The issue of congestion on urban roads stems from an imbalance between transport demand and supply. It has become imperative to address the problem traffic side. While managing effective relies understanding individual preferences drivers, current method for gathering (i.e., through questionnaires) is both expensive may not accurately capture characteristics respondents due their varying interp...

We demonstrate that individual behaviours directed at the attainment of distinctiveness can in fact produce complete social conformity. We thus offer an unexpected generative mechanism for this central social phenomenon. Specifically, we establish that agents who have fixed needs to be distinct and adapt their positions to achieve distinctiveness goals, can nevertheless self-organize to a limit...

We propose a new class of multidimensional poverty indices. Aggregation of the different dimensions relies on individual preferences. The Pareto principle is, therefore, satisfied among the poor. The indices add up individual measures of poverty that are computed as a convex transform of the fraction of the poverty line vector to which the agent is indifferent. The axiomatic characterization of...