Adoption of transport innovations:
"an innovation will be adopted only if it is seen as
👉 technically,
👉 economically,
👉 socially and
👉 politically
feasible"

From

Feitelson, E., & Salomon, I. (2004). The Political Economy of Transport Innovations. Transport Developments and Innovations in an Evolving World, 11–26. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-24827-9_2

via the keynote by Bert van Wee at #STRC24 (https://strc.ch/2024/vanWee.pdf) (also the source of the image)

Bert van Wee, Controversial policies: Growing support after implementation
What are the reasons?
👉Attitude changes
👉 Prospect theory (reference point bias, loss aversion)
👉 Disadvantages clearer than advantages
👉 Expected utility vs experienced utility

Implications for policy and practice:
👉 Visualisations
👉 Show real life examples
👉 Packaging controversial policies (#earmarking)
👉 Compare controversial policies with alternatives
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967070X23001415 #STRC24

Migration patterns of Europeans after Brexit

A choice model estimated on Gallup World Poll Data

17% of Europeans express a desire to relocate

Explanatory variables: diaspora, being in the OECD, distance between capitals of the origin country and London, etc.

Brexit negatively impacts the desire to relocate to UK for all workers, including highly skilled migrants.

#STRC24

Traditional Activity-based models (#ABMs) treat individuals as isolated entities.

Rezvany et al. propose a choice set generation framework for household activity scheduling.
Their methodology adopts a Metropolis-Hastings sampling approach.

Utilising this approach, they estimate the parameters of a household-level scheduling model. This approach aims to capture household dynamics.
#STRC24
https://strc.ch/2024/program.pdf

Preferences for transport policy measures in 🇨🇭 :
👉 Road: Mobility/peak pricing perceived more negatively than general price increase
👉 The opposite for public transport #PT: people dislike both, but a general increase of tickets/subscriptions even more
👉 The money collected on the road should finance PT in priority
👉 The increase in the ticket and subscriptions should finance regional trains in priority

Based on the answers of 3400 statistically representative Swiss residents.
#STRC24 #MTMC21

First time the Swiss Transport Research Conference #STRC24 tries to be #carbon #neutral:
👉 Only one keynote speaker came by plane ✈️
👉 Vegetarian menus 🥕
👉 Compensation through the restoration of a peat bog

However, each participant generates ~0.2 t CO2, half the maximum amount of CO2 that can be generated by a single person in Switzerland in a year (0.47 t CO2) to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
https://strc.ch/2024/program.pdf

The program of the 24th Swiss Transport Research Conference (#STRC24) is now online: https://strc.ch/2024/program.pdf

SBB is a proud sponsor this year 😊 For the first (but not last) time.

I’ll give a presentation on agent-based simulation of peak pricing in Switzerland.