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Robert Bain 《Transportation》2009,36(5):469-482
Traffic forecasts are employed in the toll road sector, inter alia, by private sector investors to gauge the bankability of
candidate investment projects. Although much is written in the literature about the theory and practice of traffic forecasting,
surprisingly little attention has been paid to the predictive accuracy of traffic forecasting models. This paper addresses
that shortcoming by reporting the results from the largest study of toll road forecasting performance ever conducted. The
author had access to commercial-in-confidence documentation released to project financiers and, over a 4-year period, compiled
a database of predicted and actual traffic usage for over 100 international, privately financed toll road projects. The findings
suggest that toll road traffic forecasts are characterised by large errors and considerable optimism bias. As a result, financial
engineers need to ensure that transaction structuring remains flexible and retains liquidity such that material departures
from traffic expectations can be accommodated.
Robert Bain spent the first 15 years of his career as a traffic and transportation consultant before joining the infrastructure team at Standard & Poor’s in 2002. He is currently retained by the rating agency on a freelance basis and, separately, provides transport-related technical support services to infrastructure funds, insurance companies and institutional investors. Robert recently completed a PhD at the Institute for Transport Studies—hence his affiliation with the University of Leeds. 相似文献
Robert BainEmail: |
Robert Bain spent the first 15 years of his career as a traffic and transportation consultant before joining the infrastructure team at Standard & Poor’s in 2002. He is currently retained by the rating agency on a freelance basis and, separately, provides transport-related technical support services to infrastructure funds, insurance companies and institutional investors. Robert recently completed a PhD at the Institute for Transport Studies—hence his affiliation with the University of Leeds. 相似文献
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Traffic microsimulation models normally include a large number of parameters that must be calibrated before the model can
be used as a tool for prediction. A wave of methodologies for calibrating such models has been recently proposed in the literature,
but there have been no attempts to identify general calibration principles based on their collective experience. The current
paper attempts to guide traffic analysts through the basic requirements of the calibration of microsimulation models. Among
the issues discussed here are underlying assumptions of the calibration process, the scope of the calibration problem, formulation
and automation, measuring goodness-of-fit, and the need for repeated model runs.
Yaron Hollander is a transport analyst, working for Steer Davies Gleave in London. His work combines advanced demand modelling, Stated Preference, appraisal, design of public transport systems, transport policy and network modelling. He completed his PhD at the Institute for Transport Studies in Leeds, and previously worked for the Technion – Israel Institute for Technology; for the Israeli Institute for Transportation Planning and Research; and for the public transport department at Ayalon Highways Co. Ronghui Liu is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds. Her main research interests are modelling of traffic and microsimulation of driver behaviour and dynamical systems. She develops and applies network microsimulation models to a wide range of areas from transport policy instruments such as road pricing, to public transport operations and traffic signal controls. 相似文献
Ronghui LiuEmail: |
Yaron Hollander is a transport analyst, working for Steer Davies Gleave in London. His work combines advanced demand modelling, Stated Preference, appraisal, design of public transport systems, transport policy and network modelling. He completed his PhD at the Institute for Transport Studies in Leeds, and previously worked for the Technion – Israel Institute for Technology; for the Israeli Institute for Transportation Planning and Research; and for the public transport department at Ayalon Highways Co. Ronghui Liu is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds. Her main research interests are modelling of traffic and microsimulation of driver behaviour and dynamical systems. She develops and applies network microsimulation models to a wide range of areas from transport policy instruments such as road pricing, to public transport operations and traffic signal controls. 相似文献
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There has been a great deal of research on deriving estimates of the value of travel time savings (VTTS) as a way of converting
travel time benefits of toll roads relative to free routes into monetary units, the major user benefit in the development
of forecasts of traffic and hence revenue streams. By contrast there has been almost no consideration given to identifying
the role that various tollroad products play in establishing preferences for toll routes over non-tolled routes. Increasingly
tollroads give users the option to pay by cash at a toll booth, by electronic tolling or by a pre- or post-paid debit and
credit account system involving vehicle identification. The efficiency gained by electronic tolling for both the users and
the operator have resulted in moves in many jurisdictions to eliminate cash collection entirely (or not introduce it when
introducing a new tolled road facility), and to introduce a range of pre- and post-payment options. This has been accompanied
by a growing move to distance-based charging in some contexts which is more cumbersome to structure with a cash option. This
paper investigates current and potential travellers’ preferences for a range of toll products and how much individual’s are
willing to pay for very specific toll products. Data from a stated choice experiment is used in a mixed logit model to establish
the role that toll products play in the context of offered times and costs of alternative routes, in choosing between alternative
ways of paying for the use of tolled routes.
