Moral Values, Behaviour, and the Self: An empirical and conceptual analysis

Longitudinal Studies in Travel Behaviour Research

Mobility is an important part of daily life. With modern mobility systems, people have access to a range of transport modes allowing them to basically reach any destination they want. Although people often have multiple options to choose from, personal mobility is dominated by motorized road transport in many countries and cities, also in the...

Identifying moral antecedents of decision-making in discrete choice models

Discrete Choice Models are valuable tools for quantitative decision-making analysis: they allow analysts to draw behavioural conclusions from data, better understand and predict choices, and evaluate policies. However, up until recently, they had a blind spot for morality. Moral values often play an essential role in decision-making; fairness or...

Empirical Essays in Artificial Intelligence Ethics

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly important in modern society, there is a pressing need to address the ethical issues associated with these technologies. AI Ethics is a necessary endeavor to capitalize on the benefits of AI while minimizing its risks. However, it faces important challenges related to normative urgency, multi...

On the Methods for Explaining Polarization of Private and Unobservable Opinions: An opinion-behavior co-evolutionary approach

Polarized opinions are everywhere. From opposite attitudes towards Hawaiian pizza to the partisan divide in theUnited States, we have experienced enough opinion polarization in recent years. Sadly, it is usually a sign of follow-up criticism when people start to talk about "opinion polarization". The term, which should neutrally describe a...

Assessing Reference Dependence in Travel Choice Behaviour

People make all kinds of choices every day, such as driving to work rather than taking public transport. Many of these choices have a direct impact on demand for products, services or public infrastructures. Understanding people’s choice behaviour can not only infer people’s preferences for certain products or services but more importantly make...

Time Use and Travel Behaviour with Automated Vehicles

Automated vehicles (AVs) have been a dream for a long time. From science fiction in the 1930s to countless prototypes, extensive road testing, and first use cases at present, the technology has clearly come a long way. So too has the vision of practitioners and academics matured to recognise the various potential benefits (e.g., accessibility,...

Trustworthy and Explainable Artificial Neural Networks for Choice Behaviour Analysis

For decades, Discrete Choice Models (DCMs) have been used to describe, understand and predict human choice behaviour in a wide variety of contexts including transportation, healthcare and marketing. The field of discrete choice modelling is firmly rooted in economic theory, and most DCMs are based on the assumption that decision-­makers, when...

Evaluating Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Policies

A lack of charging infrastructure is seen as the biggest barrier to electric vehicle adoption. This thesis analyses the use of public charging infrastructure and its relation to electric vehicle adoption in urban areas. With the use a large dataset on charging station use, charging behaviour is characterised and the influence of national and...

The Effects of Information and Communication Technologies on Accessibility

It is expected that information and communication technology (ICT) can have great impacts on traveler’s accessibility. However, understanding of the effects of ICT on accessibility is still limited. Consequently, this thesis aims to increase the understanding of such effects. The thesis develops a generic formal integrative behavioral model to...

Task Complexity and Time Pressure: Impacts on Activity-Travel Choices

Task complexity and time pressure may have impacts on travellers’ choices in the context of highly synchronised mobility networks. However, it is unclear at the moment how these two aspects should be properly modelled simultaneously and what these impacts of the two aspects really are on travellers’ choices. Consequently, this research aims to...