejandro Tirachini, David A. Hensher and Michiel C. J. Bliemer
Key words: Optimal pricing, travel time variability, reliability, headway variability, fare, toll.
ITLS-WP-13-07  Adobe PDF Document
A new planning system for NSW: Comments and review of green paper.
Alastair Stone
Key words: Planning, economic development, welfare economics, value, utility, political representatives, special interest groups, expert professions, community consultation, decision making process, constraints, land use, public infrastructure services, data, modelling, sector analysis, cost benefit analysis, planning instruments, markets, institutional arrangements, decision control, transaction costs, strategy, plans, projects.
ITLS-WP-13-08  Adobe PDF Document
Contractual approach to optimising risk sharing: A quantitative study of the multidimensional nature of risk in private provision of road infrastructure.
Demi Chung, David A. Hensher and John M. Rose
Key words: Public private partnerships, risk preference, risk sharing, toll road, incomplete contract theory, transaction cost economics.
ITLS-WP-13-09  Adobe PDF Document
A future in manufacturing: Major issues to be resolved by Australia Pty Ltd.
David Walters and Jyotirmoyee Bhattacharjya
Key words: Manufacturing developments, advanced manufacturing, Supply chains are not value chains, producibility.
ITLS-WP-13-10  Adobe PDF Document
Investigating the impacts of introducing emission trading scheme to shipping industry.
Kun Wang, Xiaowen Fu and Meifeng Luo
Key words: Shipping industry; open and closed Emission Trading Scheme (ETS); economic modelling.