Working Papers 2012
- ITLS-WP-12-01
- Linking discrete choice to continuous demand within the framework of a computable general equilibrium model for the analysis of wider economic impacts of transport investment projects.
- Truong P. Truong & David A. Hensher
- Key words: Bottom-up; top-down; discrete choice; differentiated products; continuous demand; computable general equilibrium (CGE) models; transport infrastructure investment; urban planning; wider economic impacts.
- ITLS-WP-12-02
- Making use of respondent reported
processing information to understand
attribute importance: A latent variable
scaling approach.
- Stephane Hess & David A. Hensher
- Key words: Information processing; attribute ignoring; non-attendance; attribute importance; attribute relevance; stated choice.
- ITLS-WP-12-03
- Quasi-dynamic network loading:
Adding queuing and spillback to static traffic assignment.
- Michiel Bliemer, Luuk Brederode, Luc Wismans & Erik-Sander Smits
- Key words: Static traffic assignment; quasi-dynamic traffic assignment; network loading; link transmission model; hard capacity constraints.
- ITLS-WP-12-04
- Inferring attribute non-attendance from stated choice data: Implications for willingness to pay estimates and a warning for stated choice experiment design.
- David A. Hensher, John M. Rose & William H. Greene
- Key words: Attribute processing; attribute attendance; toll vs. free routes; value of travel time savings; choice models; probabilistic decision process model.
- ITLS-WP-12-05
- Assessing the wider economy impacts of transport infrastructure investment with an illustrative application to the north-west rail link project in Sydney, Australia.
- David A. Hensher, Truong P. Truong, Corinne Mulley & Richard Ellison
- Key words: Wider economy impacts; transport user benefits; employment agglomeration; effective density; spatial general equilibrium; rail projects; Sydney; agglomeration elasticities.
- ITLS-WP-12-06
- Accessibility and residual land value uplift: Identifying spatial variations in the accessibility impacts of a bus transitway.
- Karley Densmore & Corinne Mulley
- Key words: Residential land value uplift; bus transitway infrastructure; accessibility; house prices premia from accessibility improvements; geographically weighted regression.
- ITLS-WP-12-07
- Examining estimator bias and
efficiency for pseudo panel data: A Monte Carlo simulation approach.
- Chi-Hong Tsai, Waiyan Leong, Corinne Mulley & Geoffrey Clifton
- Key words: Pseudo panel data; dynamic model; Monte Carlo simulation; estimator bias and efficiency.
- ITLS-WP-12-08
- The relationship between brand trust, online customer reviews
and willingness to purchase.
- Peter CW Lok, Vincent TP Cheng, Jo H Rhodes & Glenn Asano
- Key words: Online reviews; eWom; brand trust; willingness to purchase.
- ITLS-WP-12-09
- The economics and engineering of bus stops: Spacing, design and congestion.
- Alejandro Tirachini
- Key words: Bus stop, Poisson, congestion, queue, bus delay, bus rapid transit.
- ITLS-WP-12-10
- Downs-Thomson paradox and public transit capacity choice in the laboratory.
- Laurent Denant-Boemont and Sabrina Hammiche
- Key words: Traffic equilibrium; experimental economics; transport capacity; congestion; intermodal competition.
- ITLS-WP-12-11
- A modified product life cycle becomes a useful basis for a new product-service strategy model.
- David Walters & Jyotirmoyee Bhattacharjya
- Key words: Innovation; imitation; commoditisation; value migration; the PRODUCT-service life cycle; the product-SERVICE life cycle.
- ITLS-WP-12-12
- Transport improvement, agglomeration effect and urban productivity: The case of Chinese cities.
- Tan Lin & Truong P. Truong
- Key words: Agglomeration Elasticity, Transport, Wider Economic Benefits, Urban Productivity, China.
- ITLS-WP-12-13
- Property rights, right to efficiency?
- Demi Chung, David Hensher & John Rose
- Key words: Ownership; risk management; contract theory; theory of incomplete contract; incentive alignment; public-privatepartnerships; discrete choice models; stated choice experiment.
- ITLS-WP-12-14
- Success factors between suppliers and customers in service outsourcing activities.
- Peter CW Lok, Wilson Wee-Seng Loh & Jo H Rhodes
- Key words: Service outsourcing; customer value; relationship interaction; relationship quality; outsourcing motives.
- ITLS-WP-12-15
- Multiple purposes at single destination: A key to a better understanding of the relationship between tour complexity and mode choice.
- Chinh Quoc Ho and Corinne Mulley
- Key words: Tours; mode choice; MPSD; spatial distribution; public transport; tour typology.
- ITLS-WP-12-16
- Snowball effect and traffic equilibrium in a market entry game: A laboratory experiment.
- Laurant Denant-Boemont & Vivien
Fortat
- Key words: Coordination game; loss aversion; experimental economics; road congestion; speed-flow relationship.
- ITLS-WP-12-17
- Efficient procurement of public air services - Lessons learned from European transport authorities' perspectives.
- Rico Merkert and Basil O'Fee
- Key words: Aviation; public service obligations; efficiency; value for money; remote regions.
- ITLS-WP-12-18
- Crowding in public transport: A review of objective and subjective measures.
- Zheng Li and David A. Hensher
- Key words: Public transport crowding; perceptions; objective measures; subjective measures; willingness to pay.
- ITLS-WP-12-19
- Understanding buy in for risky prospects: Incorporating degree of belief into the ex ante assessment of support for alternative road pricing schemes.
- David A. Hensher, John M. Rose and Andrew T. Collins
- Key words: Road pricing reform, voting choice, referendum, subjective belief, perceptual conditioning, revenue allocation, elasticities, choice experiment.
- ITLS-WP-12-20
- Cost impacts to motorists of discounted registration fees in the presence of distance-based charges and implications for government revenue.
- David A. Hensher and Corinne Mulley
- Key words: Road pricing reform; political process; revenue implications; staging reform; appealing solutions; use-related registration fees; distance-based charging.
- ITLS-WP-12-21
- A global perspective on pallet life-cycle management practices and a research agenda.
- Jyotirmoyee Bhattacharjya and David Walters
- Key words: Pallet life cycle; pallet loss; sustainability; resource scarcity; stakeholder theory; ecological modernization theory; dynamic capabilities perspective.
- ITLS-WP-12-22
- What type of road pricing scheme might appeal to politicians? Gaining the citizen vote by staging reform.
- David A. Hensher and Michiel C. J. Bliemer
- Key words: Road pricing reform; political process; revenue implications; staging reform; simple solutions; use-related registration fees; time reduction benefit charge; non-choice pricing; choice pricing.
- ITLS-WP-12-23
- A cost-based maritime container assignment model and port choice.
- Michael G. H. Bell and Xin Liu
- Key words: Logistics; container assignment model; maritime network.
- ITLS-WP-12-24
- The North West Rail Link: Winners and losers in the locality of the north west area.
- Geoffrey T. Clifton, Corinne Mulley and David A. Hensher
- Key words: Transport user benefits; travel time savings; rail projects; North West Rail Link; Sydney.