The Choice Modelling Centre (CMC) at the University of Leeds will hold a one day international workshop on current topics in choice modelling in Leeds on 26 June 2014, with contributions by a number of leading scholars in the field.

An outline programme is shown below.

Registration is free, but space is limited, so please book your place early.

Outline programme

9:00: Stephane Hess & Charisma Choudhury: Welcome & Introduction

9:10-10:40: Progress and future challenges

Robert Cochrane: Discrete Choice after Forty Years - some implications of advances in behavioural science and economics for applications in consumer choice and business

John Polak: Ignorance really is bliss: Reflections on the ethics of choice modelling

Yoram Shiftan: The future of activity based models and their contribution to policy making

10:40-11:00: break

11:00-12:30: Panel session: data (brief presentations - ca 10 mins - followed by combined discussion)

Maria Börjesson: Travel Time in Stated Choice vs Travel Time in the Brain

Mandy Ryan: Using stated choice surveys to value health care: current practice and future prospects

Graham Loomes: Modelling and Testing for Extraneous and Intrinsic Noise in Experimental Choice Data

Charisma Choudhury: Choice modelling using ubiquitous data

Petr Mariel, Jürgen Meyerhoff: Linking perceived and objective choice task complexity using a hybrid choice model approach

12:30-13:15: lunch

13:15-14:45: Theoretical developments

Michel Bierlaire: Sampling of alternatives for large scale MEV models

Thijs Dekker: Welfare economics for context dependent non-RUM models, a RRM perspective

Anders Karlstroem: A computational neuroeconomic model of hypothetical bias

14:45-15:05: break

15:05-16:30: Panel session: transport and beyond (brief presentations - ca 10 mins - followed by combined discussion)

Nathalie Picard, André de Palma & Sophie Dantan: Joint mode choice among couples

Geoff Hyman and Andrew Daly: The Attribution of Transport User Benefits by Source using Discrete Choice Models

Aruna Sivakumar: Modelling the influence of social networks on choice behaviour: State of the Art and Looking Forward

Juan de Dios Ortuzar: Special choice modelling issues that arise when working interdisciplinarily