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...

Multi-criteria decision making for improvement of security and efficiency at airport security checkpoints using agent-based models

Agent-based modelling and simulation has shown to be a suitable paradigm for analyzing complex airport systems, such as airport security checkpoints. The models can be used to analyze important airport terminal performance areas, such as security and efficiency. However, limited knowledge exists on how agent-based models can be used to aid...

Trade-off Analysis between Security and Efficiency of Airport Operations: A methodological underpinned modelling approach to identify, analyse and evaluate trade-offs based on empirical choice observations

This Master Thesis document presents a research on trade-off analysis between security and efficiency factors during airport operations. Over the past few decades there has been an increase in security in the air transportation industry, with even more measures taken since 9/11. Besides affecting the operational costs of airports, the stricter...