In a series of seminars and pitches, Caspar introduced the BEHAVE-program to a variety of audiences:
- On February 26, Caspar presented the BEHAVE-program in a seminar at Ben-Gurion University, as part of a two-day research visit to Beër Sjeva, Israel. A collaboration was started with Eran Ben-Elia and his co-workers on the topic of ‘Moral Automated Vehicles’. Specifically, we will attempt to study, using agent based-methods, how different moral rules embedded in automated vehicles impact traffic flows and aggregate travel times in transport networks where automated vehicles and conventional vehicles interact.
- On February 15, invited by Esther de Bekker-Grob (Health economics & policy) and Bas Donkers (Quantitative marketing & econometrics), Caspar presented the BEHAVE-program at Erasmus University Rotterdam. The seminar was part of the Choice Modeling Center seminar series. Afterwards, potential avenues for collaborations were explored, particularly to study moral aspects of health related decision-making and policy design. Even more so than in Transportation contexts, many health related choices have a clear moral dimension, making the development of moral choice models all the more important in that field.
- On Friday 2 February, Caspar pitched the BEHAVE-program to a team of civil servants from Amsterdam municipality, all working on smart mobility. The meeting was organized by the AMS-institute, which is a joint initiative of TU Delft, Wageningen university, MIT, Amsterdam municipality and many other partners; it aims to translate academic results into real life applications that benefit liveability in dense urban areas such as Amsterdam. In his presentation, Caspar emphasized the opportunity of collaboration between BEHAVE-researchers and Amsterdam, to identify and work with crucial moral aspects of topics such as co-operative driving and automated vehicles (‘moral machines’).
- On January 16, for a diverse public consisting of philosophers, economists, psychologists and sociologists, Caspar presented the BEHAVE-program and its first recent output in the form of a study into taboo trade-off aversion (see here for an announcement of the seminar). The seminar was organized by Professor Andreas Flache of Groningen University, who is professor of Sociology and leading expert in the field of social simulation, and took place in the beautifully renovated “de Gadourekzaal”. Afterwards, potential avenues for collaborations were explored – to be continued! The slides of Caspar’s talk can be found here.
