Death by automation: Differences in weighting of fatalities caused by automated and conventional vehicles

Although Automated vehicles (AVs) are expected to have a major and positive effect on road safety, recent accidents caused by AVs tend to generate a powerful negative impact on the public opinion regarding safety aspects of AVs. Triggered by such incidents, many experts and policy makers now believe that paradoxically, safety perceptions may...

"It's the relativity, stupid!" Testing Weber's law in utility-based and regre-based models of travel behavior

In this study we extend recent work into the role of Weber’s law in discrete choice theory towards non-regret based models of (travel) choice behavior; and we provide an empirical exploration of the relevance of Weber’s law in the context of utility- and regret-based models of travel behavior.