Sustainable fashion: A statistical analysis of consumers’ behaviors by stated choice experiment

The manufacturing process, supply chain and consumption pattern of fashion impose high risks on the environment. Besides, the utilization of cheap labor in developing countries by Western fashion brands entails great concern about labor rights of sweatshop workers. To tackle the daunting sustainable issues in fashion industry, various nascent...

The Monetary Value of a Pleasant and Productive Train Trip: Developing an experimental method for estimating the monetary value of activities performed during travel

The value of travel time saving(VOTTS) is very important in cost benefit analysis(CBA) as it is used to calculate the monetary gain in case of an improvement in transport that leads to reduction in travel time. Although it is easy to directly calculate monetary gains due to a speed improvement, monetary gains due to transport service improvement...

Riding a self-driving bus to work: Investigating how travellers perceive ADS-DVs on the last mile

Research in the field of automated vehicles focuses primarily on technological developments and interactions of the system with other roads users, leaving a knowledge gap of actual user demand for automated vehicles. This study investigates the development of Automated Driving Systems - Dedicated Vehicles (ADS-DVs) from the perspective of the...

Designing Stated Choice Experiments: An Analysis of the Effect of Airport Location on Air Passenger's Travel Choice

Since major airports are reaching capacity, some solutions have to be found to solve the actual transportation problem. The government sees the development of secondary airports as a solution to this problem. First, this would result in air traffic diversion and secondly this would permit new economical opportunities to the concerned region....