Sökning: "Stated preferences"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 38 avhandlingar innehållade orden Stated preferences.
1. The Public Transport Preferences of Elderly People; A study related to individual capacity and environmental stress in service route traffic and other systems
Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
2. Individual Preferences, Choices, and Risk Perceptions - survey based evidence
Sammanfattning : Paper 1 investigates how birth order and having siblings affect positional concerns in terms of success at work and of income. We find that only-children are the most positional, but that number of siblings increases the concern for their position among those who grew up together with siblings. LÄS MER
3. Willingness to Pay for a Reduction in Road Mortality Risk: Evidence from Sweden
Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
4. Commuting time choice and the value of travel time
Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
5. INDIVIDUAL GENETIC RESEARCH RESULTS : Uncertainties, Conceptions, and Preferences
Sammanfattning : This thesis contributes to the ethical discussion on how to handle incidental findings in biomedical research using sequencing technologies from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Study I and II are theoretical studies that used conceptual analysis. LÄS MER