ETHICAL CHALLENGES AND PROFESSIONAL RESPONSES OF TRAVEL DEMAND FORECASTING

This study examines the ethical challenges that exist for travel demand forecasters. It first looks at bias in travel demand forecasts. This is followed by a discussion of the ethical dimensions of travel demand forecasting. The study next sets the theoretical groundwork by developing three consistent working hypothesis which provide alternatives to the common assumption that corruption is responsible for biased forecasting. The next chapter provides the methodological details of the study, which are comprised of a mail survey and a series of in-person interviews with travel demand forecasters. A multidimensional model of practice from modelers' narratives about ethics, professional motivation and job satisfaction is then constructed. The study concludes with an analysis of the study topic looking at bias, misuse, ethical behavior, archetypes, and the possibility of venality.

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  https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6dv0z95g
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Publication Date: 2003. Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California Berkeley CA. Remarks: Thesis (Ph. D. in City and Regional Planning)--University of California, Berkeley, 2003. Also available online via the ITS Berkeley web site <www.its.berkeley.edu>. Format: website
• Corporate Authors:

  University of California, Berkeley

  California PATH Program, Institute of Transportation Studies
  Richmond Field Station, 1357 South 46th Street
  Richmond, CA  United States  94804-4648

  University of California, Berkeley

  Department of City and Regional Planning, Wurster Hall
  Berkeley, CA  United States  94720-1850
• Authors:
  • Brinkman, P Anthony
• Publication Date: 2003

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: ix, 198 p.
• Serial:
  • Dissertation series (University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Transportation Studies) ; UCB-ITS-DS-2003-2
  • Publisher: University of California, Berkeley
  • ISSN: 0192-4109

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Corruption; Ethics; Forecasting; Mode choice; Traffic estimation; Transportation engineering; Travel demand; Trip generation
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00963505
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Report/Paper Numbers: UCB-ITS-DS-2003-2
• Files: CALTRANS
• Created Date: Oct 2 2003 12:00AM