David A. Hensher is Professor of Management, and Founding Director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies. David is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Recipient of the 2006 Engineers Australia Transport Medal for lifelong contribution to transportation, member of Singapore Land Transport Authority International Advisory Panel (Chaired by Minister of Transport). David is on the editorial boards of 10 of the leading transport journals and Area Editor of Transport Reviews. David was appointed in 1999 by one of the worlds most prestigious academic publishing houses—Elsevier Science press as series and volume editor of a new handbook series “Handbooks in Transport”. Appointments over recent years include: a member of the executive committee that reviewed bus transport bids for the Olympic Games, the NSW Government’s Peer Review Committee for the Sydney Strategic Transport Plan, Peer reviewer for Transfund (NZ) of the New Zealand project evaluation program, Peer reviewer of the NZ Land Passenger Transport Procurement Strategy for Land Transport NZ, member of the executive committee of ATEC, a consortium promoting a freight rail system between Melbourne and Darwin; economic adviser to Gilbert+Tobin Lawyers on valuation methods in IP context; panel member of NSW Ministry of Transport benchmarking program; specialist toll road project adviser to Thiess. John M. Rose is Director of the Industry Program and a Deputy Director at Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS). John’s research interests are in the areas of discrete choice modelling and efficient stated choice experiments. John has several articles published in the top Transportation and Logistics journals (including Transportation, Transportation Research A, B and E) and is a co-author of (with Professors David Hensher and William Greene) Applied Choice Analysis; A Primer, (2005) by Cambridge University Press. He is currently writing a book on generating efficient stated choice experimental designs (with Mike Bliemer, Delft). 相似文献
John M. RoseEmail: |
David A. Hensher is Professor of Management, and Founding Director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies. David is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Recipient of the 2006 Engineers Australia Transport Medal for lifelong contribution to transportation, member of Singapore Land Transport Authority International Advisory Panel (Chaired by Minister of Transport). David is on the editorial boards of 10 of the leading transport journals and Area Editor of Transport Reviews. David was appointed in 1999 by one of the worlds most prestigious academic publishing houses—Elsevier Science press as series and volume editor of a new handbook series “Handbooks in Transport”. Appointments over recent years include: a member of the executive committee that reviewed bus transport bids for the Olympic Games, the NSW Government’s Peer Review Committee for the Sydney Strategic Transport Plan, Peer reviewer for Transfund (NZ) of the New Zealand project evaluation program, Peer reviewer of the NZ Land Passenger Transport Procurement Strategy for Land Transport NZ, member of the executive committee of ATEC, a consortium promoting a freight rail system between Melbourne and Darwin; economic adviser to Gilbert+Tobin Lawyers on valuation methods in IP context; panel member of NSW Ministry of Transport benchmarking program; specialist toll road project adviser to Thiess. John M. Rose is Director of the Industry Program and a Deputy Director at Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS). John’s research interests are in the areas of discrete choice modelling and efficient stated choice experiments. John has several articles published in the top Transportation and Logistics journals (including Transportation, Transportation Research A, B and E) and is a co-author of (with Professors David Hensher and William Greene) Applied Choice Analysis; A Primer, (2005) by Cambridge University Press. He is currently writing a book on generating efficient stated choice experimental designs (with Mike Bliemer, Delft). 相似文献
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This paper looks at the first and second best jointly optimal toll and road capacity investment problems from both policy
and technical oriented perspectives. On the technical side, the paper investigates the applicability of the constraint cutting
algorithm for solving the second best problem under elastic demand which is formulated as a bilevel programming problem. The
approach is shown to perform well despite several problems encountered by our previous work in Shepherd and Sumalee (Netw.
