Rewarding rush-hour avoidance: A study of commuters' travel behavior

E Ben-Elia, D Ettema - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2011 - Elsevier
Spitsmijden, peak avoidance in Dutch, is the largest systematic effort to date to study, in the
field, the potential of rewards as a policy mean for changing commuter behavior. A 13 week …

Changing commuters' behavior using rewards: A study of rush-hour avoidance

E Ben-Elia, D Ettema - Transportation research part F: traffic psychology …, 2011 - Elsevier
In a 13-week field study conducted in The Netherlands, participants were provided with daily
rewards–monetary and in-kind, in order to encourage them to avoid driving during the …

Model of personal attitudes towards transit service quality

KMN Habib, L Kattan, MT Islam - Journal of Advanced …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a critical investigation of reasons for using transit by residents of the City
of Calgary, Canada. Reasons for using transit are expressed as functions of people's …

Accounting for inertia in modal choices: some new evidence using a RP/SP dataset

E Cherchi, F Manca - Transportation, 2011 - Springer
Inertia is related with effect that experiences in previous periods may have on the current
choice. In particular, it has to do with the tendency to stick with the past choice even when …

Modelling commuting mode choice with explicit consideration of carpool in the choice set formation

KM Nurul Habib, Y Tian, H Zaman - Transportation, 2011 - Springer
This article investigates the carpool mode choice option in the context of overall commuting
mode choice preferences. The article uses a hybrid discrete choice modelling technique to …

Dynamic modelling of transit operations and passenger decisions

O Cats - 2011 - diva-portal.org
The steady growth in population, motorization and demand causes great traffic problems,
mainly in large metropolitan areas. Transport authorities focus on more effective utilization of …

On the treatment of repeated observations in panel data: efficiency of mixed logit parameter estimates

MF Yáñez, E Cherchi, BG Heydecker… - Networks and Spatial …, 2011 - Springer
Travel demand models are usually estimated using cross-sectional data. Although the use of
panel data has recently increased in many areas, there are still many aspects that have not …

Demand for sanitation in Salvador, Brazil: A hybrid choice approach

AC Santos, JA Roberts, ML Barreto… - Social science & …, 2011 - Elsevier
Funds to promote access to water and sanitation in developing countries are scarce and
most of the investments come from the national governments and households sources, not …

On the use of mixed RP/SP models in prediction: Accounting for systematic and random taste heterogeneity

E Cherchi, JD Ortúzar - Transportation science, 2011 - pubsonline.informs.org
A basic assumption in mixed revealed preference (RP)/stated preference (SP) estimation is
that both data sets represent basically the same phenomenon. Thus, we would expect …

Advances in discrete choice: mixture models

JL Walker, M Ben-Akiva - A Handbook of transport economics, 2011 - elgaronline.com
Recent advances in discrete choice models have been driven by the growth in computer
power and use of simulation, which have allowed for unprecedented flexibility in model form …