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Journal of Transportation and Statistics - Volume 7, Number 1

Journal of Transportation and Statistics
Volume 7 Number 1

2004
ISSN 1094-8848

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Table of Contents File Formats
Entire Report
Editorial Board
Contributors
Front Matter
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
Introduction to the Special Issue on Forecasting
Paper 1 - Borderplex Bridge and Air Econometric Forecast Accuracy by Thomas M. Fullerton, Jr.
Table 1 - Borderplex Model Variables
Table 2 - Borderplex Bridge and Air Equation Estimation Results
Table 3 - Borderplex Transportation Historical and Forecast Data
Table 4 - Air Series Predictive Accuracy
Table 5 - Bridge Series Predictive Accuracy
Figure 1 - Borderplex Model Design
Figure 2 - Borderplex Air Activity
Figure 3 - Borderplex Bridge Activity: 1978-2003
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
Table 1 - Regression Results for the Effect of Distance and Commodity Tonnage on Forecast Accuracy
Table 2 - Regression Results for the Effect of Distance and the Relative Importance of a Commodity on Forecast Accuracy
Table A1 - Estimates of Annual Domestic Commodity Inflows to Massachusetts
Table A2 - Estimates of Annual Domestic Commodity Inflows to New York
Table A3 - Estimates of Annual Domestic Commodity Inflows to Pennsylvania
Table A4 - Estimates of Annual Domestic Commodity Inflows to Ohio
Table A5 - Estimates of Annual Domestic Commodity Inflows to Illinois
Table A6 - Estimates of Annual Domestic Commodity Inflows to California
Table A7 - Estimates of Annual Domestic Commodity Inflows to Washington
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
Table 1 - Definitions of the Main Variables
Table 2 - Descriptive Statistics of the Logs of the Main Variables
Table 3 - Definitions of Intervention Variables
Table 4 - Estimated Causal Models for the Metro and Bus Variables
Table 5 - Estimated Causal Models for TC and JTC
Table 6 - NVR Estimates of the Main Variables
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
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
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
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
Table 11 - RMSE of the Different 1-Step-Ahead Forecasts of JTC
Figure 1 - Logs Showing the Main Variables: January 1991-December 2002
Paper 4 - Predicting and Monitoring Casualty Numbers in Great Britain by Robert Raeside
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
Table 2 - Coefficients and Fit of Models for Forecasting the Natural Logarithm of the Number of Child and Pedestrian KSI Casualties
Table 3 - Probabilities of Attaining Road Accident Improvement Targets by 2010
Figure 1 - Casualty Trends in Great Britain: 1991-2001
Figure 2 - Casualty Trends by Type
Figure 3 - Forecasts of Fatalities, Serious Casualties, and Slight Casualties
Figure 4 - Forecasts of Child and Pedestrian KSIs
Paper 5 - Estimating the Impact of Recent Interventions on Transportation Indicators by Keith Ord and Peg Young
Table 1 - Statistical Definitions of Assignable Causes in Time Series
Table 2 - Some of the Principal Models in the Structural Framework
Table 3 - Summary of Data Structure and Changes Since Earlier Analyses
Table 4 - Original Models for Each Series
Table 5 - Results of Intervention Analyses for the Five Series
Table 6 - Relative Values (RV) of MAPE Using Different Forecast Origins
Figure 1 - Example of Additive Outlier (AO)
Figure 2 - Example of Temporary Change (TC)
Figure 3 - Example of Level Shift (LS)
Figure 4 - Percentage of Scheduled Flights for Major U.S. Air Carriers Not Arriving on Time: September 1987-February 2002
Figure 5 - Smoothed Components of the Late Arrivals Series
Figure 6 - Filtered Components of the Late Arrivals Series: September 1987-August 2001
Figure 7 - Shewhart Chart of Standardized Residuals of Late Arrivals Series: September 1987-February 2002
Figure 8 - Trend for Late Arrival Series: September 1987-February 2002
Figure 9 - Percentage of Scheduled Flights Canceled by Major U.S. Carriers: September 1987-February 2002
Figure 10 - Number of Enplanements on Domestic Aircraft: September 1987-February 2002
Figure 11 - Revenue-Earning Miles Flown by Passengers on Major U.S. Carriers: January 1991-February 2002
Figure 12 - Revenue-Earning Passenger-Miles Carried by AMTRAK and the Alaska Railroad: January 1979-November 2002
Figure 13 - Air Revenue Passsenger-Miles Forecast (as of December 2001) with No Interventions for September 2001: January 1991-August 2003
Figure 14 - Air Revenue Passenger-Miles Forecasts (as of December 2001) with Three-Interventions for September 2001: January 1991-August 2003
Paper 6 - Airline Networks: An Econometric Framework to Analyze Domestic U.S. Air Travel by Dipasis Bhadra and Pamela Texter
Table 1 - System of Scheduled Aviation Activities in the United States: Number of Passengers and Aircraft Departures (in natural logs)
Figure 1 - U.S. Airline Industry Capacity Adjustments Since 2000
Figure 2 - Airline Market Share by Type of Carrier
Figure 3 - Number of Scheduled Flights by Type of Aircraft: April 2000 and April 2004
Figure 4 - Annual Passenger Enplanements at Airports, by Type of Network Variant
Figure 5 - Illustration of T100 Data
Figure 6 - Impact of a One Percentage Point Change in Southwest Airlines' Market Share on Different Variants of the Network
Figure 7 - Effect of 9/11 on Different Variants of the Network
Appendix A - Activities at 35 Operational Evolution Plan (OEP) Airports in the United States: 2002
Guidelines for Manuscript Submission
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