Spat. Econ., 4(2): 161–179, 2004). The paper then applies the algorithm to a small sized network to investigate the policy implications of the first and second
best cases. This policy analysis demonstrates that the joint first best structure is to invest in the most direct routes while
reducing capacities elsewhere. Whilst unrealistic this acts as a useful benchmark. The results also show that certain second
best policies can achieve a high proportion of the first best benefits while in general generating a revenue surplus. We also
show that unless costs of capacity are known to be low then second best tolls will be affected and so should be analysed in
conjunction with investments in the network.
Andrew Koh Prior to joining the Institute for Transport Studies in December 2005, Andrew was employed for number of years as a consultant in highway assignment modelling. He is an economist with wide ranging research interests in transport economics as well as evolutionary computation heuristics such as genetic algorithms, particle swarm optimisation and differential evolution. Simon Shepherd At the Institute for Transport Studies since 1989, he gained his doctorate in 1994 applying state-space methods to the problem of traffic responsive signal control in over-saturated conditions. His expertise lies in modelling and policy optimisation ranging from detailed simulation models through assignment to strategic land use transport models. Recently he has focussed on optimisation of road user charging schemes and is currently working on optimal cordon design and system dynamics approaches to strategic modelling. Agachai Sumalee Agachai is currently an Assistant Professor at Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (). He obtained a Ph.D degree with the thesis entitled “Optimal Road Pricing Scheme Design” at Leeds University in 2004. His research areas cover transport network modeling and optimization, stochastic network modeling, network reliability analysis, and road pricing. Agachai is currently an associate editor of Networks and Spatial Economics. 相似文献
Agachai SumaleeEmail: |
Andrew Koh Prior to joining the Institute for Transport Studies in December 2005, Andrew was employed for number of years as a consultant in highway assignment modelling. He is an economist with wide ranging research interests in transport economics as well as evolutionary computation heuristics such as genetic algorithms, particle swarm optimisation and differential evolution. Simon Shepherd At the Institute for Transport Studies since 1989, he gained his doctorate in 1994 applying state-space methods to the problem of traffic responsive signal control in over-saturated conditions. His expertise lies in modelling and policy optimisation ranging from detailed simulation models through assignment to strategic land use transport models. Recently he has focussed on optimisation of road user charging schemes and is currently working on optimal cordon design and system dynamics approaches to strategic modelling. Agachai Sumalee Agachai is currently an Assistant Professor at Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (). He obtained a Ph.D degree with the thesis entitled “Optimal Road Pricing Scheme Design” at Leeds University in 2004. His research areas cover transport network modeling and optimization, stochastic network modeling, network reliability analysis, and road pricing. Agachai is currently an associate editor of Networks and Spatial Economics. 相似文献
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This paper analyzes transportation mode choice for short home-based trips using a 1999 activity survey from the Puget Sound
region of Washington State, U.S.A. Short trips are defined as those within the 95th percentile walking distance in the data,
here 1.40 miles (2.25 km). The mean walking distance was 0.4 miles (0.6 km). The mode distribution was automobile (75%), walk
(23%), bicycle (1%), and bus (1%). Walk and bicycle are found less likely as the individual’s age increases. People are more
likely to drive if they can or are accustomed to. People in multi-person families are less likely to walk or use bus, especially
families with children. An environment that attracts people’s interest and provides activity opportunities encourages people
to walk on short trips. Influencing people’s choice of transport mode on short trips should be an important part of efforts
encouraging the use of non-automobile alternatives.
