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No. 2020/12 | 23 Oct 2020 |
Zero Car Growth
This paper discusses the challenges to transport justice in the context of zero-car-growth policies. It analyses the car-dependence created by sprawling cities that necessitate access to automobiles if citizens want to fully participate in the... |
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No. 2020/04 | 23 Mar 2020 |
Worthwhile Use of Travel Time and Applications in the United Kingdom
This paper outlines the rationale, methodologies, key findings and policy implications of the national Value of Travel Time Savings (VTTS) study conducted in Britain during 2014-15. The study found VTTS varied with distance, trip purpose and mode of... |
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No. 2013/23 | 05 Dec 2013 |
Why airports can face price-elastic demands
The extent to which firms face price-elastic demands for their products is important in the application of competition law and in judgments made as to whether they have significant market power. In the context of the airport industry, assessing... |
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No. 2017/16 | 04 Aug 2017 |
Why SMS?
This discussion paper presents an introduction to safety management systems (SMS) as they apply to transportation organisations across modes and industries, and provides a broad overview of SMS and its processes, activities and tools. The discussion... |
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No. 2013/25 | 13 Dec 2013 |
When to Invest in High-Speed Rail
High speed rail (HSR) is usually regarded as services operating at 250 kmph or more, and these invariably require construction of new purpose-built lines. According to the International Union of Railways (UIC), by 2012, a total of 13 000km of such... |
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No. 2014/23 | 01 Nov 2014 |
What is Rail Efficiency and How Can it Be Changed?
Assessing railway efficiency is complex for a number of reasons. Railways produce a wide range of outputs including passenger service, freight service and, in some cases, separated infrastructure access services. Railways that differ in scale or in... |
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No. 2011/16 | 01 May 2011 |
What Does Improved Fuel Economy Cost Consumers and What Does it Cost Taxpayers?
“Green growth” is an emerging paradigm that integrates several policy aspirations, including the durability of economic activity, reduced environmental impacts, and sustained growth in high-quality employment in such a way as to foster coherent,... |
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No. 2015/06 | 01 Feb 2015 |
What Do We Mean by a Level Playing Field in International Aviation?
The issue of a “level playing field” has re-emerged as a major issue in international aviation. This issue has been around for decades but has been raised in recent policy debates. One policy forum in which this has been raised is the European... |
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No. 2014/02 | 13 May 2014 |
Valuing Convenience in Public Transport
The experience of transport systems users, in terms of comfort, reliability, safety and above all convenience, is critical in determining demand for transport services, at least when there is a choice of alternative ways to travel. Convenience is one... |
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No. 2014/01 | 14 Apr 2014 |
Valuation of Urban Rail Service
Promoting public transportation, which includes rail, metro, bus rapid transit, and bus services is one of the most popular urban transportation policies among transportation authorities in many countries. This popularity may reflect the social... |
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No. 2021/04 | 27 Jan 2021 |
Use of Mobile Telecommunication Data in Transport Modelling
Transport planners see an opportunity in mobile phone data to better map trip destinations and monitor travel demand over time. However, such data require extensive processing to reveal trip details and transport modes. This paper defines quality... |
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No. 2021/05 | 27 Jan 2021 |
Use of Big Data in Transport Modelling
This paper guides transport planners in making the best use of mobile phone traces, derived either from mobile network data or from smartphone app data. It suggests combining such new data sources with conventional travel surveys whose sample size... |
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No. 2018/16 | 19 Oct 2018 |
Urban Toll
This paper highlights the necessity of a spatial approach to addressing the acceptability problem of road tolls in cities. Few cities have implemented urban congestion charges because of limited public acceptance and perceived distributive impacts.... |
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No. 2014/05 | 16 Apr 2014 |
Urban Rail Development in Tokyo from 2000 to 2010
