<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:contributor>Maggi, Rico</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Masiero, Lorenzo</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2010-07-05</dc:date>
  <dc:description xmlns:ns0="xml" ns0:lang="en">The thesis focuses on discrete choice models for freight transport  demand with a particular emphasis on the estimation of willingness to  pay (WTP) and willingness to accept (WTA) measures. In order to cope  with the research objective, I extend the classic discrete choice model  specifications towards the frontier of the current literature on  asymmetric model specifications in stated choice experiments with a  reference pivoted design. The research is divided into four chapters,  each one corresponding to a paper submitted to a refereed journal. The  focus of the first paper is to model the freight transport demand  according to classical mixed logit model specifications and to integrate  the model estimates, such as willingness to pay measures, in a cost-  benefit analysis tool. The second paper investigates loss aversion and  diminishing sensitivity, and analyzes their implications on willingness to  pay and willingness to accept measures in a reference pivoted choice  experiment in a freight transport framework. The third paper focuses on  individual reactions, in a freight choice context, to a negative change in  the reference alternative values, identifying the behavioural implications  in terms of loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity. Finally, the fourth  paper proposes a comparison of willingness to pay and willingness to  accept measures estimated from models with both symmetric and  reference dependent utility specifications within two different freight  transport stated choice experiments.</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>https://susi.usi.ch/global/documents/318136</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>https://susi.usi.ch/documents/318136/files/2010ECO002.pdf</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
  <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/urn/urn:nbn:ch:rero-006-109349</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/ark/12658/srd1318136</dc:relation>
  <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
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  <dc:subject xmlns:ns1="xml" ns1:lang="en">Freight transport</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns2="xml" ns2:lang="en">Choice experiments</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns3="xml" ns3:lang="en">Willingness to pay</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns4="xml" ns4:lang="en">Preference asymmetry</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns5="xml" ns5:lang="en">Reference alternative</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>info:eu-repo/classification/udc/33</dc:subject>
  <dc:title xmlns:ns6="xml" ns6:lang="en">Modelling freight transport demand and reference dependent choice behaviour</dc:title>
  <dc:type>http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06</dc:type>
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