Most transport mode choice studies rely on subjective responses to hypothetical questions (stated preference), or revealed preferences. In stated preference studies, trip characteristics are exact, but there is a range of sources errors and biases in the responses. Revealed surveys suffer opposite: The exact (i.e. observed) attributes uncertain – even more when it comes modes not chosen. Our da...

This study investigates the effect of survey mode on respondent learning and fatigue during repeated choice experiments. Stated preference data are obtained from an experiment concerning high-speed Internet service conducted on samples of mail respondents and online respondents. We identify and estimate aspects of the error components for different subsets of the choice questions, for both mail...

In this study we elicit agents’ prior information set regarding a public good, exogenously give information treatments to survey respondents and subsequently elicit willingness to pay for the good and posterior information sets. The design of this field experiment allows us to perform theoretically motivated hypothesis testing between different updating rules: non-informative updating, Bayesian...

BACKGROUND Employers are increasingly relying on rewards programmes in an effort to promote greater levels of activity among employees; however, if enrolment in these programmes is dominated by active employees, then they are unlikely to be a good use of resources. OBJECTIVE This study uses a stated-preference survey to better understand who participates in rewards-based physical activity pro...

Stated preference techniques are widely used to evaluate an individual’s preferences in the context of environmental economics. The aim of this thesis is to explore the use of different stated preference methods to estimate willingness to pay (WTP) for microgeneration solar systems. The case study setting is North Cyprus. Households’ preferences and choices for generating electricity on their p...

The culmination of new vehicle technology, greater competition in energy markets, and government policies to reduce pollution and energy consumption will result in changes to the personal vehicle marketplace. To measure future vehicle preferences, stated preference surveys have been the dominant approach. Prior research has been limited to a narrow focus of accelerating respondents to a hypothe...

Christian M. Dippon Abstract If casual observation is an accurate indicator, consumers make their mobile purchasing decisions based solely on the type of mobile phone that mobile service providers are offering as part of a bundle of services. This raises the question of whether other service bundle components matter to consumers. In light of increased competition and saturation in the US mobile...

There has been considerable debate in Australia concerning the social and economic effects of telecommunications carrier investment in broadband network infrastructure. Whether particular groups within networked communities are unable or unwilling to subscribe to broadband services is an important policy issue. This paper sets out to identify metropolitan households that are less likely to subs...

As expectations have risen about the deployment of smart grids, it is important to investigate the diffusion process of smart equipment such as smart meters, photovoltaic generation, and electric/hybrid vehicles. However, since the revealed preference data have not been accumulated for smart equipment diffusion, this paper conducts a conjoint analysis to examine consumers’ stated preferences on...