Nowadays, traffic management policy in metropolitans is focused on increasing the share of public transit. The limitation of supply and slowing growth of road infrastructures have provided congestion for users who choose personal cars. Therefore, applying demand management policies which decrease the utility of personal cars and increase the tendency to public transit can be very important. Con...

6 Monte Carlo experiments are used to study the unbiasedness of several common random utility mod7 els for a proposed adaptive stated preference survey. This survey is used to study the influence of the 8 knowledge of existing mode shares on travelers mode choice. Furthermore, the survey is applied to a 9 sample of subjects selected from the University of Minnesota. The results indicate that th...

One of the more difficult ethical questions from a public decision-making perspective is whether the estimation of benefits from risk reducing projects should be influenced by factors such as age groups and risk domains. For example, should a project that saves the lives of elderly people be assigned a more different benefit value in cost-benefit analyses than one that saves the same number of ...