ITLS Working Papers 2003: Recent submissions
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Road Safety Valuation under a Stated Choice Framework
Published 2003-08-01The value of fatal risk reductions is a vital input for road safety cost-benefit analysis. It has been traditionally estimated by means of contingent valuation in spite of growing criticism surrounding this approach. ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Contract Areas and Service Quality Issues in Public Transit Provision: Some Thoughts on the European and Australian Context
Published 2003-02-01The introduction of contract regimes for the provision of bus services such as competitive tendering and performance-based contracts is usually premised on a prior assumption that the size of the physical contract area is ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Revealing Differences in Willingness to Pay due to the Dimensionality of Stated Choice Designs: An Initial Assessment
Published 2003-02-01Stated choice (SC) methods are now a widely accepted data paradigm in the study of behavioural response of agents (be they individuals, households, or other organizations). Their popularity since the pioneering contributions ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Models of Organisational and Agency Choices for Passenger and Freight- Related Travel Choices: Notions of Inter-Activity and Influence
Published 2002-11-01The study of traveller behaviour has in the main treated each agent in a decision-network as an independent decision maker conditioned typically (and exogenously) on the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Modelling Agent Interdependency in Group Decision Making: Methodological Approaches to Interactive Agent Choice Experiments
Published 2003-03-01The past thirty years has seen a growing interest in the development of statistical methods to model choices made by individual agents. The dominant method to emerge, discrete choice modelling, has been applied to a wide ...Open AccessWorking Paper