European Transport Conference 2005

European Transport Conference 2005: Seminars

Seminar	Papers
Applied Methods in Transport Planning	Fusion of strategic modelling and microsimulation: integrated modelling of transport policy decisions at strategic and micro levels Uncertainty in traffic forecasts: literature review and new results for the Netherlands The dynamics of car ownership in EU countries: a comparison based on the European household panel survey Evaluation of transfer methods for spatial travel demand models Economic development and changes in car ownership patterns Nonlinearity and taste heterogeneity influence on discrete choice models forecasts Unit income elasticity of the value of travel time savings Using a land-use/transport/economic model in Edinburgh S.T.I.T.: a system of mathematical models for the simulation of land-use and transport interactions An application of backward forecasting for the validation of an urban travel model system Prediction reliability of the transport simulation models: a before and after study in Naples The Channel Tunnel – an ex-post economic evaluation The Attitude of Bus Users to Travel Time Variability Calculating expected delays and travel time variability in cost-benefit analyses Heuristic judgement, prospect theory and stated preference surveys aimed to elicit the value of travel time Cross-nested logit modelling of the combined choice of airport, airline and access-mode Modelling park-and-ride in the PRISM model for the West Midlands region Modelling time period choice: experience from the UK and the Netherlands
Applied Methods in Transport Planning - Parallel Seminar	Variations in Valuations of Noise and Intrusion effects. Are Stated choice results compatible with Hedonic Prices? Civil aviation in Scandinavia – economic value and importance National transport surveys: what can we learn from international comparison? Data collection biases in a transport survey Why long-term dynamic elasticities differ from cross-section elasticities? The journey to work: an analysis of mode choice based on panel data On the application of Heckman’s sample selection model to travel survey data: some practical guidelines
Applied Methods/Innovative Methods	Microsimulating the Stockholm Integrated Model System (SIMS) Disaggregate treatment of purpose, time and location in an activity-based regional travel forecasting model SCAPES – a dynamic microeconomic model of activity scheduling Home-Activity Approach to Multi-Modal Route Choice Modelling: A GNL-Model Distinguishing Home-End and Activity-End Nests Modelling the impact of ATIS on travellers’ behaviour: Puget Sound region case study A framework for a joint mode choice – household car allocation model
ECTRI Young Researchers Seminar	Driver's behaviour modelling using the hidden Markov Model formalism Informational support of public transport operations in exceptional situations Satellite propagation analysis in a masking environment for GNSS
European Policy and Research	Moving from command and control – the potential for economic instruments Assessment of urban policy instruments in inter-urban contexts Transport companies strategies towards increased competition Current practice in project appraisal in Europe “Are we moving in the right direction?” – multi-criteria environmental impact assessment with TERM indicators Urban transport performance and policy: Results of a european perception survey Social costs of noise at Madrid Barajas Airport Aviation security and EU US relations The Economic Catalytic Effects of Air Transport in Europe End of the free lunch? The responses of traditional European airlines to the low-cost carrier threat Intermodality and Passenger Transport Don Quijote Airport: first international private Spanish airport with a public use GALILEO – research on effects and impacts on road transport Abstract forecasting on the Trans European networks (TEN STAC) The challenges of a true distance approach to road charging National transport policies of the present and future EU member states in relation to the Community transport objectives Demand management policies in world cities Why are some young people choosing not to drive? Decreasing driving licence rates among young people – consequences for local public transport Women and transport “Are we moving in the right direction?” – multi-criteria environmental impact assessment with TERM indicators [PowerPoint Slides] Urban Transport Performance and Policy: Results of a European Public Perception Survey [PowerPoint Slides]
