Telecommunications and travel demand and supply: Aggregate structural equation models for the US

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 4-18

  Choo, Sangho ^a   Mokhtarian, Patricia L ^b  

^a Korea Transport Institute (KOTI)   (South Korea)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Induced demand; Structural equations modeling; Telecommunications travel relationships; VMT (VKT) modeling

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY PLANNING; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PUBLIC POLICY; TELECOMMUNICATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION;

STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS; TELECOMMUNICATION-TRAVEL RELATIONSHIPS;

STRATEGIC PLANNING;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MODELING; TELECOMMUNICATION; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; TRAVEL DEMAND;

EID: 33746864957     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2006.01.001     Document Type: Article

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