Search for dissertations about: "Stated Preference"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 35 swedish dissertations containing the words Stated Preference.
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11. The Public Transport Preferences of Elderly People; A study related to individual capacity and environmental stress in service route traffic and other systems
Abstract : Providing accessible, acceptable and appreciated public transport for elderly people is essential. This work studies the relation between elderly people’s preferences of standard factors in different public transport systems, and their physical capacity. READ MORE
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12. Willingness to Pay for a Reduction in Road Mortality Risk: Evidence from Sweden
Abstract : The thesis consists of an introductory chapter, followed by three chapters in which willingness to pay (WTP) for a reduction in car- and road-mortality risk is estimated using both revealed- and stated-preference methods. In chapter 2 the hedonic regression technique is used to estimate the value of traffic safety, using information from the Swedish market for automobiles. READ MORE
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13. Commuting time choice and the value of travel time
Abstract : In the modern industrialized society, a long commuting time is becoming more and more common. However, commuting results in a number of different costs, for example, external costs such as congestion and pollution as well as internal costs such as individual time consumption. READ MORE
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14. Some Aspects of Resource and Behavioral Economics
Abstract : This thesis consists of four essays in resource and behavioral economics.Resource Extraction, Capital Accumulation and Time HorizonThe paper shows that relaxing the standard infinite horizon assumption can explain the patterns of exhaustible resource extraction and prices for the last century. READ MORE
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15. Equity in welfare evaluations : the rationale for and effects of distributional weighting
Abstract : This thesis addresses the issue of weighted cost-benefit analysis (WCBA). WCBA is a welfare evaluation model where income distribution effects are valued by distributional weighting. The method was developed already in the 1970s. The interest in and applications of this method have increased in the past decade, e. READ MORE