Night train services: A stated choice experiment: exploring preferences for night trains

What makes meat substitutes (un)attractive for Dutch consumer segments?: A Stated Choice Experiment

The livestock sector accounts for 14-15% of the global greenhouse gas emissions. Furthermore, the current meat consumption patterns are associated with multiple health risks and are unsustainable in the long term. Therefore, the shift to a more plant-based diet and reduced animal-source intake is desired from a societal perspective. One attempt...

Travel behaviour during unplanned train disruptions: Considering changed behaviour due to the COVID-19 pandemic

The aim of this study is to capture heterogeneity in travel behaviour during unplanned train disruptions focusing on the rise of teleworking due to the COVID-19 pandemic to improve train services and help predict passenger flows during disruptions. To perform the analyses, a dataset is elicited from 815 Dutch train commuters by distributing an...

Cyclists Station Choice: Investigating railway station choice for cyclists including perceived social safety and comfort factors

Investigating station choice is important for possibly solving various capacity issues such as bicycle parking. Current literature is often restricted to dissatisfier parameters such as travel time, presence of transfer and travel costs. In order to fully understand station choice, this research includes factors regarding perceived safety and...

Inferring modality styles by revealing mode choice heterogeneity in response to weather conditions

To inform policies aimed at more sustainable travel behaviour, previous research has investigated the concept of multimodality. The notion underlying this line of research is that increasing the degree of multimodality will lead to less car dependence and therefore more sustainable travel behaviour. This paper investigates multimodality by...

Traveller behaviour in public transport in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands

With a few exceptions, public transport ridership around the world has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Travellers are now likely to adapt their behaviour with a focus on factors that contribute to the risk of COVID-19 transmission. Given the unprecedented spatial and temporal scale of this crisis, these changes in behaviour may even...

Crowdshipping: The level of trust towards crowdshipping from the user’s perspective: A stated preference experiment

Thanks to growing online shopping, last mile logistics is becoming a more relevant problem for cities due to its negative impacts, such as congestion and environmental problems. In this research, one of the urban freight transport services aiming to tackle these externalities is analysed: crowdshipping. Crowdshipping is a service where the...

Departure time change to avoid crowd in trains: A stated choice experiment study in the Netherlands in a pandemic context

Crowding in trains during rush hour is known to cause discomfort. After the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, crowding has also been highlighted as a risk factor for catching Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs) such as COVID-19 which has affected the demand of public transport. Several countries, including the Netherlands, have differential fare...

Computer Says I Don’t Know: An Empirical Approach to Capture Moral Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence

As AI Systems become increasingly autonomous, they are expected to engage in decision-making processes that have moral implications. In this research we integrate theoretical and empirical lines of thought to address the matters of moral reasoning and moral uncertainty in AI Systems. We reconceptualize the metanormative framework for decision...

Fleeing from hurricane Irma: Empirical analysis of evacuation behavior using discrete choice theory

This paper analyzes the observed decision-making behavior of a sample of individuals impacted by Hurricane Irma in 2017 (n = 645) by applying advanced methods based in discrete choice theory. Our first contribution is identifying population segments with distinct behavior by constructing a latent class choice model for the choice whether to...

Identifying user classes for shared and automated mobility services

New forms of shared mobility such as free-floating car-sharing services and shared automated vehicles have the potential to change urban travel behaviour. In this paper, we identify potential user classes for these new modes. For this, a stated choice experiment on mode choice among a sample of the Dutch urban population has been conducted,...

Bus preference and usage amongst elderly in urban areas of The Netherlands

The population of The Netherlands is ageing. It is important to offer suitable transportation options for the elderly to keep them participating in social activities to prevent lonelines. This research investigated the preferences and usage of bus services of elderly in urban areas in The Netherlands and the corresponding heterogeneity. 256...