Behavioural economics and its implications for transport
By Robert Metcalfe, Paul Dolan. 2012
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Increasing attention is being paid to behavioural economics in the social sciences and in public policy. We attempt to gather up the effects based on previous reviews of the literature and show the implications for transport and energy consumption. We show that there are several behavioural aspects of incentives on individual behaviour. We also show that there are a number of contextual factors on individual behaviour, such as messengers, norms, defaults, salience, priming, affect, commitment, and ego. We show the implications of this research for experimentation, and the measurement of wellbeing. In particular, we argue that transport research should use field experiments to carefully demonstrate causality in the evaluation of interventions.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Transportation
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Citations in the corpus
- Response to Travel Information: A Behavioural Review (2015, background): “She investigated the motivations for trust and reciprocity (Ostrom & Walker, 2003) as did behavioural economists (see the review by Metcalfe & Dolan, 2012).”
- Crowding in public transport: Who cares and why? (2017, background): “Metcalfe and Dolan (2012) conclude that reported satisfaction measure is a good measure of the underlying utility of a transport journey.”
- On the use and potential of behavioural economics from the perspective of transport and climate change (2012, background): “…aims to report on a selective sample of concepts from this field that might be of specific relevance to those who are interested in its application to transport and climate change context (for a wider background to behavioural economics see Metcalfe and Dolan, 2012, featured in this special issue).”