The future of deliveries With the rise of e-commerce, we reduce the amount of movements of people (when going shopping), but we increase the number of movements of ‘stuff’ (e.g. consumer goods). Technology and applications to…
New relationships between activities and locations Currently, one of the important devices that collects data and transforms it into digital maps is the mobile phone. The Digital Skin (Jagdish, Re-Mapping the City) can be comprised of many different…
Status quo bias and travel behaviour People have a tendency to stick with the status quo. They often forego opportunities for improving their situation, without even giving consideration to these opportunities. Status quo bias may be more pronounced…
Nudges in Transport The central message of the behavioural economics approach to policy making is that there are many situations where people run the risk of acting against their own interest. As a result, transport…
Financial incentives to change behaviour: To what extent are they effective? Imagine that you want to convince people to reduce their car-use and switch to using public transport. What would you do? In policy-making, financial incentives have long been debated to be effective…
Travel demand modelling and Prospect Theory According to Prospect Theory, the value people attach to goods depends on their relevant reference point. People tend to value goods more if they already possess them (‘loss aversion’). Prospect theory raises…
Why and how should public authorities support shared mobility? Shared mobility has the potential to substantially reduce congestion and polluting, if embedded in appropriate policies. Authorities need to encourage shared solutions such as “Mobility as a Service” that bridge the last…
Who uses shared mobility solutions and what is its future growth potential? Although shared mobility solutions are very diverse, existing work indicates that their ‘typical’ users have some key common features: they tend to be well-educated young adults living in urban areas; who don’t…
Barriers to the uptake of shared mobility Shared transport solutions face a series of barriers, such as the establishment of trust relationships between strangers – a key requirement for a platform that brokers sharing transactions. The sign up process…
Mobility automation: a double-edged sword The transition to automated mobility will bring about big changes, not all of them positive. How can we mitigate negative impacts for groups at risk of being left behind? Automated road transport…