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Gudmundur F. UlfarssonEmail: |
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Transport models, philosophy and language 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Paul Timms 《Transportation》2008,35(3):395-410
The aim of this paper is to encourage debate about the nature of transport modelling. It does so firstly by considering the
underlying philosophies of science (apparently) adopted by transport modellers, over a period of more than 50 years, from
the 1950s until the present day. The conclusion is that a new philosophy of science needs to be developed, which is more in
tune with how transport modelling is actually carried out (as opposed to how early transport modellers thought it ought to
be carried out). It is recommended that such a new philosophy perceives transport modelling as a linguistic activity within
the overall context of transport planning, which is in turn considered as a communication process. The paper outlines three
main approaches that could be taken in this respect, analysing transport models from metaphorical, narrative and aesthetic
perspectives. Conclusions are drawn upon the possible future research directions that might follow from the analysis provided
in the paper, emphasising the importance of bringing formal philosophical thinking into transport modelling research and practice.
Paul Timms is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds. He has been involved for 20 years in research covering a wide range of transport modelling (from traffic signals to world futures), applied to various locations in Europe, Asia and Latin America. 相似文献
Paul TimmsEmail: |
Paul Timms is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds. He has been involved for 20 years in research covering a wide range of transport modelling (from traffic signals to world futures), applied to various locations in Europe, Asia and Latin America. 相似文献
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Ahmad Sanusi Hassan 《Transportation》2009,36(3):309-324
George Town, Penang, is the oldest British colonial city in South East Asia. The colonial settlement layout in the inner city
area is still intact today. The establishment of George Town as a trading centre had attracted immigrants from all over the
world, especially from Asia (Chinese, Indians and Arabs). Recently, George Town has been enlisted under the UNESCO World Heritage
Lists as an outstanding example of traditional multi-cultural settlement. The uniqueness of this inner city is that the formation
of its urban pattern is the result of ‘divide and rule’ concept adopted by the British authority. Under the ‘divide and rule’
concept, these immigrants were located to settlement areas based on their ethnic background under one leader known as ‘kapitan’ (captain). The study finds that transport access in this inner city was influenced by the ‘divide and rule’ concept. Unlike
formation of well-planned gridiron pattern in other British colonial cities such as in North America, Canada and Australia,
the formation of the urban pattern in George Town has an irregular gridiron pattern. This type of urban pattern is typical
under ‘divide and rule’ concept and this had indirectly influenced the setting and planning of the present street access and
transport networks.
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Ahmad Sanusi HassanEmail: |
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This study explores the relationships between adoption and consideration of three travel-related strategy bundles (travel
maintaining/increasing, travel reducing, and major location/lifestyle change), linking them to a variety of explanatory variables.
The data for this study are the responses to a fourteen-page survey returned by nearly 1,300 commuting workers living in three
distinct San Francisco Bay area neighborhoods in May 1998. We first identified patterns of adoption and consideration among
the bundles, using pairwise correlation tests. The test results indicate that those who have adopted coping strategies continue
to seek for improvements across the spectrum of generalized cost, but perhaps most often repeating the consideration of a
previously-adopted bundle. Furthermore, we developed a multivariate probit model for individuals’ simultaneous consideration
of the three bundles. It is found that in addition to the previous adoption of the bundles, qualitative and quantitative Mobility-related
variables, Travel Attitudes, Personality, Lifestyle, Travel Liking, and Sociodemographics significantly affect individual
consideration of the strategy bundles. Overall, the results of this study give policy makers and planners insight into understanding
the dynamic nature of individuals’ responses to travel-related strategies, as well as differences between the responses to
congestion that are assumed by policy makers and those that are actually adopted by individuals.
Sangho Choo is a Research Associate at The Korea Transport Institute. His research interests include travel demand modeling, travel survey methods with GPS, and travel behavior modeling. Patricia L. Mokhtarian is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, chair of the interdisciplinary Transportation Technology and Policy MS/PhD program, and Associate Director for Education of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis. She has been modeling travel behavior and attitudes for more than 30 years. 相似文献
Patricia L. Mokhtarian (Corresponding author)Email: |
Sangho Choo is a Research Associate at The Korea Transport Institute. His research interests include travel demand modeling, travel survey methods with GPS, and travel behavior modeling. Patricia L. Mokhtarian is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, chair of the interdisciplinary Transportation Technology and Policy MS/PhD program, and Associate Director for Education of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis. She has been modeling travel behavior and attitudes for more than 30 years. 相似文献
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Transportation and land-use preferences and residents’ neighborhood choices: the sufficiency of compact development in the Atlanta region 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
This paper analyzes the transportation and land-use preference and actual neighborhood choices of a sample of 1,455 residents
of metro Atlanta. We develop a stated-preference scale on which desires for neighborhood type are gauged, from preferences
for low-density, auto-oriented environments to desires for compact, walkable, and transit-oriented neighborhoods. This scale
is then related to desires for change in one’s own neighborhood characteristics after a hypothetical move. If all neighborhood
preferences were equally likely to be satisfied, then neighborhood preferences would not be correlated with a desire for change.
