2008-CAITR Home Page

The 30th Conference of Australian Institutes of Transport Research (CAITR) was held on 10-12 December 2008 and was hosted by The University of Western Australia Business School.

CAITR-2008 Program (pdf 1467 kb)
CAITR Order Form for Previous Proceedings (pdf 125 kb)

CAITR-2008 Conference Papers

A review of planning and scheduling in pulp and paper supply chain, Moshin Malik and Min Qiu, The University of Western Australia. (Electronic file unavailable)
A simple and robust approach to traffic data fusion, (pdf 12899 kb), Hans van Lint, Delft University of Technology.
Active transport journey planner methodology, (pdf 446 kb), Wenqi Hu, Russell Thompson, and Asif Zaman The University of Melbourne.
Air quality and the climate change penalty. Will electric vehicles be enough? (pdf 734 kb), Sunhee Lee and Martin Cope, CSIRO, Marine and Atmospheric Research.
Assessment of an optimal bus stop spacing model using high resolution archived stop-level data, (pdf 835 kb), Huan Li and Robert Bertini, Portland State University.
Bus lanes – Improving travel time or reliability, (pdf 9651 kb), Susilawati, Chris Wilson and Simon Kinnear Halcrow MWT.
Children’s exposure to urban air pollutants using urinary biomarkers, (pdf 6524 kb), Doina Olaru, The University of Western Australia.
Design and development of a simulation tool to investigate driver behaviour with respect to innovative TIS, (pdf 2939 kb), Jingqiu Guo and Min Qiu The University of Western Australia.
Determinants of rail productivity in the 20th Century, (pdf 211 kb), John Mills, The University of Queensland and Nick Wills-Johnson, Curtin University.
Developing a fuzzy-neuro model for travel demand modelling, (pdf 352 kb), Gusri Yaldi, Michael Taylor, and Wen Long Yue, The University of South Australia.
Keynote Address: Energy and environmental future of Australian Transport – a fuels perspective, (pdf 32892 kb), Tom Beer, CSIRO, Marine and Atmospheric Research.
Estimating, calibrating, and validating demand for feeder services during incident detections, (pdf 3259 kb), Syahriah Bachok, The University of South Australia.
Estimating elasticities of household demand for fuel from choice elasticities based on stated preferences, (pdf 928 kb), Zeenat Abdoolakhan, The University of Western Australia.
Evaluation of impacts of telecommuting in traffic assignment, (pdf 574 kb), Son The Vu and Upali Vandebona, University of New South Wales.
Exploiting high resolution archived transit data for improved planning and operations: A Portland, Oregon Case Study, Robert Bertini, Portland State University. (Electronic file unavailable)
FREIGHTMISER: An energy-efficient application of the train control problem, (pdf 338 kb), Phil Howlett and Xuan Vu, The University of South Australia, and Peter Pudney, TMG Rail Technology, Sydney.
Household relocation and transit led development in a new railway corridor, (pdf 1493 kb), Doina Olaru, Brett Smith, Min Qiu, and John Taplin, The University of Western Australia.
Modelling exposure to PM traffic emissions using spatial and temporal interactions, (pdf 14569 kb), Dana Crisan, The University of Western Australia.
Optimisation of pavement maintenance and renewal activities, (pdf 174 kb), Yunzhong Wang, Department of Planning and Infrastructure, WA.
Problems and prospects of non-motorized public transport integration in developing countries, (pdf 1194 kb), Page 13, (pdf 58 kb), Page 14, (pdf 182 kb), Mamun Muntasir Rahman, Glen D'Este, and Jonathan Bunker, Queensland University of Technology.
Real-time estimation of travel times on arterial roads. The ARRB travel time model, (pdf 1569 kb), Paul Bennett and James Luk, ARRB Group and Brendan Marsh, Main Roads, WA.
Real-time freeway traffic surveillance: Large-scale field testing results in Southern Italy, Yibing Wang Monash University. (Electronic file unavailable)
Risk allocation in PPP toll roads, (pdf 327 kb), Demi Chung, David Hensher, and John Rose The University of Sydney.
Study on mode choice and vehicle ownership in a medium-sized Asian city, (pdf 372 kb), Jaruwit Prabnasak and Michael Taylor, The University of South Australia.
The connection of urban morphology and travel behaviour: A geo-spatial approach to measuring interactions of Transit Oriented Development and activity-travel behaviour, (pdf 1957 kb), Markus Botte, The University of Western Australia.
The policy, planning, and practice of TOD in Perth, (pdf 14620 kb), Stephen Beyer, Public Transport Authority, WA.
Trip generation model development for Albany, (pdf 208 kb), Clare Yu and Peter Lawrence, Department of Planning and Infrastructure, WA.
TOD – lessons learned in Perth, (pdf 17415 kb), Peter Martinovich Public Transport Authority.
Travel demand analysis with fuel price changes in Perth, (pdf 1244 kb), Sharif Siddique, Main Roads, WA.
Travel time variability and reliability (the south road corridor study case), (pdf 4375 kb), Susilawati, Michael Taylor, and Sekhar Somenahalli, The University of South Australia.
Variable user charging: Experiences and extensions in a world of carbon emissions, (pdf 345 kb), Appendix 1, (pdf 80 kb), Appendix 2, (pdf 114 kb), Matthew Beck, The University of Sydney.
Verification of a near-road air quality model using a passive sampling observation network, (pdf 6352 kb), Martin Cope CSIRO, Marine and Atmospheric Research, and Bill Lilley, CSIRO, Energy Technology.

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