Using the Bhutan Living Standard Survey (BLSS) data for the year 2007, this paper attempts to identify and analyze the factors that are likely to influence household decisions when choosing a particular energy source for various uses such as lighting, cooking, and heating. A multinomial logit...

In this paper, discrete choice methods in the form of multinomial logit and latent class models are proposed to explain ticket purchase timing of passenger railway. The choice model and demand functions are incorporated into a revenue optimization problem which jointly considers pricing and seat...

The Korean government has planned to expand a variety of waste-to-energy (WtE) facilities in order to reduce waste disposal, decrease the crude oil imports, and mitigate greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions. One response to this concern is to measure the external benefits of WtE. To this end, this...

In this paper we analyze the relation between the preferred prefecture to live and their regional characteristics in Japan using the data of questionnaire survey conducted by GCOE program of Osaka University in 2009 and 2010. We found: 1) Most people are satisfied with the current residential...

The main objective of this paper is to show that the MultiNomial Logit (MNL) framework can be used for deriving simple acreage share models. More specifically we show that MNL acreage choice models can be defined as parts of consistent multicrop models. When coupled with suitably designed crop...