By contrast, in the current study, stronger preferences for a more walkable environment are associated with greater desire
for change in one’s neighborhood characteristics. This suggests an undersupply of compact, walkable, and transit-friendly
neighborhood types relative to current demand.
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Lawrence D. Frank (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Xinyu ?Cao 《Transportation》2009,36(2):207-222
The causality issue has become one of the key questions in the debate over the relationships between the built environment
and travel behavior. Although previous studies have tested statistical and/or practical significance of the built environment
on travel behavior, few have quantified the relative roles of the built environment and residential self-selection in influencing
travel behavior. Using 1,479 residents living in four traditional and four suburban neighborhoods in Northern California,
this study explores the causal effect of neighborhood type on driving behavior and its relative contribution to the total
influence of neighborhood type. Specifically, this study applied Heckman’s sample selection model to separate the effect of
the built environment itself and the effect of self-selection. The results showed that, on average, the effect of neighborhood
type itself on driving distance was 25.8 miles per week, which accounted for more than three quarters of the total influence
of neighborhood type and 16% of individuals’ overall vehicle miles driven. These results suggest that the effect of the built
environment on driving behavior outweighs that of self-selection. This paper also discussed the advantages and weaknesses
of applying the Heckman’s model to address the self-selection issue.
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Xinyu (Jason) CaoEmail: |
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Nature or nurture: why do railroads carry greater freight share in the United States than in Europe? 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
During the 1950s, the share of freight carried by railroads was similar and declining in both the United States and Europe.
By 2000, the railroads’ share of freight (measured in ton–kilometers) had reached 38% in the United States while falling to
8% in Europe. This paper examines the reasons for the difference in rail’s share of freight in Europe and the United States.
We find that almost 83% of the gap in 2000 is probably due to natural or inherent differences, principally geography, shipment
distance, and commodity mix. However, 17% of the gap cannot be explained by these inherent differences and is presumably due
to public policies including priority of passenger service, lack of interoperability at borders, service quality and rates,
and incentives of the rail operators. We estimate that if that policy gap were closed, railroads’ share of freight in Europe
would increase from 8% to 13%.
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Mark FaganEmail: |
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Galit Cohen-Blankshtain 《Transportation》2008,35(3):411-424
Transportation analysis emphasizes the necessity to internalize the transport externalities of car usage through taxation.
Yet taxation decisions are often made with non-transport goals in mind. In such cases, transport policies are made ‘by the
way.’ This paper examines such a case: Israel’s taxation policy on company cars. It shows that current taxation policies result
in increasing numbers of company cars and growing numbers of transport users who are not sensitive to the marginal cost of
car use and make excessive use of the car. As a result, a significant portion of Travel Demand Management (TDM) measures cannot
affect this group. The Israeli case of company car tax reform demonstrates the problematic effect of a policy that does not
take its overall consequences on other policy fields into account and thereby impairs efforts to reduce the negative impacts
of the transport system. Also, it demonstrates the importance of institutional aspects of transport policymaking.
Cohen-Blankshtain is a lecturer at the department of Geography and School of Public Policy at the Hebrew University. Her research interests include urban policy, transport and ICT policy and participation process in public policy. 相似文献
Galit Cohen-BlankshtainEmail: |
Cohen-Blankshtain is a lecturer at the department of Geography and School of Public Policy at the Hebrew University. Her research interests include urban policy, transport and ICT policy and participation process in public policy. 相似文献
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Wireless ICTs are often used in public transport. Using survey data collected amongst 98 train travellers this article aims
to gain insight into important factors that affect train travellers’ intentions to communicate with distant others while travelling.
