Caspar Chorus is an internationally recognized expert in travel behavior analysis and choice behavior modeling; he contributes to these fields by developing new mathematical models of choice behavior which combine recent insights from the behavioral sciences with advances in econometric modeling.
Caspar’s research has won several international academic awards including a Fulbright grant and the highly competitive Eric Pas prize; his work has served as key input for national and international policy-documents and –discourses, and is supported by prestigious Veni- and Vidi-grants from the Netherlands Science Foundation (NWO) and by a ERC Consolidator grant..
Caspar is the main developer of the random regret minimization approach to choice modeling, which has been incorporated in leading commercial softwarepackages including NLOGIT and LatentGOLD, and is extensively covered in the second edition of the widely used textbook Applied Choice Analysis.
In 2014, Caspar was elected member of the board of the International Asssociation for Travel Behavior Research; he is also member of two committees of the United States Transportation Research Board, and Editor-in-Chief of EJTIR, which is the only open access journal in Transportation with an impact factor.
Caspar is head of the Transport and Logistics group at TU Delft, which is widely considered to be among the leading groups in Europe who study Transportation from a Social Science perspective. It is part of the Engineering Systems and Services department, which received the highest possible score on its latest research assessment. Dr. Eric Molin, an expert in Stated Choice data collection methods, will contribute to the project