Peter Burge
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Education
Overview
Biography
Peter Burge is associate director of RAND Europe's Choice Modelling and Valuation team and Innovation and Technology Policy team. A fellow of the RSA, Burge has been at RAND Europe since 2001. His main areas of interest are stated preference market research and discrete choice modelling, and he has been involved in more than 40 studies employing these techniques to address policy issues. Although coming from a transport demand modelling background, he has also applied his experience in the modelling of choice behaviour and quantifying preferences to studies within the health, telecoms, environmental, and postal sectors. Burge received his M.Sc. in transport from the Centre for Transport Studies, University of London, and his M.Eng. in civil engineering from Imperial College, University of London.
Research Focus
Recent Projects
- Modelling the demand for high-speed rail
- Developing a preference weighted measure for the outcomes of social care
- Modelling patients' choices between hospitals
- Modelling the demand for Royal Mail services in a deregulated business market
- Customer valuations of improvements to water services
Selected Publications
Dimitris Potoglou, Peter Burge, Terry Flynn, Ann Netten, Juliette Malley, Julien Forder, John E. Brazier, "Best-worst scaling vs. discrete choice experiments: An empirical comparison using social care data," Social Science and Medicine, 72(10):1717-1727, 2011
Ruth Robertson and Peter Burge, "The impact of patient choice of provider on equity: analysis of a patient survey," Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 16(Supp 1):22-28, 2011
F. Tsang et al., "Measuring willingness to pay for green options," Proceedings of the European Transport Conference, Noordwijkerhout, 2008
Peter Burge et al., "Investigating the likely behavioural responses to alternative congestion charge schemes in London," Proceedings of the European Transport Conference, Noordwijkerhout, 2007
Peter Burge et al., "The Modelling of Motorcycle Ownership and Commuter Usage: A UK Study," Transportation Research Record, (2031):59-68, 2007
Peter Burge et al., Understanding Patients' Choices at the Point of Referral, RAND (TR-359), 2006
Peter Burge et al., "Do Patients Always Prefer Quicker Treatment? A Discrete Choice Analysis of Patients' Stated Preferences in the London Patient Choice Project," Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 3(4), 2004
Peter Burge et al., "Review of International Experience in VOT Study Design," Proceedings of the European Transport Conference, Strasbourg, 2004
Recent Media Appearances
Interviews: BBC News; Financial Times; Public Servant Magazine
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