More specifically, the focus is on the decision-making process that leads to the intention to choose for a confidential conversation
either via ‘audible’ mobile phone or via ‘silent’ SMS/e-mail. An approach that is related to the Extended Model of Goal-directed
Behaviour (EMGB) is applied. Structural equation modelling results indicate that in particular past SMS behaviour, the desire
to communicate (goal desire), the perceived efficacy and controllability influence the intention to conduct a confidential
phone conversation in the train. The influence of the social environment (e.g. eavesdropping) seems to be less important.
Several EMGB constructs are strongly influenced by age. It seems that older respondents have more negative attitudes towards
telephoning while travelling by train, and find it more difficult to call other people in such a situation. Finally, they
have a lower intention than younger respondents to conduct a confidential conversation over the phone while travelling.
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Martin DijstEmail: |
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Children’s mode choice for the school trip: the role of distance and school location in walking to school 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Noreen C. McDonald 《Transportation》2008,35(1):23-35
Rising levels of childhood obesity in the United States and a 75% decline in the proportion of children walking to school
in the past 30 years have focused attention on school travel. This paper uses data from the US Department of Transportation’s
2001 National Household Travel Survey to analyze the factors affecting mode choice for elementary and middle school children.
The analysis shows that walk travel time is the most policy-relevant factor affecting the decision to walk to school with
an estimated direct elasticity of −0.75. If policymakers want to increase walking rates, these findings suggest that current
policies, such as Safe Routes to School, which do not affect the spatial distribution of schools and residences will not be
enough to change travel behavior. The final part of the paper uses the mode choice model to test how a land use strategy—community
schools—might affect walking to school. The results show that community schools have the potential to increase walking rates
but would require large changes from current land use, school, and transportation planning practices.
Noreen C. McDonald is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on how the environment affects children’s travel behavior. 相似文献
Noreen C. McDonaldEmail: |
Noreen C. McDonald is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on how the environment affects children’s travel behavior. 相似文献
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This paper reports the results of a stated-preference study aimed at investigating how transport decisions are made by receivers
or by transport operators about the potential use of an urban freight consolidation centre in the city of Fano, Italy. Because
there are no revealed preference data, a stated-choice methodology is used. The stated-choice experiments present two alternatives—one
using a private vehicle subject to various traffic regulations and one using the urban freight consolidation centre with varying
cost and efficiency levels. Conventional discrete choice data modelling shows that the potential demand is influenced mainly
by the distance of the parking bay from the shop, by access permit cost, by the service cost of the urban freight consolidation
centre, and by the delay in delivery time. Simulations are then performed to assess how the potential demand is affected by
various incentives and regulations affecting urban goods distribution.
Edoardo Marcucci is Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Roma Tre, Italy, General Secretary of the Italian Society of Transportation Economists, and co-founder of the Kuhmo—Nectar Conference and Summer School Series on Pricing, Financing, Regulating Transport Infrastructures and Services. He has studied freight transportation concentrating on interactions along logistic supply chains. Romeo Danielis is Full Professor at the University of Trieste, Italy. He is managing editor of European Transport\Trasporti Europei. He has published articles on input-output modelling, regional environmental policy, social costing of transport externalities, EU enlargement and on several transport issues including road pricing, the Down-Thompson paradox, energy use and CO2 emissions, freight transport demand and stated preferences. 相似文献
Edoardo MarcucciEmail: |
Edoardo Marcucci is Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Roma Tre, Italy, General Secretary of the Italian Society of Transportation Economists, and co-founder of the Kuhmo—Nectar Conference and Summer School Series on Pricing, Financing, Regulating Transport Infrastructures and Services. He has studied freight transportation concentrating on interactions along logistic supply chains. Romeo Danielis is Full Professor at the University of Trieste, Italy. He is managing editor of European Transport\Trasporti Europei. He has published articles on input-output modelling, regional environmental policy, social costing of transport externalities, EU enlargement and on several transport issues including road pricing, the Down-Thompson paradox, energy use and CO2 emissions, freight transport demand and stated preferences. 相似文献
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Railway reforms: do they influence operating efficiency? 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
This paper considers railway operations in 23 European countries during 1995–2001, where a series of reform initiatives were
launched by the European Commission, and analyses whether these reform initiatives improved the efficiency of the railway
systems. Efficiency is measured using Multi-directional Efficiency Analysis, which enables investigation of how railway reforms
affect the inefficiencies of specific cost drivers. The main findings are that the reform initiatives generally improve technical
efficiency but potentially differently for different cost drivers. Specifically, the paper provides empirical evidence that
accounting separation is important for improving the efficiency in the use of both material and staff costs, whereas other
reforms only influenced one of these factors.