Freight and Logistics	The impact on transport and the economy of a levy on mobility LKW-Maut impact on Alsatian motorways Interurban road pricing for heavy vehicles – what are the impacts for the regional economy? Why study the indirect impacts of pricing transport? a case study Measuring road freight transport in EU-25 Assessing and mapping urban logistics initiatives – the CityFreight approach The future flow of goods in the enlarged EU Freight supply solutions for international shipments – demand structure in Norway and Sweden A simulation model for a container terminal Stimulating the economy by means of (freight) transport policy: An uncertain road? The role of modelling in freight governance: the case of LOGICA LEFT2 – a strategic freight transport model for Great Britain The impact of abnormal loads on road traffic congestion Evaluation of Dangerous Goods By Road In EU Integrated regional economic and freight logistics modelling: results from a model for the Trans-Pennine Corridor, UK SMILE+: the new and improved Dutch national freight model system Specification of a logistics model for Norway and Sweden Modelling commercial vehicle empty trips with parameters that depend on trip characteristics What’s wrong with freight models? Experimental economics, transport and logistics Calibration of Generalised Cost-Models for Road Freight Vehicles Within an Intermodal Chain: An Experimental Application in Italy Combining vehicle routing models and microscopic traffic simulation to model and evaluating city logistics applications A microscopic simulation framework of freight transport demand Demand model at international level: a system of model for Mediterranean free trade zone LKW-Maut impact on Alsatian motorways [PowerPoint Slides]
Innovations and Practice to Improving Air Quality in Towns and Cities	An experiment of an urban traffic control system Developing a strategy to tackle West London’s air quality problems Traffic and environmental management in urban areas and public information Experiences from fuel cell buses and ethanol buses in public transport in Stockholm Environmental assessment of transport demand management strategies in European cities: key results of the HEAVEN project Traffic and environmental management in urban areas and public information - slide presentation
Innovative Methods In Transport Analysis, Planning and Appraisal	Does the theoretical development in assignment procedures matter in practice? TRANSFER: a new equilibrium model for analysing multimodal passenger trips The network cost of congestion: analysis and computation of marginal social cost disaggregated by O-D pair and departure time Road pricing and its individual responses within travel patterns – lessons from the AKTA study Development of a tool to assess the reliability of Dutch road networks GPS tracking data of individuals as substitute for travel diaries: experience from a pilot project in Berlin, Germany On the approximation bias to benefit measures in discrete choice models The new ex-post evaluation methods for large projects in France Car demand forecasting using pseudo panel method A multi-agent model of land use and transport to study the dynamics of urban mobility “MobiSim SMA” Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on Business Travel and Commuting: Data Collection and Modelling Creation of a system of functional areas for England and Wales and for Scotland Transit services and user information: an application of schedule-based path choice and assignment models Network design model for generating transit timetable The scheduling of activities in sparse networks Welfare implications of a transport improvement in the case of a labour market imperfection Distributional effects of infrastructure pricing rules The value of improved road safety Optimal design for mixed logit models Uncertainty in travel conditions related to travel time and arrival time: some findings from a choice experiment
Innovative Methods Seminar on Choice Modelling	The amazing sensitivity of the value of time savings to income dependent utility functions Specification of a model to measure the value of travel time savings from binomial data Discrete mixtures of random utility models Home-Activity Approach to Multi-Modal Route Choice Modelling: A GNL-Model Distinguishing Home-End and Activity-End Nests Modelling the impact of ATIS on travellers’ behaviour: Puget Sound region case study Intra-household car type choice for different travel needs Random covariance heterogeneity in discrete choice models Logit kernel (or mixed logit) models for large multidimensional choice problems: identification and estimation A rigorous framework for empirically comparing mixed GEV and mixed MNL with error components models Dominance among alternatives in discrete choice modelling: a general framework and an application to destination choice The applicability of prospect theory to the analysis of transport networks Alternative presentations of the random utility model Uncertainty in choice behaviour prediction: a hybrid approach to combine fuzziness and randomness Normalization and correlation of cross-nested logit models A specification procedure of the CNL model reproducing any homoschedastic covariance matrix
