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Introduction to the Special Issue on Forecasting |
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Paper 1 - Borderplex Bridge and Air Econometric Forecast Accuracy by Thomas M. Fullerton, Jr. |
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Table 1 - Borderplex Model Variables |
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Table 2 - Borderplex Bridge and Air Equation Estimation Results |
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Table 3 - Borderplex Transportation Historical and Forecast Data |
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Table 4 - Air Series Predictive Accuracy |
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Table 5 - Bridge Series Predictive Accuracy |
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Figure 1 - Borderplex Model Design |
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Figure 2 - Borderplex Air Activity |
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Figure 3 - Borderplex Bridge Activity: 1978-2003 |
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Paper 2 - Estimating Commodity Inflows to a Substate Region Using Input-Output Data: Commodity Flow Survey Accuracy Tests by Louie Nan Liu and Pierre Vilain |
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Table 1 - Regression Results for the Effect of Distance and Commodity Tonnage on Forecast Accuracy |
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Table 2 - Regression Results for the Effect of Distance and the Relative Importance of a Commodity on Forecast Accuracy |
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Table A1 - Estimates of Annual Domestic Commodity Inflows to Massachusetts |
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Table A2 - Estimates of Annual Domestic Commodity Inflows to New York |
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Table A3 - Estimates of Annual Domestic Commodity Inflows to Pennsylvania |
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Table A4 - Estimates of Annual Domestic Commodity Inflows to Ohio |
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Table A5 - Estimates of Annual Domestic Commodity Inflows to Illinois |
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Table A6 - Estimates of Annual Domestic Commodity Inflows to California |
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Table A7 - Estimates of Annual Domestic Commodity Inflows to Washington |
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Paper 3 -Monthly Forecasts of Integrated Public Transport Systems: The Case of the Madrid Metropolitan Area by Antonio García-Ferrer, Aránzazu de Juan, Pilar Poncela, and Marcos Bujosa |
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Table 1 - Definitions of the Main Variables |
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Table 2 - Descriptive Statistics of the Logs of the Main Variables |
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Table 4 - Estimated Causal Models for the Metro and Bus Variables |
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Table 6 - NVR Estimates of the Main Variables |
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Table 7 - Mean Absolute Value (MAE) and Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) of 1-, 6-, 12-, and 24-Steps-Ahead Forecasts for Metro and Bus Tickets and Travel Cards for Alternative Models |
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Table 8 - Annual Percentage Errors (APE), Forecasted Annual Growth Rates (FGR), Observed Annual Growth Rates (OGR) of h = 1-, 6-, 12-, and 24-Steps-Ahead Forecasts for Metro, Bus Tickets, and Travel Cards for Alternative Models |
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Table 9 - Comparison of Forecast Accuracy: Results of the Diebold-Mariano (DM) and Modified Diebold-Mariano (DM*) Tests for the Square Loss Function and Several Forecast Horizons |
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Table 10 - Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) of 1-, 6-, 12-, and 24-Steps-Ahead Forecasts for Metro and Bus Tickets and Travel Cards for the DHR, Causal, and Average Forecasts |
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Table 11 - RMSE of the Different 1-Step-Ahead Forecasts of JTC |
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Figure 1 - Logs Showing the Main Variables: January 1991-December 2002 |
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Paper 4 - Predicting and Monitoring Casualty Numbers in Great Britain by Robert Raeside |
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Table 1 - Coefficients and Fit of Models for Forecasting the Natural Logarithm of the Numbers of Fatal and Serious Casualties and of the Rate of Slight Casualties |
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Table 2 - Coefficients and Fit of Models for Forecasting the Natural Logarithm of the Number of Child and Pedestrian KSI Casualties |
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Table 3 - Probabilities of Attaining Road Accident Improvement Targets by 2010 |
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Figure 1 - Casualty Trends in Great Britain: 1991-2001 |
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Figure 2 - Casualty Trends by Type |
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Figure 3 - Forecasts of Fatalities, Serious Casualties, and Slight Casualties |
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Figure 4 - Forecasts of Child and Pedestrian KSIs |
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Paper 5 - Estimating the Impact of Recent Interventions on Transportation Indicators by Keith Ord and Peg Young |
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Table 1 - Statistical Definitions of Assignable Causes in Time Series |
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Table 2 - Some of the Principal Models in the Structural Framework |
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Table 3 - Summary of Data Structure and Changes Since Earlier Analyses |
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Table 4 - Original Models for Each Series |
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Table 5 - Results of Intervention Analyses for the Five Series |
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Table 6 - Relative Values (RV) of MAPE Using Different Forecast Origins |
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Figure 1 - Example of Additive Outlier (AO) |
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Figure 2 - Example of Temporary Change (TC) |
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Figure 3 - Example of Level Shift (LS) |
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Figure 4 - Percentage of Scheduled Flights for Major U.S. Air Carriers Not Arriving on Time: September 1987-February 2002 |
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Figure 5 - Smoothed Components of the Late Arrivals Series |
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Figure 6 - Filtered Components of the Late Arrivals Series: September 1987-August 2001 |
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Figure 7 - Shewhart Chart of Standardized Residuals of Late Arrivals Series: September 1987-February 2002 |
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Figure 8 - Trend for Late Arrival Series: September 1987-February 2002 |
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Figure 9 - Percentage of Scheduled Flights Canceled by Major U.S. Carriers: September 1987-February 2002 |
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Figure 10 - Number of Enplanements on Domestic Aircraft: September 1987-February 2002 |
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Figure 11 - Revenue-Earning Miles Flown by Passengers on Major U.S. Carriers: January 1991-February 2002 |
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Figure 12 - Revenue-Earning Passenger-Miles Carried by AMTRAK and the Alaska Railroad: January 1979-November 2002 |
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Figure 13 - Air Revenue Passsenger-Miles Forecast (as of December 2001) with No Interventions for September 2001: January 1991-August 2003 |
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Figure 14 - Air Revenue Passenger-Miles Forecasts (as of December 2001) with Three-Interventions for September 2001: January 1991-August 2003 |
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Paper 6 - Airline Networks: An Econometric Framework to Analyze Domestic U.S. Air Travel by Dipasis Bhadra and Pamela Texter |
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Table 1 - System of Scheduled Aviation Activities in the United States: Number of Passengers and Aircraft Departures (in natural logs) |
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Figure 1 - U.S. Airline Industry Capacity Adjustments Since 2000 |
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Figure 2 - Airline Market Share by Type of Carrier |
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Figure 3 - Number of Scheduled Flights by Type of Aircraft: April 2000 and April 2004 |
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Figure 4 - Annual Passenger Enplanements at Airports, by Type of Network Variant |
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Figure 5 - Illustration of T100 Data |
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Figure 6 - Impact of a One Percentage Point Change in Southwest Airlines' Market Share on Different Variants of the Network |
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Figure 7 - Effect of 9/11 on Different Variants of the Network |
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Appendix A - Activities at 35 Operational Evolution Plan (OEP) Airports in the United States: 2002 |
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