University of Sydney Business School: Recent submissions
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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 -
A Latent Class Model for Discrete Choice Analysis: Contrasts with Mixed Logit
Published 2002-09-01The multinomial logit model (MNL) has for many years provided the fundamental platform for the analysis of discrete choice. The basic model’s several shortcomings, most notably its inherent assumption of independence from ...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 -
Performance-Based Quality Contracts in Bus Service Provision
Published 2002-06-01Institutional reform of the bus sector is a topical discussion item in a number of countries at present. A specific focus is on ensuring a value for money (VM) regime to identify the benefits to society associated with ...Open AccessWorking Paper