Dr. Thomas Hancock
- Position: Senior Research Fellow
- Areas of expertise: behavioural modelling; discrete choice models; mathematical psychology
- Email: T.O.Hancock@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 8768
- Location: Room 2.15 Institute for Transport Studies (34-40 University Road)
- Website: Google Site | Twitter | LinkedIn | Googlescholar | Researchgate
Profile
I completed my PhD thesis “Travel behaviour modelling at the interface between econometrics and mathematical psychology” in 2019 and have worked at ITS as a research fellow since March 2019. A link to my thesis is here. I am currently working on the NEXUS project.
Invited Talks
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“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket: the benefits of a sequential latent class approach for model averaging” (September 2021), TU Delft (Netherlands).
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“Quantum choice models for capturing changes in choice contexts” (video link, September 2021), O.P. Jindal Global University (India).
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“Introducing quantum probability to large-scale travel behaviour modelling” (March 2021), O.P. Jindal Global University (India).
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“Decision field theory for choices in real-world settings”, November 2020, University of Basel (Switzerland).
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"Quantum probability: a new method for modelling travel choices", December 2018, University of Stirling (UK).
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"Decision field theory: improvements to current methodology and contrasts with standard choice modelling techniques", April 2017, KU Leuven (Belgium).
Awards
- The inaugural David A. Hensher ‘Best Transport Demand Modelling Paper Prize’ at the Australasian Transport Research Forum, December 2021.
- The 2019 Eric Pas Award, for the best dissertation in travel behaviour research, awarded by the International Association of Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR).
- Award for the most innovative application of choice modelling named in honour of Andrew Daly, 6th International Choice Modelling Conference, August 2019.
- Best student-led paper, 5th International Choice Modelling Conference, April 2017.
Research interests
My main areas of interest are:
- Understanding the decision-making process
- The integration of (econometric) choice modelling and mathematical psychology
- Model specification and interpretation
- Moral choice behaviour
My work thus far has focussed on the implementation of decision field theory and ideas from quantum cognition within choice modelling.
<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Any research projects I'm currently working on will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy in Transport Studies (Choice Modelling), 2019, University of Leeds, UK.
- BSc Mathematics, 2014, University of St Andrews, UK
Student education
PhD students:
Faza Fawzan Bastarianto: An integrated framework of agent-based and activity-travel behaviour modelling. A case study from The Greater Jakarta, Indonesia.
Yu Wang: Using multiple sources of data to understand travellers’ heterogeneous preferences and develop differentiated policies
Research groups and institutes
- Choice Modelling