I’m multimodal, aren’t you? How ego-centric anchoring biases experts’ perceptions of travel patterns

Kelcie Ralph and Alexa Delbosc

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2017, vol. 100, issue C, 283-293

Abstract: Transport professional process an enormous range of information to help them accurately predict how, when and where people will use the transport system. Yet we know from a long-standing history of psychology research that people draw upon a range of mental shortcuts when making estimates about the world. Ego-centric anchoring and adjustment is a common example of a mental heuristic whereby people draw upon their own beliefs and experiences when estimating the behaviors and attitudes of others. Do transport professionals use ego-centric anchoring when estimating travel patterns? To find out we conducted a survey of transportation professionals (n=247) who were asked to reveal their own travel patterns and residential location and to estimate the travel patterns of millennials, generation X, and baby boomers.

Keywords: Ego-centric anchoring; Heuristics; Travel behavior; Bias; Millennials; Baby boomer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2017.04.027

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