Tokyo is well known as a rail-oriented city where the huge traffic demand generated from the megacity is well supported by a sophisticated urban rail system. The results of the 2008 Person Trip Survey show that rail’s modal share was 30% as of 2008;... |
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No. 2013/01 | 01 Feb 2013 |
Upgrading to World Class
This paper is intended to serve three purposes. First, it presents a slightly abbreviated version of the summary of the book published by Regional Plan Association (RPA) in January 2011 about the serious capacity and delay problems at the three major... |
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No. 2019/04 | 04 Mar 2019 |
Updated Estimates of the Relationship Between the Business Cycle and Traffic Fatalities
This paper updates analyses of the relationship between fluctuations of the business cycle and the number of traffic fatalities published in 2015 by the International Transport Forum. Since then, the global recession that started in 2008 has ended... |
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No. 2018/01 | 02 Feb 2018 |
Understanding Urban Travel Behaviour by Gender for Efficient and Equitable Transport Policies
Gender is one of the key socio-demographic variables that can influence travel behaviour, but it is often the least understood. Understanding travel behaviour by gender will help better design transport policies that are efficient and equitable. Due... |
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No. 2020/27 | 28 Oct 2020 |
Trends in Car Use, Travel Demand and Policy Thinking
This paper discusses the main trends of car use and travel demand, as well as changes in policy responses and attitudes to managing the growth in urban traffic. It highlights the importance of orienting transport policies towards broader objectives... |
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No. 2016/09 | 09 May 2016 |
Travel Behaviour Response to Major Transport System Disruptions
The current focus of transportation policy around disruptive events is to adopt an engineering resilience-oriented approach, which focuses on returning assets to good workable order as soon as possible. This will remain critically important in the... |
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No. 2018/09 | 29 Aug 2018 |
Transport Planning With Accessibility Indices in the Netherlands
This discussion paper overviews the different perspectives and approaches to measuring accessibility, reviews the strengths and weaknesses of different accessibility indicators and describes the use of accessibility indicators in the Dutch policy and... |
International Transport Forum Discussion Papers
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- ISSN: 2223439X (online)
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Zero Car Growth
David King
23 Oct 2020
This paper discusses the challenges to transport justice in the context of zero-car-growth policies. It analyses the car-dependence created by sprawling cities that necessitate access to automobiles if citizens want to fully participate in the...
Worthwhile Use of Travel Time and Applications in the United Kingdom
Richard Batley, Thijs Dekker and Iven Stead
23 Mar 2020
This paper outlines the rationale, methodologies, key findings and policy implications of the national Value of Travel Time Savings (VTTS) study conducted in Britain during 2014-15. The study found VTTS varied with distance, trip purpose and mode of...
Why airports can face price-elastic demands
David Starkie and George Yarrow
05 Dec 2013
The extent to which firms face price-elastic demands for their products is important in the application of competition law and in judgments made as to whether they have significant market power. In the context of the airport industry, assessing...
Why SMS?
Daniel Maurino
04 Aug 2017
This discussion paper presents an introduction to safety management systems (SMS) as they apply to transportation organisations across modes and industries, and provides a broad overview of SMS and its processes, activities and tools. The discussion...
When to Invest in High-Speed Rail
Christopher Nash
13 Dec 2013
High speed rail (HSR) is usually regarded as services operating at 250 kmph or more, and these invariably require construction of new purpose-built lines. According to the International Union of Railways (UIC), by 2012, a total of 13 000km of such...
What is Rail Efficiency and How Can it Be Changed?
Louis S. Thompson and Heiner Bente
01 Nov 2014
Assessing railway efficiency is complex for a number of reasons. Railways produce a wide range of outputs including passenger service, freight service and, in some cases, separated infrastructure access services. Railways that differ in scale or in...
What Does Improved Fuel Economy Cost Consumers and What Does it Cost Taxpayers?
Kurt van Dender and Philippe Crist
01 May 2011
“Green growth” is an emerging paradigm that integrates several policy aspirations, including the durability of economic activity, reduced environmental impacts, and sustained growth in high-quality employment in such a way as to foster coherent,...
