Train Commuters' Scheduling Preferences: Evidence from a Large-Scale Peak Avoidance Experiment

Altruism in Society: Evidence from a Natural Experiment involving Commuters

Altruism in Society: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Involving Commuters We study social preferences in the form of altruism using data on 959 interactions between random commuters at selected traffic intersections in the city of Brisbane, Australia. By observing real decisions of individual commuters on whether to stop (give way) for others, we find evidence of (i) gender discrimination by ...

Learning by Bidding: Evidence from a Large-scale Natural Experiment

Learning is a subject of intense research in experimental economics. We contribute to this debate by presenting persuasive evidence that learning took place among uninformed heterogeneous agents on a quasi-stock market during a large-scale natural experiment that by size, incentives, and variation belongs among the largest experiments ever conducted. To detect and quantify learning we develop n...

Deadlock Avoidance in Train Scheduling: A Model Checking Approach

In this paper we present the deadlock avoidance approach used in the design of the scheduling kernel of an Automatic Train Supervision (ATS) system. The ATS that we have designed prevents the occurrence of deadlocks by performing a set of runtime checks just before allowing a train to move further. For each train, the set of checks to be performed at each step of progress is retrieved from stat...

Bicyclists’ preferences for route characteristics and crowding in Copenhagen – A choice experiment study of commuters

Sorting, Incentives and Risk Preferences: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Sorting, Incentives and Risk Preferences: Evidence from a Field Experiment The, often observed, positive correlation between incentive intensity and risk has been explained in two ways: the presence of transaction costs as determinants of contracts and the sorting of risk-tolerant individuals into firms using high-intensity incentive contracts. The empirical importance of sorting is perhaps bes...