Forecasting paratransit ridership using discrete choice models with explicit consideration of availability

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1618, 1998, Pages 60-65

  Benjamin, Julian ^a   Kurauchi, Shinya ^b   Morikawa, Takayuki ^b   Polydoropoulou, Amalia ^c   Sasaki, Kuniaki ^b   Ben Akiva, Moshe ^d  

^a N Carolina Agric Tech State Univ   (United States)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION THEORY; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PUBLIC POLICY; URBAN PLANNING; VALUE ENGINEERING;

DIAL-A-RIDE TRANSIT; DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS; PARATRANSIT RIDERSHIPS;

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0032158378     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1618-07     Document Type: Article

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