Analyzing loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity in a freight transport stated choice experiment

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 349-358

  Masiero, Lorenzo ^a,b   Hensher, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Choice experiments; Freight transport; Preference asymmetry; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

PUBLIC POLICY; TRANSPORTATION;

ASYMMETRIC MODELS; CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; FREIGHT TRANSPORT; POLICY DECISIONS; PREFERENCE ASYMMETRY; STATED CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION;

FREIGHT TRANSPORT; MODELING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 77952334521     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2010.03.006     Document Type: Article

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