Mette Asmild is Associate Professor in Operational Research at Warwick Business School (UK). Her main research interests are theoretical developments and practical applications of efficiency and productivity analysis techniques, particularly Data Envelopment Analysis. Torben Holvad is Economic Adviser at the European Railway Agency (France), senior research associate at the Transport Studies Unit (University of Oxford) and external associate professor at the Department of Transport (Danish Technical University). He obtained Economics degrees from Copenhagen University (MSc) and the European University Institute in Florence (PhD). Jens Leth Hougaard is Professor in Applied Microeconomics at Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen. His main research interests are related to applied microeconomics and include Efficiency Analysis and Benchmarking. Currently, he is working with cost sharing methods and allocation in networks. Dorte Kronborg is MSc in mathematical statistics from the University of Aarhus and Associate Professor at Center for Statistics, Department of Finance, Copenhagen Business School. Her primary research interests are applications and development of mathematical statistical methods within business economics. 相似文献
Dorte KronborgEmail: |
Mette Asmild is Associate Professor in Operational Research at Warwick Business School (UK). Her main research interests are theoretical developments and practical applications of efficiency and productivity analysis techniques, particularly Data Envelopment Analysis. Torben Holvad is Economic Adviser at the European Railway Agency (France), senior research associate at the Transport Studies Unit (University of Oxford) and external associate professor at the Department of Transport (Danish Technical University). He obtained Economics degrees from Copenhagen University (MSc) and the European University Institute in Florence (PhD). Jens Leth Hougaard is Professor in Applied Microeconomics at Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen. His main research interests are related to applied microeconomics and include Efficiency Analysis and Benchmarking. Currently, he is working with cost sharing methods and allocation in networks. Dorte Kronborg is MSc in mathematical statistics from the University of Aarhus and Associate Professor at Center for Statistics, Department of Finance, Copenhagen Business School. Her primary research interests are applications and development of mathematical statistical methods within business economics. 相似文献
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Analysis of household activity scheduling has to date been limited to one-day periods. This paper extends the study of household
task allocation to a one-week period. Using a one-week time use survey held under couples in The Netherlands in 2003, the
paper proposes indicators for measuring task allocation on a daily and weekly scale and investigates to what extent role expectations,
work status and indicators of time pressure influence task allocation patterns. The outcomes suggest that egalitarian role
expectations and higher female work status lead to a more balanced allocation of work and households tasks between spouses.
More traditional role views and increased time pressure lead to more specialisation and inequality between spouses. Interestingly,
households under time pressure apply day-to-day specialisation to arrive at balanced weekly allocation totals.
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Tanja van der LippeEmail: |
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An analysis of the social context of children’s weekend discretionary activity participation 总被引:3,自引:1,他引:2
This paper examines the discretionary time-use of children, including the social context of children’s participations. Specifically,
the paper examines participation and time investment in in-home leisure as well as five different types of out-of-home discretionary
activities: (1) shopping, (2) social, (3) meals, (4) passive recreation (i.e., physically inactive recreation, such as going
to the movies or a concert), and (5) active recreation (i.e., physically active recreation, such as playing tennis or running).
