The BRT-LRT dilemma: A public transport users’ and policymakers’ perspective on differences in preferences and perceptions between BRT and LRT

The discussion involving BRT and LRT is well alive among policymakers, who often rely on personal preferences or, as it is called in literature, on “blind commitment” towards one system or the other for their decision-making. The reason for choosing a system according to personal taste is also caused by the unknown preferences that public...

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...

Route choice behaviour at mass events: Stated- versus revealed preferences of pedestrian route choices at SAIL Amsterdam 2015

This master thesis analysed the route choice behaviour at the mass event SAIL Amsterdam 2015. Both stated preference [SP] (online survey) and revealed preference [RP] (GPS-trackers) data was collected, to gain more insight into the behaviour of pedestrians. Attributes of influence on the route choices are researched on the one hand. On the other...