Kwantificatie van de invloed van regen op de verkeerdoorstroming

Kwantificatie van de invloed van regen op de verkeerdoorstroming Het is bekend dat het weer invloed heeft op het verkeer op snelwegen, en in het bijzonder filevorming. Op de eerste plaats wordt de wegcapaciteit tijdelijk beïnvloed door een verandering in rijgedrag van bestuurders. Ten tweede beïnvloed het weer ook de verkeersvraag. Vertragingen...

The media influence on public opinion about a Dutch road pricing policy proposal

This study investigates the effect of exposure to news reported by newspapers about the Dutch road pricing proposal (Kilometerheffing) on public opinion. We combine data from a public opinion survey (N = 705) with a content analysis of 280 news articles about the pricing proposal published in five leading Dutch newspapers. Our findings indicate...

Context-dependent stated choice experiments

Context-dependent stated choice experiments request participants to make choices between choice alternatives assuming that a certain context applies. This requires the construction of two experiments: a regular experiment with choice alternatives and a context experiment that varies the context variables. These are then combined by nesting the...

Bicycle parking preferences: Costs versus walking time

Successful bicycle stimulating policies may increase the need for bicycle parking capacity, especially at main railway stations located in city centers. A potential solution for this problem involves combining paid surveyed indoor parking near the platforms and free open-air parking without surveillance at larger distances. In this paper, the...

Effects of task complexity and time pressure on activity-travel choices: Heteroscedastic logit model and activity-travel simulator experiment

This paper derives, estimates and applies a discrete choice model of activity-travel behaviour that accommodates potential effects of task complexity and time pressure on decision-making. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that both factors (task complexity and time pressure) are jointly captured in a discrete choice model....

The influence of adverse weather conditions on probability of congestion on dutch motorways

Weather conditions are widely acknowledged to contribute to the occurrence of congestion on motorway traffic by influencing both traffic supply and traffic demand. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper that explicitly integrates supply and demand effects in predicting the influence of adverse weather conditions on the probability...

Context Dependent Stated Choice Experiments: The Case of Train Egress Mode Choice

Based on the contention that the influence of context on mode choices made in multi-modal trip chains is under-researched, this paper discusses the design and results of a stated choice experiment to estimate the effects of context variables on train egress mode choice: the mode chosen after a train trip in order to reach the final destination....

Car drivers’ preferences for ISA policy measures

Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA), an in-vehicle system that can either warn the driver or directly limit the vehicle’s speed when the speed limit is reached, is generally believed to have a large potential to increase road safety. However, policy makers hesitate to take policy measures that may increase ISA use. Public acceptance of ISA or...