What Do We Mean by a Level Playing Field in International Aviation?
Mike Tretheway and Robert Andriulaitis
01 Feb 2015
The issue of a “level playing field” has re-emerged as a major issue in international aviation. This issue has been around for decades but has been raised in recent policy debates. One policy forum in which this has been raised is the European...
Valuing Convenience in Public Transport
Mark Wardman
13 May 2014
The experience of transport systems users, in terms of comfort, reliability, safety and above all convenience, is critical in determining demand for transport services, at least when there is a choice of alternative ways to travel. Convenience is one...
Valuation of Urban Rail Service
Hironori Kato
14 Apr 2014
Promoting public transportation, which includes rail, metro, bus rapid transit, and bus services is one of the most popular urban transportation policies among transportation authorities in many countries. This popularity may reflect the social...
Use of Mobile Telecommunication Data in Transport Modelling
Imane Essadeq and Thibault Janik
27 Jan 2021
Transport planners see an opportunity in mobile phone data to better map trip destinations and monitor travel demand over time. However, such data require extensive processing to reveal trip details and transport modes. This paper defines quality...
Use of Big Data in Transport Modelling
Luis Willumsen
27 Jan 2021
This paper guides transport planners in making the best use of mobile phone traces, derived either from mobile network data or from smartphone app data. It suggests combining such new data sources with conventional travel surveys whose sample size...
Urban Toll
Yves Crozet and Aurélie Mercier
19 Oct 2018
This paper highlights the necessity of a spatial approach to addressing the acceptability problem of road tolls in cities. Few cities have implemented urban congestion charges because of limited public acceptance and perceived distributive impacts....
Urban Rail Development in Tokyo from 2000 to 2010
Hironori Kato
16 Apr 2014
Tokyo is well known as a rail-oriented city where the huge traffic demand generated from the megacity is well supported by a sophisticated urban rail system. The results of the 2008 Person Trip Survey show that rail’s modal share was 30% as of 2008;...
Upgrading to World Class
Jeffrey M. Zupan
01 Feb 2013
This paper is intended to serve three purposes. First, it presents a slightly abbreviated version of the summary of the book published by Regional Plan Association (RPA) in January 2011 about the serious capacity and delay problems at the three major...
Updated Estimates of the Relationship Between the Business Cycle and Traffic Fatalities
Rune Elvik
04 Mar 2019
This paper updates analyses of the relationship between fluctuations of the business cycle and the number of traffic fatalities published in 2015 by the International Transport Forum. Since then, the global recession that started in 2008 has ended...
Understanding Urban Travel Behaviour by Gender for Efficient and Equitable Transport Policies
Wei-Shiuen Ng and Ashley Acker
02 Feb 2018
Gender is one of the key socio-demographic variables that can influence travel behaviour, but it is often the least understood. Understanding travel behaviour by gender will help better design transport policies that are efficient and equitable. Due...
Trends in Car Use, Travel Demand and Policy Thinking
Phil Goodwin
28 Oct 2020
This paper discusses the main trends of car use and travel demand, as well as changes in policy responses and attitudes to managing the growth in urban traffic. It highlights the importance of orienting transport policies towards broader objectives...
Travel Behaviour Response to Major Transport System Disruptions
Greg Marsden, Jillian Anable, Jeremy Shires and Iain Docherty
09 May 2016
The current focus of transportation policy around disruptive events is to adopt an engineering resilience-oriented approach, which focuses on returning assets to good workable order as soon as possible. This will remain critically important in the...
Transport Planning With Accessibility Indices in the Netherlands
Karst T. Geurs
29 Aug 2018
This discussion paper overviews the different perspectives and approaches to measuring accessibility, reviews the strengths and weaknesses of different accessibility indicators and describes the use of accessibility indicators in the Dutch policy and...