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Research report 474 Company cars and fringe benefit tax - understanding the impacts on strategic transport targets

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Category: Transport demand management , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

This report investigates the degree to which current tax polices influence travel behaviour (perhaps unintentionally) in ways that contradict strategic policy objectives.

Research report 473 Calibration of trip distribution by generalised linear models

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Category: Transport demand management , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

Generalised linear models (GLMs) provide a flexible and sound basis for calibrating gravity models for trip distribution, for a wide range of deterrence functions (from steps to splines), with K factors and geographic segmentation.

Research report 472 New Zealand bus policy model

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Category: Economic development , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

A methodology and computer-based model was developed to analyse the performance of urban bus services in terms of their operations, market indicators and financial performance.

Research report 471 The benefits of public transport - option values and non-use values

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Category: Economic development , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

This research was undertaken in New Zealand in 2010-11 to investigate the economic concepts of option values and non-use values as applied to public transport services, and to undertake primary market research in New Zealand to estimate approximate v…

Research report 470 Selection of aggregates for skid resistance

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Category: Activity management , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

Statistical modelling was undertaken to develop a means for reliably predicting the expected in-service skid resistance of any rural section of the New Zealand state highway network surfaced with chip seal.

Research report 468 Living in intensified urban environments: residential self-selection and travel behaviour

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Category: Sustainable land transport , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

In this research project we used a combination of a literature review; an analysis of secondary data and accessibility indices; and an online survey of inner city and non-inner city residents in Auckland and Wellington to examine the impact of urban …

Research report 464 Incorporating travel time reliability in the estimation of assignment models

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Category: Transport demand management , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

Route choice is determined by some function of mean travel time and distance on the routes available in most traffic assignment models.

Research Report 462 Lifetime liabilities of land transport using road and rail infrastructure

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Category: Environmental impacts of land transport , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

The aim of the project was to establish the whole-of-life environmental performance of passenger and freight movement that uses roads and rail.

Research Report 461 Characterisation and use of stabilised basecourse materials in transportation projects in New Zealand

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Category: Activity management , Research programme , Research & reports | Audience: General

The stabilisation of near-surface granular pavement materials is accepted practice in transportation maintenance and capital development projects in Australasia.