caa a22 4500 445854553 CHVBK 20180317145424.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10640-010-9420-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10640-010-9420-3 Accounting for Preference and Scale Heterogeneity in Establishing Whether it Matters Who is Interviewed to Reveal Household Automobile Purchase Preferences [Elektronische Daten] [David Hensher, Matthew Beck, John Rose] The choice of automobile purchases in households often involves participation of more than one household member, each of which exerts some degree of influence on the final choice outcome. The influence of more than one agent has been recognised for many years, and yet the majority of automobile choice studies develop choice models as if a single agent is involved in the preference revelation process. What is not clear is whether it makes any substantive difference in preference revelation according to who is interviewed in a household. Using a generalised mixed logit framework that accounts for preference and scale heterogeneity, we estimate a series of models to investigate whether there are significant differences between the preferences of each individual in a household when assessed in isolation from other household members, as well as their joint preferences when expressing their preferences through a group choice task. The context is choosing amongst petrol, diesel and hybrid fuelled vehicles (associated with specific levels of fuel efficiency and engine capacity) when faced with a mix of vehicle prices, fuel prices, fixed annual registration fees, annual emission surcharges and vehicle kilometre emission surcharges. Using a stated choice experiment, we find that sampling a single individual as a representative of the household's preferences is less appropriate than utilising preference information from the relevant group of decision makers in the household. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010 Automobile choice nationallicence Individual and group preferences nationallicence Vehicle emission charges nationallicence Stated choice experiment nationallicence Internet survey nationallicence Direct elasticities nationallicence Hensher David Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut Beck Matthew Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut Rose John Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut Environmental and Resource Economics Springer Netherlands 49/1(2011-05-01), 1-22 0924-6460 49:1<1 2011 49 10640 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-010-9420-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-010-9420-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hensher David Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Beck Matthew Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rose John Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental and Resource Economics Springer Netherlands 49/1(2011-05-01), 1-22 0924-6460 49:1<1 2011 49 10640 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer