• DocumentCode
    3301757
  • Title

    The economical valuation of a policy on universal and sustainable transport system and research into the new social communication method contributing to objective valuation

  • Author

    Nishiyama, Toshiki ; Arisawa, Makoto

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. for Areal Studies, Keio Univ., Japan
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    8-11 Dec. 2003
  • Firstpage
    452
  • Lastpage
    458
  • Abstract
    These days it is necessary to expand a non-barrier transportation environment, but the managerial state of transportation companies is getting worse and worse. Therefore, it is important to measure citizens\´ objective "Willingness to Pay (WTP)" for removing barriers. It can be measured objectively through the adoption of the "Contingent Valuation Method" (CVM) in environmental economics. In addition to the typical method of using questionnaires, citizens have wanted "group interview", "senior simulator" and "watching videos which make them understand the effectiveness of improvements" in the process of judgment. We surveyed how these methods affect the objective "Willingness to Pay". From the survey, we found that including "group interview" and "senior simulator" in the process is more effective for recognizing more objective "Willingness to Pay".
  • Keywords
    environmental economics; socio-economic effects; transportation; contingent valuation method; economical valuation; environmental economics; group interview; nonbarrier transportation environment; objective valuation; questionnaires; senior simulator; social communication method; sustainable transport system; transportation companies; watching videos; willingness to pay; Social factors; Transportation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2003. EcoDesign '03. 2003 3rd International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Tokyo, Japan
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8590-x
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECODIM.2003.1322713
  • Filename
    1322713