Showing papers in "Transport Reviews in 2007"

TL;DR: A comparative overview of urban transport in the world's two most populous countries: China and India, is provided in this article, where the authors assess government policies in each country and suggest a range of specific improvements.

TL;DR: In this article, a survey was conducted to determine the principal factors responsible for the public's overwhelming opposition to the road user charging scheme in Edinburgh in the UK and found that car use was the principal determinant of voting behavior with car owners strongly opposing the scheme.

TL;DR: The paper reviews the state‐of‐the‐art in the main areas of driving behaviour research: acceleration, lane changing and gap acceptance, and finds that current models do not adequately capture the sophistication of drivers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the decoupling of economic and freight transport growth has begun, possibly leading to a new era of sustainable logistics, and the authors examined 12 possible causes of the observed decoupled in the UK using published statistics from a wide range of British and European sources.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide new measures of airline network configuration with a view to analyse effectively the complexity of modern carriers' network design by taking into account both spatial and temporal dimensions.

TL;DR: The most popular approaches and methodologies, such as dynamic reduced-form demand models with time-series data, have dominated the core values obtained as mentioned in this paper, while less popular approaches have been used, including cointegration techniques, use of disaggregate data at the household level and flexible functional forms, and structural models of automobile fuel consu...

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the proposed theoretical models for the value of freight travel time savings (VFTTS), and the issues arising from the use of different methods to collect empirical VFTTS estimates are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, six principles for the design of transport systems are described, including direct link, corridor, hub-and-spoke, connected hubs, static routes, and dynamic routes.

TL;DR: The overall conclusion is that the use of standardized CBA has improved the quality of ex‐ante evaluations of large infrastructure projects in the Netherlands, but the relatively young CBA practice has not yet fulfilled its full potential.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse and compare synthetic indices of accessibility in order to measure the impact of high-speed trains on European cities, and extend these studies by applying principal component analysis (PCA) to obtain a new synthetic accessibility index.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined empirical relationships between spatial factors and travel behavior for men and women in a cross-section of low-income communities in a large metropolitan area in South Africa.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the advancement of new modelling concepts and approaches, in the presence of substantial methodological diversity, needs to be balanced with research into the kinds of behavioural and analytic issues raised in the paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors empirically evaluated key resources and capabilities in the liner shipping context and found that operation capability is perceived as the most important dimension, followed by customer service, human resource management, information integration, pricing purchasing, and financial management.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the actions recently taken in the UK to address this issue, comprising: primary research based on the city of Birmingham; an international review of willingness-to-pay evidence; the development of values using benefit transfers over time and locations; and integration with appraisal methods.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the causes of the containerization process within the Mediterranean basin and pay particular attention to the recent evolution of ports, identifying two specific categories of ports now in operation in the basin for container traffic.

TL;DR: It is shown that linear‐type travel time models are identified as good candidates for the analysis of dynamic transportation networks, but they have limitations from the practical point of view that travel time increases only linearly with the amount of traffic on the link.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the central place of transhipment in rail transport solutions and the lack of successful innovations is the focus of the focus in this paper, based on a questionnaire and interviews, several conclusions can be drawn.

TL;DR: In this paper, the current and proposed reforms in the railways of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia are described in detail; the likely outcomes of reforms in special economic, regulatory and legal environments of these countries are analysed; and an alternative proposal for restructuring in Russia is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the theoretical arguments and empirical evidence on contracting regimes and asset ownership, and the role that government and the operator might play in a setting in which building trusting and collaborative partnerships has merit in delivering services that are in the main funded from the public purse.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the pattern of fares set by airlines as they sold seats up to the time of departure of a service and found that the ability of major carriers to recover fixed costs has deteriorated in deregulated markets as barometric price leadership is replacing that of dominant firm price leadership.

TL;DR: The survey concludes that a pervasive, national‐scale deployment is unlikely to be technically achievable in the short‐term and the security aspects of such systems are examined, focusing particularly on the need to ensure privacy using technological, rather than solely procedural, methods.

TL;DR: In this paper, the potential benefits and disadvantages of the property rights approach for road traffic were explored. But the authors focused on major institutional and technical conditions and did not consider the impact of road traffic on the overall economic system.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify enablers and barriers that stimulate or prevent the adoption of alternatively powered buses (APBs) in cities, focusing on an in-depth analysis of 21 European demonstration case studies of APBs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study modal choice as a function of the personal characteristics of commuters by considering an original data set of more than 9000 commuters in the Trento district of Italy which was collected in 2001.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how the US Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulatory standard for light-duty vehicles has established an underlying fuel economy policy paradigm for the highly integrated North American automotive sector and assessed the possibility that the voluntary agreement on reducing automotive greenhouse gas emissions signed between Ottawa and Canadian auto manufacturers in April 2005 will be a step toward a new style of negotiated advances in fuel economy and greenhouse gas reduction goals throughout North America.

TL;DR: To value the costs per casualty type and per accident in Belgium, empirical data are provided on human and economic production losses as well as on direct accident costs such as medical costs, hospital visiting costs, accelerated funeral costs, property damage, administrative costs of insurance companies, litigation costs, police and fire department costs, and congestion costs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors surveyed the literature on the inventory-theoretic framework for transport selection, with particular emphasis on the criterion that is used to establish safety stock levels, and a case study based on real-life data is presented to illustrate the impact of two different service-level definitions on the total logistics costs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors stress the existence of the gap between willingness to pay (WTP) and willingness to accept (WTA) measures of value of time that is larger than could be explained in a Hicksian framework.

TL;DR: The authors reviewed the experience of the train leasing model, a vital but invisible component of Britain's privatized railway system, using publicly available financial information, and concluded that leasing charges for the old trains, paid for by the state, are high, contributing to the need for higher fares and subsidies, and the highest profits in the industry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report a monetary valuation study of alternative rail noise-abatement policies along the Brennero railway in north-east Italy. But they do not consider the economic efficiency of this type of policy intervention in terms of its overall welfare impact.