This grant from the National Science Foundation funded the collection of important, perishable data on how risk perceptions after a vivid event that received widespread media coverage 1) influence travelers’ selection of transportation mode in the near, medium, and long term; 2) change the tradeoffs transit users are willing to make among safety, speed, frequency of service, cost, and reliability after such an incident; and 3) attenuate or sharpen over time and geographic distance from the accident. Different respondents received varied tradeoff scenarios to evaluate. An example survey can be viewed here in pdf.  

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number CMMI 0958144.

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