Showing papers in "Transport Reviews in 2006"

TL;DR: In this article, a review summarizes the different elements of HST operation with the aim of characterizing HST operations and putting in context its impact in terms of what it is best designed for and what it can deliver.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of contemporary conceptual ideas and empirical findings on the use of travel information (services) and their effects on travellers' choices is presented, integrating behavioural determinants such as the role of decision strategies with manifest determinants, such as trip contexts and socio-economic variables into a coherent framework of information acquisition and its effect on travelers' perceptions.

TL;DR: This review considers the state of practice in relation to using mobile phones as traffic probes, assesses the prospects for this data collection option and identifies unresolved issues that may have implications for obtaining real‐time traffic information using mobile phone as probes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present results from the first statistically significant study of traffic forecasts in transportation infrastructure projects, covering 210 projects in 14 nations worth US$58 billion, and show that forecasting of demand for transportation infrastructures does not improve over time.

TL;DR: The literature on excess commuting has generated much debate and controversy, and the purpose of this review paper is to assess that material critically under three main headings: contextual, methodological and policy-related issues as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The authors analyzed determinants of online buying and their relationship with in-store shopping, using empirical data obtained from Minneapolis, USA, and Utrecht, the Netherlands, based on chi-square tests and logistic and ordinary least-squares regressions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that Mainland Chinese ports are increasingly attractive as direct ports of call for mainline services and that new services started by mainline operators calling at Mainland China are bypassing Japanese and Taiwanese ports.

TL;DR: In this article, the ex-post facto cost of using private finance in roads is examined using a case study approach, focusing on the first eight design, build, finance and operate (DBFO) roads commissioned by the UK Government's Highways Agency and paid for through a system of shadow tolls.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the effectiveness of policy measures aimed at triggering a modal shift in the freight transport market based on the inventory-theoretic framework that studies modal choice from a business logistics viewpoint.

TL;DR: Most international airlines hedge fuel costs, but the theoretical justification behind this action is weak as discussed by the authors, and the availability of hedging instruments is first discussed, with the most liquid markets in crude and exchange traded contracts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that women spend more time travelling on slower modes of transport to access work; the faster modes are more expensive, and this transport deprivation becomes further exacerbated by the process of forced eviction and relocation of low-income households to the periphery of the city, causing the women to lose livelihood opportunities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the segmentation of brands and markets as mainline airlines reposition themselves to meet the challenge of low-cost competitors through the creation of subsidiary "carriers-within-carriers" (CWCs) with lower unit costs than the parent companies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the existing literature to see how effectively the current models represent this mutual interaction, and propose a prototype reference that compares and contrasts the advantages and disadvantages of the various models.

TL;DR: In this paper, a methodology for measuring the option value of public transport services, and its application to two regional railway links in the Netherlands, was described, and the option values were concluded to be a potentially relevant benefit category in public transport policy appraisal.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess ways of promoting car-sharing services further and make recommendations for the further development of car-sharing services in Germany, which can be defined as sharing vehicle services among members, thereby giving them access to a fleet of vehicles.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed and tested a service quality scale for a city bus transit system in Taipei, which consists of four dimensions and 20 items: interaction with passengers, tangible service equipment, convenience of service, and operating management support.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the British situation and use case studies to outline how this same process has been approached in the USA, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Norway, and how successful they have been thus far with respect to transportatio...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of some of this research, and in particular of the European Commission•funded Unification of Accounts and Marginal Costs for Transport Efficiency (UNITE) project.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the hypothesis that traffic forecasts for road links in Europe are geographically biased with underestimated traffic volumes in metropolitan areas and overestimated traffic volume in remote regions, based on available data from a database on large-scale transport infrastructure projects.

TL;DR: A review of the research on the sustainability of transport systems carried out over the last 15 years for the European Union (EU), identifies some missing gaps and elaborates on the prospective future ideas as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The existence of thresholds in three contexts are considered: inertia (habit or reluctance to change), minimum perceptible changes in attribute values, and as a mechanism for accepting or rejecting alternatives.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take a closer look at the very basics of logistics and analyze the selection criteria of transportation services from the industrial point of view as the main research problem, and establish a better understanding of which industrial sectors are using which mode of logistics services and why.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored impediments to developing effective multimodal transport and possible solutions in Bangladesh, which is an extreme case in point, and reported applications of Delphi techniques that explored local expert opinions regarding policies required to tackle such impediments.

TL;DR: In this paper, stated choice techniques are used to estimate road safety willingness to pay for reducing the risk of a becoming a fatal victim or of suffering a serious injury, which is the fundamental input in social cost-benefit analysis of road safety schemes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined three cases in Bangkok, Thailand, which in recent decades witnessed dramatic middleclass expansion, an increase in private motor vehicle population, and spatial diffusion of middle-class residences into lower-density zones in the suburbs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the impact of the recent changes in the legal system (as regards deregulation) on the current pattern of railway connections of the major carriers of the Polish State Railways.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors take a close look at the empirical relationship between accident and travel delay externalities in an urban setting, accounting for the risk-compensating behaviour under conditions of greater...

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on an innovative application of stated preference techniques to derive values of aircraft noise by time of day and by day of week revealed preference techniques cannot provide such segmentations, which would clearly be of use in policy development.

TL;DR: In this paper, the intention of shippers to use Internet services in liner shipping was investigated using data collected from a survey of a group of shipper in Taiwan, and the relationships among the constructs in the model were tested, namely: perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, security and use intention.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors applied an objective and probabilistic method to a vehicle dataset collected by the DuPage County Forest Preserve District ((DCFPD), in the state of Illinois.