Modeling the joint choice behavior of commuters’ travel mode and parking options for private autonomous vehicles

Difficulty in finding parking spaces and high parking fees discourage private car usage. Fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) capable of self-parking away from destinations will likely remove this barrier. Despite extensive survey-based research on AVs in recent years, existing literature has not sufficiently addressed the potential impact of new...

Train travel in corona time: Safety perceptions of and support for policy measures

To minimize the risk of becoming infected by the Coronavirus while traveling by train, the national government and the Dutch railways' operator (NS) in the Netherlands have taken several policy measures. These involve that passengers have to wear masks and guidelines are issued for working at home and teaching online. In addition, other policy...

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...

Analysing the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on air travel behaviour:: An approach of stated choice experiments

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 seriously impacted the world. Some previous researches suggest that global incidents could strongly influence the demand for passenger air transport services (Sobieralski, 2020). And the impacts on the demand can be ascribed to the change in the air travel behaviour of travellers (Ito & Lee, 2005...

Best living concepts for elderly homeowners: Combining a stated choice experiment with architectural design

In this paper we combine the insights from social sciences and architecture to design best living concepts for a specific target group, elderly homeowners. We perform a stated choice experiment to study residential preferences of this group and translate the results into an architectural design of senior-friendly housing. This methodological...

Behavioural Responses and Network Effects of Time-varying Road Pricing

Road pricing is a policy measure under consideration by many goverments and road authorities. Although objectives may be different any road pricing measure will impact the behaviour of travellers and the flow of traffic. In this research we specifically looked at the effects of road pricing measures where the prices are differentiated by time...