For Me or for My Relatives? Approximating Self-Protection and Local Altruistic Motivations Underlying Preferences for Public Health Policies Using Risk Perception Metrics

Objectives: Research efforts evaluating the role of altruistic motivations behind health policy support are usually based on direct preference elicitation procedures, which may be biased. We propose an indirect measurement approach to approximate self-protection–related and altruistic motivations underlying preferences for public health policies...

Incorporating Neighbourhood Choice in a Model of Neighbourhood Effects on Income

Studies of neighbourhood effects often attempt to identify causal effects of neighbourhood characteristics on individual outcomes, such as income, education, employment, and health. However, selection looms large in this line of research and it has been repeatedly argued that estimates of neighbourhood effects are biased as people non-randomly...

A study into the joint activity-route choice behaviour of pedestrians during large scale events, based on revealed preference data: SAIL event, case study

Nowadays, there is an increasing number of large scale events and a growing number of people tend to participate to these events. In general, during large scale events the combination of the lack of sufficient information to support crowd management with the movements of the crowd can create not only problems on the undisturbed movements of...

Modelling travel time perception in transport mode choices

Travel behaviour models typically rely on data afflicted by errors, in perception (e.g., over/under-estimation by traveller) and measurement (e.g., software or researcher imputation error). Such errors are shown to have a relevant impact on model outputs. So far a comprehensive framework to deal with different types of biases related to travel...

Using ordered attitudinal indicators in a latent variable choice model: A study of the impact of security on rail travel behaviour

There is growing interest in the use of models that recognise the role of individuals’ attitudes and perceptions in choice behaviour. Rather than relying on simple linear approaches or a potentially bias-inducing deterministic approach based on incorporating stated attitudinal indicators directly in the choice model, researchers have recently...

Water Taxis in the San Francisco Bay Area: From travel time to quality time: Is there a viable service concept?

This thesis presents a discrete-choice model as the basis to forecast market shares for high-end water taxis in the San Francisco Bay Area. Waterborne mobility studies are growing in numbers, but studies towards the potential of personalized versions thereof is scarce. Three service concepts are designed as business models and compared on...

Beleving van lounges op Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, vormgevingsvoorkeuren van reizigers

Een luchthaven is primair gericht op het zo goed mogelijk afhandelen van passagiers en hun bagage. In de loop der jaren zijn er steeds meer commerci ontwikkelingen geweest op Schiphol. De commercie heeft tegenwoordig een groot aandeel in de winst en daarom recht om zich ook met de vormgeving van de terminal bezig te houden. Er ontstaat een...

Traveler response to information

The past few years have witnessed an impressive progress in the capabilities of travel information services. It is expected that in a few years, travelers will be constantly informed, pre-trip as well as en-route, about their optimal departure time, route and transport mode. The information is based on a careful monitoring of the transport...