Designing Stated Adaptation Experiments for Changes to Activity-travel Repertoires: Approach in the Context of Pricing Policies

Stated preference and choice (SP&C) experiments have become a well-established method of data collection in travel choice analysis to model behavioral change to exogenous policies, especially when the policy induces dramatic change and/or historical data of the behavior under investigation are missing. While SP&C experiments have been widely applied in travel behavior research for many years, more recently the focus on behavioral change has instigated the development of stated adaptation (SA) experiments. However, compared to stated preference and choice experiments, much less is known about stated adaptation experiments. Prior research has primarily examined adaptation in relation to a single facet of travel behavior. This may be unrealistic for those cases where policy implementation may trigger multi-faceted changes in activity-travel behavior. This paper focuses on the description of an innovative SA survey for analyzing travellers‟ response to different pricing schemes. A frequently used approach in most similar studies consists of a two-stage methodology, in which first households are asked to report particular facets of their current behaviour for a certain period of time, and then in the second stage choice experiments are constructed based on the information provided at the first stage. In contrast, in this research project, the activity-based approach is used and an interactive internet-based survey is designed which differs from previous studies in two respects. Firstly, the design is not based on a certain period of time (day and week), but on habitual behavior and the concept of a repertoire. Secondly, it focuses on the complete adaptation of scripts (activities) in response to pricing policies rather than offering a discrete set of pre-defined adaptation strategies.

• Record URL:
  • https://aetransport.org/past-etc-papers/conference-papers-2012
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract used by permission of Association for European Transport.
• Corporate Authors:

  Association for European Transport (AET)

  1 Vernon Mews, Vernon Street, West Kensington
  London W14 0RL,    
• Authors:
  • Khademi, Elaheh
  • Arentze, Theo
  • Timmermans, Harry
• Conference:
  • European Transport Conference 2012
  • Location: Glasgow , Scotland
  • Date: 2012-10-8 to 2012-10-10
• Publication Date: 2012

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 20p
• Monograph Title: European Transport Conference 2012

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Activity choices; Choice models; Data collection; Policy analysis; Pricing; Stated preferences; Travel behavior
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01542190
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 29 2014 11:26AM