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Freight Transport Mode Choice and Mode Shift in New Zealand: Findings of a Revealed Preference Survey
No full textPurpose.
This study aims to identify the determinants of transport mode choice and the constraints on shifting freight in New Zealand (NZ) from road to rail and/or coastal shipping, and to quantify the trade-off between factors affecting shippers’ perceptions, to assist in increasing the share of freight moved by non-road transport modes.
Methodology.
A revealed preference survey of 183 freight shippers, including small and medium enterprises and freight agents in NZ, is used to investigate whether freight shippers’ characteristics affect their ranked preference for attributes related to mode choice and modal shift. Additionally, a rank-ordered logistic (ROL) model is estimated using the ranking data.
Findings.
The results reveal several distinct types of transport mode choice behaviour within the sample and show how the preferences for timeliness, cost, accessibility, damage and loss, customer service, and suitability vary between industry groups and business types. Also, the ROL method allows us to identify heterogeneity in preferences for mode choice and mode shift factors for freight within NZ.
The results imply that NZ shippers ranked transport time as the most significant constraint upon distributing goods by rail, while accessibility and load size were the most significant constraints upon using coastal shipping. The study also identifies how NZ shippers’ modal shift constraints vary according to the firm’s individual or logistical characteristics.
Research implications.
This study informs freight transport policy makers about the needs of NZ shippers by providing quantitative measures of the intensity of preference for the various mode choice factors.
Practical implications.
Those involved in freight transport have a better basis for formulating transport policy
Ramp Exhibition 4x3 Poster Project
Get PDF4×3 is an exhibition, a memory-bank, and a game. Conceived and organised by Xavier Meade and John Mandelberg, this project draws on the personal poster archives of four artist/designers who have been active in creating and collecting politically inspired posters during the past four decades: Chris McBride (Auckland), John Mandelberg (Hamilton), John Phillips (LondonPrintStudio) and Xavier Meade (Raglan).
With an initial set of three posters being put forward from their personal archives – the collaboration heats up when each artist responds to these initial works by proposing another poster that they feel in some way comments upon, or reflects the choices made by the others. This dialogue was completed when the final 48 posters were collated. 4×3, is the outcome of an enjoyable, intercontinental, time-travelling escapade, which was described by the artists’ as feeling at times as close to a game of poker, as it did an act of collaborative curation.
Join the artists in the gallery at 4pm, prior to the opening preview, for a discussion about this projec
Fiber Matrix Models of the Dermis
No full textThis chapter presents a review of fiber-matrix models that have been used to simulate the mechanical response of the dermis. It summarizes the physical and mechanical properties of the dermis. Different categories of fiber-matrix models are presented. These include structurally based models that represent the orientation and undulation of collagen fibers using probability density functions; models that represent the collagen fiber undulation in a phenomenological sense using exponential functions; eight-chain non-Gaussian network models; and, more recently, discrete-fiber icosahedral models. The ability of each model type to simulate experimental data is discussed, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. The chapter concludes with a discussion on the experimental protocols that are needed to validate and further develop physical fiber-matrix models of the dermis
Transforming historical intergenerational trauma
Get PDFThis presentation examines links between Māori deficit statistics, Māori experiences of historical intergenerational trauma, and colonisation
Acquisition returns: Does industry matter?
Get PDFPurpose
– This paper aims to illuminate the issue of whether there is a significant difference between long-term abnormal return of acquirers across industries, and which industries achieve better returns.
Design/methodology/approach
– This paper investigates whether there is a significant difference between abnormal return of acquirers across industries. The impact of timing of the deal on the acquirer returns is also studied in this paper. In the regression analysis, we control for acquirer’s size along with a number of deal characteristics, such as method of payment, the mode of the acquisition, the diversifying nature of the deal and value of the deal, to examine whether the differences in acquirer returns across industries persist when these factors are taken into account.