Local Public Transport	Benchmarking public transport experiments – incentives for a common evaluation “Before and after” studies in a turbulent environment – main findings based on 11 different urban public transport case studies in Norway Financing local public transport: costs and benefits evaluation Project Orpheus: delivering best value for money for Tyne and Wear’s public transport system Taxicab regulation and the evolution of communication technology: the tale of three cities Planning transport for the new member states – the use of urban transport benchmarking to support policy formulation Quality issues in transport operation tenders – the difficult equilibrium between price and service level Customer loyalty management for occasional rides Price differentiation and fare integration in urban public transport Public transport demand and revenues in Athens: the introduction of metro and new tariff instruments How the marketing can participate in a durable improvement of traffic and incomes in urban public transportation: An example of the RATP (Paris, France) Guidance for affordable mass transit systems in the UK Bus Rapid Transit: Worldwide Success of a Modular Toolbox The dynamic bus station, a user friendly facility?Principles and practices at railway stations in the Netherlands Le tramway, outil au service d’une mobilité et d’un développement urbains durables ? Long-term demand effects in public transport Inducing increased demand for public transport – experience in Australia Practical solutions for real problems: keys to success in planning for accessibility Short and long term impacts of the rural bus services: ‘InterConnect’ and ‘Villager’ on social inclusion and quality of life From chaos to rationale: building a transport system based in the stakeholders participation – the case of Andorra Customer participation in public transport planning: conceptual issues and experiences Feedback from the GART citizen’s conference 2005
Planning For Sustainable Land Use and Transport	Assessing sustainability of transport projects in Madrid TRANSFORMES – regional strategies and local implementation in integrated land-use and transport planning Evaluation of the mobility impacts of the Dutch Vinex policy Successful transfer nodes (P+R) patterns and land use planning Urban density and modal split: analysis of two Portuguese medium cities Mobility in the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main Region: Evidence from the German National Travel Survey (NTS) An assessment of the barriers to the delivery of sustainable local surface transport solutions Educating transport engineers for collaborative planning Facilitating travel behaviour change Using behavioural psychology to plan, market and manage transport Sustainable School Travel, Controlling Distance and Safety Travel demand – the influence on commuter distances of labour supply/demand imbalances Reducing speed limits on highways: Dutch experiences and impact on air pollution, noise-level, traffic safety and traffic flow Planning sustainable transport policy measures in the city of Villa S. Giovanni, Italy Activity spaces and travel time in Sydney Travel choices in Scotland – the effect of local accessibility on non-work travel Do physical factors matter while choosing means of transport? Anytime, anywhere and always on the move? - the potential of ICT to shape travel behaviour Assessment of the effects of improving the Madrid inner ring road to a more balanced and sustainable metropolitan mobility Property values and public transport investment Supporting decision processes related to transport: from CBA (cost benefit analysis) to MCDA (multi-criteria decision analysis) Transport and Urban Design Monitoring the social impacts of the central London congestion charge Toll financing with a wider scope – urban toll financed packages and their relation to sustainable transport and land use Identifying through accessibility planning how sustainable growth can be achieved in the compact city: a case study of Edinburgh Congestion charging in Edinburgh: Some lessons on acceptability Meeting the Needs of a Growing Region Meeting the Needs of a Growing Region [PowerPoint Slides]
Rail	Railway reform in Europe: where are we now? Railway operators facing competition and regionalization Policy decision-making and implementation of Korean rail reform Optimal fares regulation for Britain’s railways Evaluating the impacts of a national railcard What rail privatisation in Britain has meant: public specification and private delivery Rail access to airports – how important is dedication? Identifying customer requirements and assessing customer satisfaction in an international market with intermodal and international competitors: the experience of Thalys Perception of quality at stations: a new method for calculating the experienced value of quality Examining the influence of station catchment areas on the demand for rail travel Was the Dutch railways’ new off-peak infrastructure maintenance experiment a success? On the value of punctuality on suburban trains to and from Paris How do rail passengers respond to change? Surface access to airports
