Showing papers in "Transport Policy in 2005"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a theoretical framework for decoupling, defining the difference between decouplings, coupling and negative decoupled, and further break down to weak, strong and expansive/recessive degrees of decouples, laying emphasis on the absolute increase or decrease of the variables.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the theory of planned behaviour to segment a population of day trip travellers into potential mode switchers using cluster analysis, and extracted six distinct psychographic groups with varying degrees of mode switching potential.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have used the concept of accessibility as a framework for the interactive design of integrated transport and land use plans in two areas of the Netherlands in order to identify solutions where economic, social, and environmental goals could be combined, defined as the achievement of sustainable accessibility.

TL;DR: There are limitations, mainly that trip length is not recorded on systems based on validating cards only on entry to a bus, and that certain types of data still require direct survey methods for their collection (such as journey purpose).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarized key trends in India's transport system and travel behavior, analyzes the extent and causes of the most severe problems, and recommends nine policy improvements that would help mitigate India's urban transport crisis.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used pre-charge and post-charge data (particularly on speed and road usage) in the London congestion charge zone to estimate demand and cost curves for road usage, and showed that the yearly amortisation and operation costs of the charge system appear to be significantly higher than the economic benefit produced by the system.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look at the reasons for this difference form the perspective of the experience of the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) and propose that the weaker than expected role of planning in infrastructure policies is the weak data availability.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of objective and subjective variables on the consideration of 16 travel-related strategies reflecting a range of individuals' potential reactions to congestion, concluding that policies designed to alleviate congestion may be less effective than expected, because individuals' responses to the travelrelated strategies analyzed here are influenced by a large variety of qualitative and experiential variables that are seldom measured and incorporated into demand models.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare four potential transportation energy conservation strategies using a comprehensive evaluation framework that takes into account how each strategy affects annual vehicle travel, and therefore, mileage-related impacts such as traffic congestion, road and parking facility costs and crash risk.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the limitations of transport modelling and appraisal in estimating total economic impact and the linkages between transport and the wider economy, and pointed out that good quality appraisals should be capable of picking up relevant network effects in the transport market.

TL;DR: In this paper, a potential application of a domestic market for car fuel consumption permits is described, where the marginal costs of consumption reduction vary sufficiently according to motorists' residential locations to consider permit exchanges.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the performance of 10 major North American airlines in terms of residual total factor productivity, cost competitiveness, and residual average yields during the period 1990-2001.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the importance of private transport in allowing women to access employment and argued that access to private transport is a key factor in determining women's economic inclusion, and that the development of sustainable transport systems may have serious gender implications.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed current transportation and traffic conditions in the Sao Paulo metropolitan area and the factors that shaped them over the 1967-1997 period, using data from four subsequent Origin-Destination surveys (OD).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the influences of objective and subjective variables on the consideration of 16 travel-related strategies, reflecting a range of options individuals have to adapt to congestion, and show that the individual adaptation process may be influenced by a wide range of qualitative and experiential variables, which are often ignored or omitted by policy makers and planners.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make a contribution to the debate on the economic success of the London congestion charge and raise some issues as a contribution for public transportation. But, they do not consider safety benefits and the authors also suggest that there appears to be an extremely high resource cost of running the congestion pricing scheme.

TL;DR: In this article, the importance of social exclusion in the context of congestion charging is discussed and the groups most particularly at-risk identified, and a new technique, based on generation and investigation of a synthetic population is introduced and used to establish the impacts on atrisk groups of six congestion charging schemes in Leeds.

TL;DR: In this article, a methodology based on Genetic Algorithms has been developed to identify the optimal location and toll level for one or more cordons, for a given objective function, with or without constraints on the design or required outcomes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that conventional fantasies of freedom, speed and power on which the outward form of the modern automobile is presently based, are inappropriate during a period of growing congestion, urban traffic blight, climate change and diminishing fuel resources.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine what factors influence the durability of the Walking School Buses initiative in Christchurch, New Zealand and conclude that the main problems were a lack of volunteers to share their workload, and insufficient ongoing support from the school or Council.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the reasons for and the practicalities of implementing employee car parking charge and concluded by considering the barriers to the wider adoption of this policy, based on empirical studies of 11 UK workplaces.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a global perspective on the road to efficiency, using the UK contributions in the special issue as a backdrop of what can be done beyond the UK.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the UK Government's policy initiative of making airports produce airport surface access strategies (ASAS's) as a means of addressing employee dependency on the private car for airport trips.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparison between global emission mitigation strategies (GEMS) and local emission mitigation (LEMS) and their potential in controlling the non-target pollutants/emissions in concurrence with their economic performance is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on the development of UK transport targets for CO2 emissions for 2050, using five key studies containing future carbon emissions scenarios for the UK were used to establish targets for overall reductions in emissions to achieve stabilisation at 550 and 450 ppm of atmospheric CO2.

TL;DR: The authors examined the experience of mandated collaborative transportation planning among state departments of transportation (DOTs) and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) in the USA following a significant change to national surface transportation policy in the early 1990s.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the preferences for the allocation of revenues from a road-user charging scheme and modelled, from the point of view of three users' groups; car users, public transport users and cyclists and walkers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored how effective manipulation of transport costs is in order to regulate freight transport demand in supply chains for books and newspapers in Europe, where investment in infrastructure lags behind growth in transport, potentially resulting in increased congestion.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a way to integrate a vehicle quota with usage based charging, including road pricing, in Singapore, which challenges assumptions that ownership control requires high fixed vehicle costs.

TL;DR: A survey of almost 3000 people gathered evidence on their experiences of problems on Britain's roads, their level of support for potential solutions, and on the different perspectives of transport professionals.