Findings
– The results of the study propose discrepancy in acquirers’ long-term abnormal returns across industries. While a number of industries, such as petroleum and natural gas, insurance and machinery, experienced significantly positive abnormal performance, others like business services and medical equipment have demonstrated significantly negative long-term returns.
Originality/value
– This paper investigates the industry impact on performance of acquirers. The results of this research provide more comprehensive evidence from all of the industries that have been involved in mergers and acquisition deals during the period 1981-2007 so that the returns of different industries can be compared. Most importantly, the evidence rejects the equality of mean abnormal returns across industries at significant levels
Effect of physically structured water on extractability of caffeine, curcumin and on oil emulsification
Get PDFAgriculture is a science of applications which has wide horizons to explore. Research gives the exploring opportunity for young scientists to begin their own paths to travel the world of agriculture widening its customary horizons. Research culture embedded in agriculture is the secret behind facing multifaceted challenges of today, among which meeting the needs of an expanding, especially rapidly urbanizing population of the world under increasingly vulnerable environment. With a futuristic
vision, grooming young scientists with research culture and providing an opportunity for them to unveil the findings in front of the able audience, is a great leap that Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya is taking in its expedition of Agriculture higher education
Response to the comments of Zhang et al.(2014) on “Heavy metals and polycyclic aro-matic hydrocarbons: Pollution and ecologicalrisk assessment in street dust of Tehran”
No full textBefore the Saeedi et al. [3] publication, RI has been employed for ecological risk assessment of heavy metals in soil and dust samples in several studies [4–9]. It has also been employed by researchers after this publication [10–15]. This shows that many researchers accept the view that RI is an appropriate and useful risk assessment index for some environments other than aquatic environment such as terrestrial one. However, the issues raised by Zhang et al. [1] could have been discussed and explained in our manuscrip
Public health service options for affordable and accessible noncommunicable disease and related chronic disease prevention and management
Get PDFGlobally, nations are confronted with the challenge of providing affordable health services to populations with increasing levels of noncommunicable and chronic disease.
Paradoxically, many nations can both celebrate increases in life expectancy and bemoan parallel increases in chronic disease prevalence. Simply put, despite living longer, not all of that time is spent in good health. Combined with factors such as rising levels of obesity and related noncommunicable disease, the demand for health services is requiring nations to consider new
models of affordable health care. Given the level of disease burden, all staff, not just doctors,
need to be part of the solution and encouraged to innovate and deliver better and more affordable
health care, particularly preventative primary health care services. This paper draws attention to a range of exemplars to encourage and stimulate readers to think beyond traditional models of primary health service delivery. Examples include nurse-led, allied health-led, and student-led clinics; student-assisted services; and community empowerment models. These are reported for
the interest of policy makers and health service managers involved in preventative and primary health service redesign initiatives
Wintec Hothouse, Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival, 14-27 February 2014
Get PDFCurated and managed the festival performance: Wintec Hothouse. 22 February 2014, Rhododendron Lawn, Hamilton Gardens. Featuring bands; Matthew Bannister, The Mamaku Project, dDu
The Black Sheep of the Family: Bogans, borders and New Zealand society
No full textBogan is a uniquely Australasian term, which is used in New Zealand to describe working-class heavy metal and hard rock fans. As a community, they have developed from New Zealand’s colonial history, as they share many common features of this country’s national identity. Such features include an appreciation of hard work, an enjoyment of a perceived underdog status and a love of beer. However, they are kept at ‘arm’s length’ by non-Bogans due to their alternative appearance and love of heavy metal music. As such they can be defined as occupying a space on the fringes of mainstream society – referred to here as a border community. However, due to their origins they can also be celebrated by non-Bogans and used in the media for a variety of purposes due to easily recognizable imagery. This auto-ethnographic article is an exploratory one, which seeks to introduce the complexities of exclusion and inclusion through the experiences of 25 Bogan participants, highlighting the need for music-based research to further consider the complexities of everyday life