The social context of children’s activity participation is also examined by focusing on the accompanying individuals in children’s
activity engagement. The accompanying arrangement is classified into one of six categories: (1) alone, (2) with mother and
no one else, (3) with father and no one else, (4) with both mother and father, and no one else, (5) with other individuals,
but no parents, and (6) with other individuals and one or both parents. The utility-theoretic Multiple Discrete-Continuous
Extreme Value (MDCEV) is employed to model time-use in one or more activity purpose–company type combinations. The data used
in the analysis is drawn from the 2002 Child Development Supplement (CDS) to the U.S. Panel Study Income Dynamics (PSID).
The results from the model can be used to examine the time-use choices of children, as well as to assess the potential impacts
of urban and societal policies on children’s activity participation and time-use decisions. Our findings also emphasize the
need to collect, in future travel surveys, more extensive and higher quality data capturing the intra- and inter-household
interactions between individuals (including children). To our knowledge, the research in this paper is the first transportation-related
study to rigorously and comprehensively analyze the social dimension of children’s activity participation.
Ipek Nese Sener is currently a Ph.D. candidate in transportation engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. She received her M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering and in Architecture, and her B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. Dr. Chandra R. Bhat has contributed toward the development of advanced econometric techniques for travel behavior analysis, in recognition of which he received the 2004 Walter L. Huber Award and the 2005 James Laurie Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). 相似文献
Chandra R. Bhat (Corresponding author)Email: |
Ipek Nese Sener is currently a Ph.D. candidate in transportation engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. She received her M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering and in Architecture, and her B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. Dr. Chandra R. Bhat has contributed toward the development of advanced econometric techniques for travel behavior analysis, in recognition of which he received the 2004 Walter L. Huber Award and the 2005 James Laurie Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). 相似文献
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A hybrid model of fuzzy and AHP for handling public assessments on transportation projects 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Turan Arslan 《Transportation》2009,36(1):97-112
Having an effective public participation in transportation planning and project development processes has been a major concern
for developed countries. In the United States, for instance, all state Departments of Transportation are subject to the Transportation
Equity Act (TEA-21) that formally requires public involvement in transportation planning. Since transportation planning involves
public resources and values, judgments by the public should play a key role in determining final decisions. Therefore, all
these agencies are required not only to disseminate information to the public, but also to solicit and consider public opinion
in forming transportation policy. This work presents a decision support model, with public involvement and public oversight,
to help policy makers select appropriate transportation projects for implementation. Since focus groups will face multiple
objectives and inexact information in the process, a hybrid model of fuzzy logic and analytical hierarchy process (AHP) is
proposed. A set of ‘if–then’ rules based on Weber’s psycho-physical law of 1834 is presented to reason from fuzzy numbers
to capture essential subjective preferences, pairwise, among the alternatives. The AHP is then incorporated to estimate preference
allotments among alternatives. An example application of the suggested method is provided seeking public approval of an appropriate
public bus transportation system choosing between one run by municipal authorities and one run by private agencies to show
how this procedure works.
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This paper presents a comprehensive econometric modelling framework for daily activity program generation. It is for day-specific
activity program generations of a week-long time span. Activity types considered are 15 generic categories of non-skeletal
and flexible activities. Under the daily time budget and non-negativity of participation rate constraints, the models predict
optimal sets of frequencies of the activities under consideration (given the average duration of each activity type). The
daily time budget considers at-home basic needs and night sleep activities together as a composite activity. The concept of
composite activity ensures the dynamics and continuity of time allocation and activity/travel behaviour by encapsulating altogether
the activity types that are not of our direct interest in travel demand modelling. Workers’ total working hours (skeletal
activity and not a part of the non-skeletal activity time budget) are considered as a variable in the models to accommodate
the scheduling effects inside the generation model of non-skeletal activities. Incorporation of previous day’s total executed
activities as variables introduces day-to-day dynamics into the activity program generation models. The possibility of zero
frequency of any specific activity under consideration is ensured by the Kuhn-Tucker optimality conditions used for formulating
the model structure. Models use the concept of random utility maximization approach to derive activity program set. Estimations
of the empirical models are done using the 2002–2003 CHASE survey data set collected in Toronto.
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Eric J. MillerEmail: |