caa a22 4500 445890460 CHVBK 20180317145614.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11116-011-9357-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11116-011-9357-6 Income-contingent user preferences in policy evaluation: application and discussion based on multi-agent transport simulations [Elektronische Daten] [Benjamin Kickhöfer, Dominik Grether, Kai Nagel] Standard economic policy evaluation allows the realization of projects if the aggregated economic benefit outweighs their costs. The use of one single aggregated welfare measure for evaluating and ranking projects has often been criticized for many reasons. A major issue is that differentiated effects on individuals or subgroups of the population are not taken into consideration. This leads to the need for transport planning tools that provide additional information for politicians and decision makers. The microscopic multi-agent simulation approach presented in this paper is capable of helping to design better solutions in such situations. In particular, it is shown that the inclusion of individual income in utility calculations allows a better understanding of problems linked to public acceptance. First, individual income-contingent utility functions are estimated based on survey data in order to describe human mobility behavior. Subsequently, using the MATSim framework, the implementation is tested in a test scenario. Furthermore, and going beyond Franklin (2006), it is shown that the approach works in a large-scale real world example. Based on a hypothetical speed increase of public transit, effects on the welfare distribution of the population are discussed. It is shown that the identification of winners and losers seems to be quite robust. However, results indicate that a conversion or aggregation of individual utility changes for welfare analysis is highly dependent on the functional form of the utility functions as well as on the choice of the aggregation procedure. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC., 2011 Policy evaluation nationallicence Public acceptance nationallicence Individual utility function nationallicence Income-dependency nationallicence Welfare economics nationallicence Agent-based modeling nationallicence Kickhöfer Benjamin Transport Systems Planning and Transport Telematics, Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), 10587, Berlin, Germany aut Grether Dominik Transport Systems Planning and Transport Telematics, Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), 10587, Berlin, Germany aut Nagel Kai Transport Systems Planning and Transport Telematics, Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), 10587, Berlin, Germany aut Transportation Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 38/6(2011-11-01), 849-870 0049-4488 38:6<849 2011 38 11116 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-011-9357-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-011-9357-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kickhöfer Benjamin Transport Systems Planning and Transport Telematics, Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), 10587, Berlin, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Grether Dominik Transport Systems Planning and Transport Telematics, Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), 10587, Berlin, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nagel Kai Transport Systems Planning and Transport Telematics, Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), 10587, Berlin, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Transportation Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 38/6(2011-11-01), 849-870 0049-4488 38:6<849 2011 38 11116 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer