Mathematical modeling of behavior

Laboratories

Date	Topic	Assignment	Files
Sep 20	Case studies introduction	None	Instructions 1 Example of data and model files Presentation 1
Sep 27	Binary Logit	None	Instructions 2 Airline Itinerary Choice (Boeing) Netherlands Mode Choice Presentation 2
Oct 4	Binary Logit	Hand in lab 2	Presentation 3
Oct 11	Biogeme output	None	Instructions 4
Oct 18	Multinomial Logit (part I)	None	Instructions 5 Airline Itinerary Choice (Boeing) Residential Telephone Services
Oct 25	Multinomial Logit (part II)	None	Instructions 6 Airline Itinerary Choice (Boeing) Residential Telephone Services
Nov 1	MNL specification testing	None	Instructions 7 Swissmetro
Nov 8	MNL specification testing	Hand in lab 7
Nov 15	Nested Logit and Cross-Nested Logit	None	Instructions 8 Swissmetro Residential Telephone Services
Nov 22	Nested Logit and Cross-Nested Logit	None
Nov 29	Validation and forecasting introduction	None	Instructions 9 Forecasting tutorial Files for the forecasting part
Dec 6	Forecasting and price optimization	None	Instructions 10 Forecasting and price optimization files
Dec 13	Mixtures of models	None	Instructions 11
Dec 20	Session for answering questions	None

Data sets descriptions

Name	Description
Transportation Mode Choice in the Netherlands	[pdf]
Choice-Lab Marketing	[pdf]
Residential Telephone Services	[pdf]
Swissmetro	[pdf]
Airline Itinerary Choice (Boeing)	[pdf]
Mode choice in Switzerland (Optima)	[pdf]

Biogeme

Biogeme official homepage
Short introduction to Biogeme
Tutorial Biogeme v1.8

Assignments

The students must hand in 3 assignments during the semester:

Lab 2

Lab 6

Lab 7

In order to complete these assignments, the students should form groups of 2-3 persons. These groups should be determined at the second exercise session (Sep 27).

There are two exercise sessions for each assignment and the following documents must be sent by email to the assistants before Friday at noon after the second exercise session:

Maximum 1 double-sided page of assignment in the PDF or Word format

The HTML output file of the results