Understanding how reliability is valued is important because it provides insight to how aims of policies that aspire to provide better transport options can be more fully integrated with user expectations. Better reliability is a desired outcome of transportation policies as it reduces scheduling costs. This study uses a stated preference survey to collect route preference data, where each rout...

In this paper we develop a random utility model designed to distinguish and estimate, within a single, coherent framework, the use and non-use value of an array of environmental goods. The motivating example is the valuation of improvements in the ecological status of rivers. In a departure from the extreme reduced-form of the standard linear mixed logit specification, our model is developed fr...

In recent years there has been a growing stream of literature in marketing and economics that models consumers as Bayesian learners. Such learning behavior is often embedded within a discrete choice framework which is then calibrated on scanner panel data. At the same time it is now accepted wisdom that disentangling preference heterogeneity and state dependence is critical in any attempt to un...

4 This study considers the influence of the knowledge of existing mode shares on travelers 5 mode choice. This contrasts with traditional mode choice models, where the main objective 6 is to predict the overall mode shares as the aggregate of individual mode choices according 7 to variables encompassing attributes of the modes, and characteristics of the travelers. In this 8 study, a computer-a...

Two recent studies have shown that “cheap talk” is an effective means of eliminating positive hypothetical bias in experimental and field-auction settings. We further investigate the ability of cheap talk to mitigate positive hypothetical bias in a contingent-valuation phone survey administered to over 4,000 households. Positive hypothetical bias is detected in our data by contrasting revealed ...

Contingent valuation methodology (CVM) has been increasingly applied to cultural resources. CVM employs survey methods to gather stated preference information, which can be used to estimate economic values of various cultural resources and projects. Although popular in other fields, the application of CVM in the cultural arena is relatively recent. This article summarizes this growing body of e...

Based on the stated-preference (SP) survey data collected from a sample of Osaka metropolitan area commuters, we examine the nature of willingness-to-pay (WTP) values respondents indicate for traveling on a tolled expressway under different levels of time pressure. The study shows that WTP varies with time pressure, and that there is systematic downward biases in reporting WTP. The framework of...

Jacobs, A.B. (1993) stated that "When I think of a city, the first thing that comes to mind is the street. If the street is interesting, the rest of the city is interesting. If the street is mundane, the city is also mundane." In this statement, he expresses the importance of the streetscape and the street environment. The objective of this paper is to analyze the spatial relationships of the s...

BACKGROUND Systematic reviews are a commonly used research design in the medical field to synthesize study findings. At present-although several systematic reviews of patient preference studies are published-there is no clear guidance available for researchers to conduct this type of systematic review. The aim of our study was to learn the most current practice of conducting these systematic re...