Road Finance, Design and Maintenance	Road haulier’s acceptability of the German HGV charging scheme – results from a company survey Evidence of people’s response to complex pricing structures: implications for road pricing Acceptability of road pricing and revenue use in the Netherlands Increasing the acceptability of road charges for HGV transit traffic The role of tolling strategies in the success of electronic toll collection systems The Oslo toll ring and infrastructure investment scheme Analysis of game theory based applications on infrastructure cost allocation in Hungary Crime and punishment at the court of truth and reconciliation Traffic forecasting risk study update 2005: through ramp-up and beyond HOV and HOT lanes in the United States The tendering mechanism based on the least present value of the revenues: practical evaluation in the highway concession scheme in Chile Economic evaluation of the proposed road between Gobabis and Grootfontein, Namibia Implementing PPP contracts in transport infrastructure in Brazil National transport policies of the present and future EU member states in relation to the Community transport objectives Demand management policies in world cities The social impacts of the central London congestion charge on Londoners Toll financing with a wider scope – urban toll financed packages and their relation to sustainable transport and land use Identifying through accessibility planning how sustainable growth can be achieved in the compact city: a case study of Edinburgh Congestion charging in Edinburgh – lessons about acceptance
Tourism and Transport	Tourism mobility in urban areas Developing and Assessing Integrated Travel Chains European tourism transport and environment An attempt to reduce travel distance by regionalising self-drive tourists’ itineraries in New Zealand Demand models on short sea shipping: a case study for the North Sporades in the Aegean area Strategic use of B2B e-Marketplaces in the airline industry: Promoting competitiveness and value creation Analysing travel patterns for cultural land use Are travel plans the best way to make tourist travel more sustainable? Hadrians Wall: A case study Steam railways: cultural heritage and sustainable tourism development and promotion Transport heritage as tourist attractions
Traffic and Transport Safety	Trial and evaluation of intelligent road studs Review of the red to green sequence at traffic signals Trajectory deflection influence on the performance of roundabouts The development of a countrywide speed monitoring system and its contribution to a comprehensive speed management strategy Intelligent transport systems today: a European perspective Sustainable road safety engineering Risk analysis in road safety: a model and an experimental application for pedestrians Transportation network vulnerability indicators for risk evaluation and exposition reduction Closing the gap – benchmarking European roads within EuroRAP SURE (Users’ Safety on Existing Roads): a new method implemented in France to improve safety on existing roads European initiatives and developments in road transport safety How to save lives in road traffic – an ethical approach Examples of PR/publicity campaigns to improve driver safety in severe winter weather conditions The UK national pilot network of child pedestrian training schemes using the Kerbcraft Model The use of travel survey data in road safety analysis The frequency and severity of road traffic accidents investigated on the basis of state space methods Accident data analysis: an experimental investigation for a rural, multi-lane, median-separated, Italian road
Traffic Engineering and Street Management	Effectiveness of variable message signs – a users perspective Reviewing the Irish Traffic Signs Manual Introducing the Highways Agency Traffic Order Service Computerised real-time saturation flow measurement for signalised traffic junctions Route 149 - Intensive bus priority Innovative modelling and design of integrated light rail transit priority systems – case study of LRT in Nottingham, UK Equitable interchange assessment with micro-simulation Behavioural model of the pedestrian interaction with road traffic The benefit of video detection for on-ramp queue control and ALINEA ramp metering strategy A mesoscopic approach to capacity and delays evaluation in un-signalised roundabouts Selective vehicle detection (SVD) – bus priority and GPS technology Cell phone radar Transport for London, congestion charging technology trials – stage 1 results SMART project: field test results of different traffic monitoring technologies The application of sustainable traffic management in the Netherlands Modelling signalised urban networks in London - A Strategy Approach Transport model of Belgrade – first phase, case study Benefits for buses in the real world – a simple method for assessing benefits/impacts of traffic schemes Software environments to support traffic and transport analysis methodologies Combining simulative and statistical approach for short time flow forecasting Home zones – meeting the challenge Civilising pedestrian road crossing facilities Modelling pedestrians for an integrated transport system – pedestrian simulators compared Valuing the walking experience Transport and urban design The social impacts of the central London congestion charge on Londoners Toll financing with a wider scope – urban toll financed packages and their relation to sustainable transport and land use Identifying through accessibility planning how sustainable growth can be achieved in the compact city: a case study of Edinburgh Congestion charging in Edinburgh – lessons about acceptance How to provide an on-board unit for a GNSS-based road user-charging system that is free to motorists Bergamo Alta: the history of its accessibility from the origins to the future

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European Transport Conference 2005: Seminars