Discrete choice modelling; Willingness-to-pay for reducing externalities; Travel demand models; Experimental design and collection of revealed and stated preference data; Social project evaluation; Survey methods in transport.

PhD Theses
David E. Palma (2016) “Modelling Wine Consumer Preferences Using Hybrid Choice Models: Inclusion of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Attributes”. Doctor in Engineering Science Thesis, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (PUC) (Co-supervisor, Luis I. Rizzi).
Francisco José Bahamonde-Birke (2016) “Modelling with the Unobserved/Unobservable – An in-depth analysis of modelling issues concerning the role of attitudes and perceptions in the decision-making process”. Ph.D. Thesis, Technical University of Berlin, Germany (Co-supervisor, Christian von Hirschhausen).
Anders F. Jensen (2014) “Assessing the Potential Market for Electric Vehicles”. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Transport, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark (Co-supervisor, Elisabetta Cherchi).
Julián A. Arellana (2012) “Modelos de Elección de la Hora de Inicio de los Viajes”, Doctor in Engineering Science Thesis, PUC (Co-supervisor, Luis I. Rizzi).
María Francisca Yañez (2010) “Introducción de Efectos Temporales y Variables Latentes en Modelos de Elección con Datos de Panel”. Doctor in Engineering Science Thesis, PUC.
José María Grisolia (2006) “Análisis de la Demanda de Transporte Interinsular Mediante Modelos Avanzados de Elección Discreta”. Doctoral Thesis, Departamento de Análisis Económico Aplicado, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España (Co-supervisor, José Antonio Hernández).
Francisco Javier Amador (2005) “Medidas Alternativas de Bienestar Derivadas de un Modelo de Asignación del Tiempo en un Contexto de Elección Discreta: Teoría y Aplicaciones”. Doctoral Thesis, Departamento de Economía y Dirección de Empresas, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain (Co-supervisor, Rosa Marina González).
Víctor M. Cantillo (2004) “Modelación de Demanda Incorporando Umbrales Mínimos de Percepción y Valoración de Atributos”. Doctor in Engineering Science Thesis, PUC.
Raquel Espino (2003) “Análisis y Predicción de la Demanda de Transporte de Pasajeros: Una Aplicación al Estudio de Dos Corredores de Transporte en Gran Canaria”. Doctoral Thesis, Departamento de Análisis Económico Aplicado, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España (Co-supervisor, Concepción Román).
Luis Ignacio Rizzi (2001) “Economía de los Accidentes Fatales: Una Aplicación al Caso de Seguridad Vial en Carreteras”. Doctor in Engineering Science Thesis, PUC.
Elisabetta Cherchi (1999) “Derivazione Valore del Tempo Utilizzando Dati Misti RP/SP e Funzioni di Utilità Non Lineari”. PhD Thesis, Dipartimento Ingegeneria del Territorio, Universita degli Studi di Cagliari, Italia (Co-supervisor, Italo Meloni).
Marcela A. Munizaga (1997) “Implicancias de la Naturaleza de los Datos en la Modelación de Elecciones Discretas”. Doctor in Engineering Science Thesis, PUC.
Rosa Marina González (1995) “La Demanda de Transporte de Pasajeros en el Trayecto Gran Canaria-Tenerife: Una Aplicación de los Modelos de Elección Discreta”. Doctoral Thesis, Departamento de Economía y Dirección de Empresas, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, España (Co-supervisor, Nieves R. Pérez).

Master Theses in Engineering Sciences
Francisca Navarrete (2010) "Rating opinion of the types of public transport transfer: Case of Santiago de Chile"
Francisco José Bahamonde (2011) "Prediction with hybrid discrete choice models: The role of tangible attributes in defining latent variables"
David E. Palma (2013) "Modelling consumer preferences in wine"
Pedro Lizana (2013) "Mode choice and trip start time models using combined revealed and stated preference data"
Andrew E. Salata (2013) "Modelling preferences regarding the acceptability of road pricing in Santiago".

Most Chileans live in cities and, unfortunately, Chilean cities are not good examples of efficient, equitable and sustainable transport systems, nor of providing good environmental conditions. The rapid growth in motorisation coupled with an still inadequate public transport system (in spite of significant improvements over the chaotic problems experienced in 2007 with the new public transport system in Santiago) are daily topics of concern and much commented by the media. In this context we believe that our findings will be of great interest not only to researchers but to society in general.

In the last three years, we have been actively investigating ways to improve our urban public transport system, to improve our understanding about the factors influencing city centre location, to define mechanism that would make acceptable the implementation of much needed policies designed to make motorists aware of the magnitude of the external costs they impose on society (leading to more efficient decision making), and formulating novel models that allow us to understand how users make complex choices (i.e. time of day of travel and mode) in the context of their travel patterns throughout the day. Results of these efforts have been disseminated at seminars in Chile and abroad, and have led to several papers published in prestigious journals. What is more important though, is that the methodologies created in these investigations have been applied first (as maybe typical in our country), in several countries abroad: Australia, Norway, Spain and more recently, Germany, but currenty the Chilean government has formally engaged our team in two important applications: one, designing the official methodology to incorporate the valuation of externalities, such as accidents and environmental pollution in our social evaluation approach, and to design an incentives policy for urban developers geared to achieve both densification and less segregation in the vicinities of mass transport stations.