Happy or liberal? Making sense of behavior in transport policy design

摘要: Appropriate microeconomic foundations of mobility are decisive for successful policy design in transportation and, particular, the challenge climate change mitigation. Recent research suggests that behavior cannot be adequately represented by standard approach revealed preferences. Moreover, choices influenced factors widely regarded as normatively irrelevant. Here we draw on insights from behavioral economics, psychology and welfare theory to examine how transport users make decisions when it is desirable modify them through interventions. First, explore systematically which preferences, heuristics decision processes relevant mobility-specific behavior, such mode choice. We highlight influence infrastructure formation travel Second, argue account decision-making requires policy-makers take a position whether policies should justified appealing preference satisfaction or raising subjective well-being. This distinction matters because (i) formation, (ii) health benefits non-motorized mobility, (iii) negative impact commuting happiness (iv) status-seeking individuals. The orthodox only internalizing externalities insufficient does not allow evaluation these effects. Instead, our analysis demand modeling consider effects explicitly.